The most obvious choice for me is, of course, Dame Agatha! Her books have been featured significantly in my prior games :

 

Mystery on the Blue Train for Terrifying Women

The Thirteen Problems for 13

Hickory Dickory Dock for Terrifying Women

Endless Night for In a Dark, Dark Woods

The Moving Finger for Terror in a Small Town

Hallowe'en Party for Pumpkin

 

However, other authors who showed up a lot in my prior bingo games include both Barbara Michaels and Phyllis Whitney, who write old-fashioned gothic romance:

 

Ammie, Come Home by Barbara Michaels for Reads with Booklikes Friends

The Walker in the Shadows by Barbara Michaels for Fear the Drowning Deep

Houses of Stone by Barbara Michaels for Gothic

Grey Gallows by Barbara Michaels for Haunted House

The Lost Island by Phyllis Whitney for Terror in a Small Town

Snowfire by Phyllis Whitney for Gothic

Listen for the Whisperer by Phyllis Whitney for Gothic

Columbella by Phyllis Whitney for Romantic Suspense

 

Last year, Anthony Horowitz was my wild card author - I was on a road trip during a chunk of September, and we listened to 4 Alex Rider books on the trip!

 

Links to my old bingo update posts:

 

Halloween Bingo updates 2016

Halloween Bingo updates 2017

Halloween Bingo updates 2018

 

Endless Night

by Agatha Christie
audio book narrated by Hugh Fraser

 

 

Well... I certainly did not see that ending coming.  Though in hindsight, I am not so surprised, despite the fact that I'm not very well-versed in Agatha Christie novels.  This is only the third of hers I've read, and I'm not quite sure what to make of this one in particular.

Did I like it?  Did I not like it?  I don't know anymore.  That ending more than made up for the drag that was the beginning... and yet, I still haven't quite recovered yet.

Also, when I'd updated about the marriage between Mike and Ellie not ending well... this was NOT what I had been thinking would happen.

I am going to need to mull this one over, but more than likely, I won't come up with anything more to say.

Well played, Dame Agatha.  Well played.

Also, on a side note, Hugh Fraser is a wonderful narrator.  I will definitely be keeping him on my radar.

 

 

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Halloween Bingo 2018 (any book that relates to bad luck, superstitions, including (but not limited to) black cats, ravens or crows, or the unlucky 13, either in the title, series, book cover or page count)

 

 

Endless Night

by Agatha Christie
audio book narrated by Hugh Fraser

Progress:  106 of 374 minutes (28%)


I know this isn't the focus of this book, but Michael is coming off kind of a jerk-hole.  Or maybe just irrationally jealous of someone he's never met before, which still makes his dramatics a bit childish.  I don't see this marriage ending well.

On the other hand, I'm quite interested in this mysterious Greta character.

Now if the story will start picking up, I'm sure we'll get somewhere--I'm sure this is still in the set-up of the book and it seems to be taking some time.

But Gypsy Acre here we come!  Is it really cursed?  O.O

 

 

Halloween Bingo 2018 (any book that relates to bad luck, superstitions, including (but not limited to) black cats, ravens or crows, or the unlucky number 13, either in the title, series, book cover or page number)

 

 

Wow, I'm only giving 3 stars to a Pendergast novel. Why? It did not strike me as the best work of my favorite authors. There was a little preaching by Pendergast at the conclusion and did we really need that Epilogue regarding Constance? It started off with a bang with all the beheadings, but the ending and the 'killer' were unsatisfying. I've been reading these guys since Relic, and that's when it was released, not afterward. While Relic was made into a movie, changing the museum from New York to Chicago ruined having any of the other books made into movies. It became a good stand alone movie (that I watch every now and then) but there was no continuation. As I'm not a Gideon fan, I hope Douglas & Lincoln go back to Pendergast fresh next time. Maybe tell us about how he got into the FBI. However -PLEASE! No political stories. I'd stay far away from any such novels mixing politics and the FBI.

City of Endless Night - Douglas Preston,... Well I enjoyed it but not as much as some of the earlier stories. Some parts of the book just couldn't quite hold my attention and I found myself doing other things. The last quarter of the book, the hunter vs the hunted, had the most action and was my favorite part of the book.
I was really looking forward to seeing Constance and Aloysius's relationship play out but alas that storyline was only alotted about one page so that was kind of a let down. Now I have to "patiently" wait for the next book....