THE ICON (Amateur Sleuth-NYC/Greece-WWII/Cont) – G

Olson, Neil – 1^st book

Harper Collins, 2005- Hardcover

Matthew Spear is of Greek heritage and a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matthew is asked to view the art collection inherited by Ana Kessler, he is drawn to an con, the

Holy Mother of Katarini. Matthew…

ILLUSIONS (Private Investigator-California Bay Area-Cont) – VG

Pronzini, Bill – 26^th book in series

Carroll & Graf, 1997- Hardcover

When an estranged friend and former partner commits suicide, it becomes important to find out why and whether it could have been prevented.

When a man is murdered after his…

FIRST DEGREE (Legal Suspense-New Jersey-Cont) –G+

Rosenfelt, David – 2^nd in series

Mysterious Press, 2003- Hardcover

Now that lawyer Andy Carpenter has inherited $22 million, he can be very selective in the clients he represents. So when a man walks in and

tells him that he, not the man arrested, killed a cop, Andy decides…

RIOT ACT (Amateur Sleuth-London-Cont) – VG

Sharp, Zoe – 2^nd in series

Piatkus, 2002-Hardcover

Charlie Fox is an self-defense expert and ex-Special Forces. She is house- and dog-sitting--a Rhodesian Ridgeback named Frank—for her

friend but things turn ugly when teenage gangs start terrorizing the

neighborhood. The neighbors hire…

MEW IS FOR MURDER (Amateur Sleuth-Boston-Cont) – G+

Simon, Clea – 1^st in series

Poisoned Pen Press, 2005- Hardcover

Theda Krakow is a freelance journalist and cat lover. Passing a house in her neighborhood with a multitude of cats, she is concerned the

elderly woman, Lillian, may be a cat hoarder.

On a…

MURDER ON NOB HILL (Legal Thriller-San Francisco-1880) – VG

Tallman, Shirley – 1^st in series

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004- Hardcover

Sarah Wollson is an intelligent, independent young woman who is determined to be a lawyer. She brazens her way to represent her…

COLD IN THE EARTH (Police Procedural-Scotland-Cont) – VG

Templeton, Aline – 1^st in series

Hodder & Stoughton, 2005- Hardcover

Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming is also a mother and wife raising chickens and sheep in Scotland. When foot-and-mouth disease breaks out in their area, she and her neighbors are faced with losing all…

TO KINGDON COME (Private Investigators-Europe-1884) – VG

Thomas, Will – 2^nd in series

A Touchstone Book, 2005- Hardcover

The Irish Republican Brotherhood has blown up part of Scotland Yard and the blast does damage to the offices of Investigator Cyrus Barker and his young Welsh assistant, Thomas

Llewelyn. Barker volunteers…

RENDER UP THE BODY (Legal Thriller-Colorado-Cont) – G

Wesson, Marianne – 1^st book

Harper Collins, 1998 – Hardcover

Cinda Hayes has left her job as a sex-crimes prosecutor to become the director of the Boulder County Rape Crisis

Center.

However, her former teacher and mentor, Justice Hilton James, asks…

WHILE I DISAPPEAR (Amateur Sleuth-California-1950s) – VG

Wright, Edward – 2^nd in series

Putnam, 2004- Hardcover

John Ray Horn is a former movie cowboy who now collects gambling debts for his former Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow. When John and Joseph

visit a bar to persuade a man again bothering Joe's niece, John sees a…

SHADOWS (Police Procedural-Miami-Cont) – VG

Buchanan, Edna – 2^nd of series

Simon & Schuster, 2005-Hardcover

A Miami historian and preservationist demands the Cold Case Squad stop a developer from tearing down Shadows, an old mansion where a murder occurred in the

1950's. When they go out to take

pictures and walk the estate, the last thing they thought…

MICHELANGELO'S NOTEBOOK (Amateur Sleuth-NYC/Germany-Cont/WWII) – NR

Christopher, Paul (aka Christopher Hyde) – 1^st under pseudonym

Onyx, 2005-Paperback

Art history student, Finn Ryan, comes across a drawing she is certain came from the lost notebook of Michelangelo. When she confronts her boss, he fires her. She and her boyfriend are attacked

in her apartment and he…

THE POET’S FUNERAL (Amateur Sleuth-Las Vegas-Cont) – G+

Daniel, John M - 2^nd mystery

Poisoned Pen Press, 2005- Hardcover

Guy Mallon is a small publisher of poetry books. While attending the annual ABA conference, the first author published by Guy, and former lover, turns up dead. The police decide it's an accident, but Guy

thinks it's murder.…

THE SMOKE ROOM (Suspense-Seattle-Cont) - VG

Emerson, Earl – Standalone

Ballantine, 2005-Hardcover

Jason Gun is a young firefighter who makes dumb mistakes. Missing a call because he's having sex in the basement of the firehouse proves to be more than dumb;

it's disastrous as it places his career, and other people's lives, in the hands

of his fellow…

FULL DARK HOUSE (Police Procedural-London-Cont/WWII) – G+

Fowler, Christopher – 1^st of series

Bantam Books, 2003- Hardcover

When a present day bombing of the Peculiar Crimes Unit kills elderly detective Arthur Bryant, his partner, John May looks to their first case for clues as to why.…

NO MAN'S LAND (Suspense-Arizona-Cont) - G+

Ford, G.M. – 5^th in series

William Morrow, 2005-Hardcover

The inmates have taken over the prison, and the leader, Timothy Driver, starts killing one hostage every six hours unless Frank Corso comes to the prison. Thus

begins a brutal trip of Corso, Driver and a fellow inmate and killer, Kehoe,

with the Feds and…

ASH & BONE (Police Procedural–England-Cont) - G

Harvey, John – Standalone

William Heinemann: London, 2005- Hardcover

Detective Inspector Frank Elder is retired and living in the wilds of Cornwell when he is asked to come out of retirement and investigate the death of a former colleague and, briefly, lover. At the same time, his ex-wife asked him to

find their daughter who…

LONG TIME GONE (Police Procedural-Seattle-Cont) – G+

Jance, J.A. – 17^th in series

Morrow, 2005-Hardcover

J.P. Beaumont is now a member of the Special Homicide Investigation Team, ignominiously known as the SHIT squad, and has two cases to solve. First is a nun who,

through hypnotherapy, remembers witnessing a murder 50 years ago. Second, and very personal, the…

THE DEAD SIT ROUND IN A RING (Police Proc-London-Cont) - Poor

Lawrence, David – 1^st book

Thomas Dunn Books, 2004-Hardcover

Detective Stella Mooney takes on the case where four people, two men and two women, have been found sitting in a ring, all dead. Three are quickly identified

and classified as suicides, but the fourth person was murdered and is

unknown. But…

A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES (Amateur Sleuth-England/Wales-1100s) – VG

Peters, Ellis – 1^st in series

Mysterious Press, 1977- Paperback

The prior of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided it needs a holy relic and has decided on the bones of Welsh Saint Winifred, now residing in the village

of Gwytherin. An expedition group is sent with Brother

Cadfael, a native Welshman, as…