christmascrimechallenge

Join @Ruthiella and I in reading some mystery novels this Winter!

Feel free to do as many or as few prompts as you like and tag us to let us know what you are reading!

Use the hashtag #christmascrimechallenge 🎄🎅🦌🌟🎁🍷

Can't wait to see what you're all reading! All welcome to take part.

Lots of love ❤️

Ruthiella Nothing says Christmas like MURDER! 😂🎄💀🎅🏻🔪 3h

dabbe @RaeLovetoRead What fun! And yes, see the tagged book's name. It says pretty much exactly what you said, @Ruthiella!

Murder for Christmas -

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Ruthiella

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❄️ INVITATION! ❄️

Before we know it, the holiday season will be upon us. @RaeLovestoRead and I are joining forces this year hosting the #ChristmasCrimeChallenge . 🔪 😱

Make a TBR of the crime fiction you want to read between November 11 and December 31.

The prompts are suggestions - follow them or go rogue! Tag us with your pile of possibilities and reviews. We want to know! Tagging those who participated last year but all are welcome. 🤗

BarbaraJean, Texreader, Leniverse, MatchlessMarie, TEArificbooks, kwmg40, 5feet.of.fury, LitsyEvents, willaful

kwmg40 I loved doing this challenge last year and will definitely join again! 7h

Bookwormjillk I love this! I‘m in! 7h

Ruthiella @kwmg40 Awesome! I‘m so happy you‘re joining in again! 😁 7h

Ruthiella @Bookwormjillk Fantastic! Can‘t wait to see your reading plans! 😃 7h

dabbe YAY! ♥️🍁🧡 2h

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Texreader

Wintergames | Litsy Litsy

Tallying points for #wintergames and I finished this bingo board!! #christmascrimechallenge @RaeLovesToRead #xmaschacha @StayCurious

RaeLovesToRead Woo! Nice work!!! 10mo

Texreader @RaeLovesToRead And I made sure they all had at least one criminal act!! 😁 10mo

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Ruthiella

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams

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Finished my last book for the #ChristmasCrimeChallenge hosted by @RaeLovesToRead !

I laughed out loud quite a bit reading this book. It is a bit mind-boggling involving ghosts, time travel and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Adams‘ love of computer science also figures in the plot. Lots of fun.

RaeLovesToRead I'm currently working on Seasonal and Supernatural! 10mo

Ruthiella @RaeLovesToRead Awesome! This was such a fun challenge. 😃 10mo

The_Penniless_Author Given how formative Hitchhiker's Guide was to my childhood, I can't believe I still haven't gotten around to reading this yet. 😖 10mo

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Ruthiella @The_Penniless_Author If you like The Hitchhiker‘s Guide, you will probably also enjoy this. It definitely made me chuckle. 10mo

Hooked_on_books I read and loved all his books a couple decades ago. I‘m so happy to see his books continuing to endure! 10mo

Ruthiella @Hooked_on_books I love his absurd sense of humor! 😆 10mo

AvidReader25 I love Adams‘ sense of humor! 10mo

Ruthiella @AvidReader25 It‘s wonderfully absurd! 😆 10mo

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kwmg40

Crooked House | Agatha Christie

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I enjoyed this mystery, typical of Christie's English country-house stories but not featuring any of her famous detectives.

#HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 @LiseWorks
#FrozenSick @PuddleJumper
#ChristmasAtoZ #letterC @TexReader
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#LittenListen @aperfectmjk
#ChristmasCrimeChallenge (Agatha Christie) @RaeLovesToRead

CogsOfEncouragement I really liked this one. 10mo

willaful I've read this was her personal favorite of her books. 10mo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 10mo

kwmg40 @willaful I hadn't known that -- how interesting! 10mo

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Ruthiella

The Man on the Balcony: The Story of a Crime | Maj Sj�wall, Per Wahl��, Alan Blair

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My second to last #ChristmasCrimeChallenge completed.

These Martin Beck police procedurals from 60s-70s Sweden are well deserved classics of crime fiction. In this one, a child rapist and murderer is terrorizing Stockholm and police resources, already stretched thin, are under extreme pressure to prevent the next brutal crime. It takes hard work (little forensics and limited technology) and sharp patrolmen and detectives to succeed.

Cathythoughts Sounds good. I‘ve read some of these and have a little collection I found in a second hand shop. I must go back and read some again 👍🏻❤️ 10mo

Ruthiella @Cathythoughts This is only the fourth that I have read so far, but all have been spare, no nonsense reads. 10mo

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Ruthiella

A Sight for Sore Eyes | Ruth Rendell

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Another completed #ChristmasCrimeChallenge

This novel isn‘t a mystery, but rather a psychological portrait of various characters with a twisted ending worthy of Edgar Allen Poe or a Twilight Zone episode. Three seemingly disconnected stories converge with macabre results.

LeahBergen I remember thoroughly enjoying this one! 10mo

Cathythoughts I‘ve read some by her , she‘s very good. Stacking. 👍🏻 10mo

Ruthiella @LeahBergen I thought it was excellent. And I didn‘t read the back or anything. Just picked it up based on her name, which is a fun way to read. 10mo

Ruthiella @Cathythoughts I‘ve read a handful and they have all been very good. And her books are easy to find second hand too. 10mo

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kwmg40

Elementary, She Read: A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery | Vicki Delany

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Vicki Delany mysteries are a guilty pleasure for me. They're somewhat formulaic but always cozy and relaxing reads. This is the first in her series featuring the owner of a Sherlockian bookstore.

#HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 @LiseWorks
#gottacatchemallwinteredition (cosy) @PuddleJumper
#ChristmasCrimeChallenge (recommended) @RaeLovesToRead
#ChristmasAtoZ #letterV @TexReader
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#LittenListen @aperfectmjk

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!!! 11mo

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kwmg40

A Question of Blood | Ian Rankin

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A very good installment in the Inspector Rebus series, in which Rebus investigates a school shooting that involves a family connection.

#HolidayBookDragons #WinterGames2024 @LiseWorks
#ChristmasAtoZ #letterQ @TexReader
#ChristmasCrimeChallenge (thriller) @RaeLovesToRead
#BookSpinBingo #BacklistReadathon @clwojick @TheAromaofBooks
#SeriesLove2024 @Andrew65 @TheSpineView

kwmg40 #gottacatchemallwinteredition (hot) #FrozenSick
This book satisfies my final prompt for #gottacatchemall “Corsola: Grey cover“ (mostly grey anyhow), and I've now caught them all! @PuddleJumper

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TheSpineView Well done! 11mo

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!! 11mo

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Andrew65 Love this series and really need to get back to. I‘m on about book 14. 11mo

bookaholic1 This is such a great series 11mo

Zuhkeeyah Congrats on catching all the pokemon! 11mo

kwmg40 @TheSpineView @TheAromaofBooks Thanks! 11mo

kwmg40 @Andrew65 @bookaholic1 I agree. I've been reading this series mostly in order so far, though I've had to skip a couple that weren't easily accessible to me, and I appreciate the development of Rebus's character and his relationships with those around him. 11mo

kwmg40 @Zuhkeeyah Thanks! I really enjoyed the Pokemon challenge this year and look forward to the 2025 challenge. @PuddleJumper 11mo

Andrew65 @kwmg40 Definitely an interesting character. 11mo

PuddleJumper I've updated your graphics thingy - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ob9B6xEtuHlKAYrSRzkI_vDCx81Ji-1l?usp=sha... 10mo

kwmg40 @PuddleJumper Thank you! 10mo

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5feet.of.fury

The Fate of Magic | Sara Raasch

so-so

It really wasn‘t as good as the first 1 which had a lot of world building & character development. This one now didn‘t need to set that up there could have been more action, trials, conflict, etc ESPECIALLY being written as a duology -I expected more. It‘s wasn‘t bad, but just kind of meandered.

5feet.of.fury #HolidayBookDragons #Wintergames2024 @LiseWorks #adventathon @BookmarkTavern #snickerdoodlespirit @Bookwormjillk #wintersolsticereadathon @StayCurious #christmasAtoZ #letterF @Texreader #averymerrybingo “mistletoe” #averyscarychristmas “escape” @Jadams89 #christmascrimechallenge “historical” @RaeLovesToRead 11mo

BookmarkTavern Good job! 11mo

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