March Murder & Mayhem: The Group Monthly Theme Read

Welcome to the March Group Read. Our theme this month is murder & mayhem. The rules here are loose and limber. If you have a mystery/crime book you've been meaning to get to, let this be a stimulus. If you happen to read any mystery/crime books during March in the course of your normal reading, come here and tell us about them. If you want to use this as an excuse to read as many mystery/crime books as possible in March, go for it! And come here and tell us all about it!

I have several mystery series I dabble in intermittently.


Sebastian St. Cyr: 13 of 15 read
Dr. Siri: 12 of 15 read
In Death: 7 of 53 read
Flavia de Luce: 6 of 10 read
Dido Kent: 2 of 4
Royal Spyness: 7 of 14 read
Lady Julia Grey: 1 of 6 read
Rosalind Thorne: 1 of 3 read

I have the following on my March list:

Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard

Wonderful! My Fantasy February latest read will probably last into March and also fits this! Working on book two of the Mercedes Thompson series Blood Bound

I have a few possibilities listed among my March potential reads:

1) The Murder of Harriet Monckton by Elizabeth Haynes (library hold)
2) Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie (next in series for me)
3) A TBD Agatha Christie for the MysteryKIT Golden Age theme

Thanks for bringing this back, Roni. I love Murder and Mayhem and will have to pull some off the shelves. I see you like Deanna Raybourn's Lady Julia Grey series. Have you tried her Veronica Speedwell series?

The Honjin Murders for me!

Summit Lake for me!

Too many to list for me! :D

I will be reading Postern Of Fate for my Agatha Christie challenge; beyond that I have no definite plans yet, but I will report back in when I'm a bit more organised.

I haven't read either The Woman in White or The Moonstone, both by Wilkie Collins, before, so which one do you guys think has more "Murder and Mayhem"? Or maybe neither fits the category and I should go for Murder on the Orient Express?

>10 Majel-Susan:

Both of them would qualify, though in very different ways. There's a little more murder / attempted murder in the first. :D

But you should certainly read Murder On The Orient Express if you haven't.

(I'm no help, am I??)

>11 lyzard: Yes, even my sister was surprised when I mentioned that I hadn't read Murder on the Orient Express before. I started once when I was maybe twelve, but I wasn't much of a reader then and I never finished it.

Thanks, Roni. This always is a great celebration of mystery (and mayhem) reading.

I read mysteries on a regular basis; I think the new Joe Pickett one by C.J.Box comes out in March, so that'll probably be my pick.

I just finished the 5th Sean Duffy mystery, set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and every one has been excellent. I've then started Curious Toys, one set in 1915 Chicago and recommended by Bonnie. Very good so far.

I have tons of mysteries on hand. I'll just see which ones I manage to finish.

I've got a head start---am reading Thomas Mullen's second novel about the early days of black police officers in Atlanta, Lightning Men. A lot of mayhem, and a really tough read, actually. But fascinating historical context, as the protagonists, Officers Boggs and Smith, try to clean up drugs and bootlegging in Atlanta's black communities, with very little support from the higher ups and none from the white cops.

I'm sure I can find some murder and mayhem for March. I don't have particular book in mind, but a possibility is The Tenant by Katrine Engberg. It's a debut novel by a Danish writer. A bit of new Scandicrime.

I'm just about to finish Echoes in Death, #44 of 50 in the Eve Dallas series by J.D. Robb. I'm sure I'll be reading more mysteries in March, too, as mysteries are my favorite genre.

Fun! I've been meaning to get to the Maisie Dobbs books for the longest time, so I think that this is the time! I've got the first one requested.

Karen O.

I'm in. Not sure yet what I'll read as I'll finish the latest Orphan X book tonight.

Well, I am still deep in the In Death series - I am at the midway point now - and will be continuing on through March.

I will be reading The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg. This one is a sizable novel at 550 pages so it will probably take me most of the month. It is also the Mystery group read along for March, so I can hit two birds with one stone with this book.

I've been reading the cozy murder mystery genre for the last month and intend to stay on a roll all of March.
My plan is to continue with Estelle Ryan's Genevieve Lenard series and Kate Ellis' Wesley Peterson series.

If I'm really lucky just maybe I'll get my hands on Elly Griffiths' newest title, The Lantern Men. Our library is slow as molasses in January about processing this new arrival, though.

And finally, I have pre-publication copy of Safecracker by Ryan Wick. He's a new crime/mystery author for me. I wonder how I'll manage with his likely very gritty writing?!

I will be reading and watching (I reserved the DVD, too) of The Thirty Nine Steps.

I also need to finish listening to Three Bags Full where a flock of sheep try to solve the murder of their shepherd.

I've made a start on Nalini Singh's A madness of sunshine.

Michael Connelly and Lee Child and Ragnar Jonasson for me this month.

>3 DeltaQueen50: I'll be reading a Wimsey as well, Unnatural Death, for the Wimsey challenge (https://www.librarything.com/topic/316905).

I've just started The Murder of Harriet Monckton by Elizabeth Hayes. It's a historical mystery set in England in the 1840s.

I started an e-book from my hold on Overdrive: The Bodies in the Library (by Marty Wingate).
This is billed as A First Edition Library Mystery (Book 1).

This author is a new find for me from the75-er threads. The book was billed as a cozy mystery, so fit the mood I'm in for reading this month.

I just finished up what I hoped would be my 'furry detective' read for the MysteryCat Challenge with The Company of Cats. Unfortunately, the cats didn't help solve the crime; instead the murdered kajillionaire left all his money to his cat, so all his seedy relatives found look alike cats to claim the fortune.

It actually had some funny bits. The cover of the book says it all

>29 streamsong: did you like the book?

I have completed my read of Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers, another excellent entry in the Lord Peter Wimsey series.

I just spent the day in the jury assembly room at Superior Court and was lucky enough not to be picked for a case, so I just ordered book #8 of the Royal Spyness series and book #3 of the Dido Kent series from the library system to start my mysteries for the month.

Finished Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs and the new Rockton thriller Alone in the Wild by Kelley Armstrong. I'm going to keep going with the easy reads and am about to start Iron Kissed by Patrica Briggs.

Finished The Bodies in the Library (by Marty Wingate) last night. It was a bit disappointing, largely because I didn't enjoy the character, Haley. As the main protagonist who dithered around and interfered so unrealistically in a murder investigation, I never felt engaged in the story. More of a review over on my Talk thread.

Tonight I'm starting a NetGallery story, Safecracker by Ryan Wick. I might have a shock after the gentleness of Wingate's novel!

>34 SandyAMcPherson: An excerpt from my own review of that one: "I never warmed to Hayley--perhaps because of her lack of affection for the mystery genre. I found the book easy to put down. The plot seemed convoluted."

About halfway through Magic for Liars, a noir-ish murder mystery set in a magical school that ain't Hogwarts. Non-magical PI, also sister of one of the teachers, is asked to find the real murderer of another one of the teachers. Suspects abound!

>35 thornton37814: Well said!

I finished Talented Mr Ripley at the start of the week and I'm currently reading the Well of Lost Plots the third in the Thursday Next series.

>30 fuzzi: I liked it well enough to pick up another Marian Babson if I see one. Apparently most, if not all of them, revolve around cats. I didn't like it enough to think I'll reread it. So, probably a 3 or 3.5 stars.

Would you like me to send it to you?

>39 streamsong: yes, please!

I've got The Cold, Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty and Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves queued up for this month. I might get to The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths, too. Although, assuming March Madness happens (it will), women's basketball might cut into my reading time for the month.

I couldn't resist revisiting Amelia Peabody in her first adventure, Crocodile on the Sandbank. Now I'll probably end up rereading the entire series over the course of the year. Just what I needed - another series reread, lol. It's laugh or cry....

I am slowing making my way through the Alan Banks series by Peter Robinson. The Hanging Valley was an interesting, if a bit dated, entry in the series. (He was smoking on an airplane.)

I've started on Murder on the Orient Express today. It's my first time reading it, but I'm already very familiar with the plot having watched the TV adaptation with David Suchet (LOVE that series!! ❤️), as well as both the 1974 and 2017 film adaptations.

I like the Kate Burkholder mysteries set in an Ohio Amish community. There are 11 in the series. I read half of them. Currently, I'm reading Among the Wicked by Linda Castillo

I finished Nalini Singh's A madness of sunshine. Enjoyed it. She has made a break from writing paranormal novels to write this crime thriller.

I was able to get my hands on The Long Call, the book that starts Ann Cleeves’ new series. It was so good. The protagonist was a Detective with a convoluted background which provides a suitable amount of conflict for the story.

Finished The Tenant by Danish writer, Katrine Engberg. I really enjoyed it and look forward to more titles by this author.

I'm currently reading Unnatural Death for the Lord Peter Wimsey challenge this month, and I'm surprised to find that I don't recall the plot or characters.

I thought I'd already read them all...woo!

I finished The Mysterious Mr Quin, the next book in my Agatha Christie chronological reading challenge. These are a set of stories published in magazines between 1923 and 1930 which feature Mr. Harley Quin, a semi-supernatural character (harlequin?) who mysteriously "comes and goes" and seems to bring "drama" with him. The stories are told from the point of view of Mr. Satterthwaite, an acquaintance of Mr. Quin. There are many references to harlequins in the stories, and these are not so much crime-solving stories as curiosities. Sort of reminded me of Alfred Hitchcock type tales.

I've joined Stasia in a reread of the In Death series. Just finished the first in the series, Naked in Death, and have two and three queued up.

Am also reading The Butterfly Girl, sequel to The Child Finder. Not finding it as compelling as the first, but it's early days yet.

One of my fantasy reads turned out to be a major mystery, so I'm counting it!

Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard (340 pp.)

I had read two of de Bodard's novellas, The Tea Master and the Detective and In the Vanishers’ Palace, and when I saw this title for free during my trial of Kindle Unlimited, thought it was yet another. So I picked it up for a quick read. And it wasn't. But I won't complain, because this mystery set in a fantastical Aztec empire was thoroughly engrossing, fast moving, and entertaining. The High Priest of the Dead, Acatl, must solve the mystery, and quickly, when a highly-placed priestess is kidnapped out of her room by a magical construct because the primary suspect is his estranged brother. There are all kinds of twists and turns, as well as some world-changing moments, before all is known and resolved. Loved the character of Acatl, with all his insecurities and reticence, as he is pulled into the center of the political world as well as dysfunctional family dynamics. And the best part is there are two more books featuring Acatl and his world.

And two of my mystery series books came in at the library so I am just starting a Royal Spyness novel.

>52 ronincats: Wasn't Servant of the Underworld great? I wasn't sure what to expect, but it sucked me in. My library only has a giant omnibus edition of the three books, so I'll probably end up buying the ebook versions of the other two. Having the first one available on Kindle Unlimited was a brilliant move.

I finished Agatha Christie’s Crooked House earlier this month and now I’m starting Rennie Airth’s The Death Of Kings.

Now I'm positive that I somehow missed this Sayers during my teens!


#27 Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

This is a thoroughly enjoyable book on different fronts: the characters (especially Miss Climpson), the mystery (we can guess whodunit, but the real mystery is how), and the look back at the Roaring 20s in England. A couple uses of archaic racial words can be skipped over due to context.

Duplicate post, sorry...

I've read so far Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of The Lord by Mario Giordano (4½ stars)
and Summit Lake by Charlie Donlea (4½ stars). These are two books that I can recommend.

I've read so far Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of The Lord by Mario Giordano (4½ stars) and Summit Lake by Charlie Donlea (4½ stars). These are two books that I can recommend.

Four completions so far with more to come:

1. Rounding the Mark by Andrea Camilleri - completed 1 March 2020
2. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano - completed 1 March 2020
3. High Country by Nevada Barr - completed 7 March 2020
4. Final Account by Peter Robinson - completed 8 March 2020

Finished book #8 of the Royal Spyness series, Queen of Hearts. Georgie is up to shenanigans again, and of course there is a murder.

I have compketed Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham, the 9th book in her Albert Campion series.

SPEAKING OF SERIES:
Many of us have read the Spenser novels by Robert B. Parker and, after his 2010 death, Ace Atkins. Many of us are old enough to have watched the TV series with Robert Urich and Avery Brooks. It was a good old world, except for Susan. Bloody. Silverman. Whining, manipulative, execrable Susan. Bloody. Silverman. was Spenser's dearly belovèd, though I for one have no idea why.

Some of us were aware that Mark "Never Disavow Your Nasty Side" Wahlberg was producing and starring in a rebooted Spenser film for Netflix. Mixed feelings were felt. Snark was snarked. But, brethren and cistern, I am here to reveal to you the glorious gospel of Wahlbergian Spencerism:

Gone is Susan Silverman.

Yes, say hallelujah my friends, there is neither jot nor tittle of Susan. Bloody. Silverman. in the rebooted film. May it be the first of many.

>61 DeltaQueen50: Oh, fun! I've got plans to read Allingham when I've ticked off a few more Christies, Sayers and Marshes from my TBR list.

I haven't been reading much at all the past few months but I've made an effort this week to read at least a few pages before bed, so now I'm getting somewhere with Murder Must Advertise. After that it's The Nursing Home Murder and Death at Victoria Dock, and hopefully I'll be able to get to Hercule Poirot's Christmas, which I started in November. Doubt I'll read them all in March, though.

>63 PawsforThought: I have fond memories of Murder Must Advertise and the Ian Carmichael series. I'll be reading (re-) later this year as part of the Wimsey challenge.

>62 richardderus: my dad loves the Spencer books. I've only read the first four Cole & Hitch westerns by Parker, but plan to check out the Spencer books eventually.

>64 fuzzi: I hope you'll enjoy them! Luckily, if you do, you've got a lot of them to keep you going.

>64 fuzzi: Murder Must Advertise is a fun read, but I've enjoyed all the Wimsey books so far - even Five Red Herrings. I've never seen the TV series, but I know a lot of people here on LT are big fans.

I didn't know there was going to be a Wimsey challenge this year - sounds superb. If I can make it I'll definitely join in.

>66 PawsforThought: better late than never, join us here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/316905

>67 fuzzi: Oh, in the Category Challenge group - that explains why I hadn't read about it. I'm reading them in order so the next one up for me is The Nine Tailors - I won't purposely hold off on reading it until November but if I don't get around to reading it before then, I'll certainly join in on the group read. And I'll see if I can keep an eye on the group during the rest of the year.

>62 richardderus:
That post made me laugh. Thank you. I have not read a single one of the Spencer books. I hope to read the ones by Robert B. Parker someday, but not the Ace Atkins titles. It is not that I don't like Ace Atkins. I think he is a good author, but I just think that no matter how hard an author tries, they bring a different vision to the books than the original author had. I read the four Cole & Hitch novels by Parker and ended it there. Again - for the same reason as state above.

Parker was such an fixture in Boston and so is Wahlberg. I would hope that he would have a better vision of the Spencer books. I hope he succeeds in getting the movie done and out to Netflix.

>69 benitastrnad: Heh, I'm pleased to have raised a smile in a darkening world. I don't think the books' noir would necessarily be agreeable to you, Benita, as the gender politics are regressive and the victimization of the double-X'd is rampant and frankly distasteful.

Make no mistake, Wahlberg's film is out now! A whole week it's been available to stream. It's not the Spenser I thought of, but it's at least ~120lb trimmer without You-Know-Who cluttering up the scenery. And it's much lighter on the ladykilling (literal sense).

>70 richardderus:
Didn't realize it was out now. Just in time for me to try to get it on DVD? And enjoy during my enforced incarceration away from work. I am not happy about the panic pandemic and all the hyperbolic panic surrounding it. Whatever happened to "Keep Calm and Carry On?" Oh I forgot that was 75 years ago when bombs were dropping on people from the sky. I guess we don't have an appropriate slogan to help people stay calm and take necessary precautions while carrying on. Perhaps you, with your erudite and extensive vocabulary can come up with one?

How's this:

OH FFS YOU EEJITS
CTFD
THE SKY IS NOT FALLING

>71 benitastrnad: I loved this quote from Kat Timpf on Twitter:

Has it ever occurred to you soap-and-hand-sanitizer hoarders that it is actually in your best health interest to allow the other people in your community to wash their hands as well?

(the ? was added by me)

>73 fuzzi: Now if only those silly hoarders world read Twitter and *pay attention, this is YOU*

Saw the weirdest thing ~ a pharmacy clerk told some fellow trying to scoop *all* the shelf of gel sanitizer that it has an expiry date and how did he think he alone would possibly use it?
Mr. Piggy just kept right on trucking

My Man said, why hadn't the drugstore department kept the supply in the back and allowed only 1 bottle at a time per person? I've never seen such greed like this. Maybe he thought to sell it on what I hear has mimicked the WW2 black market.

>74 SandyAMcPherson: Mr. Piggy will be stuck with a ton of hand sanitizer and no market for it...that's where greed will take you.

>75 fuzzi: YES!

My 83 year old mother said she went to get groceries and noticed that at the grocery store there was no toilet paper. She told me that Covid-19 is not an abdominal disease. Why would you buy toilet paper for a respitory disease?

>77 benitastrnad: common sense...

>77 benitastrnad: This is what I've been saying since I saw the first pictures of toilet paper hoarding. If anything, people tend to use the bathroom *less* (because they eat less) when they have flu-like diseases.

It is Spring Break at the university and that along with advent of this panicdemic caused me to find myself with more reading time over the weekend so I finished reading Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg today and enjoyed it. This murder mystery is tarnslated from the Swedish and even though on the long side (almost 500 pages) and I do think it had a tendency to wander and “get lost in the weeds” so to speak with to many different plot elements, I found it to be a good story.

One of the things that I unexpectedly found myself really liking about this book was the picture of Swedish life that it gave me. This is book 7 in a series about a small town on the Swedish coast, and I am beginning to find myself getting to know all of the people who work at the police station better. I like that in a mystery.

I have pretty much stuck with the Patricia Briggs books for the whole month. I ended up loving the series and abandoning everything else
But lots of murder and mayhem in these!

I finished The Well of Lost Plots last week, and was going to move on to something a bit more serious especially as I have been trying to ration myself to one Thursday Next a month! But hey, with all this madness I need something to cheer me up so I carried right on and have now finished the fourth book in the series, Something Rotten. I think I have read it before as bits were familiar, but it must have been a long time ago as I had no idea how it was going to turn out.

It is a good month to be reading mysteries with all the craziness in the world. I started a new-to-me genealogical mystery series, the Jayne Sinclair mysteries. The first, The Irish Inheritance was good so I will be continuing with these books.

I am reading my way through the Detective Sean Duffy mysteries. The 1980s Belfast setting adds a certain flavour to the action and makes investigating homicides so much more problematic. The fact that Sean Duffy goes above and beyond, even when ordered not to, adds to the action.

Starting the latest OrphanX book today - Into the Fire

So far

1.Shari Lapena: An unwanted guest
2.Lethal White: Robert Galbraith

I've managed only two "Murder & Mayhem" mysteries this month:
1. The Bodies in the Library (Marty Wingate)
2. Safecracker (by Ryan Wick)

I'm tempted to add (at least in the mayhem and mystery genre) ~
3. The Lost Future of Pepperharrow (Natasha Pulley)

>83 Familyhistorian:, that looks like a great book (The Irish Inheritance). It went on my TBR list!

>87 SandyAMcPherson: There's a whole series of them, Sandy.

A Woman of Consequence by Anna Dean

This is the third of the Dido Kent Mysteries and I think it is the strongest yet. Set in Regency England, the environment and characters are absolutely true to their time. This mystery is intricately plotted; while there are no spoilers, clues are to be found aplenty throughout the story line. And I like Dido Kent more and more as a person as she deals with more adversity in this book.

After over four months of having the book in my possession, I've finally finished Murder Must Advertise. It's a good read, like all Sayers's book, and I'm glad and proud that I managed to finish despite everything that's been going on.

Long Bright River by Liz Moore . It was an excellent mystery and social commentary on the opioid crisis.

Finished up Into the Fire, the latest in the Orphan X novels. Definitely a good one, Definitely Murder and Mayhem worthy!

Just finished the second Estelle Ryan last night: The Dante Connection.
It was a great story and took my mind off the current pandemic anxiety...

I can't borrow the next one until our library reopens because in our PL e-book selections, there was nothing by Estelle listed.

I did borrow an ebook Kissing the Demons by Kate Ellis, but haven't managed to get the .ascm file to open (yet). ADE regularly sends me an 'expired' notice which is a very annoying situation.

I just finished an old E. X. Ferrar mystery off my shelves...Frog in the Throat...pleasantly diverting, and one more for the library donation box. I'm trying very hard to reduce the physical number of books in the house to those that will comfortably fit on the existing shelving (which is quite commodious actually).

>94 laytonwoman3rd: OoooH! BB, Linda.

Just what I needed, another series to fill in around the edges of my Series lists, Ha!

Just finished a mystery today. I wanted to award 4★s, but there were a few too many niggles. Possibly too many corpses showing up, but the novel was an enjoyable Gothic procedural: Kissing the Demons (Kate Ellis).

So far I managed :

Past Tense by Lee Child & Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson

The Ferrars books I've read have all been pleasant escapes, Sandy. Not way up there with my favorites, but good when it's hard to concentrate on heavier, plottier stuff. They may be a bit hard to come by, though.

>98 laytonwoman3rd: Indeed. I discovered not even one library (that I can access loans) which list the author.
Well, it's an author to add to my scrounging in used book shops and the thrifts... eventually of course.

I'm having a surprising amount of yearning to visit our favourite second-hand book store. Like other regions, all non-essential shops are mandated to be closed. Of course, *my* definition of non-essential doesn't coincide with the health officers' concept.

(Just kidding. I wouldn't want the staff to be coping with the public at this time).

>99 SandyAMcPherson: open library has a bunch!

https://openlibrary.org/search?q=E.+X.+Ferrars&mode=ebooks&has_fulltext=...

:)

>99 SandyAMcPherson: There are some at the Internet Archive. (archive.org)

>100 fuzzi: >101 PawsforThought: I keep forgetting about the openlibrary.org / Internet Archives. Thanks!

>100 fuzzi: Thanks for that link. I forget about that too.

I love mysteries set back in history and the Rosalind Thorne mysteries have been become some of my favourites. I was happy that I got to pick up A Purely Private Matter before my library closed. It was a good one.

I don't think I'll end up reading another mystery this month, so here's my list:

Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern by Lilian Jackson Braun
Murder in Piccadilly by Charles Kingston
Better Off Wed by Laura Durham

The first three were rereads; Lord Peter and Amelia Peabody did not disappoint and the Cat Who had a lightweight charm and a plot I didn't remember. Unfortunately, I wasn't particularly fond of the other two.

ETA: I can't remember - was there something slated for April?

>92 drneutron: Ooh good to see there's another Orphan X out. They're pretty good, I'll need to see if I can find that one!

With everything going on my reading has somehow ground to a halt, or it could just be a case of a series to far! I have been raving on about Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series recently, and I had got the first in the Nursery Crime series that he has written as well, The Big over Easy. I've been really struggling with this one, perhaps too many other things going on, or maybe being asked to raise my suspension of disbelief just that little bit too far, or maybe a mix of the two, I don't know. I put it to one side for now, and discovered The Duke's Agent by Rebecca Jenkins, a nice Regency spy thriller that I read in a couple of evenings. I've now got the second one on the go!

>105 Dejah_Thoris: if you find out about April, could you post a link here?

April's thread is now up at https://www.librarything.com/topic/318327#

I read A Justified State, a sci-fi thriller, and all the Murderbot books...I expect to finish The Aosawa Murders by tomorrow.

Here are my mystery completions for March:

1. Rounding the Mark by Andrea Camilleri - completed 1 March 2020
2. Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano - completed 1 March 2020
3. High Country by Nevada Barr - completed 7 March 2020
4. Final Account by Peter Robinson - completed 8 March 2020
5. Murder by the Book by Lauren Elliott - completed 14 March 2020
6. Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers - completed 26 March 2020
7. The Haunted Lady by Mary Roberts Rinehart - completed 28 March 2020
8. Gone with the Whisker by Laurie Cass - completed 31 March 2020

The only mystery book I managed this month was Murder on the Orient Express, but then again I'm probably not that big on mystery books, though I do love to watch crime dramas. I think that April Adventures will be more broadly up my lane -- looking forward to it!