Finding A Good Mystery

Hello to all,

How to find new mysteries and keep track of all those pesky series…

Here are some of my favorite tools:


A wonderful webpage is www.stopyourekillingme.com. Not only do they have author, title and characters listed they have location index, job index, history index and so much more. Do you want to read a mystery set in Alaska in during an August heat wave, love mysteries with a medicinal edge to them, have been hunting for a book about a psychic interior decorator- here are the answers. A great site to explore that includes awards winners, upcoming publications, author links and book reviews.

Another tool I love is a list-serv named Dorothy-L, www.dorothyl.com

Here a eclectic collection of readers, authors, book sellers, librarians, wanna be authors and quirky characters post their views of the mystery book world (sometimes we segue to films also). I receive these postings once day in digest form. New authors can be discovered here. And a wide range of views on a mix of mystery books, publishing business, and other book/mystery topics.

Good Reads a quick and almost painless way to record what you have read and what you are planning to read. In the past to track my reading and my purchasing of books I have keep lists in composition books, used various book journals, used word/access/excel documents and wrote what I read on planner/calendar. My findings tell me I like reading much better than writing or list making. But I do like to know if I have read book # 7 in a series or do I need to interlibrary loan it. Good reads is easy to use and you can keep it simple.

My final tool is interlibrary loan. Your library can borrow items for you from almost any library. Here at PCL we do not charge for this service (we do limit you to 1 request per week) What a great way to share resources.

Dale