Scavenger hunts are another part of Book Blogger Appreciation Week. And you know there will be prizes for all of your efforts. For this scavenger hunt, we’re going to take a trip through the nominees for Best Mystery/Thriller/Crime Fiction Blog. Are you ready?
Question #1
Take a trip over to Crime Scraps and find the Crime Fest 2009 interview in which Uriah says she has never read any of this author’s books.
Question #2
On Criminal Brief, there are a number of contributors—in particular, Leigh Lundin. Click on Leigh’s name at the top and find the post “Dumbed Down,” and tell me how much of today’s American vocabulary resembles that of the mid-1800s for educated citizens?
Question #3
On Detectives Beyond Borders, who is the Tasmanian police inspector known as “Pufferfish” in a series of crime novels by David Owen?
Question #4
Who is behind the reviews of Euro Crime? And what is the name of her other blog?
Question #5
Check out Murder She Writes and how many women author the blog and its posts based on the photos on the sidebar?
Question #6
The Mystery Bookshelf run by Violette Severin has a listing of magazines on the sidebar, how many of those magazines listed on the sidebar have “mystery” in the title?
Question #7
Check The Rap Sheet header image, how many blocked off images are there and what color is used on two of the images, but not the third?
Question #8
True Crime Book Reviews has a yellowish and red color scheme for the main posts and sidebar, but what is in the background?
Question #9
Most blogs have archives, but Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind has a different type of archive. What is the name of this archive?
Question #10
DJs Krimiblog has a great weekly feature in which a quotation is provided and readers have to guess who wrote the quote and the book it is from is reviewed the following Friday. What’s the name of this feature?
Ok, there you have it, 10 of the blogs who were nominated this year.
Here’s a list of the possible prizes up for grabs:
First Place:
3 Bangkok Thriller books personalized by Tim Hallinan
1 copy of DUTCH by Teri Woods
1 copy of Mind Scrambler by Chris Grabenstein
1 copy of To Hell in a Handbasket by Beth Groundwater
Second Place:
1 copy of Breathing Water personalized by Tim Hallinan
1 copy of DUTCH by Teri Woods
1 copy of The Murder of King Tut by James Patterson
Third Place:
1 copy of DUTCH by Teri Woods
1 copy of Bo’s’ Cafe by John Lynch, Bill Thrall and Bruce McNicol
You have until Sept. 16, 2009, 11:59 PM EST to answer all the questions. The giveaway is international.
Good luck.
