March Mystery Madness Update: Week 3
by Ryan McBride - Wednesday Mar 26 2008 8:27 pm
Posted in: Fun, buzz, websites, Mystery & Crime, Contests and Giveaways, Book Lists


The March Mystery Madness showdown has now reached its third week. During the last round, 48 books were voted off, leaving 16 behind to duke it out over the coming three weeks....

Here are some highlights from last week's competition:

The legendary Agatha Christie proved she was beatable…by Agatha Christie. The Mysterious Affair at Styles sent Sleeping Murder to an early slumber (maybe with the fishes?) and now Christie takes on another icon of the genre, Ray Bradbury. Surely, this match-up of mystery masters is the one most pundits will be paying attention to in Week Three as each writer has seen and done it all (except, of course, been crowned March Mystery Madness Champion).

Andrew Pyper is the lone Canadian left in the field after leaving Mo Hayder stranded on Pig Island with no hope of tournament rescue in this tournament. But Pyper now has to face the formidable challenge of Val McDermid’s Killing the Shadows with a chance to take on either Dennis Lehane or Andrew Taylor in the Elite Eight.

Stuart MacBride is done after being Carved in Bone by Jefferson Bass, who now faces off against Elizabeth George’s What Came Before He Shot Her. If you’ve got money on the 2008 tournament (and let’s face it, who doesn’t?) George may be the horse to bet on. She and Lehane are the only authors with two books still alive, though with George matched up against Bass on one side and the powerhouse that is Lisa Scottoline in the other, what comes after won’t have been easily earned.

Keep on sending in those votes, and remember to enter the draw for the big prize: all 64 March Mystery Madness titles.



See:
Mystic River - mass market paperback
By Dennis Lehane - $10.99 - add to cart

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -...

 

Fallen Angel: The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick and the Canadian Hells Angels - trade paperback
By Jerry Langton - $24.95 - add to cart

The untold story of one of the most powerful biker criminals in North America At only 5 feet 5 inches, Hells Angels President Walter Stadnick is a living, breathing Napoleon for the hell-for-lea...

 

Killing the Shadows - mass market paperback
By Val Mcdermid - $10.99 - add to cart

A killer is on the loose, blurring the line between fact and fiction. Hisprey are the writers of crime novels who have turned psychological profilersinto the heroes of the nineties. But this killer...

 

Lost Girls - mass market paperback
By Andrew Pyper - $10.99 - add to cart

Two fourteen-year-old girls have gone missing and presumably lie at the bottom of a lake just outside a tiny northern town. Though everyone believe's the girls' English teacher is guilty, no bodie...

 

The Mysterious Affair At Styles - mass market paperback
By Agatha Christie - $9.99 - add to cart

Agatha Christie's first novel – and the first of a new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century. With impeccable timing Hercule Poirot, the renowned Belgian detective, makes his dra...

 

Farewell Summer - mass market paperback
By Ray Bradbury - $10.99 - add to cart

In the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois, an age-old conflict pitting the young against the elderly for control of the clock that ticks their lives ev...

 

Dark Tort - mass market paperback
By Diane Mott Davidson - $10.99 - add to cart

Diane Mott Davidson is the author of twelve bestselling novels. She lives in Colorado with her family.

 

Dead Days of Summer - mass market paperback
By Carolyn Hart - $9.99 - add to cart

Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is understandably upset. It isn't like her p.i. husband Max to abruptly disappear—and homicide is definitely not his style. But w...

 

Daddy''s Girl - mass market paperback
By Lisa Scottoline - $10.99 - add to cart

Natalie Greco loves being a teacher, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. She loves her family, too, but her boyfriend fits in better with the football-crazy ...

 

With No One as Witness - mass market paperback
By Elizabeth George - $10.99 - add to cart

Elizabeth George is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels of psychological suspense, one book of nonfiction, and two short-story collections. She lives in London and Huntington Bea...

 

What Came Before He Shot Her - mass market paperback
By Elizabeth George - $10.99 - add to cart

Elizabeth George is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen novels of psychological suspense, one book of nonfiction, and two short-story collections. She lives in Seattle, Washington, an...

 

Carved in Bone - mass market paperback
By Jefferson Bass - $10.99 - add to cart

There is a patch of ground in Tennessee dedicated to the science of death, where human remains lie exposed to be studied for their secrets. The real-life scientist who founded the "Body Farm" has b...

 

Gone, Baby, Gone - mass market paperback
By Dennis Lehane - $10.99 - add to cart

The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families,...

 

No Good Deeds - mass market paperback
By Laura Lippman - $10.99 - add to cart

No good deed goes unpunished . . .Working as a consultant for a Baltimore newspaper, p.i. Tess Monaghan seems far removed from the unsolved slaying of a young federal prosecutor—until her wel...

 

Metro Girl - mass market paperback
By Janet Evanovich - $10.99 - add to cart

Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed ca...

 

All the Flowers Are Dying - mass market paperback
By Lawrence Block - $10.99 - add to cart

A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three horrific murders he must have committed but swears he didn't . . .An aging investigator in New York City has seen too much and lost too much --...

 




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