Reviewed By Liz

While the Summer Mystery Reading Challenge doesn’t officially start until June 1st, we wanted to put daily posts up early so everyone has a place to post the list of books they are thinking of reading, ask for recommendations, or simply chat about mysteries. Feel free to jump in any time and leave a comment or ask a question.

Behind the scenes, Bob and I are working like mad fiends to assemble the author pages. We have had a fantastic author response and we are tremendously excited about all the books and authors we will be featuring here in the coming three months. There is truly a mystery for everyone on this list – more likely, five or six!

We are going to have our first featured author page up on the web site on Tuesday, May 29th, just in advance of the official start of the SMRC. Before then, we wanted to let you know about some great mystery resources available to you online and, over the American Memorial Day holiday weekend (May 25th through 28th), we are going to tell you about some classic mystery authors you may not have read. If you haven’t signed up for the SMRC yet, click here for directions. You are welcome to read along on your own, of course, but only registered participants are eligible for the prizes.

So, you are a mystery lover trying out new authors and you discover a great book by an author unfamiliar to you. Where do you go to find out about other books by the author or other books in the same series? Your first destination should be Stop, You’re Killing Me! This web site tracks the works of mystery authors by series and date and also has location, job, historical, and diversity indexes, for those times when you are looking for something particular or your little grey cells have misplaced the author’s name.

Stop, You’re Killing Me! was started by Bonny Brown in 1998 and is now maintained by Lucinda Surber and Stan Ulrich. Over 25,000 books by almost 2200 mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense authors are recorded here. Stop by the site, do a little exploring, and bookmark it for future reference.

I know that a few of you have some new-to-you mystery authors sitting in your to-be-read pile. Which ones do you fancy starting with?

Mystery Book Reviews by Liz at http://reviewedbyliz.com ©2007