WHERE IN THE WORLD HAVE WE BEEN IN DECEMBER?

WHERE HAVE WE GONE WITH OUR BOOKS IN DECEMBER?

U.S. STATES

1-Alabama
Hope- A Christmas Memory - Truman Capote

1- Alaska
Lynda - Uncharted - Adriana Anders

2-Arizona
Lynda - Judgment Call - J.A. Jance
Tessa- The Devil’s Highway – Luis Alberto Urrea

10-California
Carol - Sandman - Morgan Hannah MacDonald
ColinMichaelFelix - Framed - S. L. McInnis
Carol - Beat of Their Own Drum - K.M. Neuhold
Caroline - Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
Lynda - Vanishing Edge - Claire Kells
Tessa - The Edge of the Earth - Christina Schwarz
Carol - Taking It Slow - Reese Knightly
Tessa - Solito– Javier Zamora
Carol - Battle It Out - Reece Knightley
Carol - Back To The Garden - Laurie King

2-Colorado
Carol - Cuffs and Commitment - Romeo Alexander
Carol - Seeking Sanctuary - Romeo Alexander.

2-Florida
Cindy - Duma Key - Stephen King
Carol - Three's Company - N.R. Walker

1-Georgia
Carol - Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six - Lisa Unger

1-Hawaii
Lynda - Somewhere on Maui - Toby Neal

1- Idaho
Carol - Tic-Tac Mistletoe- N.R. Walker

2-Illinois
Carol - Easton's Lost Otter - Della Cain
Eadie - Leopold and Loeb: The Crime of the Century - Hal Higdon

1-Louisianna
Carol - Taking It Slow - Reese Knightly

2-Maine
Tessa - Candy Canes of Christmas Past - Leslie Meier
Carol - A Dash of Salt and Pepper - Kosoko Jackson

2-Maryland
Lynda - Baltimore Blues - Laura Lippman
Lynda - Digital Fortress - Dan Brown

3-Massachusetts
Mary - What Waits in the Woods - Terri Parlato
Carol - Professor Platonic - Lucy Lennox
Cindy - Blue Heron - Avi

1-Minnesota
Tessa Candy Cane Murder - Joanne Fluke

1-Mississippi
Cindy - Out of Circulation - Miranda James

1-Missouri
Carol - The Uninvited: The True Story of The Union Screaming House - Steven A. LaChance

2-Montana
Carol - Merry Christmas Cupid - N.R. Walker
Carol - Tic-Tac Mistletoe - N.R. Walker

2-Nebraska
Cindy - The Children's Blizzard - Melanie Benjamin
Carol - Nowhere Ranch - Heidi Cullinan

1-New Jersey
Julie - Born to Run: The Autobiography - Bruce Springsteen

11-New York
Carol - Edged, Trophy Doms Social Club- Kate Hawthorn
Cindy - All My Patients are Under the Bed - Louis J. Camuti
Carol - No Surrender - Nora Phoenix
Carol - Beat of Their Own Drum - K.M. Neuhold
Carol - No Rules - Nora Phoenix
Sergei - Someday, Someday, Maybe - Lauren Graham
Carol - The Haunting on West 10th Street - Helen Phifer
Carol - See Her Die - Melinda Leigh
Lynda - My Name is Mary Sutter - Robin Oliveira
Lynda - Wreck the Halls - Tessa Bailey
Lynda - Hanukkah at the Great Greenwich Ice Creamery - Sharon Ibbotson

2-North Carolina
Cindy - I Love You More - Jennifer Murphy
Carol - Battle It Out - Reece Knightley

1-North Dakota
Carol - Battle It Out - Reece Knightley

1-Ohio
Lynda - That Darkness - Lisa Black

1-Oklahoma
Lynda - One Night with a Cowboy - Cat Johnson

4-Oregon
Carol - Edged, Trophy Doms Social Club- Kate Hawthorn
Carol - Cutie and the Beast - E.J. Russell
Carol - Bringing It Home - Reece Knightley
Carol - Make Me Stay - Annabeth Albert

1-Pennsylvania
Carol - Local Girl Missing - Lisa Regan

1-Tennessee
Eadie - An Innocent Client - Scott Pratt

1-Texas
Tessa - You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation - Julissa Arce

2-Vermont
Lynda - Boyfriend - Sarina Bowen
Carol - Every Last One - Anna Quindlen

4-Virginia
Lynda - Hokus Pokus - Fern Michaels
Carol - The Winner - David Baldacci
Heather - Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Andrew - All That Remains - Patricia Cornwell,

6-Washington
Carol - Solstice - R.J. Scott & Eli Easton
Carol - Adverse Conditions - Elle Keaton
Carol - Up in Flames - Eden Finley & Saxon James
Carol - Risking It All - Reece Knightley
Carol - Deadly Lies - Chris Patchell
Andrew - Let It Snow - Debbie Macomber

3-Washington D.C.
Carol - Serve, White House Men - Nora Phoenix
Carol - Puzzle, White House Men - Nora Phoenix
Lynda - My Name is Mary Sutter - Robin Oliveira

West Virginia

3-Wisconsin
Lynda - Mistletoe Mischief - Stacey Joy Netzel
Carol - Kept Secrets - Shawn McGuire
Tessa - Once Upon a December - Amy E. Reichert

1-Wyoming
Tessa - Her Christmas Cowboy - Jessica Clare

81-12/31

THE REST OF OUR WORLD

1-Afghanistan
Lynda - In the Likely Event - Rebecca Yarros

3-Africa
Lynda - Stalking Ivory - Suzanne Arruda - (Kenya)
Lynda - True Believer - Jack Carr - (Mozambique)
Andrew - To the Land of Long-Lost Friends - Alexander McCall Smith (Botswana)

2-Australia
Lynda - The Unwilling Executive - Miranda P. Charles
Tessa - The Ship of Brides - Jojo Moyes

4-Canada
Carol - Haunted: The Incredible True Story of a Canadian Family’s Experience Living in a Haunted House - Dorah L. Williams
Tessa - Time Was Soft There – Jeremy Mercer
Cindy - Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada- Pam Chamberlain
Cindy - Greenwood - Michael Christie

1-China
Dusty - Chinese Fairytales - Sun Xhegang

1-Columbia
Tessa - Infinite Country - Patricia Engel

1- Croatia
ColinMichaelFelix - Fear the Silence - Robert Bryndza

1-Dubai
Carol - Taking It Slow - Reese Knightly

1-Egypt
Lynda - Disappearance of a Scribe - Dana Stabenow

1-France
Threadsong - Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac

1-El Salvador
Tessa - Solito – Javier Zamora

32-England
Sergei - Penny for Your Secrets - Anna Lee Huber
Eadie - Losing You - Nicci French
Carol - Denim - K.C. Wells
ColinMichael Felix - Fear the Silence - Robert Bryndza
Threadsong - Merlin's Booke - Jane Yolen
Lynda - The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies - Alison Goodman
Heather - This Charming Man - C. K. McDonnell
Lynda - Margaret of Anjou - Conn Iggulden
Sergei - By a Narrow Majority - Faith Martin
Carol - None of This is True - Lisa Jewell
Sergei - By a Narrow Majority - Faith Martin
Sergei - One Ordinary Day at a Time - Sarah J. Harris
Heather - The Clockmaker's Daughter - Kate Morton
Lynda - Hidden Depths - Ann Cleeves
Sergei - Resurrectionist - James McGee
Dusty - The Lost Gallows - John Dickson Carr
Tessa - The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams
Tessa The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding - Agatha Christie
Sergei - The Fallen - Michael Wood
Tessa - The Ship of Brides - Jojo Moyes
Carol - The Burning Girls - C. J. Tudor
Sergei - Kissing Christmas Goodbye - M. C. Beaton
Sergei - The Greek Who Stole Christmas - Anthony Horowitz
Carol - Our House - Louise Candlish
Carol - A Silver Fox for Kinkmas - Colette Davison
Andrew - Secrets at Bletchley Park - Margaret Dickinson
Cindy - Naughty in Nice - Rhys Bowen
Cindy - The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England - Ian Mortimer
Andrew - The Greek Who Stole Christmas - Anthony Horowitz
Andrew - One Christmas Morning - Rachel Greenshaw
Andrew - Murder under the Christmas Tree - Cecily Gayford
Andrew - Mistletoe at Moonstone Lake - Holly Martin

1-France
Cindy - The Hunter and the Wild Girl - Pauline Holdstock

1-Germany
Maura - Blackout - Simon Scarrow

1-Guatemala
Tessa - Solito – Javier Zamora

1-India
Heather- Teatime for the Firefly - Shona Patel

1-Ireland
Threadsong - Irish Knit Murder - Peggy Ehrhart

1-Italy
Andrew - The Garden of Angels - by David Hewson

2-Japan
Lynda - The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa
Tessa - Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3-Mexico
Tessa - Solito – Javier Zamora
Tessa - American Dirt – Jennine Cummins
Heather - The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

1-New Zealand
Lynda - Island of the Lost - Joan Druett

1-Norway
Carol - The Night House - Jo Nesbo

1-Russia
Threadsong - The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott

4-Scotland
Cindy - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
Lynda - Grayfriars Bobby - Eleanor Atkinson
Andrew - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
Andrew - The Christmas Castle in Scotland - Julie Caplin

1-Singapore
Tessa - Aunty Lee's Delights - Ovidia Yu

2-Spain
Lynda - Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Andrew - A Dangerous Place - Jacqueline Winspear

1-Sweden
Carol - The Winner - David Baldacci

1-Switzerland
Carol - The Winner - David Baldacci

1-Trinidad
Andrew - ‘Til The Well Runs Dry - Lauren Francis-Sharma

1- Wales
Heather - Named of the Dragon - Susanna Kearsley

74-12/31

THOSE STRANGE & WONDERFUL PLACES
Heather - The Last Graduate - Naomi Novik
Carol - Cutie and the Beast - E. J. Russell
Sergei - Doctor Who: Time Trips - Various
Carol - Adrift - Isabelle Adler
Heather- Salt & Broom - Sharon Lynn Fisher
Dusty - Pirates of the Asteroids - Isaac Asimov Dusty
Dusty - Betrayal of the Court - Heather G Harris
Dusty - Revival of the Court - Heather G Harris
Dusty - Lies of Vampires and Slayers - K M Shea
Dusty - Hex of the Witch - Heather G Harris
Dusty - Coven of the Witch - Heather G Harris
Dusty - Familiar of the Witch - Heather G Harris
Dusty - Nettle and Bone T Kingfisher
Sergei - The Q Continuum: Q-Zone - Greg Cox
Dusty - Green Gryphon - J.S. Kennedy
Dusty - Green Mage - J. S. Kennedy

16-12/31

Started in London now we're on a small Croatian island in Fear The Silence by Robert Bryndza. I'm also in LA for an intriguing thriller of a whodunit with Framed by S. L. McInnis

I am currently in Berlin in the early days of World War Two experiencing Blackout by Simon Scarrow