Where in the World Are We in July?

This is a place to share all the places you visit in your Mystery and Suspense (or even other books) during July.

It will be really interesting to see all the places we visit in a month.

July sees the start of our South American focus in the Around the World Challenge on the Mystery and Suspense Extra Group, so if you read a book during July and August that visits a South American Country do post it on that group to help us meet our target.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/260774

I'm starting off in Chicago in the US with Harry Dresden in Storm Front. Also will be in Los Angeles in the US with Robert Hunter in The Night Stalker.

I'm in Starvation Lake, Michigan with The Skeleton Box. There really is such a place, located in Michigan's " thumb" close to Traverse City. They've found a box of bones but no one knows who it is. I will have to run back and forth from Michigan to California to help Robert Hunter track his latest serial killer in The Night Stalker.

>4 Carol420: We'll both be exhausted with all this running across the US (and back again).

>4 Carol420: Hope the Night Stalker doesn't catch us:)

>6 Carol420: Hopefully not, but given your latest theory I should be safe - no artistic, musical or creative arts talent at all!

>7 Andrew-theQM: He maybe could use an assistant??? :)

I recently returned from a devastated, post-Katrina New Orleans in Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead.

I'm now hoping to see some ghosts in 1920s England. Reading The Haunting of Maddy Clare.

>9 sturlington: The Haunting Maddy Clare is really good. Hope you enjoy it. I can't remember if I recommended it to you or not but you might also like Anatomy of a Haunting: The Nightmare on Baxter Road by Lee Strong. It's suppose to be non-fiction. Lots of ghost though rather it's true or not.

All over the main cities in Scotland with Ian Rankin and Rebus in Black & Blue

>11 Sergeirocks: I love Rebus, hopefully will pass through Edinburgh in 3 weeks. 😊

I am in Sweden reading The Girl who Kicked a Hornet's nest... it is the third book of a trilogy... and is 5 stars though I am only 1/2 way through it.

>11 Sergeirocks: >12 Andrew-theQM: A flying visit to Shetland too - Rebus didn't call in to see Jimmy Perez, unfortunately. 5★s nonetheless.

In London with Bryant and May in Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler.

I'm in Maine at the present time. I'm helping Charlie Parker track down a missing investigator for the FBI. The investigator disappeared while he was tracking a series of homicides and disappearances that may have something to do with reports of several hauntings.

I'm out in Yavapai County AZ, Prescott to be exact while we attempt to identify the burn victim in Trial by Fire. Meanwhile on an oil rig 290 miles off the coast of Columbia tension mount to the point of murder in Power Down but since we're in a Ben Coes novel the action will no doubt move to other locations.

Argentina - Graham Greene's The Honorary Consul 4★s.

I'm in Scotland. I've finally caught up with McLean and the Christmas killer:)

>19 Carol420: Better late than never. :)

I'm in New York state, looking for a missing baby and examining a fragile family in Shari Lapena's The Couple Next Door.

>21 Hope_H: That is such a good book. Hope you enjoy it to the very last page.

I just returned from the icy Hudson River Valley and yet another haunted mansion: The Widow's House by Carol Goodman. Carol, if you haven't read this one yet, I think you would like it, based on your previous recommendations.

I'm in Chile with the book The Butterfly Box by Santa Motefiore, just about to head to Cornwall, England in the book.

>23 sturlington: I read it a few months ago. Loved it.

>25 Carol420: I knew it!

>22 Carol420: Thanks, Carol! I did like it. There were a few twists I didn't see coming!

England, Bali and a short sojourn in Uzbekistan in Constance by Rosie Thomas 4.5★s

>28 Sergeirocks: That's what I call globe trotting.

I'm currently in Arizona and California with a FBI lady that is investigation on her own a series of strange suicides by soldiers returning home from all over the world including her husband i The Silent Corner. She's all over the map so I think we'll be leaving soon. I m going to be running back and forth from My FBI lady to Ohio to be with Kate Bunkholder in Down A Dark Road. Things should be a little calmer with Kate since she the sheriff in an Amish community. Oops! Gotta run. She's on the move again. Hey! Wait for me!!

I'm in Alabama with To Kill A Mockingbird after reading The Color Purple. I made a little sidetrip to London to catch up with Peter Grant in The Hanging Tree - love those audios.

>31 sushicat: I love the Peter Grant series--also by audio. I'm on the wait list for audiobook #3--Whispers Under Ground.
I'm currently in the US: in Texas with Strangers on a Train and in Colorado with Columbine.

I'm diffidently going to be using my frequent flyer miles since I've found myself in Yorkshire, England helping to find a missing girl and staying in a haunted house Kissing the Demons. Seems I've also taken on another case in Miami, Florida helping Jack Swyteck defend a woman accused of murdering her husband...Most Dangerous Place...and then back to London to help a woman that contacts the dead and finds lost items...but it's 1925. The Other Side of Midnight.

I've been in Hollywood, California with a new detective, Renee' Ballard. She is going to be something else.

Not reading a mystery right now, but I am traversing the Sahara The Sheltering Sky.

>35 sturlington: Hope you have lots of sunscreen...oh, and water.

>36 Carol420: And bug repellent! The flies are awful.

>37 sturlington: Maybe you should move further away from the camels:)

I have just been in Berlin, with Private : Berlin by James Patterson and Mark Sullivan, where they are still dealing with the ramifications of the East German Secret police. Bad days!
Still thinking about where I want to go next, having recently spent time in Charlotte, North Carolina with Tempe Brennan in Bare Bones and England with Perfect by Rachel Joyce. All good reads and I think this is the best Tempe Brennan book (#6) I have read so far!

I'm in Belle Terre, Louisiana working with the DA on probably the biggest case this small town has ever had in This is Our Story. I read this once before but I have read reviews that say you will read something new every time so it's a reread. The DA seemed happy to see me if if I had been there before. I'll be dividing my time between Louisiana & New Hampshire since Charlie Parker seems to be having another run in with some really bad spooks. A Time of Torment by John Connolly.

Just got back from a delightful visit to Botswana, in The Double Comfort Safari Club by Alexander McCall Smith. This is book 11 in this series, I had forgotten how lovely it is to while away a few hours in Botswana in the company of Mma Ramotswe.

I've arrived in Gordon Bay, Oregon and the weather is atrocious! Rain, cold, wind that will blow you off your feet. To make matters worse...if possible...I find it's 1925. How do I keep jumping time? I guess this means I won't be able to charge my phone??? I'm going with a lady that is going to administer IQ test to a group of local schoolchildren but I suspect she is more interested in just one ... one that says she's lived before as Violet and remembers how she died. Yesternight by Cat Winters.

Just had a fascinating if a bit grueling visit in Colorado: Columbine by Dave Allen - great read.

Just visited Mexico and Mayan ruins in The Xibalba Murders by Lyn Hamilton.

I don't know where I am exactly, but it is not a nice place. It is a city, a ruined one, that is menaced by a giant bear and ruled in part by a Magician. I have to go out scavenging now--more later.

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

Just left Iran, Jordan, Israel and Egypt in the latest Project book by Alex Lukeman, Solomon's Gold.

>45 sturlington: Watch out that the bear isn't out scavenging also:)

I'm somewhere in England - but not London, because it has been pointed out several times that the countryside home I'm in is much better for me. I'm not really sure that it is, because something (maybe a winged creature) is up in the attic . . . waiting for me.

Tell the Story to Its End by Simon P. Clark.

I've not read much mystery or suspense this month but I recently traveled to South Africa with Trevor Noah in Born A Crime and then went on to Virginia and Texas with Hidden Figures. I seem to be on a non-fiction run of late.

>48 Hope_H: Your winged creature might want to meet >45 sturlington: scavengering bear:)

I'm currently in Ancient Greece with The Song of Achilles.