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My USA States Challenge:

I've already got several challenges going from other groups, but I'll give this one a try! And I'll stick to what I've read since 1/1/2020 as my start date. Now I just have to go back and find them all!

finished 50/50 - challenge complete!

X Alabama (AL) - A Potion to Die For (Magic Potion Mystery #1) by Heather Blake - finished 7/3/22
X Alaska (AK) - Inside Voices by Sarah Davis - finished 1/11/21
X Arizona (AZ) - Stone's Gems and Murder (Rock Shop Cozy Mystery #1) by Cheryl F. Taylor - finished 8/18/20
X Arkansas (AR) - Grave Sight (Harper Connelly #1) by Charlaine Harris - finished 11/29/22
X California (CA) - A Dead Red Cadillac (Dead Red #1) by R.P. Dahlke - finished 7/26/20
X Colorado (CO) - Buttons and Foes (Mandy Dyer Mystery #6) by Dolores Johnson - finished 10/4/20
X Connecticut (CT) - The Secluded Village Murders by Shelly Frome - finished 1/13/21
X Delaware (DE) - The Beach Affair (Colleen Fitzgerald Mystery #1) by Barbara Johnson - finished 2/21/22
X Florida (FL) - Umbrella Man (Umbrella Man #1) by Willow Rose - finished 12/19/20
X Georgia (GA) - Endless Evil (Pruitt County Mysteries #1) by Amanda Feyerbend - finished 1/25/21
X Hawaii (HI) - Peril in Paradise (Jerria Danson Mysteries #1) by Deb Graham - finished 12/8/22
X Idaho (ID) - Double Duplicity (Shandra Higheagle Mystery #1) by Paty Jager - finished 12/10/22
X Illinois (IL) - Artistic License by Julie Hyzy - finished 5/10/20
X Indiana (IN) - The Trouble With Magic (Bewitching Mysteries #1) by Madelyn Alt - finished 12/3/22
X Iowa (IA) - All Roads Lead Home (Bellingwood #1) by Diane Greenwood Muir - finished 8/21/23
X Kansas (KS) - A Patchwork of Clues (Queen Bee's Quilt Shop #1) by Sally Goldenbaum - finished 3/1/22
X Kentucky (KY) - Death of a Winter Shaker (Sister Rose Callahan #1) by Deborah Woodworth - finished 2/14/22
X Louisiana (LA) - Rescued By A Kiss (New Orleans Go Cup Chronicles #1) by Colleen Mooney - finished 10/12/20
X Maine (ME) - Bark Once for Murder by Susie Gayle - finished 7/8/23
X Maryland (MD) - In the Shadow of Evil (Shadow and Light #2) by Nancy C. Weeks - finished 12/17/22
X Massachusetts (MA) - Port Mortuary (Kay Scarpetta #18) by Patricia Cornwell - finished 7/27/20
X Michigan (MI) - Famished (Ash Park #1) by Meghan O'Flynn - finished 12/13/22
X Minnesota (MN) - Blood River (Trask Brothers Mysteries #2) by C.E. Nelson - finished 11/22/22
X Mississippi (MS) - Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin - finished 7/18/20
X Missouri (MO) - Paper, Scissors, Death (Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft Mystery #1) by Joanna Campbell Slan - finished 12/6/22
X Montana (MT) - When Danger Calls (Blackthorne, Inc. #1) by Terry Odell - finished 7/21/23
X Nebraska (NE) - The Nebraska Quotient by William J. Reynolds - finished 6/9/22
X Nevada (NV) - Deadly Odds (Virginia Holmes Cozy Mystery #3) by Zelda White - finished 12/11/20
X New Hampshire (NH) - Murder is Binding (Booktown Mystery #1) by Lorna Barrett - finished 6/3/22
X New Jersey (NJ) - The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason - finished 9/21/20
X New Mexico (NM) - Dog Gone Lies (Pacheco & Chino Mysteries #1) by Ted Clifton - finished 1/9/23
X New York (NY) - But I Wouldn't Want to Die There (Jenny Cain #8) by Nancy Pickard - finished 9/17/20
X North Carolina (NC) - Moving Target: A Porter Novel (Porter #2) by R.A. McGee - finished 8/4/23
X North Dakota (ND) - See Also Murder (Marjorie Trumaine #1) by Larry D. Sweazy - finished - 2/12/22
X Ohio (OH) - A Plain Death (Appleseed Creek #1) by Amanda Flower - finished 7/13/20
X Oklahoma (OK) - Murder Most Thorny (Myrtle Grove Garden Club Mystery #2) by Loulou Harrington - finished 5/23/22
X Oregon (OR) - Seal of Secrets (Driftwood Mysteries #1) by William J. Cook - finished 6/8/21
X Pennsylvania (PA) - Unforgiving Shadows (Brad Frame Mystery #1) by Ray Flynt - finished 5/14/22
X Rhode Island (RI) - The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (Haunted Bookshop Mystery #1) by Alice Kimberly - finished 2/2/22
X South Carolina (SC) - The Christie Caper (Death on Demand #7) by Carolyn G. Hart - finished 9/20/20
X South Dakota (SD) - The Man Who Met the Train (Carl Wilcox #7) by Harold Adams - finished 1/24/22
X Tennessee (TN) - Murder on the Sugarland Express (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries # 6) by Angie Fox - finished 5/3/22
X Texas (TX) - The Ghosts of Varner Creek by Michael Weems - finished 7/9/20
X Utah (UT) - Tutu Deadly (Jenny T Partridge #1) by Natalie M. Roberts - finished 1/16/22
X Vermont (VT) - Bed and Breakfast and Murder (Fiona Fleming Cozy Mysteries # 1) by Patti Larsen - finished 4/26/22
X Virginia (VA) - The Most Glittery Crime of the Year: The Jewel Heist: A Massanutten Tale (Artzy Chicks Mysteries #3) by Judith Lucci - finished 5/16/21
X Washington (WA) - Taking the Fall (Brenna Battle Mystery #1) by Laney Monday - finished 9/13/20
X West Virginia (WV) - Shawnee Alley Fire by John Douglas - finished 1/7/22
X Wisconsin (WI) - Murder at the Filmore by Zelda White - finished 4/15/22
X Wyoming (WY) - The Divinity Complex by P.H. Figur - finished 4/8/22

My UN Challenge:

finished 53/53 - challenge complete!

X 1 Argentina - Who Is Vera Kelly? (Vera Kelly Story #1) by Rosalie Knecht - finished 1/15/22 - 4/5 stars
X 2 Belarus - The Slaughterman’s Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits - finished 1/6/22 - 4/5 stars
X 3 Brazil - The Silence of the Rain (Delegado Espinosa #1) by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza - finished 3/1/22 - 4/5 stars
X 4 Chile - The Neruda Case (Cayetano Brule #6) by Roberto Ampuero - finished 6/11/22 - 4/5 stars
X 5 China - The Eye of Jade (A Mei Wang Mystery #1) by Diane Wei Liang - finished 12/22/22 - 3/5 stars
X 6 Cuba - Outcast by José Latour - finished 5/30/22 - 4/5 stars
X 7 Denmark - Miss Polly had a Dolly (Emma Frost #2) by Willow Rose - finished 10/5/20 - 2/5 stars (liked the writing, didn't like the creepiness factor of the story)
X 8 Dominican Republic - Sins in the Sun (Vigilante #10) by Claude Bouchard - finished 7/1/23 - 4/5 stars
X 9 Egypt - The Mask of Ra (Amerotke #1) by Paul Doherty - finished 4/7/22 - 4/5 stars
X 10 El Salvador - The She-Devil in the Mirror by Horacio Castellanos Moya - finished 1/25/22 - 3/5 stars
X 11 France - The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot #6) by Agatha Christie - finished 7/14/20 - 4/5 stars
X 12 Haiti - Policeman Legros by J.M. Lominy - finished 9/4/21 - 4/5 stars
X 13 Iran (Islamic Rep of) - Among the Ruins (Detective Esa Khattak & Rachel Getty Mysteries #3) by Ausma Zehanat Khan - finished 2/11/22 - 4/5 stars
X 14 Lebanon - The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart - finished 4/16/22 - 5/5 stars
X 15 Luxembourg - The Candidate by Daniel Pembrey - finished 7/16/23 - 3/5 stars
X 16 New Zealand - Vintage Murder (Roderick Alleyn #5) by Ngaio Marsh - finished 8/9/20 - 4/5 stars
X 17 Paraguay - Invisible Country by Annamaria Alfieri - finished 4/25/22 - 4/5 stars
X 18 Philippines - Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan - finished 5/3/22 - 5/5 stars
X 19 Poland - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk - finished 1/7/23 - 4/5 stars
X 20 Russian Federation - Gray Shadows (Russian Bodyguard #1) - finished 11/10/22 - 5/5 stars
X 21 Saudi Arabia - Finding Nouf (Katya Hijazi and Nayir Sharqi Novel #1) by Zoë Ferraris - finished 5/13/22 - 5/5 stars
X 22 Syrian Arab Republic - Beside the Syrian Sea by James Wolff - finished 5/27/22 - 3/5 stars
X 23 Turkey - The Kiss Murder (Turkish Delight Mystery #2) by Mehmet Murat Somer - finished 1/1/23 - 3/5 stars
X 24 Ukraine - Chernobyl Wolves: The Wolf in Ukraine (Wolf Crimes #3) by Christoffer Petersen - finished 4/27/22 - 4/5 stars
X 25 UK (GB and N. Ireland) - Devices and Desires (Adam Dalgliesh #8) by P.D. James - finished 8/10/20 -4/5 stars
#25 used twice - USA is shown at #51 on this list
X 26 Greece - The Granite Key (Arkana Archaeology Mysteries #1) by N.S. Wikarski - finished 11/10/20 - 3/5 stars
X 27 India - Fault Tree (Michaela Thompson International Thriller #1) by Mickey Friedman - finished 1/15/21 - 4/5 stars
X 28 Peru - Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa - finished 1/29/21 - 4/5 stars
X 29 Australia - Blood and Circuses (Phryne Fisher #6) by Kerry Greenwood - finished 8/22/20 - 5/5 stars
X 30 Costa Rica - Murder in Costa Rica by L.D. Markham - finished 9/7/22 - 4/5 stars
X 31 Liberia - This was the hardest country to find for me. I originally read/used the pre-teen audience book Lydia Barnes The Blood Diamond Treasure by Heather Gemmen Wilson which I finished 9/14/21 (4/5 stars) because I couldn't find anything else, but am now replacing. Then I just happened on an adult audience spy/mystery book that I am using Dick Fades the Albino by Avery Dick - finished 12/7/21 - 4/5 stars
X 32 Colombia - The Divine Boys by Laura Restrepo - finished 9/7/21 - 3/5 stars
X 33 Mexico - Troubled Sea by Jinx Schwartz - finished 5/4/20 - 4/5 stars
X 34 South Africa - Nowhere by Roger Smith - finished 12/31/20 - 5/5 stars
X 35 Canada - Let Loose the Dogs (Detective Murdoch #4) by Maureen Jennings - finished 7/12/20 - 5/5 stars
X 36 Ethiopia - Addis Ababa: Isaac Porter Mystery (#1 in the series) by Steve E. Kasper - finished 9/16/21 - 4/5 stars
#36 used twice - Bolivia is shown at #52 on this list
X 37 Panama - The Tailor of Panama by John le Carré - finished 12/21/22 - 3/5 stars
#37 used twice - Venezuela is shown at #53 on this list
X 38 Guatemala - Twilight at Tikal (Murder in Mexico #18) by John Scherber - finished 1/26/21 - Although the series says "Mexico" this particular book is set in Guatemala - 4/5 stars
X 39 Norway - Eva's Eye (Inspector Sejer Mystery #1) by Karin Fossum - finished 9/21/21 - 4/5 stars
X 40 Netherlands - Outsider in Amsterdam (Grijpstra & de Gier Mystery #1) by Outsider in Amsterdam - finished 12/22/22 - 4/5 stars
X 41 Honduras - The Voice Inside My Head by S.J. Laidlaw - finished 1/12/23 - 4/5 stars
X 42 Uruguay - Little Indiscretions: A Delectable Mystery by Carmen Posadas - finished 11/20/22 - 4/5 stars
X 43 Ecuador - Quito Murder Mystery by Jenny Yates - finished 12/22/21 - 4/5 stars
X 44 Iraq - They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie - finished 6/18/22 - 4/5 stars
X 45 Belgium - Dreadful Lies by Michele Bailey - finished 7/17/21 - 5/5 stars
X 46 Afghanistan - The Valley by John Renehan - finished 2/8/22 - 5/5 stars
X 47 Iceland - Iced Out in Iceland (Virginia Holmes Cozy Mystery #4) by Zelda White - finished 11/29/20 - 5/5 stars
X 48 Sweden - Closed Circles (Sandhamn Murders #2) by Viveca Sten - finished 9/28/21 - 5/5 stars
X 49 Thailand - Bangkok 8 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep #1) by John Burdett - finished 9/18/21 - 4/5 stars
X 50 Pakistan - A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif - finished 1/27/21 - 3/5 stars
X 51 USA (see #25) - Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks #1) by Miranda James - finished 8/4/20 - 4/5 stars
X 52 Bolivia (see #36) - City of Silver: A Mystery by Annamaria Alfieri - finished 5/15/21 - 5/5 stars
X 53 Venezuela (see #37) - Love and Death in Venezuela: A Harold Gatewood Mystery Volume 7 (Harold Gatewood Mystery #7) by Hal Graff - finished 11/25/21 - 3/5 stars

Great job!

I've finished my UN challenge with 53 books/countries on 7/16/2023.

All books fit into the mystery, crime, thriller genre.

Congrats!

Thank you!

I've finished my US States challenge with 50 books/states on 8/21/2023.

All books fit into the mystery, crime, thriller genre.