Medical Examiner's Reading Challenge 2023

 

Medical Examiner's Challenge

Hosted By: Rick Mills @ Mistillery

Official Challenge/Reporting Page

Dates: Jan. 1 - Dec. 31 2023

Summary of Rules/Details:

Read a murder mystery. Note the number of named victims.  Report them on a "Death Certificate".  You get a "Toe Tag" for each victim. 

WARNING ~ SPOILER ALERT:  Since I don't like knowing who will die before I finish reading a book, I have considered others like me, and I have not included the victim names.  However, these could still be considered spoiler alerts, so READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
If you want a list of what I came up with for each book, feel free to comment or send me a message and I'll be happy to give it to you.  

My Goal: 523 Tags GOAL REACHED 6/7 but ongoing
Progress: 1370/523  

My Toe Tags:

• 4 ~ Jackets, Jack-O-Lanterns, & Justice by Tonya Kappes
• 7 ~ Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop by Darci Hannah
• 4 ~ Murder at the Christmas Cookie Bake-Off by Darci Hannah
• 7 ~ A Spell For Trouble by Esme Addison
• 4 ~ Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet
• 7 ~ A Call For Kelp by Bree Baker 
• 5 ~ Needled to Death by Maggie Sefton
• 4 ~ A Deadly Yarn by Maggie Sefton
• 22 ~ Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
• 5 ~ Down The Hatch by M.C. Beaton
• 4 ~ The Guest List by Lucy Foley
• 8 ~ To Catch A Witch by Heather Blake
• 6 ~ A Witch To Remember by Heather Blake
• 20 ~ Crazy Love You by Lisa Unger
• 5 ~ The Locked Door by Freida McFadden
• 1 ~ The Other Me by Sarah Zachrich Jeng
• 2 ~ Strangers On A Train by Alfred Hitchcock (Patricia Highsmith)
• 9 ~ Crime and Poetry by Amanda Flower
• 3 ~ In My Dreams I Hold A Knife by Ashley Winstead
• 4 ~ The Whispering Word by Ellery Adams
• 5 ~ The Book of Candlelight by Ellery Adams
• 4 ~ The Ghost of Rose Hill by R.M. Romero
• 22 ~ The Darling Dahlias and the Naked Ladies by Susan Wittig Albert
• 5 ~ Off Season by Jennifer Weiner
• 8 ~ Things We Do In The Dark by Jennifer Hillier
• 1 ~ To Die For by Alice Clark-Platt
• 25 ~ The Mao Case by Qiu Xiaolong
• 12 ~ Closely Harbored Secrets by Bree Baker
• 6 ~ My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• 11 ~ In A Cottage In A Wood by Cass Green
• 2 ~ It Takes Two To Mango by Carrie Doyle
• 8 ~ Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
• 8 ~ Partners In Lime by Bree Baker
• 17 ~ Pleading The Fish by Bree Baker
• 9 ~ Fleece Navidad by Maggie Sefton
• 3 ~ Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
• 2 ~ Assault and Beret by Jenn McKinley
• 13 ~ Fragile by Lisa Unger
• 3 ~ Tangles and Treason by Nancy Warren
• 3 ~ Before She Was Found by Heather Gudenkauf
• 7 ~ Cards On The Table by Agatha Christie
• 5 ~ The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• 21 ~ The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• 11 ~ One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon
• 3 ~ Murder 101 by Lynn Cahoon
• 4 ~ The Paris Apartment by Lisa Foley
• 4 ~ The Raven Thief by Gigi Pandian
• 8 ~ The Darling Dahlias And The Confederate Rose by Susan Wittig Albert
• 14 ~ Black Out by Lisa Unger
• 6 ~ The House by Raelyn Drake
• 5 ~ Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came by M.C. Beaton
• 2 ~ My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood
• 19 ~ The Darling Dahlias And The Texas Star by Susan Wittig Albert
• 1 ~ The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse by Alan Bradley
• 14 ~ The Family Game by Catherine Steadman
• 13 ~ The Ghost and the Muse by Bobbi Holmes
• 13 ~ The Ghost Who Stayed Home by Bobbi Holmes
• 10 ~ The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
• 4 ~ Ink & Shadows by Ellery Adams
• 14 ~ The Vanishing Type by Ellery Adams
• 2 ~ Gone Too Far by Natalie D. Richards
• 6 ~ A Welcome Murder by Robin Yocum
• 5 ~ Mousse and Murder by Elizabeth Logan
• 1 ~ Fake Plastic World by Zara Lisbon
• 11 ~ The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
• 5 ~ Last Breath by Karin Slaughter
• 23 ~ Maplecroft by Cherie Priest
• 4 ~ Murder's No Votive Confidence by Christin Brecher
• 5 ~ Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves
• 5 ~ The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
• 31~ The Camel Club by David Baldacci
• 6 ~ Murder at the Blueberry Festival by Darci Hannah
• 6 ~ Killer Chef by James Patterson
• 7 ~ The Bone Box by Gregg Olsen
• 22 ~ IQ by Joe Ide
• 2 ~ The Stranger Game by Cylin Busby
• 6 ~ Kill Joy by Holly Jackson
• 5 ~ My Summer Darlings by May Cobb
• 1 ~ Unbirthday by Liz Braswell
• 6 ~ Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O'Conner
• 9 ~ A Hex For Danger by Esme Addison
• 4 ~ Fudge Cupcake Murder by Joanne Fluke
• 7 ~ Sting by Sandra Brown
• 1 ~ The Scam by Janet Evanovich
• 9 ~ Where Are The Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
• 17 ~ The Ghost and the Leprechaun by Bobbi Holmes
• 17 ~ A Killing In Amish Country by Gregg Olsen & Rebecca Morris
• 4 ~ So This Is Love by Elizabeth Lim
• 6 ~ All The Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham
• 3 ~ One Of The Girls by Lucy Clarke
• 16 ~ Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger
• 5 ~ The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
• 6 ~ A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
• 9 ~ Murder at an Irish Castle by Ellie Brannigan
• 4 ~ Appointment With Death by Agatha Christie
• 6 ~ Birthday Party Murder by Leslie Meier
• 24 ~ All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
• 6 ~ The Last House On Needless Street by Catriona Ward
• 4 ~ Hidden by James Patterson
• 5 ~ Pride and Premeditation by Tirzah Price
• 1 ~ A Stranger In The House by Shari Lapena
• 3 ~ Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
• 4 ~ Dead Voices by Katherine Arden
• 14 ~ What Lies In The Woods by Kate Alice Marshall
• 27 ~ City Of Windows by Robert Pobi
• 53 ~ When All The Girls Are Sleeping by Emily Arsenault
• 2 ~ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• 3 ~ Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
• 41 ~ Chasing The Devil by David Reichert
• 8 ~ Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
• 11 ~ The Villa by Rachel Hawkins
• 16 ~ Three Blind Mice and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
• 3 ~ Pecan Pies and Homicides by Ellery Adams
• 14 ~ Warren the 13th and the All-Seeing Eye by Tania del Rio
• 6 ~ The Spook In The Stacks by Eva Gates
• 6 ~ Prose and Cons by Amanda Flower 
• 7 ~ The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
• 9 ~ Darkness, My Old Friend by Lisa Unger
• 1 ~ The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
• 2 ~ The Birds by Daphne du Maurier
• 18 ~ The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 3 ~ Bells, Spells, and Murders by Carol J. Perry
• ~ The Tuesday Night Club by Agatha Christie
• 25 ~ This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
• 16 ~ The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones by Will Mabbitt
• 34 ~ The Graveyard Book Vol. 1 by Neil Gaiman
• 1 ~ What We Saw by Mary Downing Hahn
• 1 ~ LT's Theory of Pets by Stephen King
• 8 ~ Murder at the Pumpkin Pageant by Darci Hannah
• 2 ~ The Amelia Six by Kirstin L. Gray
• 7 ~ Everything We Didn't Say by Nicole Baart
• 10 ~ Lemon Pies and Little White Lies by Ellery Adams
• 18 ~ Breach of Crust by Ellery Adams
• 8 ~ Board to Death by C.J. Connor
• 19 ~ Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs
• 29~ Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger
• 8 ~ Murders and Metaphors by Amanda Flower
• 37 ~ The Graveyard Book Vol. 2 by Neil Gaiman
• 13 ~ The Darling Dahlias and the Silver Dollar Bush by Susan Wittig Albert
• 7 ~ Christmas Presents by Lisa Unger
• 12 ~ The Only One Left by Riley Sager
• 1 ~ Mickey's Christmas Carol by Annie Auerbach
• 3 ~ Christmas Caramel Murder by Joanne Fluke
• 54 ~ The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories by P.D. James
• 5 ~ You'll Be The Death Of Me by Karen M. McManus
• 5 ~ Murder in Christmas River by Meg Muldoon