Sergei Goes Pond Hopping 2020🛩

Yet to work out how I want to record this... I'll be back, 😀

Will they grant me a visa for the US?

Alabama
Alaska
✔️Arizona - The Stranger in Boots (Fictional town of Red Gulch) - A. Scott Leslie 4★s
Arkansas
✔️California - The Lookout Man (Quincy) - B. M. Bower 4.5★s
✔️Colorado - Bucking the Tiger (Denver) - Marcus Galloway 4.5★s
✔️Connecticut - Just As Long as We're Together (Unspecified) - Judy Blume 3.5★s
Delaware
✔️Florida - The Last Coyote (Tampa) - Michael Connelly 4.5★s
✔️Georgia The Bishop’s Pawn (Atlanta) - Steve Berry 5★s (group read)
Hawaii
✔️Idaho - Sawtooth Ranch (or The Quirt) (Cattle country) - B. M. Bower 4.5★s
Illinois
Indiana
✔️Iowa - Ashfall (Cedar Falls) - Mike Mullin 4.5★s
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
✔️Maine - Stone Cold (Nr Kennebunk) - David Baldacci 5★s + ❤️ (group read)
✔️Maryland - Everywhere That Mary Went (Unspecified) - Lisa Scottoline 4★s
✔️Massachusetts - The Amun Chamber (Cape Cod) - Daniel Leston 4★s
Michigan
Minnesota
✔️Mississippi - Turning Angel (Natchez, Mississippi) - Greg Iles 4★s
✔️Missouri - Pursuit of Honour (Mexico) - Vince Flynn 4.5★s
✔️Montana - The Phantom Herd (Unknown) - B. M. Bower 4★s
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
✔️New Jersey - The Collectors (Atlantic City) - David Baldacci 5★s (group read)
✔️New Mexico - The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (Santa Fe and environs, New Mexico) - Pat Garrett 4★s
✔️New York - The River Murders (Marlboro) - James Patterson & James O. Born 3.75★s
✔️North Carolina - Salute to Adventurers (Unspecified) - John Buchan 4.5★s
North Dakota
✔️Ohio The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man (Shaker Heights) - Paul Newman 4★s
Oklahoma
✔️Oregon - Let 'Er Buck (Pendleton) - Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 3★s
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
✔️South Dakota - The Silent Partner (Deadwood) - Marcus Galloway 4.5★s
✔️Tennessee - The Devil Colony (Nashville) - James Rollins 5★s (group read)
✔️Texas - The Accomplice (Dallas) - Marcus Galloway 4.5★s
✔️Utah - A Study in Scarlet (Salt Lake City) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4★s
Vermont
✔️Virginia - Divine Justice (Fictional town of Divine) - David Baldacci 5★s + ❤️ (group read)
✔️Washington - Requiem for a Wren (Seattle) - Nevil Shute 5★s
✔️Washington DC - The President is Missing - Bill Clinton and James Patterson 4★s
West Virginia
Wisconsin
✔️Wyoming - Without Fail (Grace (fictional town?) - Lee Child 5★s

28 out of 51

How many Canadian provinces can I visit?

Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland & Labrador
Northwest Territories
Nova Scotia
✔️Nunavut - Trustee from the Toolroom (Frobisher) - Nevil Shute 5★s
✔️Ontario - The Ballad of John MacLea (Niagara) - A.J. MacKenzie 5★s
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Yukon

2 out of 13

How many English counties will I fit in?

✔️Bedfordshire - The Kommandant's Girl (Luton) - Pam Jenoff 4★s
✔️Berkshire - A Pale Horse (Uffington) - Charles Todd 4★s
✔️Bristol (City of) - The Twist of a Knife (Clifton) - Anthony Horowitz 4★s
✔️Buckinghamshire - The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow) - Robert Thorogood 5★s
✔️Cambridgeshire - Nine Lessons (Cambridge) - Nicola Upson 4.5★s
✔️Cheshire - Ticket to Oblivion (Crewe) - Edward Marston 4★s
✔️City of London - Leaving Everything Most Loved - Jacqueline Winspear 5★s
✔️Cornwall - Devil at the Crossroads (Fictional village of Pengorra) - Olive Etchells 4.25★s
✔️County Durham - Marple (Seaham) - Various 3.5★s
✔️Cumbria - The Arsenic Labyrinth (Coniston) - Martin Edwards 4.5★s
✔️Derbyshire - Rogue's Gallery (Fictional town of Pixton) - Robert Barnard 4.5★s
✔️Devon - A Dirty Death (Fictional village) - Rebecca Tope 4★s
✔️Dorset - This Side of Murder (Fictional 'Umbersea Island', off Poole Harbour) - Anna Lee Huber 4★s
✔️East Riding of Yorkshire - Last Reminder (Bridlington) - Stuart Pawson 4.5★s
✔️East Sussex - Murder on the Brighton Express (Brighton) - Edward Marston 4★s
✔️Essex - Lazybones (Colchester) - Mark Billingham 3.5★s
✔️Gloucestershire - Marnie (Cirencester) - Winston Graham 4.5★s
✔️Greater London - Where Memories Lie (Notting Hill) - Deborah Crombie 4★s
Greater Manchester
✔️Hampshire - Berry and Co. (Fictional village) - Dornford Yates 4★s
✔️Herefordshire - The Tintern Treasure (Hereford) - Kate Sedley 4.5★s
✔️Hertfordshire - Death Comes to the Fair (Hertford) - Catherine Lloyd 4★s
✔️Isle of Wight - A Pretty Deceit (Unspecified) - Anna Huber Lee 4★s
✔️Kent - Cold Pursuit (Maidstone) - Judith Cutler 3.5★s
✔️Lancashire - Backlash (Fictional town of Whitebridge) - Sally Spencer 3.5★s
Leicestershire
✔️Lincolnshire - An April Shroud (Fictional town of Orburn) - Reginald Hill 4.5★s
✔️Merseyside - That Summer in Ischia (Liverpool) - Penny Feeny 3.75★s
✔️Norfolk - The Stone Circle (King's Lynn) - Elly Griffiths 5★s + ❤️ (group read)
✔️North Yorkshire - Many Rivers to Cross (Fictional town of Eastvale) - Peter Robinson 4★s
✔️Northamptonshire - Under Orders (Towcester) - Dick Francis 3.75★s
✔️Northumberland - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Berwick-upon-Tweed) - Rachel Joyce 5★s + ❤️
✔️Nottinghamshire - The Night Raid (Nottingham) - Clare Harvey 5★s
✔️Oxfordshire - Black River (Oxford) - Joss Stirling 4★s
✔️Rutland - What Lies Beneath (Normanton) - Adam Croft 4★s
✔️Shropshire - Saint Peter's Fair (Shrewsbury) - Ellis Peters 4.5★s
✔️Somerset - A Matter of Justice (Fictional town of Cambury) - Charles Todd 4★s
✔️South Yorkshire The Snuffbox Murders (Fictional town of Bromersley) - Roger Silverwood 4★s
✔️Staffordshire - The Bullet That Missed (Unspecified) - Richard Osman 4.5★s
✔️Suffolk - Out of the Sun (Southwold) - Robert Goddard 5★s + ❤️
✔️Surrey - A Gentleman of Fortune - Anna Dean 3.5★s
✔️Tyne and Wear - The Murder Wall (Newcastle upon Tyne) - Mari Hannah 4★s
✔️Warwickshire - Shadow of the Past (Fictional village, Warwickshire) - Judith Cutler 3.5★s
✔️West Midlands - Evil Games (The Black Country) - Angela Marsons 4.5★s (group read)
✔️West Sussex - The Liar in the Library (Fictional seaside town of Fethering) - Simon Brett 4★s
✔️West Yorkshire - A Stranger in the Family (Leeds) - Robert Bernard 3.5★s
✔️Wiltshire - Into the Blue (Haslemere) - Robert Goddard 4.5★s
✔️Worcestershire - The Big Four (Fictional town of Market Handford) - Agatha Christie 4★s

46 out of 48

How much of Scotland can I cover?

✔️Strathclyde - Blue Above the Chimneys (Glasgow) - Christine Marion Fraser 4★s
✔️Dumfries and Galloway - Three Things You Need To Know About Rockets (Wigtown) - Jessica A. Fox 3.5★s
Borders
✔️Lothian - When Will There Be Good News? (Edinburgh) - Kate Atkinson 4★s
✔️Central - Gently North West (A fictional glen) - Alan Hunter 4.5★s
✔️Fife - Resurrection Men (Kincardine) - Ian Rankin 5★s
✔️Tayside - Emperor’s Sword (Roman Britain Era, Perth & Kinross area) - Alex Gough 4★s
✔️Grampian - Never Go Back (Aberdeenshire) - Robert Goddard 5★s
✔️Highland - Death of a Kingfisher (Sutherland) - M. C. Beaton 4★s
✔️Western Isles - Death of a Policeman (Eriskay) - M. C. Beaton 3.5★
✔️Shetland - A Shetland Winter Mystery (Nr Lerwick) - Marsali Taylor 4★s
Orkney

10 out of 12

Will they keep a welcome in the Welsh hillsides and vales for me?

✔️Gwent - Finding Hope at Hillside Farm (Fictional Village of Llanidaeron, Monmouthshire) - Rachael Lucas 4★s
✔️South Glamorgan - The Silver Locomotive Mystery (Cardiff) - Edward Marston 4★s
✔️Mid Glamorgan - The Lie (Nr Aberdare) - C. L. Taylor 3.5★s
West Glamorgan
Dyfed
Powys
Gwynedd
Clwyd

3 out of 8

Will I set foot on the Emerald Isle? (I do hope so...):

✔️Antrim (Northern Ireland) - For Any Other Truth (Ballycastle) - Denzil Meyrick 5★s
Armagh (Northern Ireland)
Carlow
Cavan
Clare
Cork
Donegal
✔️Down (Northern Ireland) - Evil For Evil (Newcastle) - James R. Benn 4.5★s
✔️Dublin - One Hundred Names (Dublin Town) - Cecelia Ahern 5★s
Fermanagh (Northern Ireland)
✔️Galway - The Guest List (Fictional island - Inis an Amplóra, off the coast of Connemara) - Lucy Foley 3.25★s
✔️Kerry - Freckles (Valentia Island) - Cecelia Ahern 3.75★s
✔️Kildare - Crowned and Dangerous (Fictional village of Kilhenny) - Rhys Bowen 4★s
Kilkenny
Laois
Leitrim
✔️Limerick - The Liberation of Brigid Dunne (Unspecified) - Patricia Scanlan 4★s
Londonderry / Derry (Northern Ireland)
Longford
Louth
✔️Mayo - Impostor (Fictional village of Ballyfinny) - LJ Ross 4★s
✔️Meath - The Silver Falcon (Unspecified) - Evelyn Anthony 3.5★s
Monaghan
Offaly
Roscommon
Sligo
Tipperary
Tyrone (Northern Ireland)
Waterford
Westmeath
Wexford
Wicklow

9 out of 32

1) 4 January - Where Memories Lie (Notting Hill, Greater London) - Deborah Crombie 4★s

2) 6 January - Many Rivers to Cross (fictional town of Eastvale, set in North Yorkshire) - Peter Robinson 4★s

3) 9 January - A Stranger in the Family (Leeds, West Yorkshire) - Robert Bernard 3.5★s

4) 13 January 2020 - Evil Games (The Black Country, West Midlands) - Angela Marsons 4.5★s (group read)

5) 13 January 2020 - Backlash (fictional town of Whitebridge, set in Lancashire) - Sally Spencer 3.5★s

6) 14 January 2020 - Murder on the Brighton Express (Brighton, East Sussex) - Edward Marston 4★s

7) 17 January 2020 - A Dirty Death (fictional village, Devon) - Rebecca Tope 4★s

>14 Sergeirocks: Good job! You're really going through those English counties:)

>15 Carol420: Not very adventurous traveling, though: I've yet to set foot outside of England... 😀

>16 Sergeirocks: When you consider that most books are set somewhere in England or in New York , Chicago (Illinois). or somewhere in California...you sometimes really have to search. I have found that if you just ask "Mr. Google" for the setting of a book title you can come up with some useful information. That's how I found something in Wales where I can't pronounce most of the places but they're there:)

>17 Carol420: ☺️

8) 22 January 2020 - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland) - Rachel Joyce 5★s + ❤️

9) 2 February 2020 - The Accomplice (Dallas, Texas) - Marcus Galloway 4.5★s

10) 10 February 2020 - Requiem for a Wren (Seattle, Washington) - Nevil Shute 5★s

11) 10 February 2020 - Bucking the Tiger (Denver, Colorado) - Marcus Galloway 4.5★s

12) 20 February 2020 - The President is Missing (The White House, Washington DC) - Bill Clinton and James Patterson 4★s

13) 26 February 2020 - The Silent Partner (Deadwood, S Dakota) - Marcus Galloway 4.5★s

14) 28 February 2020 - The Silver Locomotive Mystery (Cardiff, S Glamorgan) - Edward Marston 4★s

15) 29 February 2020 - A Study in Scarlet (Salt Lake City, Utah) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4★s

16) 2 March 2020 - The Stone Circle (King's Lynn, Norfolk) - Elly Griffiths 5★s + ❤️ (group read)

17) 4 March 2020 - Nine Lessons (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) - Nicola Upson 4.5★s

18) 5 March 2020 - Death of a Kingfisher (fictional village of Lochdubh, Sutherland, Highlands) - M. C. Beaton 4★s

19) 13 March 2020 - The Murder Wall (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear) - Mari Hannah 4★s

20) 22 March 2020 - The Lookout Man (Quincy, California) - B. M. Bower 4.5★s

21) 26 March 2020 - The Collectors (Atlantic City, New Jersey) - David Baldacci 5★s (group read)

22) 31 March 2020 - A Pale Horse (Uffington, Berkshire) - Charles Todd 4★s

23) 10 April 2020 - The Devil Colony (Nashville, Tennessee) - James Rollins 5★s (group read)

24) 21 April 2020 - Stone Cold (near Kennebunk, Maine) - David Baldacci 5★s + ❤️ (group read)

25) 24 April 2020 - When Will There Be Good News? (Edinburgh, Lothian) - Kate Atkinson 4★s

26) 13 May 2020 - Divine Justice (fictional town of Divine, Virginia) - David Baldacci 5★s + ❤️ (group read)

27) 16 May 2020 - Into the Blue (Haslemere, Wiltshire) - Robert Goddard 4.5★s

28) 30 May 2020 - Blue Above the Chimneys (Glasgow, Strathclyde) - Christine Marion Fraser 4★s (round tuit)

29) 1 June 2020 - Just As Long as We're Together (Unspecified, Connecticut) - Judy Blume 3.5★s

30) 23 June 2020 - The Arsenic Labyrinth (Coniston, Cumbria) - Martin Edwards 4.5★s

31) 28 June 2020 - Cold Pursuit (Maidstone, Kent) - Judith Cutler 3.5★s

32) 6 July 2020 - Berry and Co. (fictional village of Brooch, Hampshire) - Dornford Yates 4★s

33) 8 July 2020 - Marnie (Cirencester, Gloucestershire) - Winston Graham 4.5★s

34) 12 July 2020 - Everywhere That Mary Went (Unspecified, Maryland) - Lisa Scottoline 4★s

35) 25 July 2020 - Rogue's Gallery (fictional town of Pixton, Derbyshire) - Robert Barnard 4.5★s

36) 4 August 2020 - Out of the Sun (Southwold, Suffolk) - Robert Goddard 5★s + ❤️

37) 4 August 2020 - Let 'Er Buck (Pendleton, Oregon) - Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 3★s

38) 15 August 2020 - Salute to Adventurers (Unspecified, North Carolina) - John Buchan 4.5★s

39) 28 August 2020 - Devil at the Crossroads (Fictional village of Pengorra, Cornwall) - Olive Etchells 4.25★s

40) 27 November 2020 - Black River (Oxford, Oxfordshire) - Joss Stirling 4★s

41) 23 November 2020 - Death Comes to the Fair (Hertford, Hertfordshire) - Catherine Lloyd 4★s

42) 18 December 2020 - Turning Angel (Natchez, Mississippi) - Greg Iles 4★s

43) 21 December 2020 - Never Go Back (Aberdeenshire, Grampian) - Robert Goddard 5★s

Continuing into 2021.

11 January 2021 - Shadow of the Past (Fictional village, Warwickshire) - Judith Cutler 3.5★s
17 January 2021 - The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (Santa Fe and environs, New Mexico) - Pat Garrett 4★s

46) 5 February 2021 - Without Fail (Grace (fictional town?), Wyoming) - Lee Child 5★s

47) 6 February 2021 - The Liar in the Library (Fictional seaside town of Fethering, West Sussex) - Simon Brett 4★s

48) 8 February 2021 - The Phantom Herd (Unspecified, Montana) - B. M. Bower 4★s

49) 17 February 2021 - Three Things You Need To Know About Rockets (Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway) - Jessica A. Fox 3.5★s

Places visited, not yet added:

Arizona ✔️
Central (Scotland) ✔️
Dorset ✔️
Dumfries and Galloway ✔️
Idaho ✔️
Montana ✔️
New York ✔️
Shropshire ✔️
West Sussex ✔️
Worcestershire ✔️
Wyoming ✔️

50) 20 February 2021 - Sawtooth Ranch (or The Quirt) (Cattle country, Idaho) - B. M. Bower 4.5★s

51) 24 February 2021 - Gently North West (A fictional glen, Central Scotland) - Alan Hunter 4.5★s

52) 10 Mar 2021 - The River Murders (Marlboro, New York) - James Patterson & James O. Born 3.75★s

53) 3 April 2021 - This Side of Murder (Fictional 'Umbersea Island', off Poole Harbour, Dorset) - Anna Lee Huber 4★s

54) 6 June 2021 - The Big Four (Fictional town of Market Handford, Worcestershire) - Agatha Christie 4★s

55) 6 September 2021 - The Stranger in Boots (Fictional town of Red Gulch, Arizona) - A. Scott Leslie 4★s

56) 2 October 2021 - Saint Peter's Fair (Shrewsbury, Shropshire) - Ellis Peters 4.5★s

57) 2 January 2022 - A Shetland Winter Mystery (Nr Lerwick, Shetland) - Marsali Taylor 4★s

58) 10 January 2022 - The Ballad of John MacLea (Niagara, Ontario) - A.J. MacKenzie 5★s

59) 20 January 2022 - One Hundred Names (Dublin Town) - Cecelia Ahern 5★s

60) 24 January 2022 - A Matter of Justice (Fictional town of Cambury, Somerset) - Charles Todd 4★s

61) 28 January 2022 - Resurrection Men (Kincardine, Fife) - Ian Rankin 5★s

62) 4 February 2022 - Death of a Policeman (Eriskay, Western Isles) - M. C. Beaton 3.5★

63) 9 March 2022 - A Gentleman of Fortune (Richmond, Surrey) - Anna Dean 3.5★s

64) 30 June 2022 - The Guest List (Fictional island - Inis an Amplóra, off the coast of Galway) - Lucy Foley 3.25★s

65) 31 July 2022 - Crowned and Dangerous (Fictional village of Kilhenny, Co. Kildare) - Rhys Bowen 4★s

66) 7 August 2022 - Emperor’s Sword (Roman Britain Era, Perth & Kinross area) - Alex Gough 4★s

67) 8 November 2022 - Leaving Everything Most Loved (City of London) - Jacqueline Winspear 5★s

68) 9 January 2023 - Ticket to Oblivion (Crewe, Cheshire) - Edward Marston 4★s

69) 16 January 2023 - Lazybones (Colchester, Essex) - Mark Billingham 3.5★s

70) 26 January 2023 - Marple (Seaham, Co. Durham) - Various 3.5★s

71) 31 January 2023 - Finding Hope at Hillside Farm (Fictional village of Llanidaeron, Monmouthshire, Gwent) - Rachael Lucas 4★s

72) 2 February 2023 - An April Shroud (Fictional town of Orburn, Lincolnshire) - Reginald Hill 4.5★s

73) 4 February 2023 - The Snuffbox Murders (Fictional town of Bromersley, South Yorkshire) - Roger Silverwood 4★s

74) 9 February 2023 - Pursuit of Honour (Mexico, Missouri) - Vince Flynn 4.5★s

75) 11 February 2023 - Evil For Evil (Newcastle, Co Down) - James R. Benn 4.5★s

76) 14 February 2023 - What Lies Beneath (Normanton, Rutland) - Adam Croft 4★s

77) 25 February 2023 - Under Orders (Towcester, Northamptonshire) - Dick Francis 3.75★s

78) 9 March 2023 - The Night Raid (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire) - Clare Harvey 5★s

79) 13 March 2023 - The Last Coyote (Tampa, Florida) - Michael Connelly 4.5★s

80) 15 March 2023 - The Lie (Nr Aberdare, Mid Glamorgan) - C. L. Taylor 3.5★s

81) 30 March 2023 - The Diplomat’s Wife (Luton, Bedfordshire) - Pam Jenoff 4★s

82) 6 April 2023 - The Bullet That Missed (Unspecified, Staffordshire) - Richard Osman 4.5★s

83) 9 April 2023 - Last Reminder (Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire) - Stuart Pawson 4.5★s

84) 14 April 2023 - Trustee from the Toolroom (Frobisher, Nunavut) - Nevil Shute 5★s

85) 15 May 2023 - The Bishop’s Pawn (Atlanta, Georgia) - Steve Berry 5★s

86) 27 May 2023 - The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man (Shaker Heights, Ohio) - Paul Newman 4★s

87) 2 September 2023 - The Twist of a Knife (Clifton, Bristol) - Anthony Horowitz 4★s

88) 4 September 2023 - A Pretty Deceit (Unspecified, Isle of Wight) - Anna Huber Lee 4★s

89) 17 October 2023 - Impostor (Fictional village of Ballyfinny, Co Mayo) - LJ Ross 4★s

90) 23 October 2023 - Freckles (Valentia Island, Co Kerry) - Cecelia Ahern 3.75★s

91) 4 November 2023 - The Liberation of Brigid Dunne (Unspecified, Limerick) - Patricia Scanlan 4★s

92) 23 February 2024 - That Summer in Ischia (Liverpool, Merseyside) - Penny Feeny 3.75★s

93) 29 February 2024 - The Silver Falcon (Unspecified, Co Meath) - Evelyn Anthony 3.5★s

94) 7 April 2024 - The Tintern Treasure (Hereford, Herefordshire) - Kate Sedley 4.5★s

95) 9 April 2024 - For Any Other Truth (Ballycastle, Co. Antrim) - Denzil Meyrick 5★s