2018 Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge

**Challenge complete. See my wrap-up post HERE.**

Hosted by: Stormi @ Books, Movies, Reviews! Oh My! and Barb @ Booker T's Farm

Dates: January 1 - December 31, 2018

Rules and Guidelines:

• Any book from the mystery/suspense/thriller/crime genres qualifies. Any sub-genres are welcome as long as they incorporate one of those genres.
• A blog isn't necessary to participate, but you do need a place to post your reviews to link up. (A blog, Goodreads, booklikes, etc.)
• Sign-up until April 15, 2018. Post your goal for the challenge and link it back to the sign-up page.
• Books should be novellas or novels (no short stories), and should be over 100 pages. 
• Books can crossover with other challenges.
• There will be a monthly link up to check your progress and show everyone your reviews. At the halfway mark and at the end there will be a giveaway for those participating.
• If you tweet about your progress or reviews, use the hashtag #CloakDaggerChal so others can find it.

Levels:

1. Amateur sleuth  (5-15 books)
2. Detective  (16-25 books)
3. Inspector  (26-35 books)
4. Special agent  (36-55 books)
5. Sherlock Holmes  (56+ books)

I'm signing up at the "Amateur Sleuth" level, and will try for 15 books.

See my original post about the challenge HERE.
See the challenge announcement/signup page HERE.
See the review linkups: JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC.
See my challenge wrap-up post HERE.


MY READING LIST (books I've read, with links to reviews):

1. Intruder in the Dark (Chief Inspector Littlejohn #43). George Bellairs (1966; police procedural)
2. A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple #5). Agatha Christie (1950; mystery)
3. Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn #5). Ngaio Marsh (1937; police procedural)
4. My Sister's Bones. Nuala Ellwood (2017; psychological thriller)
5. Miss Zukas and the Library Murders (Miss Zukas #1). Jo Dereske (1994; cozy mystery, amateur sleuth)
6. Coffin, Scarcely Used (Flaxborough Mysteries #1). Colin Watson (1958; police procedural)
7. Holmes Entangled. Gordon McAlpine (2018; mystery; historical mystery)
8. Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (87th Precinct #11). Ed McBain (1960; police procedural)
9. Murder in the Meadow (DI Hillary Greene #7). Faith Martin (2008; police procedural; originally published as Beside a Narrow Stream)
10. Tailspin. Sandra Brown (2018; romantic suspense; thriller)
11. The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot #6). Agatha Christie (1928; mystery)
12. A Long Time Coming. Aaron Elkins (2018; mystery; art-related)
13. Last Song Sung (Cullen & Cobb #3). David A. Poulsen (2018; mystery; private investigator)
14. Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1). John le Carré (1961; mystery/espionage)
15. A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael #1). Ellis Peters (1977; mystery; historical mystery)

POSSIBILITIES (books I'd like to knock off my TBR pile):

• The Book of the Dead  (Pendergast #7). Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
• The Bookwoman's Last Fling  (Cliff Janeway #5). John Dunning 
• The Cabinet of Curiosities  (Pendergast #3). Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• The Case of the Gilded Fly  (Gervase Fen #1). Edmund Crispin 
• Cast, in Order of Disappearance  (Charles Paris #1). Simon Brett 
• Cutwork  (Needlecraft Mysteries #7). Monica Ferris 
• Death at the President's Lodging  (Sir John Appleby #1). Michael Innes 
• Death in Disguise  (Inspector Barnaby #3). Caroline Graham 
• Death is a Word  (Sheila Malory #21). Hazel Holt 
• Death of a Hollow Man  (Inspector Barnaby #2). Caroline Graham 
• Dumb Witness  (Hercule Poirot #16). Agatha Christie 
• Faithful Unto Death  (Inspector Barnaby #5). Caroline Graham 
• Final Curtain  (Roderick Alleyn #14). Ngaio Marsh 
• Five Red Herrings  (Lord Peter Wimsey #7). Dorothy L. Sayers 
• Framed in Lace  (Needlecraft Mysteries #2). Monica Ferris 
• Gallows View  (Inspector Alan Banks #1). Peter Robinson 
• Hanging By a Thread  (Needlecraft Mysteries #6). Monica Ferris 
• In the Best Families  (Nero Wolfe #13). Rex Stout
• Last Bus to Woodstock  (Inspector Morris #1). Colin Dexter
• Last Seen Wearing  (Inspector Morris #2). Colin Dexter 
• The League of Frightened Men  (Nero Wolfe #2). Rex Stout 
• Let the Devil Sleep  (Dave Gurney #3). John Verdon 
• The Little Sister  (Philip Marlow #5). Raymond Chandler 
• Los Alamos. Joseph Kanon 
• The Man in the Queue  (Inspector Alan Grant #1). Josephine Tey 
• The Man Who Died Laughing  (Stewart Hoag #1). David Handler 
• Miss Zukas and the Library Murders  (Miss Zukas #1). Jo Dereske 
• The Moving Finger  (Miss Marple #4). Agatha Christie 
• Mrs. Malory and a Death in the Family  (Sheila Malory #17). Hazel Holt 
• Mrs. Malory and a Necessary End  (Sheila Malory #20). Hazel Holt 
• Murder Must Advertise  (Lord Peter Wimsey #10). Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Murder on the Links  (Hercule Poirot #2). Agatha Christie
• Murder, She Meowed  (Mrs. Murphy #5). Rita Mae Brown 
• Murder with Mirrors  (Miss Marple #8). Agatha Christie 
• The Mystery of the Blue Train  (Hercule Poirot #6). Agatha Christie
• Nemesis  (Miss Marple #12). Agatha Christie 
• The Night She Died  (Inspector Thanet #1). Dorothy Simpson 
• Origin  (Robert Langdon #5). Dan Brown 
• Pay Dirt  (Mrs. Murphy #4). Rita Mae Brown 
• Reliquary  (Pendergast #2). Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• Say It with Poison  (Mitchell & Markby #1). Ann Granger 
• The Second Confession  (Nero Wolfe #12). Rex Stout 
• The Sign of the Book  (Cliff Janeway #4). John Dunning 
• The Singing Sands  (Inspector Alan Grant #6). Josephine Tey 
• Still Life  (Chief Inspector Gamache #1). Louise Penny 
• Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd  (Flavia de Luce #8). Alan Bradley
• Too Many Clients  (Nero Wolfe #23). Rex Stout 
• The Wheel of Darkness  (Pendergast #8). Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 
• When You Reach Me. Rebecca Stead 

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