2026 Medical Examiner's Mystery Reading Challenge Beth M, M.E. • North Carolina

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61 Authors	72 Titles links to review	Series	684 Toe Tags
Kelley Armstrong	Kirkyards and Kindness	Rip Through Time #4.5	2
Kelley Armstrong	The Haunting of Paynes Hollow		10
Leigh Bardugo	Demon in the Wood	Grishaverse #0	5
Nevada Barr	Track of the Cat	Anna Pigeon #1	6
Agustina Bazterrica	The Unworthy		9
Karla Brandenburg	When the Penny Drops		2
Allison Brennan	Make It Out Alive	Quinn and Costa #7	14
Max Brooks	Harlem Hellfighters		18
Sandra Brown	Blood Moon	Blood #1	12
Sandra Brown	Bloodlust	Blood #2	7
Valerie Burns	Icing on the Murder	Baker Street Mystery #4	10
Lina Chern	Play the Fool	Katie True #1	4
Lina Chern	Tricks of Fortune	Katie True #2	2
P. Djèlí Clark (Dexter Gabriel)	Abeni's Song	Abeni's Song #1	2
Meg Waite Clayton	Typewriter Beach		27
Clive Cussler	Atlantis Found	Dirk Pitt #15	23
April Daniels	Dreadnought	Nemesis #1	7
Matt Dinniman	Dungeon Crawler Carl	Dungeon Crawler Carl #1	9
Charles Donlea	Those Empty Eyes		13
Charles Donlea	Guess Again		11
Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose		28
Jumata Emill	Wander in the Dark		3
Alice Feeney	Rock Paper Scissors		8
Jean Craighead George	Charlie's Raven		2
Adalyn Grace	Belladonna	Belladonna #1	13
Adalyn Grace	Foxglove	Belladonna #2	15
Ayana Gray	I, Medusa		6
Mark Haddon	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time		3
Andrea Hairston	The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays		4
Jane Harper	Last One Out		4
Noelle Ihli	Such Quiet Girls		3
Jessica Johns	Bad Cree		4
Marshall Karp	The 11:59 Bomber	NYPD Red #8	13
Jonathan & Jesse Kellerman	Coyote Hills	Clay Edison #6	5
Vikki Kestell	Murder by Accident	Miss Finch prequel	2
Fonda Lee	Jade City	Greenbone Saga #1	36
Marie Lu	Red City	The New Alchemists #1	15
Gilly MacMillan	Burning Library		10
Seanan McGuire	One Salt Sea	October Daye #5	12
Charlotte McConaghy	Wild Dark Shore		9
Seanan McGuire	Through Gates of Garnet and Gold	Wayward Children #11	6
Phillip Margolin	False Witness		9
Kate Alice Marshall	We Won't All Survive		11
Kate Alice Marshall	Close Friends Only		3
Nick Medina	Sisters of the Lost Nation		9
Cassie Miles	Signal in the Storm	Lighthouse Mysteries #3	10
Cassie Miles	Broken Vows	Lighthouse Mysteries #4	6
Cindi Myers	Explosive Evidence	K9 Avalanche Rescue #2	1
Harini Nagendra	Into the Leopard's Den	Bangalore Detectives Club #4	6
Nnedi Okorafor	Death of the Author		9
Nnedi Okorafor	Binti	Binti #1	8
Nnedi Okorafor	Binti: Home	Binti #2	1
Nnedi Okorafor	The Night Masquerade	Binti #3	5
Malka Older	Sturdy Lanterns and Ladders		1
Amy Pease	Wildwood	Northwoods #2	6
Hazel Prior	How the Penguins Saved Veronica	Veronica McCreedy #1	6
Eric Rickstad	I Am Not Who You Think I Am		9
James Rollins	Trust No One		23
Simone St. James	A Box Full of Darkness		13
Riley Sager (Todd Ritter)	Home Before Dark		14
Freya Sampson	The Busy Body Book Club		5
Shannon Schuren	Water in her Veins		10
David Shepherd	I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD79		5
Ali Smith	Glyph	Glyph #2	15
Rivers Solomon	The Deep		7
Danielle Steel	All That Glitters		8
Peter Swanson	Kill Your Darlings		10
Sherry Thomas	A Study in Scarlet Women	Lady Sherlock #1	14
Edward Underhill	The In-between Bookstore		1
M. L. Wang	Blood Over Bright Haven		28
Samantha Sotto Yambao	Water Moon		8
Xiran Jay Zhao	Heavenly Tyrant	Iron Widow #2	29

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