Today’s prompt is actually from the Capture Your 365 prompt list for October. I decided to go with this over the Skillshare prompt as it is Mystery. The Skillshare prompt is Your Friends, which is one that I’m not able to actually do since most of my friends don’t live in the same place as I do. Mystery is a little more doable as I have an entire bookshelf full of it.
Mystery novels have been a favorite genre of mine as far back as I can remember. I remember as a child going to our public library, picking up a Nancy Drew novel, pulling up a dinosaur chair and getting lost while my mom browsed the shelves looking for a book for herself. From Nancy Drew, I moved on to the Sherlock Holmes novels, and those were the stories that hooked me as a mystery genre fan. I have multiple copies and sets of these novels, one a pop up version of A Scandal In Bohemia and The Blue Carbuncle that was given to me as a gift.
As an adult, I started working at the public library for the town we lived in, and it was there I discovered the novels of Sue Grafton. The first book in the series, A Is For Alibi was released in 1982, the latest, Y Is For Yesterday came out in 2017. I have every novel in the alphabet series. As she passed away in December of 2017, the alphabet ends with Y. A couple of shelves below beloved Sue, is the ever popular James Patterson, and I have enough of his novels to take up multiple shelves. His writing is so detailed and intriguing, it’s hard to put down one of his books once you’ve started it.
I could go on and on about the different mystery novels I have and authors I enjoy, but instead I will recommend that you take some time and go to your library or local bookstore and spend some time among the shelves and discover some of the brilliant and ingenious books and authors that will leave you on the edge of your seat, hooking your chapter after chapter. I will forever be a fan and lover of great mysteries and spend time in their pages whenever I get the chance.
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