CAST THE FIRST STONE (Police Procedural-England-Cont) – Ok
Adams, Jane – 2nd in series
MacMillan, 1996- UK Hardcover
Detective Inspector Mike Croft is involved in the legal appeal of Fletcher, a convicted child abuser. Fletcher alleges the existence of a journal identifying other abusers including a JP and others
in very high places. Eric Pearson lives in a quiet neighborhood but
quickly becomes a target of violence. He had…
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PRIEST (Private Investigator-Ireland-Cont) – Ex
Bruen, Ken – 5th in series
Scorpion Press, 2006- UK Hardcover
Jack Taylor is out of the madhouse, sober and trying to give up smoking. A young man wants to be Jack’s partner as private investigators and the son Jack never had. Jack is also the guilt over the death of
his friends’ daughter and its result on them.
Jack’s one friend from the Guarda is being…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 17, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments
FOOLISH UNDERTAKING (Amateur Sleuth/Former Cop-North Carolina-Cont) – VG
de Castrique, Mark – 3rd in series
Poisoned Pen Press, 2006- ARC
Barry Clayton has returned from the police force and returned home to run the family funeral parlor. Y'Grok Eban, is a Montagnard and a hero to the US troops he
helped during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Senator, three-star general, and famous Hollywood star are among those en route to…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 16, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments
A MINISTER’S GHOST (Amateur Sleuth/Folklorist-Georgia-Cont) – G+
DePoy, Phillip – 3rd in series
St. Martin’s Press, 2006 – Hardcover
Fever Devilin is the son of carnival owners, an ex-professor and folklorist who has returned to his hometown. He learns from his girlfriend, Lucinda, that her two nieces have been killed; they were in their car, sitting on the railroad
tracks when it was hit by a train. But
Lucinda is certain…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 15, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments
SEVENTY-SEVEN CLOCKS (Police Procedural-London-1973) – G
Fowler, Christopher – 3rd in series
Doubleday, 2005- UK Hardcover
Arthur Bryant and John May are members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit and their newest case is a perfect fit. A man dies from Cottonmouth snake venom in the lobby of the Savoy; another in blown up by a bomb make of silver and gold
and a third from rat poison in face powder.
All the…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 14, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments
RAMPART STREET (Private Investigator-New Orleans-1900s) – VG
Fulmer, David – 3rd in series
Harcourt, 2006- Hardcover
After 15 months away, Creole Detective Valerian St. Cyr in back in New Orleans’s red-light district of Storyville. He has lost weight, no longer exhibits his usual style, nor interest in life around him.
In an effort to bring him back to himself, his employer, Boss Tom
Anderson,…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 13, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments
GONE (Procedural/Suspense-Oregon-Cont) – VG
Gardner, Lisa- 8th book
Bantam, 2006- Hardcover
Former policewoman Rainie Conner is haunted by memories of abuse, both to her, the many cases she has handled and the suspected abuse of a boy she knows.. The murder of a child is
one too many and pushes her into alcohol abuse and away from her husband. Rainie’s husband, former FBI profiler Pierce
Quincy, loves his wife, but hope to…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 12, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments
S IS FOR SILENCE (Private Investigator-California-Cont) – G
Grafton, Sue – 19th in series
Putnam, 2005- Hardcover
Investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired by Daisy, now a woman, but who had been a girl of seven when her mother, Violet Sullivan, disappeared 34 years ago on the Fourth of July. Did
Violet abandon her family or did something more senister happen?
I enjoy Grafton as a reliably good read…
ContinueAdded by LJ Roberts on February 11, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments
DEADLY WILL (Amateur Sleuth-Philadelphia-Cont) – G
Hill, Marion Moore – 1st in series
Pemberley Press, 2006 – Trade Paperback
Millie Kirchner is a divorced, single mom working at a nursing home and just trying to make ends meet. She receives a letter from an attorney in Philadelphia advising her of a legacy from an
ancestor about whom she’d never known.
However, things are not always as they seem and…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 10, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments
THE BALCK JACK CONSPIRACY (Thriller-US-Cont) - NR
Kent, David – 2nd in series
Pocket Books, 2005- Paperback
Department Thirty Agent Faith Kelly is given her first assignment to help a suspected criminal disappear in exchange for information. Alex Bridge,
seven months pregnant, is accused of embezzling millions and murdering an FBI
agent. But to Faith, the evidence
incriminating Alex just doesn’t hold together.…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 9, 2006 at 8:00am — No Comments
A VISIBLE DARKNESS (Unlicensed Investigator/Ex-Cop-Florida-Cont) – VG
King, Jonathon – 2nd in series
Dutton, 2003- Hardcover
Max Freeman is an ex-Philadelphia cop now living in an Everglade swamp shack. He occasionally does investigation for his best friend, attorney Billy Manchester. In this case, Billy suspects someone is
killing elderly black women who sold their life insurance policies to
investors. Although the police…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 8, 2006 at 7:30am — No Comments
THE PARLIAMENT HOUSE (Amateur Sleuth/Architect-London-1670) – G
Marston, Edward – 5th in series
Allison & Busby, 2006- UK Hardcover
Architect Christopher Redmayne is attending the party celebrating the completion of the house and wine shop he designed. As the guests are leaving, one is shot dead by a sniper. Because the victim was the
friend of Sir Julius Cheever MP, the father of Christopher’s sweetheart,
Christopher…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 7, 2006 at 7:30am — No Comments
SEA CHANGE (Police Procedural-Massachusetts/Florida-Cont) – G+
Parker, Robert B. – 5th in series
Putnam, 2006- Hardcover
Police Chief Jesse Stone, dry for one year and working on his relationship with his ex-wife, has a Jane Doe on his hands. The body of a young woman has been found in the harbor. Once Jesse learns her name
and that she’s from Florida from a local boat
rental owner he looks particularly at two yachts from…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 6, 2006 at 7:30am — No Comments
HARD KNOCKS (Thriller-England-Cont) – VG
Sharp, Zoe – 3rd in series
Piatkus, 2003- UK Hardcover
Charlie Fox is asked by her former Special Forces instructor, and former lover, Sean, to investigate the death of a man who had betrayed her friendship and ruined her military career. Although she doesn’t care that he’s dead, she
can’t refuse the request and goes undercover at a bodyguard training school in Germany. It soon becomes…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 5, 2006 at 7:30am — No Comments
BLINDFOLD GAME (Thriller-Alaska mostly-Cont) – VG
Stabenow, Dana – Standalone
St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006- Hardcover
CIA analyst High Rincon is alerted by one of his operatives that two men she felt responsible for a bombing in Thailand, were planning a major attack, via a dirty bomb, on Alaska.
Although Hugh’s superiors won’t take it seriously, Hugh commandeers the
help of his wife and her superior;…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 4, 2006 at 7:30am — No Comments
THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND (Police Proc/Trad. Mystery-England-Cont) - VG
Templeton, Aline – 4th book
Constable, 1997- UK Hardcover
Anna Hartington, daughter of late conductor Eden Harrington, is determined that the Hartington Music Festival go on as a tribute to her father. In the process, she has made a
lot of enemies. When she is found
murdered, the police have more than enough suspects, including the current
conductor.…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 3, 2006 at 7:30am — No Comments
MURDER ON LENOX HILL (Mystery-New York City-1800s) – G+
Thompson, Victoria – 7th in series
Berkeley Prime Crime, 2005- Hardcover
Midwife Sarah Brandt has been asked to look at the daughter of a wealthy couple. Grace, although a teenager, is mentally still a child, never goes out on her own and yet is
pregnant. Once Sarah determines she has
not been abused by her father, she is determined to learn who is responsible.…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 2, 2006 at 7:30am — No Comments
Inspector Ian Rutledge, still haunted by his past and the spirit of Hamish, keeps finding cartridge shells, etched with poppies, left for him, first in London and still after he is sent to a remote country village
where local Constable Hensley has been shot in the back with an arrow and left
in a wood shunned by the locals.…
Added by LJ Roberts on February 1, 2006 at 7:30am — No Comments
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