A REGIMENTAL MURDER (Regency-Period Mystery) – VG
Ashley Gardner – 2nd in series
Berkeley Prime Crime, 2004 – Paperback
Retired cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey, rescues a beautiful woman from the seeming intention of suicide. In turn, Lydia Weston, widow of Colonel Weston of the 43rd Light Dragoons who had confessed to killing a fellow officer
and had “accidentally” died before his trial, asks Lacey to find the…
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MASK OF NIGHT (A Shakespearean Murder Mystery) – VG
Philip Gooden – 5th in series
Constable – London, 2004 – Hardcover
With the coming of Lent, the impending death of Queen Elizabeth and increasing deaths from the Plague, the acting company, The Chamberlain’s Men, has traveled to Oxford
where it has been commissioned by Dr. Hugh Fern to stage a private
performance of Romeo and Juliet. However, when the body of Dr. Fern…
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CAUGHT STEALING (Amateur Sleuth) – G+
Charlie Huston – 1st book
Ballantine Books, 2004 – Hardcover
Bartender Hank Thompson agrees to look after his neighbor’s cat, Bud, for a few days and, as a result, is beaten so badly he loses a kidney. He is chased, beaten, tortured,
and friends murdered by a pair of Russians, a red-headed Asian, two brothers,
and a dirty cop all because of a key found in the bottom of Bud’s…
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FALSE LIGHT (Suspense) – G-
Caroline Llewellyn – Standalone
Scribner, 1996 – Hardcover
Victorian spiritualist Marianna Hobhouse is the subject of research by Dana Morrow. While at an auction where Dana meets Daniel Finn, son of Quentin Finn, both photographers
who now live in the house, Kerreck Du, once owned by Marianna and her husband,
famous photographer Henry. Dana receives
an invitation to the house to further her…
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FACELESS KILLERS (Swedish Police Procedural)- G+
Henning Mankell – 7th in series
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. English Translation, 2003 – Trade Paperback
Police Inspector Kurt Wallander is called to the scene of a particularly violent attack of an elderly couple on a small farm. The husband is dead but the wife, found with a noose around her neck, utters the work “foreign” before dying. Wallander becomes obsessed with solving…
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BAD BUSINESS (Private investigator) – G+
Robert B. Parker – 31st Spenser
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2004 – Hardcover
Spenser is hired by Marlene Crowley to find out whether her husband, an executive with Kinergy, is cheating on her. But when he finds Marlene is being watched by a fellow PI hired by her husband, and the woman with whom Marlene’s husband is
having an affair, is being watched by a third investigator, Spenser decides…
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SHACKLES (Private Investigator) – EX
Bill Pronzini – 17th in “Nameless” series
St. Martin’s Press, 1988 – Hardcover
Imagine leaving your girlfriend’s apartment a few days before Christmas, being forced into a car, handcuffed, chloroformed and awake shackled with a leg iron attached to a wall in an isolated mountain cabin with
13 week’s provisions and told you are being left to die there. This is the situation in which…
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OPEN AND SHUT (Legal Thriller) – G
David Rosenfelt – 1st book
Mysterious Press/Warner Books, 2002 – Hardcover
His father, a retired district attorney, asks without an explanation New Jersey Attorney Andy Carpenter to take on the appeals case of death row inmate Willie Miller, whom he had prosecuted. Andy’s father dies a few days later and
leaves an inheritance of over $22 million, about which Andy had never
known. When he…
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THE MURDER STONE (Gothic Suspense)- VG
Charles Todd – Standalone
Bantam, 2003 – Hardcover
Their grandfather, Francis Hatton, raised Francesca Hatton and her four male cousins, all orphaned at an early age. Each of the cousins has been killed in the Great War, and now Francisca is alone to grieve the death of her beloved
grandfather, whom she thought she knew.
But at the reading of his will, she reads a…
Added by LJ Roberts on June 3, 2004 at 11:00am — No Comments
LIVE BAIT (Police Procedural) – VG
P.J. Tracy – 2nd in series
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2004 – Hardcover
When elderly, well-loved Morey Gilbert is murdered, Milwaukee Dets. Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called to investigate a sad, but basic murder. However, when other
elderly people in the same neighborhood and with a common history are also
murdered, it’s clear there more going on than first seemed.…
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MAISIE DOBBS (Historical Novel/Mystery) – Okay
Jacqueline Winspear – 1st book
Penguin Books, 2003 – Trade Paperback
Set in England between 1910 and 1929 is the story of Maisie who goes from being the daughter of a fruit-and-vegetable man, to the in-between maid of wealthy aristocrats where she receives special tutoring, on
to college and then serving as a Nurse in France during WWI and, finally,
setting up an investigative…
Added by LJ Roberts on June 1, 2004 at 11:00am — No Comments
It is almost unthinkable that a single maniac would murder two women miles apart on the same day. Yet the evidence is leading Detective Inspector Tom Thorne to a stunning conclusion: there isn't only one serial
killer on the prowl, but a pair of them, working in tandem. And any corpse that
turns up in the future just might be accompanied by a second. To stop them
both, Thorne must…
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JUST ONE LOOK (Contemporary Mystery) – VG
Harlan Coben - Standalone
Suburban housewife Grace Lawson collects some pictures at the local Photomat. Included is an old print of her husband, Jack, and other college students. When Grace shows the photo to Jack, he drives
away and disappears. Grace's hunt for her missing husband sweeps her back into
a nightmare evening years ago when she survived a rock concert rampage that
left…
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THE GAME OF KINGS (Historical Novel – non-mystery) – Ex
Dorothy Dunnett – 1st of series
In 1547 Francis Crawford of Lymond returns to his native Scotland, which is threatened by an English invasion and the bloody rivalries of its nobles. Accused of treason, hunted by friend and enemy alike, he leads a company of
outlaws in a desperate race to redeem his reputation, even at the cost of his
life.
This…
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DEATH OF A NATIONALIST (Historical Novel/Mystery) – EX
Rebecca Pawel – 1st book
Set in Madrid, 1939, and the bitter civil war between the Nationalists, supported by the facists, and the Republicans, supported by the communists, with atrocities
committed by both sides. It is at this moment, when the Republicans have
surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, that Carlos Tejada Alonso y…
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THE BONE-PEDLAR (Historical Mystery) – VG+
Sylvian Hamilton – 1st of series
This is the world of medieval quest, of castles, journeys, of violent killings, and sometimes of unimaginable cruelty. It also a world deeply enmeshed with the supernatural, in which the holy remnants of saints may
be a matter of life and death. Against this background, of monks, witches,
children, mountebanks, women good and evil, and knights Templar, is…
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DEAD TO THE WORLD (Supernatural Mystery) – VG
Charlaine Harris – 4th in series
Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic Louisiana waitress, finds her bad luck has taken a new turn for the worse. Her love interest, Bill the vampire, runs off to Peru
to do research. In his place, she is stuck with Eric, Bill's boss, who appears
out of thin air buck naked with no memory of who he is or what he does. Then,
her brother Jason goes missing…
Added by LJ Roberts on May 9, 2004 at 10:30am — No Comments
Chattie Cornfeld was murdered while jogging in the park. At first it looked as though she was the latest victim of the 'Park Killer', but it doesn't take Slider and Atherton long to establish that someone was trying
to pass the killing off as part of a pattern: only the pattern doesn't fit,
this one was personal.
This is a much-underrated series…
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FLESH AND BLOOD (Amateur Sleuth – Non-cozy) – VG
John Harvey – Standalone
Retired Detective Inspector Elder is haunted by the unsolved disappearance of sixteen-year-old in 1988. One of the prime suspects, Shane Donald, has been released from prison, and Elder feels compelled to revisit the
scene of the crime. When Shane breaks parole and disappears and another young
girl is horribly murdered, Elder's involvement becomes crucial.…
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MRS. MALORY AND THE SILENT KILLER (English Cozy) – Good
Hazel Holt – 15th in series
The village of Taviscombe is sent reeling when popular and respected Sidney Middleton has a tragic accident,
particularly when it becomes apparent his death was a deliberate act.
Mrs. Malory soon uncovers that his seemingly respectable man had dark--even
deadly--secrets.
Cozies are not my preferred genre, but I…
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