Writers. Do you ever wonder what happens to the bookmarks we distribute to other writers, and readers? Sure, some of them make it home with them and are used as bookmarks. But probably not in your book. Most probably end up in the trash.

I made a promise to myself at Bouchercon 2019 to do something for you. I looked up every author who gave me a bookmark or other swag, and made a list. I have the original list saved for later. On it I’ve made comments based on the first paragraph of every book. I’ve already bought three of the books on this list. Bet I buy a few more over the next few years.

My private list contains notes about whether I might like the book or not. Don’t want to influence anyone away from a book they might enjoy, so I edited my comments out.

So here we go:

Hank Phillippi Ryan, Trust Me. Tori Eldridge, The Ninja Daughter. Lauri Broadbent, Images. Barbara Schlichting, The Broken Circle. Patricia Shanae Smith, Remember. Carl Vonderau, Murderabilia. Grace Topping, Staging Is Murder. Kaye George, Choke.

Kathy Waller, Stabbed. Anna Gerard, Peach Clobbered. Catherine Bruns, Penne Dreadful. Tina Kashian, On The Lamb. Paula Munier, Blind Search. Sherry Knowlton, Dead of Spring. Mark Bergin, Apprension.Connie Berry, A Dream of Death.

Christin Brecher, Murder’s No Votive Confidence. Johnathan Brown, The Big Crescendo. Kelsey Rae Dimberg, Girl in the Rearview Mirror. Heather Harper Ellett, Ain’t Nobody Nobody. James O’Keefe, Unto Madness. Layne Fargo, Temper. Shaun Hamill, A Cosmology of Monsters.

John A. Hoda, Odessa on the Delaware. R.J. Jacobs, And Then You Were Gone.Sara E. Johnson, Molten Mud Murder. Angel Kim, Miracle Creek.Vanessa Lillie, Little Voices. Dolores Marone, Status Missing. John McMahon, The Good Detective.

Rachel Neuburger Reynolds, Drowning Lessons. August Norman, Come and Get Me. Stephanie Perkins, Murder Once Removed. Tracey S. Phillips, Best Kept Secrets. Dea Poirier, Next Girl to Die. Joseph Schneider, One Day You’ll Burn. Rick Treon, Deep Background. Scott Von Duviak, Charlesgate Confidential. John Vercher, Three-Fifths.

Margaret Mizushima, The Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries. Lexann Beornet, Three Second Escape. Connie Berry, A Legacy of Murder. Leigh Perry, The Skeleton Makes a Friend.Susan D. Peters, The Iron Collar. Debra Goldstein, One Taste Too Many. Mary Lawrence, The Alchemist of Lost Souls.

Travis Richardson, Bloodshot and Bruised. Matt Coyle, Wrong Light. Margaret Dumas, Murder in the Balcony. Debbie Herbert, Unmasking the Shadow Man. Michael Stanley, A Carrion Death. Pricilla Paton, Where Privacy Dies.Jane Suen, Murder Creek.

James L’Etoile, Bury the Past. Frank Zafiro, Waist Deep. Kathleen Barber, Truth Be Told. Triss Stein, Brooklyn Legacies. Wendall Thomas, Drowned Under. Tosca Lee, The Line Between. Vivian Barz, Forgotten Bones. Jo Perry, Dead Is Better. D.R. Ransdell, Mariachi Meddler.

Andy Hayes, Fourth Down and Out. Dian S. S. Stuckhart, Fool’s Moon. Amy Gentry, Good As Gone. Amy Stewart, Girl Waits With Gun. Kathleen Barber, Follow Me. John Copenhaver, Dodging and Burning. Suzanne Trauth, Show Time.

Kelly Brakenhoff, Death by Dissertation. Jennifer Lewis Williams, A Murder Among Friends. Roberta Rogow, Lorr and Disorder. David M. Salkin, The Team. Maggie Foster, The Arms of Death. Carole Nelson Douglas, Cat in an Alphabet Soup. 

My book is Brown, a mystery novel by G. L. Rix.

WHAT I’VE READ SINCE LAST POST:  The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas.