ASHES OF THE ELEMENTS (Historical-England-1100s) – G

Clare, Alys – 2^nd in series

Hodder & Stoughton, 2000- UK Hardcover – ISBN 0340739339

Abess Helewise discovers a dead body by nearly stepping on it. The man had been killed by a spear with a highly decorative point. Although the Sheriff is willing to blame…

THE CUPS OF GHOSTS (Historical-France/England-1300s) – G+

Doherty, Paul – 1^st in series

Headline, 2005- UK Hardcover – ISBN 0755328736

Mathilde, trained as a physician by her father, finds her life in jeopardy and uprooted. With the Pope’s declaration of Templer’s as heretics, she is taken to her uncle for…

AN HONORABLE MURDER (Historical-England-1600s) – G+

Gooden, Phillip – 6^th in series

Constable, 2005- UK Hardcover – ISBN 1841196940

King James and Queen Anne are now on the throne, the Spanish are coming to London to sign the treaty ending the war with Spain and Burbage’s company of players, the King’s Men,…

THE JANISSARY TREE (Historical-Turkey-1836) – VG

Goodwin, Jason – 1^st novel

Sarah Crichton Books, 2006- US Hardcover – ISBN 0374178607

The Ottoman Empire is coming to an end and Sultan recognizes they must move into modern times. But gruesome murders, with clues leading back to the brutal days of the…

Green, Simon R.- 7^th in series

ACE Fantasy, 2007- US Paperback – ISBN 13:9780441014606

PI John Taylor has been hired, for ten million pounds, by Jeremiah Griffith to find his missing granddaughter. Griffith is not the most powerful man…

A BONE OF CONTENTION (Historical-Cambridge, England-1352) – G+

Gregory, Susanna – 3^rd in series

LIttle, Brown & Company, 1997– UK Hardcover – ISBN 0316882301

Physician and teacher Matthew Bartholomew is summoned by Brother Michael to the King’s Ditch by the Hall of Valence Marie to…

WHAT ANGELS FEAR (Historical-England-1811) – Ex

Harris, C.S. – 1^st in series

New American Library, 2005- US Hardcover – ISBN 0451216695

Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, escapes arrest for the brutal murder of an actress, former prostitute, in a church. His pistol was found at the murder scene and he refuses…

THE LEPER’S RETURN (Historical-England-1320) – VG

Jecks, Michael - 6^th in series

Headline, 1998- UK Paperback – ISBN 0747259518

Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King’s Peace, has his hands full. The town’s leper hospital has a new master and a town suddenly turned violent against the hospital and its…

SUNSTROKE (Non-Suspense-California/Mexico-Cont) – DNF

Kellerman, Jesse – 1^st book

Jove, 2006- US Paperback – ISBN 0515142239

Gloria Mendez has worked for, and been in love with, her boss, Carl Perreira for ten years. Gloria receives an unintelligible message from Carl, who is on vacation in Mexico. When she tries to find him, she learns he was

killed in a car accident. As…

NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (Police Proc-New Mexico-Cont) – DNF

McGarrity, Michael – 10^th book

Onyx, 2005- US Paperback – 0451412281

Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney is persuaded, by a childhood friend, to take the job of technical advisor for a film. But Kevin soon finds himself involved in a murder investigation that may tie into the smuggling of illegal immigrants and

organized…

CRUEL MUSIC (Historical-Italy-1740) – VG

Myers, Beverle Graves – 3^rd in series

Poisoned Pen Press, 2006, US Hardcover – ISBN1590582306

Pope Clement XII is dying and Venetian Senator Antonio Montorio is determined that his brother, Cardinal Stefano Montorio be the next Pope. To this end, the Senator has arrested…

FIND ME (Suspense-US-Cont) – Ex

O’Connell, Carol – 10^th book

Putnam, 2006- US Hardcover – ISBN 0399153950

There is a dead woman in her apartment and NY detective Kathy Mallory has taken off in a VW Beetle with a Porche 911 engine to travel old Route 66. At the beginning of the highway, the intersection of Adams…

BLUE SCREEN (PI/Pol. Proc-Massachusetts/Los Angeles-Cont) – G+

Parker, Robert B. – 5^th Sunny Randall

Putnam, 2006- US Hardcover – ISBN 0399153519

PI Sunny Randall is hired by movie producer Buddy Bollen to protect his live-in leading lady Erin Flint. Erin is a beautiful, B-movie actress Buddy plans to have play…

THE LAST DAYS OF NEWGATE (Historical-England-1800s) – NR

Pepper, Andrew – 1^st book

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006 – UK Hardcover – ISBN 029785237X

Pyke is a Bow Street Runner called in to investigate the murder of a couple and their infant child. In doing so, Pyke find himself arrested and in Newgate Prison…

McMANSIONS (PI-Connecticut-Cont) – VG

Scott, Justin – 4^th in series

Poisoned Pen Press, 2006- US Hardcover – ISBN 1-59058-063X

Ben Abbot is a realtor and private investigator in Newbury, Connecticut, a town whose history dates back to the Colonies. Billy Tiller was a developer and the nightmare of…

A FALSE MIRROR (Historical-England-1920) – Ex

Todd, Charles – 10^th book

Wm Morrow, 2007 – US Hardcover – ISBN: 9780060786731

Inspector Ian Rutledge has been called to Hampton Regis on the southern coast of England. Facility Hampton is in love the two men; her husband, Matthew, and Stephen Mallory.…

HOOKED (Thriller-Nate Idle-Silicon Valley, CA –Cont) - Poor

Richtel, Matt – 1^st book

Twelve, 2007, US Hardcover – ISBN: 9780446580083



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