KILLING FLOOR (Amateur Sleuth-Georgia-Cont) – G+

Child, Lee – 1^st in series

Putnam, 1997-Hardcover

Jack Reacher is on his own for the first time after spending his life on military bases. While having breakfast in a small Georgia town, he is arrested for

murder. At first it's a misunderstand

but when he realizes the victim was his brother, a U.S. Treasury…

TILL THE COWS COME HOME (Amateur Sleuth-Pennsylvania-Cont) – G

Clemens, Judy – 1^st book

Poisoned Pen Press, 2004-Hardcover

Stella Crown, with her farmhand Howie, has been running the family dairy farm since her parents died. At the best of times, it's very hard work. But it just became harder with a

rash of accidents, or are they, happening on the farm. At the same…

THE CLOSERS (Police Procedural-Los Angeles-Cont) – VG

Connelly, Michael – 15^th book

Little Brown, 2005 – Hardcover

Harry Bosch has rejoined the police force after 3 year's retirement. He's back with his partner, Kiz Rider, on the Open-Unsolved, formerly Cold Case,

Squad. Their first case is that a young

woman in 1968 who was taken from her home and murdered.…

COCAINE BLUES (Amateur Sleuth-Australia-1920s) – VG

Greenwood, Kerry – 1^st in series

McPhee Gribble, 1989-TP

Phryne Fisher has traveled to Australia in order to check on Lydia Andrews; whose parents suspect her husband is poisoning her. Along the way she takes in a

desperate young woman, teams with a pair of cab drivers…

CHAUCER AND THE HOUSE OF FAME (Historical Mystery-France-1370) – VG

Morgan, Philippa – 1^st in series

Constable, 2004- UK Hardcover

Geoffrey Chaucer has been asked by his brother-in-law, John of Gaunt, to deliver a letter to France and to Comte de Guyac. He is unaware of being

shadowed and that murders are occurring behind him, until the Comte dies in,

what is…

SHINJU – (Official Investigator-Japan-1600s) – G

Rowland, Laura Joh – 1^st in series

Harper Torch, 1994, Paperback

Sano Ichiro is newly, and somewhat unhappily, been appointed as an investigator. His first case is that of Shinju, the ritual double suicide of a

low-born artist and the wealthy daughter of an important family. He is told to drop his investigation,…

BLACK MAPS (Private Investigator-New York-Cont) – G+

Spiegelman, Peter – 1^st in series

Alfred A. Knopf, 2003- Hardcover

Investigator John March agrees to investigate a case of blackmail. The victim's career is being threatened by claiming he was involved in money

laundering while at a bank that is now under federal investigation. March finds his client is no the…

SOME DANGER INVOLVED (Historical Mystery-Victorian England) – VG

Thomas, Will – 1^st book

Touchstone, 2004-Hardcover

Thomas Llewelyn is desperate to the point where, if he does not get this job, it's off the bridge for him. But he is hired by enquiry agent Cyrus Barker to be his assistant, including room and board.

Barker has been asked by Sir…

CLEA'S MOON (Amateur Sleuth-Los Angeles-1950s) – Ex

Wright, Edward – 1^st in series

Berkeley Fiction, 2004-Paperback

John Ray Horn is a former soldier, western movie actor and prison inmate. He's now working for his former movie Indian sidekick, now casino owner, collecting gambling debts. A friend shows him sexually explicit…

THE SHADOW OF THE WIND (Mystery/Novel-Barcelona-1945-1966) -Ex

Zafon, Carlos Ruiz – 1^st adult novel

The Penguin Press, 2004 - Hardcover

10-year-old Daniel Sempere is taken to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books where he is to adopt a single book and promise to keep it alive always. He is drawn to "The Shadow of the Wind." When he finds out that all

other copies of the…