Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012: My Contributions

The Crime Fiction Alphabet meme has been run 3 times in the past 4 years on this blog and has proved both challenging and popular.

Some contributors decided on a pattern for their posts.
For example Bill at Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan decided he would put up 26 mystery author profiles of authors whose books he had read. Yesterday he wrote a summary post.

Margot at Confessions from Mystery Novelist decided she would list protagonists used by mystery novelists.

I decided I would select from books/authors I have read and reviewed this year.
Below are my selections.

A: Anne Holt
B: THE BOY IN THE SUITCASE
C: THE CALLER
D: Garry Disher
E: THE FLATEY ENIGMA
F: Gordon Ferris
G: Sulari Gentill
H: Howell, Holt and Horst
I:  Ian Rankin
J:  Jo Nesbo
K: Karin and Katherine
L: Louise and Lovesey
M: Michael Robotham
N: NEXT OF KIN
O: Octavia
P: Louise Penny
Q: THE QUARRY
R: Ruth Rendell
S: Shamini Flint
T: A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
U: Unger
V: Virginia Duigan
W: Martin Walker
X: EXPERT WITNESS
Y: Yvette and Yaba
Z: Zita and Zero

I was very pleased to find that I had overlapped only 3 times!

If you were a contributor to the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2012 and have written a similar summary post (doesn't matter if you don't have all the letters covered) I invite you to add a link to your post on the Mr. Linky below.

Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 - the Summary: N to Z

Did you catch the first part of the summary for this fabulous meme yesterday?

Each week for the past 26 weeks participants have suggested an author, a title, or a topic beginning with a letter of the alphabet.They've linked their suggestion to a post on their blog.

In all, there have been nearly 400 crime fiction reading suggestions of both titles and authors.

The letter N
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Edward Stratemeyer's Nancy Drew 2. gautami tripathy (Nemesis) 3. Margaret @ BooksPlease -Now You See Me by S J Bolton 4. Srivalli- The Leopard by Jo Nesbo 5. MiP - NEXT OF KIN by Elsebeth Egholm 6. Peter Reynard - N or M?

7. Scott: N is for Nero Wolfe 8. TracyK (Night at the Vulcan) 9. Bev@My Reader's Block (Meredith Nicholson) 10. Katrina (The new Sonia Wayward) 11. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("N" is for Stuart Neville) 12. The Game's Afoot - N is for Nonídez, Manuel Nonídez

13. Peggy Ann - Natural Causes by James Oswald 14. a hot cup of pleasure - No Comebacks by Frederick Forsyth 15. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - NIGHTMARE CRUISE by Wade Miller 16. MaryR - N is for Name of the Rose

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The letter O
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Denise Mina's Maureen O'Donnell 2. TracyK - O is for Anthony Oliver 3. The Game's Afoot - O is for Oliver, Maria-Antonia Oliver 4. Srivalli -The Great Impersonation by E Philiphs Oppenhiem 5. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Baroness Orczy, The Old Man in the Corner 6. gautami tripathy - (Out at Night by Susan Arnout Smith)

7. Clarissa Draper - Knots 8. Peggy Ann - When the Music Stopped, Elizabeth Ogilvie 9. a hot cup of pleasure - Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie 10. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("O" is for Gregg Olsen) 11. Bev@My Reader's Block (O' Artful Death) 12. MiP - O is for Octavia (THE NOBODIES ALBUM, Carolyn Parkhurst)

13. O is for OLD SCHOOL TIE by Paul Thomas (Crime Watch - Craig) 14. Scott: O is for Outlaw 15. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) 0 One for the Road by Fredric Brown 16. MaryR - O is for Okrant

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The letter P

crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot 2. TracyK - Pardonable Lies, Jacqueline Winspear 3. gautami tripathy - (Paul Byers) 4. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Postern of Fate, Agatha Christie 5. The Game's Afoot - P is for Padura

6. Srivalli- The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain 7. Peggy Ann-Phoebe Atwood Taylor 8. Bev@My Reader's Block (Bernadette Pajer) 9. MiP - P is for Louise Penny 10. Scott: P is for Phillip and Perry

11. Clarissa Draper - Lynda La Plante 12. a hot cup of pleasure - Primal Fear 13. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("P" is for Edward O. Phillips) 14. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - PIZZA HOUSE CRASH by Denise Danks 15. MaryR - P is for Louise Penny

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The letter Q
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Anthony Bidulka's Russell Quant 2. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong 3. The Game's Afoot - Q is for Quinteto de Buenos Aires 4. Srivalli- A Question of Belief by Donna Leon 5. Peggy Ann-Death in the Quadrangle

6. And The Game's Afoot - Q is also for Quílez 7. Scott: Qis for Ellery Queen 8. MiP -Q is for THE QUARRY 9. Bev@My Reader's Block (A Question of Time) 10. a hot cup of pleasure - Question of Blood by Ian Rankin

11. TracyK -- A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr 12. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - QUEEN IN DANGER by Adam Hall 13. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("Q" is for Kwei Quartey) 14. MaryR (Q is for Spencer Quinn)

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The letter R
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Alexander McCall Smith's Mma. Precious Ramotswe 2. gautami tripathy - (Rosemary Harris) 3. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Bad Boy by Peter Robinson 4. Srivalli- R is for Ruth Rendell 5. Jose Ignacio - The Game's Afoot - Rafael Reig

6. Peggy Ann-Raspberry Jam 7. MiP - R is for Ruth Rendell 8. Scott: R is for Remington Steele 9. TracyK - Helen Reilly 10. a hot cup of pleasure: Rex Stout's Mother Hunt

11. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - REUNION WITH MURDER by Timothy Fuller 12. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("R" is for Robert Rotenberg) 13. Peter Reynard - Jack Reacher 14. Bev@My Reader's Block (Mary Roberts Rinehart) 15. MaryR - R is for Ellen Raskin

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The letter S
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Peter Reynard - S is for Erle Stanley Gardner 2. Margot Kinberg - Karin Fossum's Konrad Sejer 3. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Maigret and the Ghost by Georges Simenon 4. Jose Ignacio - The Game's Afoot - Juan Jose Saer 5. Peggy Ann-A.D. Scott

6. Peggy Ann -The Shole Keys 7. Scott: S is for Sherlock Holmes 8. TracyK - Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 9. MiP - S is for Shamini Flint & Inspector Singh 10. a hot cup of pleasure: Successor by Ismail Kadare

11. Bev@My Reader's Block (Strange Murders at Greystokes) 12. MaryR - S is for Sayers 13. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("S" is for Josef Skvorecky) 14. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - SALT RIVER by James Sallis 15. Srivalli- The Scarlet Letters by Ellery Queen

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The letter T
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Adrian Hyland's Emily Tempest 2. Srivalli- The Tragedy of Z by Ellery Queen 3. Peter Reynard - Tarquin Hall 4. Jose Ignacio - The Game's Afoot - Paco Ignacio Taibo II 5. Margaret @ BooksPlease - The Four Last things by Andrew Taylor

6. Peggy Ann -Josephine Tey 7. Scott: T is for Travis McGee 8. TracyK - The Tattoo Murder Case by Takagi 9. Bev@My Reader's Block (Will Thomas) 10. MaryR - T is for Traditional

11. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - Traitor's Purse by Margery Allingham 12. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("T" is for Donald Serrell Thomas) 13. a hot cup of pleasure: Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer

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The letter U
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Rita Mae Brown's Tally Urquhart 2. Srivalli- U is for Undertow and Upson 3. Bev@My Reader's Block (Unhappy Hooligan) 4. TracyK - U is for Under World

5. Margaret @ BooksPlease (Fear in the Sunlight by Nicola Upson) 6. Jose Ignacio - U is for Ungar, Antonio Ungar 7. MaryR - U is for Upson 8. MiP - U is for Unger

9. Mysteries and More ("U" is for The Battling Prophet by Arthur W. Upfield) 10. Mysteries and More ("U" is for Arthur W. Upfield) 11. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - UNFINISHED PORTRAIT by Agatha Christie

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The letter V
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Srivalli- V is for Villar 2. Margot Kinberg - Håkan Nesser's Inspector Van Veeteren 3. Bev@My Reader's Block (Vera Caspary) 4. Margaret @ BooksPlease (The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas) 5. Jose Ignacio - V is for Villar, Domingo Villar

6. TracyK - S. S. Van Dine 7. MiP - V is for Virginia Duigan, THE PRECIPICE 8. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("V" is for Michael Van Rooy) 9. V is for Vanda Symon's THE FACELESS (Crime Watch - Craig) 10. a hot cup of pleasure: Vision by dean Koontz

11. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - VERONICA'S ROOM by Ira Levin 12. The Maine Massacre by Janwillem van de Wetering - Peggy Ann 13. MaryR - V is for Victoria Dock

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The letter W
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski 2. Scott: W is Without Due Process 3. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death 4. Srivalli- W is for Edgar Wallace

5. Peggy Ann -Episode of the Wandering Knife 6. Jose Ignacio - W is for Wilson, Robert Wilson 7. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("W" is for L.R. Wright) 8. MiP - W is for Martin Walker, THE CROWDED GRAVE

9. Bev@My Reader's Block (The War of the Worlds Murder) 10. TracyK - W is for R. D. Wingfield 11. MaryR - W is for Well Schooled in Murder 12. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - THE WENCH IS DEAD by Fredric Brown

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The letter X
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Exes 2. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("X" is for Qiu Xiaolong Again) 3. Bev@My Reader's Block (E. X. Ferrars) 4. Jose Ignacio - Alfonso X of Castile

5. MiP - X is for DEATH OF AN EXPERT WITNESS, P. D. James 6. Margaret @ BooksPlease - The Expats by Chris Pavone 7. Mysteries and More ("X" is for A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong) 8. TracyK - X is for XPD

9. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) -BEAST OF THE CAMARGUE by Xavier-Marie Bonnot 10. Srivalli- X is for When Red is Black by Qiu Xiaolong 11. MaryR - X is for Qui Xiaolong

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The letter Y
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Louise Penny's Yvette Nichol 2. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Murder by Yew by Suzanne Young 3. Bev@My Reader's Block (Felicity Young) 4. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("Y" is for Scott Young)

5. MaryR - Y is for Yiddish Policeman's Union 6. Scott: Y is for Alan Geoffrey Yates 7. MiP - Y is for Yvette and Yaba 8. TracyK - The Yiddish Policemen's Union

9. Jose Ignacio - Yanet Acosta 10. Mysteries and More (Murder in a Cold Climate by Scott Young) 11. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - THE YELLOW DOG by Georges Simenon 12. Srivalli- False Pretences by Margret Yorke

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The letter Z
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Donna Leon's Elettra Zorzi 2. Srivalli- Zone Defence by Petros Markaris 3. Bev@My Reader's Block (M. J. Zellnik) 4. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("Z" is for Mark Richard Zubro)

5. Margaret @ BooksPlease - The Whispers of Nemesis by Anne Zouroudi 6. TracyK - Zombies of the Gene Pool 7. MiP - Z is for Zita and Zero 8. Scott: Z is for Zelda

9. Jose Ignacio - Carlos Zanon 10. Mysteries and More (The Truth Can Get You Killed by Mark Richard Zubro) 11. Sergio @ Tipping My Fedora - The Zebra-Striped Hearse by Ross Macdonald 12. MaryR - Z is for Zouroudi

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Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012 - the Summary: A to M

Our journey is over for 2012.

Many thanks to those who've contributed every week or occasionally.

Today and tomorrow I'll sum up the posts.







The letter A
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn - Margot Kinberg 2. Ariadne Oliver - Agatha Christie @ The Book Jotter 3. A for Amnesia @ Tipping My Fedora 4. The A-Ha! Moment - Clarissa Draper 5. A for J. R. L. Anderson (Bev@My Reader's Block) 6. A is for Argemí - The Game's Afoot

7. "A" is for Rennie Airth - Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan 8. And Then There Were None @ a hot cup of pleasure 9. A is for Anne Holt - MiP 10. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of Four -Margaret @ BooksPlease 11. A is for Another Time, Another Life - Fleur Fisher 12. A is for Eric Ambler - TracyK@BitterTea&Mystery

13. Academic murder @ Peggy Ann's Post 14. The Character Depot - Archer, Jeffrey 15. Tea Time with Marce (A - Andrea Kane) 16. A is for Alibi-Srivalli 17. MaryR- Agatha Raisin

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The letter B
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("B" is for Gail Bowen) 2. Jo @ The Book Jotter (B is for Barry Lyga) 3. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves 4. TracyK @ Bitter Tea & Mystery (B is for Robert Barnard) 5. Clarissa Draper - the Back Story 6. The Game's Afoot (B is for Bolaño)

7. raidrgirl3(Blood and Circuses) 8. Peggy Ann 'The Black House' by The Little Sisters 9. MiP - THE BOY IN THE SUITCASE 10. Margot Kinberg - Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch 11. Sergio@Tipping My Fedora (Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey) 12. B for The Bat (Bev@My Reader's Block)

13. Burning Court by John Dickson Carr (Srivalli) 14. Crime Fiction Alphabet - Dan Brown 15. Fleur Fisher: B is for Bolton 16. MaryR - Booktown Mysteries

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The letter C
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Kerry Greenwood's Corinna Chapman 2. C for Champagne for One (Bev@My Reader's Block) 3. C is for John Dickson Carr (Peggy Ann) 4. C is for Cambridge Theorum (TracyK @ Bitter Tea) 5. Clarissa Draper - Crime Scene investigations 6. C is for COLLECTING COOPER by Paul Cleave (Crime Watch - Craig) 7. The Game's Afoot (C is for Cela)

8. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("C" is for Robert Crais) 9. C is for Ann Cleeves @ The Book Jotter 10. C for Crowley, as in Aleister, the notorious British occultist. 11. C is for THE CALLER by Karin Fossum - MIP 12. raidrgirl3(CJ Sansom) 13. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Catriona McPherson 14. Fleur Fisher (C is for Christie)

15. Sergio @Tipping My Fedora - C is for John Dickson Carr 16. MaryR - C is for Cozies 17. Case of the Imaginary Detective (a hot cup of pleasure) 18. Srivalli - A Cold Day For Murder by Dana Stabenow 19. Crime Fiction Alphabet - Cornwell

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The letter D
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Reginald Hill's Andy Dalziel 2. The Game's Afoot (D is for Diez) 3. Bev@My Reader's Block (Dead as a Dinosaur) 4. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Dana Stabenow 5. TracyK @ Bitter Tea (Len Deighton)

6. D is for Damien Seaman (Peggy Ann) 7. Clarissa Draper - Drowning 8. Fleur Fisher (D is for Dickens - Monica Dickens) 9. BLOOD MOON by Garry Disher (MiP) 10. Valli ( The Book of the Crime by Elizabeth Daly)

11. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("D" is for William Deverell) 12. Jo (D is for Daisy Dalrymple or Carola Dunn) 13. MaryR - D is for Dashiell Hammett 14. Sergio@Tipping My Fedora (Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury) 15. Crime Fiction Alphabet - author Clarissa Draper

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The letter E
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza's Inspector Espinosa 2. Bev@My Reader's Block (Elizabeth Ironside) 3. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Endless Night by Agatha Christie 4. The Game's Afoot (E is for Escolar)z) 5. Fleur Fisher - E is for Elizabeth 6. E is for Enigma - Kerrie MiP

7. Carter Brown - The Exotic - Scott 8. E is for EDGE by Jeffery Deaver (Crime Watch - Craig) 9. Clarissa Draper - Evidence 10. E is for Eilis Dillon (Peggy Ann) 11. TracyK @ Bitter Tea (An Empty Death, Wilson) 12. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("E" is for Jill Edmondson)

13. Jo @ The Book Jotter - E is for Enid Blyton! 14. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - E is for Stanley Ellin 15. a hot cup of pleasure (E is for Eight of Swords by John Dickson Carr) 16. Ed McBain - JL Campbell 17. MaryR - E is for Evanovich

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The letter F
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Camilla Läckberg’s Erica Falck 2. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("F" is for Zoë Ferraris) 3. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Fatherland by Robert Harris 4. The Game's Afoot (F is for Fonseca) 5. Fleur Fisher - F is for Fitt

6. F is for Ferris - Kerrie at MiP 7. Scott 8. F is for Freeman Wills Croft (Peggy Ann) 9. F is for FRIENDLY FIRE, Michael Wall - Craig at CrimeWatch 10. TracyK - F is for Fer-de-Lance

11. Sergio@Tipping My Fedora - Face to Face by Ellery Queen 12. Jo (F is for Fatal Frost) 13. F is for Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (a hot cup of pleasure) 14. Peter Reynard - Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie 15. MaryR - F is for Flavia

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The letter G
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen’s Rhapsody Gershwin 2. Bev@My Reader's Block (The Golden Scorpion) 3. Peter Reynard - Eric Garcia 4. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Sue Grafton 5. The Game's Afoot - Mempo Giardinelli 6. Clarissa Draper - God Complex

7. TracyK - G is for Elizabeth George 8. Scott- Get Off At Babylon by Marvin Albert 9. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan - "G" is for John Grisham (Part I) 10. The Filigree Ball by Anna Katherine Green - Peggy Ann 11. FleurFisher (G is for Greenwood) 12. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan - "G" is for John Grisham (Part II)

13. a hot cup of pleasure - G is for Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman 14. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - William Goldman 15. G is for Grey (Jo @ The Book Jotter) 16. MaryR - G is for Grafton

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The letter H
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Helene Tursten's Irene Huss 2. TracyK - Cyril Hare 3. The Game's Afoot - H is for Hill, Antonio Hill 4. Margaret @ BooksPlease - The Hanging in the Hotel 5. Peggy Ann - The Housekeeper

6. FleurFisher (H is for Hidden) 7. Bev@My Reader's Block (Dorothy B Hughes) 8. Peter Reynard - Hazel Holt 9. a hot cup of pleasure (H is for Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes) 10. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("H" is for Robert Harris)

11. Scott: H is Harry Stoner P.I. 12. H is for Howell, Holt and Horst - MiP 13. Srivalli ( The Holcroft Covenant) 14. MaryR - H is for Hard Boiled 15. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - He Who hesitates by Ed McBain

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The letter I
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Peter Temple's Jack Irish 2. Sergio@Tipping My Fedora (Invisible Green by John Sladek) 3. gautami tripathy (Ice cold Hands) 4. Bev@My Reader's Block (Elizabeth Ironside) 5. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Michael Innes 6. The Game's Afoot - I is for Izzo, Jean-Claude Izzo

7. irene, Impartial Witness 8. Fleur Fisher - I is for Ivy 9. I is for Ian Rankin - MiP 10. TracyK @ Bitter Tea & Mystery (Information Officer) 11. Valli - I Could Murder her and Claude Izner 12. Scott: I is for Injustice For All

13. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("I" is for Greg Iles) 14. a hot cup of pleasure (I is for Ian Rankin) 15. MaryR I is for Interred with their Bones 16. Peter Reynard - Isaac Asimov

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The letter J
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Agatha Christie's James Japp 2. TracyK - J is for Sebastien Japrisot 3. Peggy Ann - Jo Nesbo 4. gautami tripathy (James Lepore) 5. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Peter James

6. Scott: J is For James Hadley Chase 7. MiP - J is for Jo Nesbo 8. J is for Jimenez, Georgina Jimenez - The Game's Afoot 9. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("J" is for Stan Jones) 10. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - J is for Jonathan Latimer

11. a hot cup of pleasure - Jung, Muzaffar 12. Srivalli-Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler 13. MaryR - J is for Josephine Tey

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The letter K
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Martin Edwards' Daniel Kind 2. gautami tripathy (Kari Lee Townsand) 3. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Katherine McMahon, The Crimson Rooms 4. The Game's Afoot - K is for Kohan, Martin Kohan 5. Peggy Ann - Rob Kitchin 6. MiP - Karin & Katherine

7. Scott: K is for Frank Kane 8. Peter Reynard - Kate Summerscale 9. Clarissa Draper - Knots 10. TracyK - Stuart M. Kaminsky 11. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("K" is for Joseph Kanon) 12. Sergio - K is for Kaminsky

13. Srivalli- Rosemary Kutak 14. a hot cup of pleasure - K is for Kashmir Shawl 15. Bev@My Reader's Block (The Key) 16. MaryR - K is for Kincaid

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The letter L
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Tony Hillerman's Joe Leaphorn 2. The Game's Afoot - L is for Latour, Jose Latour 3. Margaret @ BooksPlease - Lord Edgware Dies, Agatha Christie 4. Peggy Ann - Linda Greenlaw 5. Scott: L is for Lament For A Lousy Lover

6. Peter Reynard - Dennis Lehane 7. MiP - Louise and Lovesey 8. a hot cup of pleasure - Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 9. TracyK: John Lawton, A Lily of the Field 10. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("L" is for Paul Levine)

11. Srivalli- Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie 12. Judy Harper - LYING 13. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - THE LONG WAIT by Mickey Spillane 14. MaryR - L is for Donna Leon

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The letter M
crime fiction alphabet Participants

1. Margot Kinberg - Åsa Larsson’s Anna-Maria Mella 2. gautami tripathy (BLEED FOR ME - Michael Robotham) 3. Peter Reynard - Murder in the Mews 4. Margaret @ BooksPlease - M R Hall 5. Scott: M is for Minor In Possession

6. Peggy Ann - Mildred Davis 7. The Game's Afoot - M is for Melo, Patricia Melo 8. TracyK - Charles McCarry 9. Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan ("M" is for Seicho Matsumoto) 10. MiP - Michael Robotham's SAY YOU'RE SORRY

11. Srivalli-The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey 12. Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) - MURDER ON THE BLACKBOARD by Stuart Palmer 13. a hot cup of pleasure (Miss Timmins' School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy) 14. M is for A MURDER OR THREE by Laurie Mantell (Craig - Crime Watch) 15. MaryR - M is for Ngaio Marsh

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Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012: Z is for Zita and Zero

It never occurred to me when I set up the Crime Fiction Alphabet me this year and decided that for the meme this year I would try to feature books I've read in 2012  that I would have trouble with the letter Z.


No authors with Z in their name so I've had to be creative and I hope you'll forgive me.

So my choices are THE SAINT ZITA SOCIETY by Ruth Rendell and TOWARDS ZERO by Agatha Christie.

These are very different novels.

TOWARDS ZERO opens with a Prologue which introduces the concept of characters converging towards Zero Hour. There will be a point at which a murder MUST occur, and then there are two of them.

On the other hand, in THE SAINT ZITA SOCIETY the first death is an accident, the result of rage taking over, but this then leads to murder.

See what others have chosen for the final letter in the Crime Fiction Alphabet for 2012.

Crime Fiction Alphabet: the letter Z

The Alphabet in Crime Fiction - a Community Meme.

This meme was run first on this blog in 2009-2010 and was re-run in 2011.

Many many thanks to those who have participated on a regular basis this year. We have had an average of about 14 participants a week. I hope you've had fun, and been able to find some good books to read.

Our 2012 journey.
A  B  C   D   E   F  G  H  I   J   K  L  M  N O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y 

After 25 exciting weeks we've come to the very end, the 26th letter, the letter Z. the one that for many will cause the most problems.

Here are the rules

By Friday of each week participants try to write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week.

Your post MUST be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname, or even maybe a crime fiction "topic". But above all, it has to be crime fiction.
So you see you have lots of choice.
You could write a review, or a bio of an author, so long as it fits the rules somehow.
(It is ok too to skip a week.)
You probably won't have to do a lot of extra reading in order to participate, but I warn you that your TBR  may grow as a result of the suggestions other participants make.
Feel free to use either of the images provided in your blog.

Your assistance in advertising this community meme, and pointing people to this page, would be very much appreciated.

By the end of this week  post your blog post title and URL in the Mr Linky below.
Please place a link in your blog post back to this page.
Visit other blogs and leave comments.

Check the Crime Fiction Alphabet page for summaries of previous years.

Thanks for participating.

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Crime Fiction Alphabet 2012: Y is for Yvette and Yaba

I've decided that for the Crime Fiction Alphabet meme this year I will try to feature books I've read in 2012.

So I have chosen two books this week, Y. (Yvette) A. Erskine's THE BROTHERHOOD which won the Reader's Choice Award in this year's Davitt Awards (Australian Sisters in Crime) and TRUE MURDER by Yaba Badoe.

Both are debut novels, one by an Australian, the other a British Ghanaian author.


I gave THE BROTHERHOOD  a rating of 5.0 here.

TRUE MURDER I read on my Kindle, and gave it 4.6.
My review is here.
See what others have chosen for the letter Y in the Crime Fiction Alphabet meme this week.

Crime Fiction Alphabet: the letter Y

The Alphabet in Crime Fiction - a Community Meme.

This meme was run first on this blog in 2009-2010 and was re-run in 2011.

Many thanks to those who have participated so far this year. 

We have had an average of about 14 participants a week.

Our 2012 journey so far
A   B    C    D    E    F   G  H  I   J   K  L  M  N O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X   

The letter X caused some trouble last week, but hopefully Y won't this week.

Here are the rules

By Friday of each week participants try to write a blog post about crime fiction related to the letter of the week.

Your post MUST be related to either the first letter of a book's title, the first letter of an author's first name, or the first letter of the author's surname, or even maybe a crime fiction "topic". But above all, it has to be crime fiction.
So you see you have lots of choice.
You could write a review, or a bio of an author, so long as it fits the rules somehow.
(It is ok too to skip a week.)
You probably won't have to do a lot of extra reading in order to participate, but I warn you that your TBR  may grow as a result of the suggestions other participants make.
Feel free to use either of the images provided in your blog.

Your assistance in advertising this community meme, and pointing people to this page, would be very much appreciated.

By the end of this week  post your blog post title and URL in the Mr Linky below.
Please place a link in your blog post back to this page.
Visit other blogs and leave comments.

Check the Crime Fiction Alphabet page for summaries of previous years.

Thanks for participating.

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