THE MOTIVE (Legal Thriller-San Francisco-Cont) – VG

Lescroart, John – 16^th book

Dutton, 2005- Hardcover

A fire in one of the Painted Lady Victorian houses in San Francisco's Alamo Square

reveals bodies of a man and woman; both shot.

The man is a successful attorney with political connections and the

woman, his…

LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE DEAF MAN (Police Procedural-Isola-Cont) – Ex

McBain, Ed – 22^nd in series (3^rd Deaf Man)

Doubleday, 1973- Hardcover

The Deaf Man is back and, for the third time, taunting the man of the 87^th Precinct. But that's not their only case—a young man has been striped and nailed to the side

of a building, and cat burgler is…

MIDNIGHT CAB (Suspense-Canada/Jamaica/Cont) – VG

Nichol, James W – 1^st book

Canongate U.S. – 2002- Hardcover

When Walker Devereaux was three, he was found clinging to a fence by a country road. Now that he's 19, he is determined to find out about his mother and his past. The only clue is a photograph of a woman with

two teenage girls and a letter written…

ALONG CAME A SPIDER (Police Procedural/US/Cont) – Poor

Patterson, James – 1^st in series

Warner Books, 1992- Paperback

The daughter of a famous actress and son of the secretary of the Treasury has been kidnapped. The boy's body is found and the kidnapper demands that Detective Alex

Cross be the one to deliver the $10M ransom.…

A CHRISTMAS GUEST (Amateur Sleuth-England-1800s) - Ex

Perry, Anne – 3^rd Christmas Story

Ballantine Books, 2005 – Hardcover

Grandmama Mariah Ellison has been sent to spend Christmas with her daughter Caroline and actor son-in-law Joshua Fielding. Not only are they at Romney Marshes, a provincial town by the sea, but Joshua's cousin, Maude Barrington…

SECRETS (Police Procedural-Virginia-Cont) – G+

Ramsey, Frederick – 2^nd in series

Poisoned Pen Press, 2005- Hardcover

When Sheriff Ike Schwartz is called to the murder scene of Waldo Thompson, the organist at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Church,

things become much more complicated that one would expect. Waldo turns out to not to be Waldo,…

THE ROTTWEILER (Mystery-London-Cont) – Okay

Rendell, Ruth - Standalone

Arrow Books, 2004 – Paperback

Antique storeowner Inez Ferry, is a young widow who takes in tenants. However, one of them is not as they seem. A serial killer is

on the loose.

There were too many characters, and none of…

DRIVE (Noir-Los Angeles-Cont) – Okay

Sallis, James – Standalone

Poisoned Pen Press, 2005- Hardcover

Driver, the protagonist in this novella, does just that; he drives. Legitimately, he drives for action movies but in his off time, he drives for criminals who hire him to

drive the get-away car. When a job goes

bad, a contract is put out on…

THE RUSSIAN HILL MURDERS (Legal Suspense-San Francisco-1880s) – VG

Tallman, Shirley – 2^nd in series

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005- Hardcover

In spite of the pressure to resign from her employer, Sarah Woolson is determined to succeed as one of the few female attorneys. While…

AND ONLY TO DECEIVE (Suspense-England/France-1887) - Ex

Alexander, Tasha – 1st book

Morrow, 2005- Hardcover

Emily had only known her husband a very short time when he died during a hunt in Africa. But over a year later, she discovered his journal and found he had loved her and learned of his passion for

antiquities.…

SPEAK ILL OF THE LIVING (Journalist-Massachusetts-Cont) – VG

Arsenault, Mark – 2nd in series

Poisoned Pen Press, 2005- Hardcover

Eddie Bourque is a free-lance reporter and journalism teacher in Lowell, Massachusetts; the home of Jack Kerouac. When a picture of a bank president, thought to have been murdered months earlier,…

EVAN BLESSED (Police Procedural-Wales-Cont) – VG

Bowen, Rhys – 9th in series

St. Martin's Minatour, 2005- Hardcover)

Constable Evan Evans is approached by a young many whose girlfriend has disappeared while they were hiking on Mt. Snowdon. In searching for her, the police find an…

THE BEE'S KISS – (Police Procedural-London-1926) – VG

Cleverly, Barbara – 5th in series

Constable, 2005- Hardcover

Commander Joe Sutherland, back from India, is investigating the murder, and apparent burglary, of Dame Beatrice Joliffee, one of the founders of the Wrens. Joe's investigative staff is D.S.

Bill Armitage,…

THE HEARSE YOU CAME IN ON (Amateur Sleuth-Baltimore-Cont) – Okay

Cockey, Tim – 1st book

Hyperion, 2000- Paperback

Undertaker Hitchcock Sewell is intrigued when an attractive woman asks about arranging a funeral—for herself. He's even more intrigued when a woman of the same name turns up dead,

except it's a different…

LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES (Police Procedural-San Francisco-Cont) – VG

Devlin, Frank (aka Tim Farrington) – 1^st book under this name

Jove, 2005- Paperback

Inspector Rose Burke's former partner committed suicide, her current partner is in love with her, her marriage is in trouble, she's pregnant, and she's looking for a woman serial killer. Helen, as a…

RELICS (Amateur Sleuth-Alabama-Cont) – G

Evans, Mary Anna – 2^nd in series

Poisoned Pen Press, 2005- Hardcover

Faye Longchamp is an archeology student who has traveled, with her friend and assistant Joe, to the hills of Alabama. She is there to lead a team research the history of the Sujosa, a small

group with immunity to AIDS. When a

fire, Faye…

HARD, HARD CITY (Private Investigator-New York-Cont) – Ok

Fusilli, Jim – 4^th in series

BerkeleyPrime Crime, 2005- Paperback

PI Terry Orr's daughter, Bella, has asked him to find a talented teenager, Allie Powell, who is missing from the home of John McPorter, a family friend,…

THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Amateur Sleuth-New York-Cont) – VG

Karp, Larry – 3^rd in series

Write Way Publishing, 2001- Hardcover

Dr. Thomas Purdue receives a call from his friend, and fellow music box lover, Edna Reynolds. Edna's afraid she just killed an annoyingly persistent designer who has

been pressuring her to give him her collection of automatons to…

MERCY FALLS (Police Procedural-Minnesota-Cont) – VG

Krueger, William Kent – 6^th book

Atria Books, 2005- Hardcover

Sheriff Cork O'Connor and his deputy respond to a domestic violence call on the Ojibwe reservation come under sniper fire and his deputy is critically wounded. The call was…

THE FIREMAKER (Police Procedural-China-Cont) – VG

May, Peter – Standalone

Thomas Dunne Books, 2005- Hardcover

Margaret Campbell is a Chicago forensic pathologist in China for six weeks to lecture at the Beijing

police university. Senior Detective Li

Yan is newly promoted to Deputy Section Chief.

This first case is of a man burned to…