Nemesis

So with one week and two days left to go until the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival I thought I’d have a bit of a check where I am with the TOPCWFC 2016. I had high hopes this year. Looking through the list there were a lot of authors that I’ve seen before and therefore there was a high chance that I had read something of theirs already. However it does look like sadly I may have taken on more than I can chew yet again. This challenge is beginning to be my nemesis.

On the positive side, I’ve realised I’d counted wrong in my initial plan. I had counted two authors separately although they write as a team, and I’ve also excluded one author on the grounds he only writes true crime and this is a fiction challenge (my challenge my rules!) However with only nine days before the festival I still have 4 authors to go. Now admittedly as I write this I’m about to finish an audio book of one, and I’m halfway through another in hard copy, yet I still suspect it’s going to be a case of so near yet so far.

Out of interest though I’ve listed all those books I have read below. Obviously with some authors I’ve read most of their novels and so I’ve just listed the most recent one. It was actually quite an interesting exercise going through the authors and seeing what I’d read. Although it has made me realise how many new books there are out there that I really want to read. If only I could find a job that would pay me to read books all day, fingers crossed for next year.

The TOPCWFC 2016

1. Linwood Barclay – Broken Promise
2. Mark Billingham – Time of Death (audiobook)
3. Peter James – A Twist of the Knife
4. Sharon Bolton – Little Black Lies
5. Mari Hannah – The Murder Wall
6. Ysra Sigurdardottir – The Silence of the Sea
7. Julia Crouch – The Long Fall
8. Helen Fitzgerald – The Cry
9. Paula Hawkins – Girl on a Train
10. Clare Mackintosh – I let you go
11. Alex Marwood – The Wicked Girls
12. Simon Brett – The Hanging in the Hotel
13. Frances Brody – A Death in the Dales
14. Ann Granger – Dead In the Water (audio)
15. Catriona McPherson – Quiet Neighbours
16. Ruth Ware – In a Dark Dark Wood
17. Elly Griffiths – The Crossing Places
18. Brooke Magnanti – The Turning Tide
19. Kate Medina – Fire Damage
20. Val McDermid – Splinter the Silence
21. Sophie Hannah – A Game for all the Family (audio)
22. Simon Kernick – The Murder Exchange
23. Laura Lippman – After I’m Gone
24. Martyn Waites – The Dolls House (Yes technically its Tania Carver but its my rules!)
25. Laura Wilson – The Wrong Girl
26. Jeffrey Deaver – The Skin Collector
27. Mark Lawson – The Deaths
28. Gerald Seymour
29. Martin Holmen – Clinch
30. J S Law – Tenacity (audiobook)
31. Beth Lewis
32. Abir Mukherjee – A Rising Man
33. NJ Cooper – Vengence in Mind
34. Paul Mendleson – The serpentine road
35. Deon Meyer – Devil’s Peak
36. Margie Orford – Daddy’s Girl
37. Michael Stanley –
38. (Micheal Sears and Stanly Trollop one author above)
39. Pierre Lemaitre – Blood Wedding
40. Bernard Minier – The Frozen Dead
41. SJ Parris – 
42. Martina Cole – The Life
43. Tess Gerritsen – Last to Die
44. Charles Cumming – A Divided Spy
45. Frank Gardner (True Crime so not in the challenge)
46. Kate Rhodes – River of Souls
47. Gillian Slovo – Ten Days
48. Neil Cross – Captured