UNDER ORDERS (Suspense, UK, Cont) – VG+

Francis, Dick – 4th Sid Halley

Michael Joseph/Penguin, 2006 – Hardcover

Former steeplechase jockey, now investigator, Sid Halley, has his one real and one artificial hand’s full. While attending a steeplechase race, Lord Enstone asks that Sid investigate whether his horses’ trainer is deliberately

influencing how…

SIGHT UNSEEN (Mystery-UK-Cont) – G

Goddard, Robert – 15th novel

Bantam Press, 2006- Hardcover

On a summer day in 1981, PhD student, David Umber, is waiting to meet an unidentified man who claims he can help David with his research into Junius, a political polemicist during the 1700s. While

waiting, he sees a young nanny with three children and witnesses…

SLIM CHANCE (PI-Bath, England-Cont) – G

Helton, Peter – 2nd in series

Constable, 2006 – Hardcover

Someone is kidnapping overweight women in Bath and starving them to death. The police have dubbed the kidnapper “Dr. Adkins.”

Painter and private investigator Chris Honeysett accidentally stumbles

across the second victim, who is…

THE WRONG KIND OF BLOOD (Amateur Sleuth-Ireland-Cont) – VG

Hughes, Declan – 1st book

William Morrow, 2006- Hardcover

Private Investigator Ed Loy left his native Ireland 20 years ago. Now he is back to bury his mother and still wonders what happened to his father, who had disappeared many years before. Ed is asked by one former

classmate to find her…

UNDER THE DRAGON’S TAIL (Pol. Proc-Toronto, Canada-late 1800s) – G

Jennings, Maureen - 2nd in series

St. Martin’s Press, 1998- Hardcover

In the midst of training for a police tournament,…

DAMNATION STREET (Private Investigator-Calif, Arizona, Nevada-Cont) - VG+

Klavan, Andrew – 3rd in series

Harcourt, 2006- Hardcover

This is the third outing of Weiss and Bishop, narrated by a young Klavan. PI Scott Weiss realizes the only for beautiful prostitute Julie Wyant to ever be safe and stop running from the psychopathic killer called “Shadowman,” is…

RUSTY NAIL (Police Procedural-Chicago-Cont) – Poor

Konrath, J.A. – 3rd in series

Hyperion, 2006 – Hardcover

The friends of and people know to Chicago Lt. Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels are being targeted for torture and murder by someone connected by the convicted “Gingerman” serial killer.…

IRON TIES (Amateur Sleuth-Colorado-1880) – VG

Parker, Ann – 2nd in series

Poisoned Pen Press, 2006-Hardcover

Saloon owner Inez Stannert has a lot on her plate. Her friend, photographer Susan Carolthers, it caught in an explosion she claims was deliberate and killed two men, but everyone else is passing it off an accident with no one hurt. Inez is trying to…

STILL LIFE (Police Proced-Canada-Cont) – Ex

Penny, Louise – 1st book

Headline, 2005- Hardcover

Death brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his officers of the Sûreté du Quebec to the small village of Three Pines, Canada. Much-loved Jane Neal has been found dead in the woods. Gamache must determine

whether her death was the result of a hunting…

TOWER OF SILENCE (Thriller-UK-Cont) – G

Rayne, Sarah – Standalone

Simon & Schuster, 2001- UK

Trade paperback

Teind House, with it’s Norman round tower, and it’s owner, Selina March, seem lost in the 19th Century. It is also near Moy, an asylum for…

DYING LIGHT (Police Proc-Scotland-Cont) – G

MacBride, Stuart – 2^nd in series

HarperCollins, 2006- Hardcover

Detective Sargeant Logan McRae had been a golden boy, hero. Now, he is assigned to the “screw-up squad” reporting to Inspector Steele, known as “the Jinx,” after

a raid leaves a fellow officer in a vegetative coma. The team is looking…

CLOSE TO HOME (Police Prod-England-1965/95) – G+

Robinson, Peter – 12th in series

Avon Books, 2003- Paperback

On vacation in Greece, Chief Inspector Alan Banks learns the body of a boyhood friend is found, 30 years after the boy went missing. Banks

remembers that…

SNOW BLIND (Police Proc-Minneapolis-Cont) – VG

Tracy, PJ – 4^th book

Putnam, 2006- Hardcover

Homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gina Rolseth take the lead in this wintertime murder investigation set in Minneapoilis. A major snowfall has come to provide the material for a snowman-building content.

But a couple snowmen…

IN PLAIN SIGHT (Licensed Investigator-Wyoming-Cont) – Ex

Box, C.J. – 6^th in series

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2006- Hardcover

Wyoming Game warden Joe Picket reports to a man with whom he does not get along in a town whose sheriff likes having the persona of a “Western Lawman” without

having to bother with enforcing the law.…

LOST ANGEL (Unlicensed Investigator-Alaska-Cont) – G+

Doogan, Mike – 1^st book

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2006- Hardcover

Alaskan Nik Kane, an ex-cop, is trying to put his life together after wrongfully spending almost 7 years in prison. Now released, his former boss, Anchorage Chief of Police Jeffords, is

trying to help him by sending him to…

BLOWN AWAY (Suspense-Pennsylvania/Calif-Cont) – VG

Ford, G.M. – 6^th in series

William Morrow, 2006, Hardcover

Frank Corso, now highly successful and very well paid, has been sent to Pennsylvania by his publisher. There he is to investigate the death of a young man who was sent in to rob a bank, a bomb attached to his

body. But the young man…

DEATH AT VICTORIA DOCK (Unlicensed Investigator-Australia- VG

Greenwood, Kerry – 4th in series

Allen & Unwin, 1992- Australian paperback

The Honorable Phryne Fisher becomes involved in hunting down anarchists after they shoot out her windscreen, and cause her to hold an…

DARKNESS AND LIGHT (Police Proc-England-Cont) – VG

Harvey, John – 3rd in series

William Heinemann: London, 2006- Hardcover

Before retiring from the force, Detective Inspector Frank Elder had a case of a woman, strangled, dressed and neatly laid out on a bed. No one was every

arrested. Now, eight years later, Elders

ex-wife asks him to help her…

COPPER RIVER(Police Procedural-Michigan-Cont) – G+

Krueger, William Kent – 7^th in series

Atria Books, 2006- Hardcover

Sheriff Cork O’Conner is wounded and hiding out with his cousin, Jewell, after an attempt on his life by a professional hit man. Jewell’s…

SOVEREIGN (Historical-England-1541) – VG

Sansom, C.J. – 3^rd in series

Macmillan, 2006-Hardcover

Lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak are sent to York to ensure the welfare of a prisoner being returned to London

for interrogation. Matthew is also to

assist with processing legal partitions King Henry VIII during the…