It’s a Mystery!
I read (and watch) a lot of mysteries --so many that I am always vaguely surprised that I have never stumbled onto a corpse – after all, in my “book world” the bodies are just everywhere! Although I read a lot of mysteries, I have my preferences – for instance, I’m not crazy about the serial killer sort or cozies. I prefer series to stand-alones and I like my mysteries to be fairly substantial. That said, I have one unbreakable rule: when reading series, I have to read them in order. If I can’t find the next book in the series, then that series is dead to me until I do. The internet means that keeping track of mystery series has gotten easier – no more poring over the title lists in the books to figure out what’s next – and my go-to resource is Stop, You’re Killing Me : a website devoted to mysteries. The Stop, You’re Killing Me site’s tag line is “a website to die for … if you love mysteries” and that pretty much says it all. Each author has a page listing each series in chr...