on the night before we re-elect a President?
Well, luckily for you, I just happen to have a list.
The first of what I hoped would be a collaborative series centered around mysteries was written on November 1, 2011. Looking over the list of what we have written, I think we have done a pretty good job. Contributions in diary form have come from Emmet, quarkstomper, jarbyus, Gorette, Caddis Fly, michelewin and especially glorificus who saw this series through what was a very difficult time in my life. Thank you all for your wonderful work and thank you readers who have shown up regularly and contributed so many titles for us all to read. (Your comments often provide more reading suggestions than the diaries!)
In the coming year I hope to expand what we cover here, moving into non-fiction mysteries, thrillers, and crime stories. I don't know that we are ready for the lurid true crime books, but a book like The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells of a true crime and poses all kinds of interesting questions. All The President's Men has been waiting on my kindle for a while now, and I can't think of a greater political thriller than that one. I am currently reading Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, which has kept me up late turning the pages.
I also want to include more short stories, and more work by relatively unknown or new authors. I am constantly on the lookout for more humor, and have a couple that I will be featuring in upcoming diaries.
And, as always, I am looking for more suggestions from you. Even if you don't want to write the diary yourself, please share the name of an author, genre, setting or book that you would like to see included in this series.
Monday Murder Mystery - Year One
Author
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Title
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Adler-Olsen, Jussi
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The Absent One
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Adler-Olsen, Jussi
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The Keeper of Lost Causes
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Akunin, Boris
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Murder on the Leviathan
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Akunin, Boris
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The Winter Queen
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Bates, Quentin
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Frozen Assets
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Beaton, M.C.
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A Highland Christmas
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Butcher, Jim
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Ghost Story
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Chandler, Raymond
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Simple Art of Murder and The Big Sleep
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Chesney, Marion
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Snobbery With Violence
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Christie, Agatha
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Death on the Nile
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Derr Biggers, Earl
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The Charlie Chan Mysteries
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Doonan, William
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Mediterranean Grave
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Erdrich, Louise
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The Round House
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Flynn, Gillian
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Gone Girl
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Fossum, Karin
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Don't Look Back
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Galloway, Ruth
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The Crossing Places, Janus Stone and House at Seas End
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George, Elizabeth
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Believing the Lie
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Hammett, Dashiel
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The Thin Man
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Harris, Charlaine
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Shakespeare's Lanlord
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Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia
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The Bill Slider Omnibus
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Indridason, Arnaldur
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Jar City
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James, P.D.
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Death Comes to Pemberley
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King, Laurie R.
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice
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Lehane, Dennis
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Live by Night
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Levin, Ira
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Kiss Before Dying
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Lippman, Laura
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And When She Was Good
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Locke, Attica
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The Cutting Season
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Locke, Attica
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Black Water Rising
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Marsh, Ngaio
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Death and the Dancing Footman
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McDermid, Val
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The Distant Echo, Place of Execution, Beneath the Bleeding
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Murdock, Linda K.
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Mystery Lover's Puzzle Book
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Nesser, Hakan
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Mind's Eye
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O'Connell, Carol
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Kathleen Mallory Mysteries
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quarkstomper
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Hound of the Baskervilles (in Verse)
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Rankin, Ian
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Knots & Crosses
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Robert, Gillian
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Amanda Pepper Mysteries
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Robert, Gillian
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OMG!
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Ryan, William
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The Holy Thief
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Todd, Charles
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Bess Crawford Mysteries
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van Gulik, Robert
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Judge Dee
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Vittachi, Mury
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The Feng Shui Detective
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Wentworth, Patricia
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Grey Mask
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Winspear, Jacqueline
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Maisie Dobbs
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Readers & Book Lovers Series Schedule