Mystery Appreciation Week draws to a close and we officially end it with a giveaway of our top two reads of the week!
Ana’s pick is the fabulous Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood and Thea’s, the wonderful The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman, both reviewed this week for our Old School Wednesdays feature.
We have one copy of Cocaine Blues and one copy of The Ruby in the Smoke to giveaway. The contest is open to ALL, and will run until Saturday, February 16 at 12:01am PST. To enter, leave a comment here telling us what’s your favourite Mystery novel/series. Good luck!
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I love historical mysteries. My current favorite is the Sebastian St. Cyr series by C.S. Harris. Altough my all time favorite is the Benjamin January series by Barbara Hambly.
I love everything written by Agatha Christie.
I haven’t read both books. They sound pretty good! *_*
Thank you for this lovely giveaway!
I always loved Agatha Christie’s books. As a teen I devoured every book they had of her in our small library. I always loved the idea of potentially being able to solve the mystery myself (though I never did). Thanks for the great week and for the giveaway.
Love Love PD James’ older books!
cocaine blues sounded like so much fun! and it has been *eons* since i read ruby in the smoke! i’d love to re-visit it.
my favorite series is probably the enola holmes series, by nancy springer. i love the character of enola (much younger sister of sherlock holmes), so resourceful, so independent! and the books are just so fun! all of the exclamation points!!!
I think I have to call Barbara Hambly’s Ben Janvier series my favourite, although Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher and Colin Cotterill’s Dr Siri (at least the first four installments) run neck and neck for second place, and Madeleine E. Robins’ Sarah Tolerance books have a special place in my heart – and I’d probably better stop rambling, hadn’t I?
Team Marple all the way!
I love the Deborah Knott series by Margaret Maron.
I’m a huge fan of the Amelia Peabody mysteries but I also loved Lindsay Davis’ Marcus Didius Falco series and CS Harris and Maria E. Schneider and of course many others. My true love is fantasy but I really enjoy historical mysteries and contemporary cozy mysteries.
Absolutely hands down, my favourite mystery series is Dorothy L Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries.
However, others include Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold and the original Sherlock Holmes stories.
Favorite implies one…
Well, how about the Vicky Bliss series by Elizabeth Peters? And the Virginia Lanier Bloodhound series?
I’ll stop there. But I could go on and on.
I still love the original Nancy Drew books, I think the original girl detective will always be one of my favorites
Although I really like the Sally Lockhart series (and loved it as a child), my two favorites are the Sebastian St. Cyr mysteries by C.S. Harris, and the Marcus Didius Falcus (of ancient Rome) series by Lindsay Davis.
@April V., it looks like we have similar tastes!
Sounds cliche, but I like Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes!
I’m a huge fan of the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series by Julia Spencer-Fleming.
I live Patricia Cornwell!
Nancy Drew! Was so addicted as a child & I still love them!
Not a big fan of mystery but I thought Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn was brilliant. I also enjoyed the Millennium series.
Ah, any of the Sherlock Holmes books is fine by me. And in the same vein, I’ve more or less recently discovered Laurie R King’s Mary Rusell series, which of course is indeed Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes!
It’s a toss-up between Amelia Peabody and Mary Russell. Impossible to choose.
I used to love Nancy Drew as a kid but these days I like Christopher Fowler’s Bryant and May series. Something so cool about old guys investigating crimes…
Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad, with a close second for Susan Hill’s Simon Serrailler.
First & foremost, ACD’s Sherlock. After that, Poe’s Dupin, anything by Agatha Christie and a long list of other ‘classic’ mysteries. For recent series, I guess my favorite is Steve Hockensmith’s Holmes on the Range series, because they are not only good mysteries, but good westerns with a sense of humor added on for good measure.
The Westing Game blew my mind when I read it in elementary school. I should re-read it to see if it’s as good as I remember.