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Francis, Dick – UNDER ORDERS

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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 13, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Goddard, Robert – SIGHT UNSEEN

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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 12, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Helton, Peter – SLIM CHANCE

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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 11, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Hughes, Declan – THE WRONG KIND OF BLOOD

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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 10, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Jennings, Maureen - UNDER THE DRAGON’S TAIL

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,…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 9, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Klavan, Andrew – DAMNATION STREET

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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 8, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Konrath, J.A. –RUSTY NAIL

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.…



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Added by LJ Roberts on October 7, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Parker, Ann – IRON TIES

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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 5, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Penny, Louise – STILL LIFE

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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 4, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Rayne, Sarah – TOWER OF SILENCE

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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 3, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

MacBride, Stuart –DYING LIGHT

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

MacBride, Stuart – 2nd 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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 3, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Robinson, Peter – CLOSE TO HOME

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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 2, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Tracy, PJ – SNOW BLIND

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

Tracy, PJ – 4th 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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on October 1, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Box, C.J. – IN PLAIN SIGHT

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

Box, C.J. – 6th 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.…

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Added by LJ Roberts on September 9, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Doogan, Mike – LOST ANGEL

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

Doogan, Mike – 1st 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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on September 8, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Ford, G.M. – BLOWN AWAY

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

Ford, G.M. – 6th 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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on September 7, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Greenwood, Kerry – DEATH AT VICTORIA DOCK

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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on September 6, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Harvey, John – DARKNESS AND LIGHT

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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on September 5, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Krueger, William Kent – COPPER RIVER

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

Krueger, William Kent – 7th 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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on September 4, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

Sansom, C.J. – SOVEREIGN

SOVEREIGN (Historical-England-1541) – VG

Sansom, C.J. – 3rd 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…

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Added by LJ Roberts on September 2, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments

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