2021 Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge

HOST: Carol @ Carol's Notebook

DATES: January 1 - December 31, 2021

Guidelines (quoted from challenge announcement page):

• You can read any book that is from the mystery/suspense/thriller/crime genres. Any sub-genres are welcome as long as they incorporate one of these genres.
• You don’t need a blog to participate but you do need a place to post your reviews to link up (blog, Goodreads, Instagram, etc.).
• Books need to be at least 100 pages long. Please no short stories.
• Crossovers with other challenges are fine.
• The Challenge will run from Jan. 1st to Dec. 31st. (Sign up ends March 15th.)
• There will be a monthly link-up for reviews.
  
  

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 (5-15 books). 

See my original post about the challenge HERE. 
See the challenge announcement/sign-up page HERE.

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

1. Nemesis (Miss Marple #11). Agatha Christie (1971) 
2. Jerusalem Inn (Richard Jury #5). Martha Grimes (1984)
3. Suspicious Death (Inspector Thanet #8). Dorothy Simpson (1988) 
4. Bryant & May: Oranges and Lemons (Peculiar Crimes Unit #17). Christopher Fowler (2021) 
5. The Clue of the Tapping Heels (Nancy Drew #16). Carolyn Keene (1939)
6. A Guilty Thing Surprised (Inspector Wexford #5). Ruth Rendell (1970)
7. Faithful Unto Death (Chief Inspector Barnaby #5). Caroline Graham (1996) 
8. The Clue in the Crumbling Wall (Nancy Drew #22). Carolyn Keene (1945)
9. The Postscript Murders (Harbinder Kaur #2). Elly Griffiths (2021)
10. An Extravagant Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries #14). Charles Finch (2021)
11. A Body at the Tea Rooms (Kate Palmer Mysteries #3). Dee MacDonald (2021) 
12. Dead Dead Girls. Nekesa Afia (2021) 
13. Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot #17). Agatha Christie (1929)
14. Castle Shade (Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes #17). Laurie R. King (2021)
15. Killing in a Koi Pond (Murder, She Wrote #53). Terrie Farley Moran (2021) 
16. Smilla's Sense of Snow. Peter Høeg (1992) 
17. The Religious Body (Inspector Sloan #1). Catherine Aird (1966) 
18. The Hollywood Spy (Maggie Hope #10). Susan Elia MacNeal (2021) 
19. Wolf Lake (Dave Gurney #5). John Verdon (2016) 
20. The Victim in Victoria Station (Dorothy Martin #5). Jeanne M. Dams (1999)
21. The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (Sherlock Holmes Pastiche #5). Nicholas Meyer 
22. Bloodless (Pendergast #20). Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (2021) 
23. Plot It Yourself (Nero Wolfe #32). Rex Stout (1959) 

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