March Mystery Madness Update: Week 3
Wednesday, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:27pmThe 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 proved she was beatable…by . 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, . 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).
is the lone Canadian left in the field after leaving stranded on Pig Island with no hope of tournament rescue in this tournament. But Pyper now has to face the formidable challenge of Killing the Shadows with a chance to take on either or in the Elite Eight.
is done after being Carved in Bone by , who now faces off against ’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 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.
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Farewell Summer
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The master of American fiction returns to the territory of his beloved classic, Dandelion Wine--a sequel 50 years in the making
Some summers refuse to end . . .
October 1st, the end of summer. The air is still warm, but fall is in the air. Thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, his younger brother Tom, and their friends do their best to take advantage of these last warm days, rampaging through the ravine, tormenting the girls . . . and declaring war on the old men who run Green Town, IL. For the boys know that Colonel Quartermain and his cohorts want nothing more than to force them to put away their wild ways, to settle down, to grow up. If only, the boys believe, they could stop the clock atop the courthouse building. Then, surely, they could hold onto the last days of summer . . . and their youth.
But the old men were young once, too. And Quartermain, crusty old guardian of the school board and town curfew, is bent on teaching the boys a lesson. What he doesn't know is that before the last leaf turns, the boys will give him a gift: they will teach him the importance of not being afraid of letting go.
Dark Tort
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Diane Mott Davidson is the author of twelve bestselling novels. She lives in Colorado with her family.
Dead Days of Summer
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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 when his car is found abandoned on a remote road with a brutally slain, once-beautiful young woman nearby and the murder weapon stashed in the trunk, Annie's worst fears seem justified.
The police have Max all but tried and convicted--except for Chief Billy Cameron, whose unshakable belief in his friend's innocence prompts his removal from the case. And as a media circus descends on tiny Broward's Rock, Annie will have to place her own life in jeopardy to clear her husband's name. But time is running out--and she has only one slim chance to unmask a killer who just may have committed the perfect crime.
Metro Girl
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This #1 New York Times bestseller from Janet Evanovich moves into the fast lane with a thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blooded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who's along for the ride.
Alexandra Barnaby got the brains in her family. The little gray cells certainly bypassed Barney's younger brother, Wild Bill. Truth is, Alex has been bailing her brother out of trouble since they were kids. Not that Bill's a bad sort. More that he acts first and thinks later. Unfortunately, this time around, Wild Bill will be Dead Bill if Alex doesn't find him in time.
Alex blasts through the bars of South Beach and points her search to Key West and Cuba, laying waste to Miami hit men, dodging Palmetto bugs big enough to eat her alive, and putting the pedal to the metal with NASCAR driver Sam Hooker. Somebody's stolen his boat and the trail leads to--you guessed it--Wild Bill. Since Will Bill is missing, Hooker decides to follow Barney and see if she can lead him to his boat.
The race to the finish is hot and hard, taking Alex and Hooker into international waters, exposing a plot to grab Cuban gold and a sinister relic of the Cuban missile crises. Creative cussing and sexual innuendo included.
All the Flowers Are Dying
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New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block returns with another riveting thriller.
Mystery Grandmaster Lawrence Block has enthralled readers for more than three decades with his novels featuring the lovable burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, Keller, and
