Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

MYSTERY/THRILLER FRIENDS GROUP CHALLENGE - Round 2
☀ Progress: 25 / 25

Determination List
☀ 1. Evergreen, Japantown Mystery #2
☀ 2. Cut and Thirst, short story by Margaret Atwood
☀ 3. Crooked House
☀ 4. Untamed Shore by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
☀ 5. The Lake by Natasha Preston
☀ 6. Vanishing Edge
☀ 7. A Man Lay Dead
☀ 8. Woof
☀ 9. Death of an Old Git
☀ 10. Yarned and Dangerous

Plus List
☀ 11. A book set in a different country than you live in: Australia: Wild Dark Shore
☀ 12. Read a book by an Author that you never read before: The Man Who Died by Antti Tuomainen
☀ 13. A book that someone recommended to you: Tara at Mystery Lovers Book Shoppe: Fortune Favors the Dead
☀ 14. A book that is a different genre than your normal type of reading: Romance: Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Two books from a series you haven't completed yet:
☀ 15. How to Seal Your Own Fate - Castle Knoll Files
☀ 16. The Love Detectives: A Short Story - Harley Quin #13

☀ 17. A book that comes out in 2025: The Maid's Secret
☀ 18. A book that you meant to read in 2024: A Study in Scarlet Women
☀ 19. A book that came out before you were born: 1927: The Three Taps
☀ 20. A book that more than one author does: Michael Costello and Neil Richards: Killer Pitch
☀ 21. A book that won an award: Edgar Award for Sue Grafton Memorial Award (2025): The Comfort of Ghosts
☀ 22. One of the oldest to-be-read books on your unread mountain: added May 2019: Murder at Archly Manor
☀ 23. A book set in multiple countries: England and Columbia: Famous Last Words
☀ 24. Book you started in the past but put aside and never finished for some reason: The Invention of Morel
☀ 25. A book that is 500+ pages OR longer than your usual average page count or audio length (>290 pages): 420: Devil's Peak by Deon Meyer

Great for you Gail to already be on track for a second set of books. I need to get back to my first lists - surely I have a few to add to mine.

Great you are doing another round.

I know I'll have many more mysteries and thrillers along the way this year. I just have one to finish up on round 1 and I'm struggling with fitting it in.

Gail: is that the multiple countries one? I some years have trouble slotting one for that too This year I had a Dept Q book that worked. Good luck!
GailW wrote: "I know I'll have many more mysteries and thrillers along the way this year. I just have one to finish up on round 1 and I'm struggling with fitting it in."

Ann wrote: "Gail: is that the multiple countries one? I some years have trouble slotting one for that too This year I had a Dept Q book that worked. Good luck! ..."

It is. I'm reading so slow right now that my biggest problem is trying to fit all the books in and still keep to my plan. Ha. Heaven forbid I'd try to change my plan!

I'm trying to have a some what plan but it might not work out the way I think. LOL. I kind of have ideas for the bottom ones I still need to get read. I think it's a matter of what my mood feels like in the end.

Ann wrote: "is that the multiple countries one? I some years have trouble slotting one for that too This year I had a Dept Q book that worked. Good luck!.."

Ooh, Ann, which Dept Q book? I need a multiple countries suggestion; if I haven't read it already and it's the next one in order for me, it might work.

Carol: yes! The last Dept Q book is the one with multiple countries! And it really is the last book in that series. A fitting end, but hate to no longer have books to look forward to.

Shoot. I haven't read the one before, The Shadow Murders. Requesting that now; I wonder if it also takes place in more than one country?

Carol I don’t think the next to last Dept Q is set in multiple countries- I guess you will be able to use it next year if you don’t get to both this year.

Ann wrote: "Carol I don’t think the next to last Dept Q is set in multiple countries- I guess you will be able to use it next year if you don’t get to both this year."

Oh well. I'll read it anyway as it's waiting for me at the library. Although, plenty of time for me to get to the last one this year!

Updated with 3 adds for May.

Oh good for you Gail! And two of the hardest prompts in #19 #22 (for me anyway) in oldest TBR and before you were born!

Updated with 2 adds for June:

The Comfort of Ghosts
How to Seal Your Own Fate

Updated with 2 adds for July, both a bit quirky:

Cut and Thirst, a short story by Margaret Atwood. Really liked it. Got quite a few chuckles out of it. I adore this woman.
Evidence of the Affair, a short "romance" story by Taylor Jenkins Reid, to fit #14. First of this author I have read and it was very interesting.

Added 1 more for July - #12, The Man Who Died. Set in Finland by a Finnish author. Loved it!

Gail, oh The Msn Who Died looks really good!

You are doing great. I’m reading my last book on the challenge now so hopefully will be able to start my second challenge next week at some point.

Added 2 for August: #3 Crooked House, a buddy read with Ann, and #24 The Invention of Morel, a fantasy/magical realism that was quite good (I was in a "too-literal" mood the first time I tried it)!

Gail - I enjoyed the buddy read and discussion of Crooked House! I am hoping my book mood settles in after a rocky mood weekend. I imagine it will when The Hallmarked Man is released this week.

Well, now I know for sure that murder mysteries are my "comfort read". I am still at my son's, he is still in the hospital, and all I've wanted to read the last 2 1/2 weeks is just that. I have finished round 2. And I'll likely start a round 3, because why not?

Gail: I hope your son is ok, and your comfort reads brings you bountiful comfort! Congrats on completing the second challenge.