Six Shooter Mystery Challenge 2022

 Six Shooter Mystery Challenge
Hosted By: Rick Mills
Official Challenge/Reporting Page 
Dates: Dec. 25, 2021 - Dec. 31, 2022

Challenge Details/Summary:
Goal is to shoot (read) six mysteries by the same target (author). 1 notch on your gun for each target completed. 
Mystery books read prior to December 25, 2021 are "carried over" and indicated with (past)

My goal: Complete 6 targets COMPLETED 9/10/22

Completed Targets:

1. Rowling, J.K. ~ 1 Target
2. Shelton, Paige ~ 1 Target
3. Blake, Heather ~ 1 Target
4. Adams, Ellery ~ 1 Target
5. Kappes, Tonya ~ 1 Target 
6. Christie, Agatha ~ 1 Target
7. French, Tana ~ 1 Target
8. St. James, Simone ~ 1 Target
9. Slaughter, Karin ~ 1 Target
10. Baldacci, David ~ 1 Target
11. Cahoon, Lynn ~ 1 Target

My Targets/Shots:

Abbott, Victoria 

1. The Christie Curse (Book Collector #1) ~ 5/20
2. The Sayers Swindle (Book Collector #2) ~ 10/9

Adams, Ellery 

1. Murder in the Mystery Suite (Book Retreat #1) (past)
2. Murder in the Paperback Parlor (Book Retreat #2) (past)
3. Murder in the Secret Garden (Book Retreat #3) (past)
4. Murder in the Locked Library (Book Retreat #4) (past)
5. The Secret, Book, & Scone Society (Secret, Book & Scone Society #1) ~ 5/7
6. The Whispered Word (Secret, Book, & Scone Society #2) ~ 5/30

• TARGET COMPLETED 6/30 

1. Pies and Prejudice (Charmed Pie Shoppe #1) ~ 8/23
2. Peach Pies and Alibis (Charmed Pie Shoppe #2) ~ 11/21

Adler, Elizabeth 

1. Please Don't Tell ~ 5/22

Akunin, Boris

1. The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin #1) ~ 2/19

Albert, Susan Wittig 

1. The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree (Darling Dahlias #1) ~ 4/30

Alvarez, Jennifer Lynn

1. Lies Like Wildfires ~ 5/26

Ames, Jonathan

1. You Were Never Really Here (past)

Andrews, Liz S.

1. The Mist Rises Over Notchey Creek (Harley Henrickson #1) (past)
2. The Ghost of Notchey Creek (Harley Henrickson #2) (past)

Arden, Katherine

1. Small Spaces (Small Spaces #1) ~5/11

Baker, Bree 

1. Live and Let Chai (Seaside Cafe #1) (past)
2. No Good Tea Goes Unpunished (Seaside Cafe #2) ~ 4/8
3. Tide and Punishment (Seaside Cafe #3) ~ 5/29

Baldacci, David

1. A Minute to Midnight (Altee Pine) (past)
2. Daylight (Altee Pine) (past)
3. Zero Day (John Puller #1) (past)
4. The Forgotten (John Puller #2) 12/29/21
5. The Escape (John Puller #3) 7/24
6. The 6:20 Man ~ 11/3

• Target Complete 11/3/22

Barnett, A.G. 

1. An Occupied Grave (Brock & Poole #1) ~ 9/3

Barrett, Lorna 

1. Murder Is Binding (Booktown #1) ~ 7/1

Beaton, M.C. 

1. Agatha Raisin And The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin #1) ~ 10/10
2. Agatha Raisin And The Vicious Vet (Agatha Raisin #2) ~ 10/10
3. Agatha's First Case (Agatha Raisin #0.5) ~ 11/28

Black, Cara

1. Three Hours in Paris ~ 12/26/21

Black, Laura Gail

1. For Whom the Book Tolls (Antique Bookshop #1) ~ 10/23

Black, Teri Bailey 

1. Girl At The Grave ~ 6/13

Blackwell, Juliet (aka Hailey Lind)

1. Secondhand Spirits (Witchcraft Mystery #1) ~ 6/12
2. If Walls Could Talk (Haunted Home Renovations #1) ~ 7/19
3. Dead Bolt (Haunted Home Renovations #2) ~ 8/1

Blake, Heather 

1. A Potion to Die For (Magic Potion #1) (past)
2. One Potion in the Grave (Magic Potion #2) (past)
3. It Takes a Witch (Wishcraft #1) (past)
4. A Witch Before Dying (Wishcraft #2) (past)
5. The Good, The Bad, & The Witchy (Wishcraft #3) ~ 4/17
6. The Goodbye Witch (Wishcraft #4) ~ 5/1

• Target Complete 5/1/22

1. Some Like it Witchy (Wishcraft #5) ~ 5/21
2. Gone With The Witch (Wishcraft #6) ~ 8/15
3. The Witch and The Dead (Wishcraft #7) ~ 9/17
4. Ghost of a Potion (Magic Potion #3) ~ 10/4

Block, Lawrence (aka *many different ones)

1. The Topless Tulip Caper (Chip Harrison #4) ~ 4/22

Bond, Stephanie

1. Body Movers (Body Movers #1) ~ 1/8
2. 2 Bodies For The Price Of 1 (Body Movers #2) ~ 3/27
3. Party Crashers (Body Movers #0.5) ~ 7/16

Bradbury, Ray

1. The Halloween Tree ~ 10/30

Bradford, Laura (aka Elizabeth Lynn Casey)

1. A Plus One For Murder (Friend for Hire #1) ~ 10/19

Bradley, Alan

1. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust (Flavia de Luce #7) (past)
2. Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce #8) (past)
3. The Grave's A Fine And Private Place (Flavia de Luce #9) ~ 4/21
4. The Golden Tresses of the Dead (Flavia de Luce #10) ~ 7/2

Brown, Fredric 

1. The Far Cry 2/11

Brown, Sandra

1. Chill Factor (past)

Buckley, Julia 

1. A Dark and Stormy Murder (Writer's Apprentice #1) 9/28

Cahoon, Lynn 

1. Guidebook to Murder (Tourist Trap #1) (past)
2. Mission to Murder (Tourist Trap #2)(past)
3. If the Shoe Kills (Tourist Trap #3) (past)
4. Mother's Day Mayhem (Tourist Trap #6.5) ~ 5/17
5. A Deadly Brew (Tourist Trap #5.25) ~ 10/11
6. Chili Cauldron Curse (Kitchen Witch #0.5) ~ 12/29

• Target Completed 12/29/22

Carr, Lauren

1. A Reunion to Die For (Joshua Thornton #2) (past)

Cates, Bailey (Pseudonym of Cricket McRae)

1. Brownies and Broomsticks (Magical Bakery #1) ~ 5/16

Chesterton, G.K.

1. The Blue Cross (Father Brown) (past)
2. The Flying Stars (Father Brown) (past)

Christensen, Rachelle J.

1. Diamond Rings Are Deadly Things (Wedding Planner Mysteries #1) ~ 4/20
2. Veils and Vengeance (Wedding Planner #2) ~ 5/6
3. Proposals and Poison (Wedding Planner #3) ~ 8/9 

Christie, Agatha

1. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1) (past)
2. Jane in Search of a Job (past)
3. The Dream (Hercule Poirot ss-38) 8/9
4. Four And Twenty Blackbirds (Hercule Poirot ss-51) 8/10
5. The ABC Murders (Hercule Poirot #12) 8/10
6. The King of Clubs (Hercule Poirot ss #16) 8/10

• Target Completed 8/10/22

1. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery (Hercule Poirot ss # 22) 8/11

Clark, Mary Higgins

1. Daddy's Little Girl (past)
2. I've Got My Eyes On You ~ 6/5
3. A Stranger Is Watching ~ 7/7

Cleeves, Ann

1. Raven Black (Shetland Island #1) ~ 6/9
2. White Nights (Shetland Island #2) ~ 7/9
3. Red Bones (Shetland Island #3) ~ 8/30

Connelly, Michael

1. Blue on Black (Harry Bosch #19.5) ~ 5/28

Cornwell, Patricia

1. Cruel and Unusual (Kay Scarpetta #4) (past)

Daheim, Mary

1. The Alpine Xanadu (Emma Lord #24) (past)

Davidson, Kenley 

1. Goldheart (Andari Chronicles #2) (past)
2. Pirouette (Andari Chronicles #3) (past)

Day, Maddie

1. Christmas Cocoa and A Corpse (Country Store #6.5) ~ 12/8

Delany, Vicki (aka Eva Gates, Lighthouse Library Series)

1. By Book or By Crook (Lighthouse Library #1) (past)
2. Booked for Trouble (Lighthouse Library #2) (past)
3. Reading Up A Storm (Lighthouse Library #3) (past)
4. Elementary, She Read (Sherlock Holmes Bookshop #1) ~ 8/31

Dobbs, Leighann (aka LA Dobbs)

1. Dead Wrong (Blackmoore Sisters #1) ~ 9/29

Donaldson, Jennifer

1. I Know You Remember ~ 10/18
   
2. Lies You Never Told Me ~ 11/5

Donnelly, Jennifer

1. Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book (past)

Duncan, Lois 

1. I Know What You Did Last Summer (past)
2. Killing Mr. Griffin (past)

Dunn, Carola

1. Manna From Hades (Cornish #1) (past)
2. A Colourful Death (Cornish #2) (past)
3. Valley of the Shadow (Cornish #3) (past)
4. Buried in the Country (Cornish #4) (past)

Erickson, Alex

1. Death By Hot Cocoa (Bookstore Cafe #7.5) ~ 12/8

Evanovich, Janet 

1. Pros and Cons (Fox & O'Hare #0.5) (past)
2. The Heist (Fox & O'Hare #1) ~ 3/31
3. The Chase (Fox & O'Hare #2) ~ 4/26
4. The Job (Fox & O'Hare #3) ~ 5/19

Finn, A.J. (aka Daniel Mallory)

1. The Woman in the Window (past)

Fisher, Tarryn

1. The Wrong Family (past)
2. The Wives(past)

Flagg, Fannie

1. I Still Dream About You ~ 7/30

Flower, Amanda 

1. Assaulted Caramel (Amish Candy Shop #1) 8/7

Fluke, Joanne 

1. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen #1) (past)
2. Strawberry Shortcake Murder (Hannah Swensen #2) (past)
3. Blueberry Muffin Murder (Hannah Swensen #3) (past)
4. Lemon Meringue Pie Murder (Hannah Swensen #4) (past)

Flynn, Gillian

1. Dark Places (past)
2. Gone Girl (past)
3. Sharp Objects (past)
4. The Grownup (past)

French, Tana

1. The Witch Elm (past)
2. The Searcher (past)
3. In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1) (past)
4. The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad #2) 1/16
5. Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3) 7/22
6. Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad #4) 9/10

• Target Completed 9/10/22

Gates, Eva (see Delany, Vicki)

Grant, Kimi Cunningham

1. These Silent Woods ~ 9/5

Hahn, Chanda

1. Of Beast and Beauty (Daughters of Eville #1) 8/4

Hannah, Sophie

1. A Game For All the Family (past)
2. Perfect Little Children (past)

Harris, Charlaine

1. Grave Sight (Harper Connelly #1) 9/24

Harris, Thomas

1. Red Dragon ~ 6/27

Hawkins, Paula

1. A Slow Fire Burning ~ 12/11

Hayes, Drew

1. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant ~ 12/14

Hepworth, Sally

1. The Mother-in-Law (past)
2. The Family Next Door (past)
3. The Mother's Promise (past)
4. The Good Sister (past)

Holmes, Bobbi (aka Anna J. McIntyre)

1. The Ghost of Valentine Past (Haunting Danielle #7) (past)
2. The Ghost From the Sea (Haunting Danielle #8) (past)
3. The Ghost and the Mystery Writer (Haunting Danielle #9) (past)
4. The Ghost and the Mystery Writer (re-read) ~ 10/5
5. The Ghost and the Muse (Haunting Danielle #10) ~ 10/6

Hughes, Dorothy B.

1. The So Blue Marble (Griselda Satterlee #1) ~ 4/25

Innes, Louise R. (aka Louise Rose-Innes)

1. Death at a Country Mansion (Daisy Thorne #1) (past)

Ireland, Justina

1. Ophie's Ghosts ~ 3/29

Jackson, Shirley

1. We Have Always Lived In The Castle ~ 6/26
2. The Witchcraft of Salem Village ~ 12/15

James, P.D.

1. Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales (past)

Kaminsky, Stuart M. 

1. Bullet For A Star (Toby Peters #1) ~ 7/3
2. Murder On The Yellow Brick Road (Toby Peters #2) ~ 7/3
3. You Bet Your Life (Toby Peters #3) ~ 9/11

Kappes, Tonya 

1. Beaches, Bungalows, & Burglaries (Campers & Criminals #1) ~ 1/3
2. Deserts, Driving, & Derelicts (Campers & Criminals #2) ~ 4/6
3. Forests, Fishing, & Forgery (Campers & Criminals #3) ~ 4/24
4. Christmas, Criminals, & Campers (Campers & Criminals #4) ~ 4/24
5. Motorhomes, Maps, & Murder (Campers & Criminals #5) ~ 4/24
6. Canyons, Caravans, & Cadavers (Campers & Criminals #6) ~ 6/2

• Target Complete 6/2

1. Hitches, Hideouts & Homicides (Campers & Criminals #7) 11/2
2. Assailants, Asphalt, & Alibis (Campers & Criminals #8) 11/2

Lisbon, Zara

1. Fake Plastic Girl 2/2

MacInerney, Karen

1. Murder on the Rocks (Gray Whale Inn #1) ~ 11/1

Marshall, Kate Alice

1. Thirteens 1/10

McCullough, Joy

1. Blood Water Paint 1/4

McKinlay, Jenn 

1. Cloche and Dagger (Hat Shop #1) (past)
2. Death of a Mad Hatter (Hat Shop #2) (past)
3. At The Drop Of A Hat (Hat Shop #3) ~ 8/4
4. Copy Cap Murder (Hat Shop #4) ~ 8/5
5. Sprinkle With Murder (Cupcake Bakery #1) ~ 9/30

McMahon, Jennifer

1. Promise Not To Tell ~ 4/23

McManus, Karen M.

1. The Cousins ~ 1/19
2. Two Can Keep A Secret ~ 3/30
3. One Of Us Is Lying ~ 4/13
4. One Of Us Is Next ~ 6/16

Mehl, Nancy

1. Fire Storm (Kaely Quinn Profiler #1) ~ 10/7

Meuleman, Sarah

1. Find Me Gone ~ 6/25 

O'Connor, Carlene

1. Christmas Cocoa Murder (Irish Village #3.5) ~ 12/8

Pandian, Gigi

1. Under Lock and Skeleton Key (Secret Staircase #1) ~ 6/17

Patterson, James

1. When the Wind Blows (When the Wind Blows #1) (past)

Perry, Carol J.

1. Be My Ghost (Haunted Haven #1) 10/29

Queen, Ellery (aka Jack Vance)

1. The Four Johns (Jack Vance) (past)

Rabbit Ears

1. Squanto and the First Thanksgiving/The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Holiday Series Vol. 1) (past)

Racculia, Kate

1. Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts ~ 9/16

Richards, Natalie D. 

1. Five Total Strangers ~ 1/7

Roberts, Nora (aka J.D. Robb & Eleanor Wilder & Jill March & Sarah Hardesty)

1. Carnal Innocence (past)
2. Divine Evil (past)
3. Hideaway (past)
4. Under Currents (past)
5. Blue Dahlia (In the Garden #1) (past)

Rowling, J.K.

1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (HP #1) (past)
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (HP #2) (past)
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (HP #3) (past)
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (HP #4) (past)
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (HP #5) (past)
6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (HP #6) ~ 12/25/21

• Target Completed 12/25/21 (counts on 2022)

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow (HP #7) ~ 2/9
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire (HP #4) ~ 10/15

St. James, Simone

1. Lost Among the Living (past)
2. The Haunting of Maddy Clare (past)
3. The Broken Girls (past)
4. The Other Side of Midnight (past)
5. The Sun Down Motel ~ 7/26 
6. The Book Of Cold Cases ~ 9/23

• Target Completed 9/23

Sefton, Maggie (aka Margaret Conlan)

1. Knit One, Kill Two (Knitting #1)  (past)
2. Needled To Death (Knitting #2) 7/11
3. A Deadly Yarn (Knitting #3) 7/29
4. A Killer Stitch (Knitting #4) 8/26
5. Dyer Consequences (Knitting #5) 9/9

Shelton, Paige

1. The Cracked Spine (Scottish Bookshop #1) (past)
2. Of Books and Bagpipes (Scottish Bookshop #2) (past)
3. Lost Books and Old Bones (Scottish Bookshop #3) (past)
4. The Loch Ness Papers (Scottish Bookshop #4) 1/2
5. The Stolen Letter (Scottish Bookshop #5) 1/22
6. Deadly Edition (Scottish Bookshop #6) 2/10

• Target Completed 2/10

1. To Helvetica And Back (Dangerous Type #1) 7/2
2. Bookman Dead Style (Dangerous Type #2) 7/3
3. Comic Sans Murder (Dangerous Type #3) 7/29

Slaughter, Karin

1. The Mean Time (past)
2. Undone (Will Trent #3) (past)
3. Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes ~ 1/6
   
4. False Witness ~ 1/12
5. TripTych (Will Trent #1) ~ 6/19
6. Fractured (Will Trent #2) ~ 10/26

• Target Completed 10/26

1. Girl, Forgotten (Andrea Oliver #2) ~ 11/24
2. Undone (Will Trent #3) ~ 11/25
3. Cleaning the Gold (Will Trent #8.5) ~ 11/30

Snicket, Lemony (aka Daniel Handler)

1. File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (All the Wrong Questions Files 1-6) 12/26/21

Stewart, Fran

1. A Wee Murder in My Shop (ScotShop #1) (past)
2. A Wee Dose of Death (ScotShop #2) (past)
3. A Wee Homicide in the Hotel (ScotShop #3) (past)

Updale, Eleanor

1. Montmorency (Montmorency #1) (past)

Urquhart, Alaina

1. The Butcher and the Wren ~ 11/2

Van Gieson, Judith

1. North of the Border (Neil Hamel #1) (past)

Warner, Gertrude Chandler 

1. The Boxcar Children (Boxcar Children #1) ~ 12/13

Watson, S.J.

1. Final Cut (past)
2. Before I Go To Sleep ~ 7/4

Watts, Lilian

1. A Cue to A Kill (Theatrical Cozy) (past)

Wells, Tina

1. Honest June (Honest June #1) 9/30

Whittle, Tina

1. The Dangerous Edge of Things (Tai Randolph #1) (past)
2. Darker Than Any Shadow (TR #2) 1/5

Williams, Jen

1. A Dark and Secret Place ~ 10/13

Willingham, Stacy

1. A Flicker In The Dark 10/29

Xiaolong, Qiu

1. Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen #1) (past)
2. A Loyal Character Dancer (Inspector Chen #2) ~ 9/5
3. When Red Is Black (Inspector Chen #3) ~ 9/5
4. A Case of Two Cities (Inspector Chen #4) ~ 9/6
5. Red Mandarin Dress (Inspector Chen #5) ~ 11/26

Yessayan, Raffi

1. Eight in the Box (past)

Yocum, Robin

1. A Brilliant Death ~ 12/22