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Genre Highlight: Mysteries and Thrillers

Genre Highlight: Mysteries and Thrillers

Sometimes it’s fun to add a little challenge into your reading world.  There is the year-long reading challenge here if you want to jump in and add variety to your reading across all genres. This month in the book blogging and book-tube community there is a reading challenge taking place, it puts the focus on mysteries. The mystery genre as whole is quite varied.  There are cozy mysteries, who-done-its, suspense and action driven mysteries that border on being thriller. There…

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Still Life – 2018 Reading Challenge Suggestion

Still Life – 2018 Reading Challenge Suggestion

Still Life by Louise Penny is a cozy mystery taking place in Three Pines,  a small village in Quebec, Canada.  It would be a great pick for the Sleuthing, First Things First, Noteworthy and Acclaimed as well as It’s all about the Destination categories in the 2018 reading challenge.   Nothing ever goes wrong in Three Pines.  Until,  the body of a well-loved member of the community is found lying dead in the maple woods.   The community works together to find out…

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My Life as a White Trash Zombie – 2018 Reading Challenge Suggestion

My Life as a White Trash Zombie – 2018 Reading Challenge Suggestion

My Life as a White Trash Zombie   by Diana Rowland is an urban fantasy novel about, you guessed it Zombies.   This is the first in the series and would fit into the First things First category for the 2018 reading challenge.   It would also work as the Sleuthing category as the plot unfolds as a mystery. This book takes a somewhat typical origin story that unfold within the first 15-20 pages, “I’m not sure what happened but brains sound good right…

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The Woman in Cabin 10 – 2018 Reading Challenge Suggestion

The Woman in Cabin 10 – 2018 Reading Challenge Suggestion

The Woman in Cabin 10 – Ruth Ware is a mystery, who-done-it, thriller that would be perfect for the Sleuthing category for the 2018 reading challenge.     The middle was a little slow but after the midpoint it was a race to the end with some unexpected twists. What is it about?  This book is about a travel journalist, Lo Blacklock  who never really gets the prime destinations for work assignments.  In twist of fate she gets the opportunity to…

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The Art Forger – 2018 reading challenge suggestion

The Art Forger – 2018 reading challenge suggestion

The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro  is a clever mystery revolving around a Boston art heist that took place years earlier in 1990 and Claire who makes her living reproducing famous works of art for an online retailer.  Claire is struggling with the tug of war between having to work and having time to create.  Until she gets an offer from a powerful gallery owner that would put her in a moral tug of war as she would be able…

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