World Book Night is an annual celebration designed to spread a love of reading and books, and it will be celebrated in the USA, UK and Ireland on April 23, 2012. Tens of thousands of givers will share the joy and love of reading with millions of non or light readers.

Want to participate as a volunteer book giver as part of World Book Night? Sign up at www.worldbooknight.org by February 1, 2012.

Best Novel

The Ranger by Ace Atkins

Gone by Mo Hayder

The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

1222 by Anne Holt

Field Gray by Philip Kerr

Who do you think should win?

Complete list of categories and nominees

DC Comics will adapt Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy into graphic novels. The first novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, will be published as two volumes. The cover art for the first part is shown above, and the release date is scheduled for November 2012.

“The Twelve Days of Christmas” in an English Christmas carol that lists a series of presents given each day of the twelve days of Christmas. Inspired by this song, we have decided to associate each day of the song with a crime novel/movie/writer, thriller, or murder mystery.

Join us on December 25 for the First Day of Christmas Crime.

Happy Holidays!

Are you smarter than Sherlock Holmes? More clever than Miss Marple? Well, now you have the chance to prove it! Try and solve our first Murder Mystery: The Case of Jenny Moore.

Click here to start the game! (it will take 5-15 minutes depending on how fast you read) 

Have called Susan Ek several times, but she seems to have disappeared…? Could she be involved after all? It feels like I’ve missed something…

Remember to buy a present for the family dinner as grandma’s tonight.

I’m very sorry, but Werner is not at home. He’ll be back tonight, so you can come back then!

Questioning Felipe with his attorney present

So why did you have Jenny’s money in your bag? We have found her fingerprints on several of the bills so we know they came from her.

Yes, they came from her. I got to know Jenny through my fling with Ulrica. A while back she called me. She wanted me to help her with some business that she did not want media to find out about.

Like what?

I rented a castle in France for the summer, among other things.

Why would Jenny want to rent a castle and why would she want to keep it a secret?

I don’t know.

What about the money in the bag? What were they going to be used for?

I don’t know. I was supposed to drive to France and then she was going to contact me to get them.

Why were you outside her house on February 20?

I picked up the money. I forgot that she had hid them in the back so I went to the front entrance by mistake.

Your story sounds very unlikely, are you aware of that?

Every word is true.

We will doublecheck your information and get back to you.

Why didn’t you tell me the last time we met that you were close to being fired?

…What do you mean?

You know what I mean. I have received information indicating that you had a drinking problem?

…

Jenny Moore had warned you that your drinking problem could get you fired on several occasions.

Yes, that’s correct.

So maybe you didn’t go home from the bar… You knew that you were in trouble. You had had too many beers. Maybe they would notice thay you were hungover at work the next day. Maybe you went to Jenny to admit your mistake, and ask for a second chance. Maybe Jenny wasn’t very happy to be woken up by a drunk bodyguard in the middle of the night. Maybe she said that there wouldn’t be any second chances… That you had blown your chances. Maybe you hadn’t planned it, but something went wrong and you killer her…isn’t that what happened?

That’s not true!!!! I could never hurt Jenny!

Check if there are fingerprints on the money.

Susan Ek seems to lack an alibi,,,

Ulrica Krona seems innocent. Difficult to find a motive. Unless both she and Felipe lie and they had a relationship after all… Could Ulrica have found something that she could blackmail Jenny with?

Werner Fossmo. The restaurant confirms that he was there. The wife confirms his alibi… They could lie… But it seems stupid to kill Jenny before the church gets her inheritance…

Talk to Ronald regarding his alleged drinking problem…

On the last picture of Jenny alive you can see the digits 18-5-4 8-5-18-18-9-15-7 Do they mean anything?

Buy milk on the way home.