EVANLY BODIES (Police Procedural-Wales-Cont) – G

Bowen, Rhys – 10^th in series

St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2006- Hardcover

DC Evan Evans is newley married to Brownen, a teacher. Brownen has befriended the daughter, Jamila, of a Muslim family recently moved to the…

KIDNAPPED (Unlicensed Investigator(Reporter)-So. Cal-Cont) – Okay

Burke, Jan – 12^th in series

Simon & Schuster, 2006-Hardcover

Reporter Irene Burke does an article on kidnapped children that ties her into a 5-year-old murder of Robert Fletcher, for which one son is imprisoned, the daughter missing and the remaining son

working with…

FORTUNE LIKE THE MOON (Historical Mystery-England-1100s) – G+

Clare, Ayls – 1^st in series

Hodder & Stoughton, 1999- Hardcover

Josse d’Acquin has been sent, by King Richard Plantagenet, to Hawkenlye Abbey. Hawkenlye was designed by Richard’s mother, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine and is run by

a woman, the Abbess Helewise. Richard,

at the…

TUG OF WAR (Licensed Investigator-France-1926) – VG

Cleverly, Barbara – 6^th in series

Constable, 2006-Hardcover

Commander Joe Sandilands is planning to take his 14-year-old niece, Dorcas, to be reunited with her father in the South of France. However, his superior has asked

that he stop in Reims. A former soldier, suffering from shell…

ECHOPARK (Police Procedural-Los Angeles-Cont) – G+

Connolly, Michael – 17^th book

Little Brown, 2006- Hardcover

Back from retirement, Detective Harry Bosch is still haunted by the kidnap and disappearance of Marie Gesto from 1993. Now serial killer Raynard Waits is willing to lead police to Marie’s grave…

Detective Jane Rizzoli and Dr. Maura Isles are faced with the question of whether there is true evil. They are called to a gruesome murder scene where a woman has…

THE COLOR OF LAW (Legal Thriller-Los Angeles-Cont) – G+

Gimenez, Mark – 1^st book

Anchor Books, 2005- Paperback

Corporate Attorney A. Scott Finney has it all; he was a college football star, now a highly successful lawyer with the beautiful wife, smart daughter, living in a huge home with three high-end…

GRAVE SURPRISE (Paranormal Suspense-Memphis-Cont) – VG

Harris, Charlaine – 2^nd in series

Berkeley Prime Crime, 2006- Hardcover

Harper Collins and her stepbrother Tolliver have come to Memphis at the request of Professor Clyde Nunley.…

THE SECOND MOUSE (Police Procedural-Vermont-Cont) – VG

Mayor, Archer – 17^th in series

Mysterious Press, 2006- Hardcover

Vermont Bureau of Investigation Field Force Commander Joe Gunther hears the call of a body found and stops to see whether he can help the responding State Police. At first, he seems a natural death,…

HUNDRED DOLLAR BABY (Private Investigator-Boston-Cont) - VG

Parker, Robert – 32^nd in series

G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2006- Hardcover

Spencer doesn’t immediately recognize April Kyle, the woman he’s rescued twice before; once as a young prostitute and again from a disastrous relationship. Now she’s back as the madam to a…

DEAD COLD (Police Procedural-Canada-Cont) – Ex

Penny, Louise – 2^nd in series

Headline, 2006- UK Hardcover

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his officers have been called back to the town of Three Pines. CC de Poitiers, an extremely

unpleasant woman, has been murdered in public at the height of a curling

match. Figuring out how she was…

BLOOD HUNT (Suspense-California-Cont) – Okay

Rankin, Ian - Standalone

LittleBrown, reprint 2006- Paperback

Former soldier Gordon Reeve flies to California to claim the body of his brother Jim, an apparent suicide. But it soon becomes

obvious that the facts aren't fitting together and that Jim's death was murder.…

UNSAFE HARBOR (Licensed Investigator-NJ/NY-Cont) - Poor

Speart, Jessica – 10^th book

AvonMystery, 2006- Paperback

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Agent Rachel Porter has been reassigned to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey. A wealthy socialite has been murdered and the

police…

FINAL FRAME (Police Procedural-UK-Cont) – G+

Adams, Jane – 5th in series

Macmillan, 1999- UK

Hardcover

Although serial killer Max Harriman has been captured, Detective Inspector Mike Croft is still on the trail of Max’s childhood friend and mentor in murder Jake Bowen. Jake’s latest victim is a young

art student who painted herself in a pose in…

THE PATH OF THE DEAD (Suspense-UK-Cont) – VG

Benton, Caroline – 1st book

Constable, 2006- UK

Hardcover

Gus Tavender is a photographer for the Devon Fire Brigade. In the aftermath of a house fire, Gus finds something the Brigade has missed; a charred body…

FIRST LIGHT (Unlicensed investigators-Massachusetts-Cont) – G+

Craig, Philip R. and William G. Tapply – first collaboration

Scribner, 2002 – Hardcover

Boston attorney Brady Coyne is visiting his friend J.W. Jackson on Martha’s Vineyard to participate in the annual striped bass and bluefish derby. Brady is also there to visit an elderly

client who, dying…

THE SPOOK’S SECRET (YA Fantasy-England) – G+

Delaney, Joseph – 3rd series

The Bodley Head, 2006- UK

Hardcover

Apprentice Tom Ward and his master head to Spook’s winter house in Anlezark. The house’s cellar is full of bound witches and boggarts, including Meg the Spook’s one-time live. But beyond a stone-throwing boggart the

greatest threat comes…

PRIMARY STORM (Thriller-New Hampshire-Cont)- VG

DuBois, Brendan – 6th in series

Thomas Dunne Books, 2006-Hardcover

Magazine columnist Lewis Cole once worked for the Department of Defense and has signed a non-disclosure about his time there. It is now Presidential primary season in New Hampshire. Lewis’ girlfriend, Annie Flynn, is working

for candidate…

TEN-SECOND STAIRCASE (Police Proc-London-Cont) – G+

Fowler, Christopher – 4th in series

Doubleday, 2006- Hardcover

Arthur Bryant and John May, the oldest working members of the London Police and the heads of the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the hunt for a murder of some of London’s minor celebrities. Their witness to the first

murder being a 12-year old…

UNDER ORDERS (Suspense, UK, Cont) – VG+

Francis, Dick – 4th Sid Halley

Michael Joseph/Penguin, 2006 – Hardcover

Former steeplechase jockey, now investigator, Sid Halley, has his one real and one artificial hand’s full. While attending a steeplechase race, Lord Enstone asks that Sid investigate whether his horses’ trainer is deliberately

influencing how…