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…

SCHOOL DAYS (Private Investigator-Massachusetts-Cont) – VG

Parker, Robert – 34^th in series

Putnam, 2005 – Hardcover

Wealthy Lily Ellsworth hires Spencer to uncover the innocence of her grandson, Jared. It's not going to be easy as he has confessed two being one of two boys responsible

for killing seven people in a school shooting.…

THE WINE OF ANGLES (Paranormal-England-Cont) - G

Rickman, Phil – 1^st in series

Pan, 1999- Paperback

Rev. Merrily Watkins and her daughter, Jane, have come to Merrily's first parish in the small town of Ledwardine; a town whose history revolves around two families and the making of cider.

Shortly after arriving, Merrily attends…

BLUE SMOKE (Romantic Thriller-Baltimore-Cont) – G+

Roberts, Nora – Standalone

Putnam, 2005- Hardcover

When Reena Hale was 12 years old, events lead to her family's restaurant being burnt by an arsonist. With that, Reena was determined to become an arson investigator with the Baltimore

police. Other fires have touched those

know to Reena, but now it has…

DEATH'S LITTLE HELPERS – (Private Investigator-NYC-Cont) – Ok

Spiegelman, Peter – 2^nd in series

Knopf, 2005- Hardcover

PI John Marsh has been hired to find Gregory Danes, the ex-husband of artist Nina Sachs. Gregory had been one of Wall Street's hottest analysts, but his

reputation and career plummeted, he left his office saying he was taking…

NERVOUS WATER (Amateur Sleuth-New England-Cont) – VG

Tapply, William G. – 21^st in series

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005- Hardcover

Attorney Brady Coyne hasn't seen his elderly Uncle Moze in many years when he receives a call inviting him to visit him in Maine. The old lobsterman is…