At Bouchercon we had the opportunity to be the first readers in the US to buy the book Books To Die For – The World’s Greatest Mystery Writers on the World’s Greatest Mystery Novels. Of the 119 contributors almost 30 were in attendance and they did a mass signing for everyone. Let’s see if you can guess which author chose which of these 16 great works. The autograph is from the author choosing the work. Good Luck!
You have until noon Sunday to submit your answers as a comment. Comment will be hidden until I post the answers. No Googling! The person with the most points this round will win a B&N gift card (total $ based on # of total participants, so please play) and a randomly selected participant will win a fun prize from me.
To enter my birthday giveaway (details here) leave a comment with some guesses and you’ll be entered.
This is really a test to see if you can figure out signature’s but I thought you’d like to see what books they recommended too 🙂
On Beulah Height – Val McDermid, Little Sister – Michael Connelly, The Hunter – F Paul Wilson, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned – Martyn Waites, Possession – Erin Hart, The Damned & the Destroyed – Lee Child, Rogue Male – Charlaine Harris, Bootlegger’s Daughter – Julia Spencer-Fleming, Maltese Falcon – Mark Billingham, The Postman Always Rings Twice – Joseph Finder, Ms. Smilla’s Feeling for Snow – Michael Robotham, Cover Her Face – Deborah Crombie, The Goodbye Look – Linwood Barclay, True Confessions – SJ Rozan, A is for Alibi – Meg Gardiner, A Crime on the Neighborhood – Thomas H Cook
Stacy's Books 
I know some of these are wrong because I just couldn’t figure some of them out.
A Crime in the Neighborhood – Thomas H. Cook
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned – Martyn Waites
On Beulah Height – Val McDermid
Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow – Lee Child
Bootlegger’s Daughter – Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Maltese Falcon – Mark Billingham
Possession – Erin Hart
A is for Alibi – Meg Gardiner
True Confessions – SJ Rozan
The Postman Always Rings Twice – Joseph Finder
The Little Sister – Michael Connelly
Cover Her Face – F. Paul Wilson
The Damned and the Destroyed – Linwood Barclay
The Hunter – Michael Robothan
The Goodbye Look – Michael Robothan
Rogue Male – Charlaine Harris
I screaming because you got to meet Michael Connelly!!
12 correct for 68.75 points 🙂 I briefly ‘met’ Michael Connelly, but in a line with several hundred people you only got to really talk to the authors if the line got held up and you were standing in front of them. Although I myself held up the line to talk to Lee Child for a minute or two 😉
A Crime in the Neighborhood – Thomas H. Cook
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned – Martyn Waites
On Beulah Height – Val McDermid
Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow – F. Paul Wilson
Bootlegger’s Daughter – Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Maltese Falcon – Mark Billingham
Possession – Erin Hart
A is For Alibi – Meg Gardiner
True Confessions – S.J. Rozan
The Postman Always Rings Twice – Joseph Finder
The Little Sister – Michael Connelly
Cover Her Face – Deborah Crombie
The Damned and the Destroyed – Lee Child
The Hunter – Michael Robotham
The Goodbye Look – Linwood Barclay
Rogue Male – Charlaine Harris
Some of these were guesses. Wow, I suppose signing your name over and over very quickly makes it difficult to be legible. LOL
So excited that you got to see all these wonderful authors. And I can totally recommend a few of these books too – ON BEULAH HEIGHT (wonderful), BOOTLEGGER’S DAUGHTER (one of my favorites). I need to get BOOKS TO DIE FOR!
Thanks for the two recommendations, Kay! You were almost perfect this week with 14 correct for 87.50 points. You mixed up Robotham and Wilson. Pretty good I’d say.
A Crime in the Neighborhood, Thomas H Cook
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, Martyn Waites
On Beulah Height, Val McDermid
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, F Paul Wilson
Bootlegger’s Daughter, Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Maltese Falcon, Mark Billingham
Possession, Erin Hart
A is for Alibi, Meg Gardiner
True Confessions, SJ Rozan
The Postman Always Rings Twice, Joseph Finder
The Little Sister, Michael Connelly
Cover Her Face, Deborah Crombie
The Damned and the Destroyed, Lee Child
The Hunter, Michael Robotham
The Goodbye Look, Linwood Barclay
Rogue Male, Charlaine Harris
14 correct for 87.50 points. Like Kay you only mixed up Wilson and Robotham. And because I got nervous I checked the book to make sure (seriously F Paul Wilson is unidentifiable).
Super neat quiz! And it is really hard to figure out their signatures!
Hey, why aren’t you guessing?!
Wow – a couple signatures I had to totally guess at!
Thomas H. Cook – Crime in Neighborhood
Martyn Waites – Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Val McDermid – On Beulah Heights
Michael Robotham – Miss Smilla’s Sense of Snow
Julie Spencer-Fleming – Bootlegger’s Daughter
Mark Billingham – Malese Falcon
Erin Hart – Possession
Meg Gardiner – A is for Alibi
SJ Rozan – True Confessions
Joseph Finder – Postman Always Rings Twice
Michael Connelly – Little Sister
Deborah Crombie – Cover Her Face
Lee Child – Damned and Destroyed
F Paul Wilson – The Hunter
Linwood Barclay – Goodbye Look
Charlaine Harris- Rogue Male
Somehow you managed to get them all right! Why am I not surprised 🙂
Wow, this was tough! Here are my guesses, but several I just had no idea on.
A Crime- Cook
Always – Waites
On Beulah – McDermid
Miss Smilla’s – Robotham
Bootlegger’s – Spenser-Fleming
Maltese – Billingham
A – Gardeiner
Posession – Hart
True – Rozan
Postman – Finder
Little Sister – Connelly
Cover – Crombie
Damned – Child
Hunter – Barclay
Goodbye – Wilson
Rogue – Harris
Sounds like a book I need to put on my wishlist!
Perfect score! You guys are impressive 🙂
Crime – Cook
Always – martyn Waites
On Beulah – Val McDermid
Miss Smila’s – Michael Robotham
Bootleggers – Julia Spenser- Fleming
Maltese- Mark Billingham
A – Meg Gardiner
Possession -Erin Hart
True – S. J. Rozan
the Postman – Joseph Finder
Little Sister – Connelly
Cover Her Face – Deborah Crombie
The Damned and the Destroyed – Lee Child
The Hunter-Linwood Barclay
The Goodbye Look – F. Paul Wilson
Rogue – Charlaine harris
Only missed two (got Barclay and Wilson mixed up). 87.50 points!!!
Happy birthday, Stacy!!
Some were super easy but the last 3 about killed me!! I think they’re wrong!! 😀
Thomas H Cook
Martyn Waites
Michael Rowbotham * hard not sure
F Paul Wilson
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Mark Billingham
Erin Hart
Meg Gardiner
SJ Rozan
Joseph Finder
Michael Connelly
Deborah Crombie
Lee Child
?? Val
Linwood Barclay
Charlaine Harris
not the last 3 in order but last 3 overall that I couldn’t figure out!
I think you got 14 right! 87.50 points is great considering how hard some of these were!
A Crime in the Neighborhood–Thomas H. Cook
Always Outnumbered–Martyn Waites
On Beulah Height–Val McDermid
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow–Michael Robotham
Bootlegger’s Daughter–Julia Spencer-Fleming
The Maltese Falcon–Mark Billingham
Possession–Erin Hart
A is for Alibi–Meg Gardiner
True Confessions–SJ Rozan
The Postman Always Rings Twice–Joseph Finder
The Little Sister–Michael Connelly
Cover her Face–Deborah Crombie
The Damned and the Destroyed–Lee Child
The Hunter–F Paul Wilson
The Goodbye Look–Linwood Barclay
Rogue Male–Charlaine Harris
Not sure if I got them all, but what fun! Happy Birthday!
An awesomely great perfect score!!
Berne – Thomas Cook
Mosley – Martyn Waites
Hill – Val McDermid
Hoeg – F Paul Wilson
Maron – Julia Spencer – Fleming
Hammett – Mark Billingham
Byatt – Erin Hart
Grafton – Meg Gardiner
Dunne – SJ Rozan
Cain – Joseph Finder
Chandler – Michael Connelly
James – Deborah Crombie
Orvis – Lee Child
Stark – Robotham
MacDonald – Linwood Barclay
Household – Charlaine Harris
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!
You only missed the two that everyone has been mixing up, Wilson and Robotham. You’d think it would be easy to tell those two apart. But you’d be wrong 🙂 87.50 points!
Harder than I thought 🙂
A Crime in the Neighbourhood – Thomas H Cook
Always Outnumbered Always Outgunned – Martin Waites
On Beulah Height
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow –
Bootlegger’s Daughter – Julie Spencer Fleming
The Maltese Falcon – Mark Billingham
Possession – Erin Hart
A is for Alibi – Meg Gardiner
True Confessions – S J Rozan
The Postman Always Rings Twice – Joseph Finder
The Little Sister – Michael Connelly
Cover Her Face – Deborah Crombie
The Damned and the Destroyed – Linwood Barclay?
The Hunter
The Goodbye Look –
Rogue Male – Charlaine Harris
11 correct for 68.75 🙂
Some are easier than others.
1 Thomas H Cook
2 Martin Waites
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5 Julia spencer Fleming
6 Mark Billingham
7 Erin Hart
8 Meg Gardiner
9 SJ Rozan
10 Joseph Finder
11 Michael Connelly
12 Deborah Crombie
13 Lee Child
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16 Charlaine Harris
All 12 are correct for 75 points 🙂