The East Bay Mystery Readers' Group -

2 September 2003 Meeting Recap

DEAD GIRLS DON'T WEAR DIAMONDS (Amateur Sleuth - cozy) - Nancy Martin - Okay

"When a high society jewel thief winds up drowned at the bottom of a pool with a tacky garden gnome tied to her ankles, ex-debutante Nora Blackbird must swing into action to save her old flame from a murder charge. And when suspicion is directed onto Nora herself,…

LEAVE ME BY DYING – G

Aubert, Rosemary – 4^th book – prequel to series

Against the backdrop of civil rights and the Vietnam draft, we are taken back…

DEATH MASKS – G+

Butcher, Jim – 5^th in series

Life has its up and downs for our hero, Harry, the down-on-his-luck wizard from modern-day Chicago. Susan, his…

THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE – VG

Cleverly, Barbara – 1^st book in series

Set in 1920s India, Commander Joe Sandilands, a Scotland Yarder completing a…

THE BAD MEN – G+

Connolly, John – stand alone

Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary…

DARK SPECTRE – NR

Dibdin, Michael – stand alone

Random and motiveless murders are taking place all over America with victims of every age and background. From a baby…

THE SINNER – G+

Gerritsen, Tess – 7^th book

When two Boston nuns are found brutally beaten--one fatally and one with a…

COLD JUSTICE – VG

Jacobs, Jonnie – 5^th in series

San Francisco lawyer Kali O'Brien gets the shocking news that…

THE PUSHER – VG

McBain, Ed – 3^rd in series

Two a.m. in the bitter cold of winter: the young Hispanic man's body was found in a tenement basement. The rope around his…

DEAD FAMOUS – Ok

O’Connell, Carol – 7^th in series

In Chicago, an FBI agent is killed in a psychiatrist's waiting room. In New York, the jurors from…

COLD PURSUIT - VG

Parker, T. Jefferson – 14^th book

When Homicide Sergeant Tom McMichael gets the call about Pete Braga's murder, he can't help feeling a bit of pleasure…

A QUESTION OF BLOOD – VG

Rankin, Ian – 15^th in series

When a man who had been menacing DSI Siobhan Clarke dies in a house fire and Rebus, who had…

BUCK FEVER – G+ - if it’s your kind of thing

Rehder, Ben – 1^st book…

IMITATION IN DEATH – VG

Robb, J.D. – 17^th in series

Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the grisly…

REMEMBER WHEN – G+

Roberts, Nora /J.D. Robb – 100+th (?) Roberts / 18^th Robb

In present-day…

NO GOOD DEED – Ok

Scott, Manda – 4th book

Glasgow Police DI Orla McLeod is involved in a shootout in a dismal flat where she has been living undercover. Her cover is blown, her…

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES – VG

Siegel, Sheldon – 1st book

When Mike Daley gets fired from a prestigious San Francisco law firm, he starts a private practice. His first case is huge--to…

A GRAVE DENIED – VG

Stabenow, Dana – 13th in series

On an eighth-grade field trip to Grant Glacier in Alaska, students discover a corpse in an ice cave beneath the glacier. With…