The East Bay Mystery Readers' Group -

6 April 2004 Meeting Recap

THE PRICE OF MURDER – VG

Bruce Alexander – 10^th and final book in series

Set in Georgian England, blind magistrate, Sir John Fielding, and his young apprentice Jeremy Proctor investigate the brutal murder of a little girl whose mother had sold her into slavery. The trail leads Jeremy

into the world of horseracing, as he joins forces with the victim's uncle,

legendary jockey Deuteronomy Plummer. The challenges of the…

BURGLARS CAN’T BE CHOOSERS – G+

Lawrence Block – 1^st of series – REISSUE

Bernie Rhodenbarr is a professional burglar who has been hired to procure a blue, leather box from the desk of a off-Broadway producer.

The job is not without problems; first, there’s no blue box; second,

he’s caught by the police and; third,…

EVAN’S GATE – VG

Rhys Bowen – 8^th in series

Constable Evan Evans becomes involved with two cases of missing children; one new, one old. Although the cases are 25 years

apart, there are striking similarities in the age and appearance of the

children. Evans feels a particular

involvement as he played with the girl who disappeared 25 year’s ago and wonders

whether the two…

LORD DARCY – G+

Randall Garrett

Welcome to an alternate world where Richard the Lion-Heart did not die in the year 1199... where magic is a science and science is an art... where the great detective

Lord Darcy and the sorcerer Sean O'Lochlainn combine occult skills and

brilliant deductions to bring criminals to the King's Justice and thwart those

who plot against the Realm. Welcome to a…

As graduates of the Stonecroft Academy class of '84 prepare for their twentieth high-school reunion, only a pimple-faced reporter for the school paper notes that this class has seen more

than its share of mysterious deaths--and that all were members of a popular

clique. We only know it was someone who was spurned by girls and made fun of by

everyone, someone who dubbed his evil alter ego The…

REDEMPTION STREET – VG

Reed Farrel Coleman – 3rd in series

Moe Prager—retired New York City cop-turned-wine shop owner—still possessed of his vintage police savvy, and is, perhaps, the only Jewish licensed PI in the five boroughs, Moe wonders if he’s really meant to be

a merchant and not a cop. Redemption Street finds him in 1981, lured into the

mystery of a 1966 hotel fire—one that killed seventeen people, including…

CODEX – OK

Lev Grossman

Up-and-coming investment banker wunderkind Edward Wozny is dropped into the musty realm of medieval literature when a powerful client's commission to uncrate and organize a library. The diversion quickly becomes an

obsession after he enlists the help of the quirkily attractive scholar Margaret

Napier. Together they discover his employer, the mysterious Duchess of Bowmry,

is in a…

MANHATTAN NOCTURNE – NR

Colin Harrison

NYC tabloid columnist, Porter Wren attends a party and is sought out by beautiful Caroline Crowley, widow of film director Simon Crowley, because she has "a

little problem." After phoning his wife and lying about why he'll be

home late, Porter finds himself in Caroline's Fifth Avenue apartment and drawn

ever deeper into the life…

SO LONG AS YOU BOTH SHALL LIVE – VG

Ed McBain – 32^nd in series

Det. Bert Kling had just married beautiful Augusta Blair and was anticipating his wedding night. Augusta was waiting for him. He got out of the shower, and

opened the door, but Augusta

is gone. He’s not too worried as he had

been told of a quaint custom of kidnapping the bride on her wedding night and

his…