This year's Britton Summer Reading Club challenge is to read one book from six of the ten defined categories. Each frame in the slideshow below provides a suggestion for mystery that will satisfy the requirements for one of the categories.
With a suggestion from a friend to satisfy the "Ya Gotta Read This" category, it's entirely possible to read six mystery books to complete the club, but we hope you branch out; along with each suggested mystery title we've included a link to a list of titles throughout our collections related to that category.
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In a collection of stories, curmudgeonly London barrister Horace Rumpole, recovering from a heart attack, takes on a nasty head nurse at his run-down convalescent center as he investigates the mysterious death of an elderly patient. see more suggestions from the A Rose by Any Other Name category
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Drifting from town to town after a dishonorable discharge, Marlowe Higgins struggles with a werewolf nature that forces him to kill bad guys during every full moon, leading to a deadly confrontation with a serial killer in a small town in Tennessee. If you like Jeffry Lindsay's Dexter series, you'll want to try this one. see more suggestions for the Monstrous Tales category
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Koko's strange new hobby of dropping himself from balconies has landed him in the oddest of places - on the head of a young visitor whose wealthy relatives soon fall deathly ill, making Qwill have his work cut out for him. see more suggestions from the Animals Real and Imagined category
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Forty years after the disappearance of Harriet Vanger from the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family, her octogenarian uncle hires journalist Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander, an unconventional young hacker, to investigate. see more suggestions from the Reel Good Books category
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Her mystery series features a former helicopter pilot, now an Episcopalian priest, Clare Fergusson. The novels take place in Millers Kill, an upstate New York town modeled after her home town of Plattsburgh. see more suggestions from the Ten Years of the WV Book Festival category
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back to page menuThe Agatha Awards honor the traditional mystery -- books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. The genre is generally characterized by mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous violence; usually featuring an amateur detective, they have a confined setting and characters who know one another.
The Anthony Awards are literary awards for mystery writers at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. The awards are named for Anthony Boucher, one of the founders of Mystery Writers of America.
The CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction is awarded to outstanding mystery fiction that has been published in the United Kingdom in English.
The Edgar's (named after Edgar Allan Poe) are given by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition of distinguished work in various categories of the mystery genre.
Cluelass now manages the Mysterious Home Page. There motto is "Just the Links ma'am" and that's what they do best - connect you to the best mystery sites on the web.
Mystery Reader is run by the same folks who bring you The Romance Reader. The site is updated often and has an electronic newsletter to keep mystery readers on top of the new titles.
Stop, You're Killing Me! provides an author and series character index as well as a chronological list of an author's books.
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