Reading Challenge: New Release Challenge 2021

I'm back for another year of reading new releases for the New Release Challenge.  The object is to read new books, and any book released in 2021 counts.

Looks like last year, I signed up for the New Release Veteran level, which is 61-100 new releases.  That high number scares me, but I made it in 2020, so I guess I'll sign up for that level again.

I'll post my reviews below as I finish them.

1. City of Schemes by Victoria Thompson

2. The Broken Spine by Dorothy St. James

3. Crime of the Ancient Marinara by Stephanie Cole

4. A Pairing to Die For by Kate Lansing

5. The Sharpest Needle by Renee Patrick

6. Bone Canyon by Lee Goldberg

7. Smothered by G. P. Gottlieb

8. Long Island Iced Tina by Maria DiRico

9. Furbidden Fatality by Deborah Blake

10. Shucked Apart by Barbara Ross

11. A Side of Murder by Amy Pershing

12. Prodigal Son by Gregg Hurwitz

13. Charlie Thorne and the Lost City by Stuart Gibbs

14. Murder by Page One by Olivia Matthews

15. Death in the Salon by Louise R. Innes

16. Murder at Wedgefield Manor by Erica Ruth Neubauer

17. The Chosen One by James Riley

18. The Bounty by Janet Evanovich and Steve Hamilton

19. Triple Chocolate Cheesecake Murder by Joanne Fluke

20. Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala

21. For Batter or Worse by Jenn McKinlay

22. Death by Equine by Annette Dashofy

23. A Trail of Lies by Kylie Logan

24. Bear Bottom by Stuart Gibbs

25. Death on the Boardwalk by Caleb Wygal

26. Murder on the Beach by Various Authors

27. 21st Birthday by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

28. The Art of Betrayal by Connie Berry

29. Murder, She Wrote: Killing in a Koi Pond by Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran

30. A Distant Grave by Sarah Stewart Taylor

31. Framed and Frosted by Kim Davis

32. Pint of No Return by Dana Mentink

33. The Rocky Road to Ruin by Meri Allen

34. A Time to Swill by Sherry Harris

35. Much Ado About Nauticaling by Gabby Allan

36. The Chocolate Raccoon Rigmarole by JoAnna Carl

37. A Scone of Contention by Lucy Burdette

38. Cajun Kiss of Death by Ellen Byron

39. Claws for Alarm by Cate Conte

40. Diet of Death by Ang Pompano

41. Murder Most Fowl by Donna Andrews

42. Halloween Party Murder by Leslie Meier, Lee Hollis, and Barbara Ross

43. What the Cat Dragged In by Miranda James

44. Essentials of Murder by Kim Davis

45. Death of a Red-Hot Rancher by Mimi Granger

46. Spy School at Sea by Stuart Gibbs

47. Deadly Summer Nights by Vicki Delany

48. Murder Outside the Lines by Krista Davis

49. Mrs. Claus and the Halloween Homicide by Liz Ireland

50. A Perfect Bind by Dorothy St. James

51. Wreathing Havoc by Julia Henry

52. Death at Holly Lodge by Louise R. Innes

53. Mulled to Death by Kate Lansing

54. God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen by Rhys Bowen

55. Murder Gets a Makeover by Laura Levine

56. Murder in an English Glade by Jessica Ellicott

57. It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder by Maria DiRico

58. Killer Research by Jenn McKinlay

59. Murder, She Wrote: Debonair in Death by Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran

60. Doggone Deadly by Deborah Blake

61. It All Began with a Scream by Padraic Maroney

62. Tropical Depression by C. Michele Dorsey

63. Fogged Off by Wendall Thomas

64. Bear a Wee Grudge by Meg Macy

65. A Plus One for Murder by Laura Bradford

66. How to Book a Murder by Cynthia Kuhn

67. Stitched in Crime by Emmie Caldwell

68. City of Shadows by Victoria Thompson

69. Frosted Yuletide Murder by Kim Davis

70. The Stories We Tell by Liz Milliron

71. The Twelve Jays of Christmas by Donna Andrews

72. Gated Prey by Lee Goldberg