POLITICAL SUICIDE – VG
Alan Russell – Standalone
Political Suicide features private investigator Will Travis, a different kind of "hotel detective". With his near photographic memory, Travis evaluates restaurants and hotels, reporting on service issues
and employee theft or neglect to his clients. During one of these evaluations
he witnesses a man slipping something into his woman companion's drink. Travis
rescues the woman,…
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SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES - G
Sheldon Siegel – 2nd in series
Attorney Mike Daley and Rosie, his ex-wife and law partner, are hired to defend Skipper Gates, the San Francisco DA. Skipper is an unlikable political type who is accused of murdering a male prostitute with
whom he spent the night. Not only will this scandal potentially ruin Skipper's
career, but he could conceivable be sent to Death Row if a jury finds…
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MONKEEWRENCH – EX
P.J. Tracy – 1st book
An unpopular, troublemaking old couple are brutally murdered in a small Wisconsin town church. While Wisconsin Sheriff Michael Halloran and Deputy Bonar Carlson are working to
solve their case, in the Minnesotan Twin cities, Detectives Leo Magozzi and
Gino Rolseth, are dealing with a serial killer is copying a computer game where
20 murders happen. The games’ designers, a…
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The East Bay Mystery Readers' Group -
6 January Meeting Recap
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THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN (non-mystery) – Good+
Mitch Albom – 8th book
Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident…
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THE AFFAIR OF THE 39 CUFFLINKS – VG
James Anderson – 3rd in series
Alderley, the 17th-century country house of the Earl of Burford, provides the setting for Anderson's
third 1930s madcap mystery (after The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg…
Added by LJ Roberts on January 5, 2004 at 6:30am — No Comments
LONDON BOULEVARD – VG
Ken Bruen – Standalone
When Mitchell is released after spending 3 years in prison for a crime he doesn’t remember committing. Picked up by his
friend Billy Norton, he’s offered work by Billy with loan shark Tommy
Logan.…
Added by LJ Roberts on January 4, 2004 at 6:30am — No Comments
LORD JOHN AND THE PRIVATE MATTER – Good+
Diana Gabaldon - Standalone
Major Lord John Grey accidentally comes to suspect that his cousin’s fiancée is infected with the pox. As he searches for a discreet way to confirm his…
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QUATTROCENTO (non-mystery) – Good+
James McKean – 1st book
Matt O’Brien, assistant curator and art restorer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has always been passionate about the Italian Renaissance. When he discovers a long-neglected portrait of…
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DEAD FAMOUS – Good+
Carol O’Connell – 7th Mallory
This story involves a seemingly unstoppable serial killer; a beautiful hunchback with tragedy in her past; a radio shock-jock who helps the killer find his victims; an extremely mean house cat; a gloomy…
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LJ's Top Reads of 2003
Alexander, Bruce - Murder in Grub Street
Barton, Dan - The Heckler
Brown, Dan - The Da Vinci Code
Bruen, Ken - The Guards
Cleverly, Barbara - Ragtime in Simla
Coleman, Reed Farrel - Walking the Perfect Square
Crais, Robert - The Last Detective
Dymmock, Michael Allen - The Feline Friendship
Fforde, Jasper - The Eyre Affair
Fforde, Jasper - Lost in a Good Book
Ford, G.M. - A Blind Eye
Harris,…
Added by LJ Roberts on December 31, 2003 at 12:30pm — No Comments
The East Bay Mystery Readers' Group -
2 December 2003 Meeting Recap
BLOOD JUNCTION (Amateur Sleuth) - Caroline Carver - G-
When journalist India Kane travels from Sydney to the outback town of Cooinda for a reunion with her friend, Lauren, she has no idea of the town's appalling history. Forty years earlier…
Added by LJ Roberts on December 29, 2003 at 1:30am — No Comments
TROPHY WIDOW – G+
Kahn, Michael A. – 7th in series
Rachel Gold agrees to represent Angela Green, a convicted murderer who has been offered a lucrative book deal. In gathering…
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CORPUS CHRISTMAS – VG
Maron, Margaret – 6th in series
Lt. Sigrid Harald's professional and private lives clash when an art expert is murdered in a New York historical house. I…
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THE GATEKEEPER– VG
Mayor, Archer – 14th in series
When heroin traffickers establish a vast and swift pipeline into Vermont, Joe Gunther's Bureau of Investigation is called in to…
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STONE COLD – G+
Parker, Robert B. – 4th in series
Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult, and dangerous, and with the added pressures from the town…
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A CHRISTMAS JOURNEY – G+
Perry, Anne – Standalone
This is a novella starring Aunt Vespasia, in her younger days. While attending an elegant Christmas houseparty in a country…
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The East Bay Mystery Readers' Group -
4 November 2003 Meeting Recap
SILENT PROOF (Police Procedural) - Michael A. Hawley - Good
Twenty-five years ago, a woman was murdered in a Seattle park. The crime went unsolved. To homicide detective Leah Harris and her partner Frank Milkovich, the only possible suspect…
Added by LJ Roberts on November 29, 2003 at 1:30am — No Comments
AN EXPERIMENT IN TREASON – G+
Alexander, Bruce – 9th in series
Sir John Fielding, a blind, 18th-century London judge, and his orphan accomplice, Jeremy, get mixed up in…
ContinueAdded by LJ Roberts on November 7, 2003 at 11:30am — No Comments
SPIKED – G+
Arsenault, Mark – 1st book
In the fading manufacturing city of Lowell, Mass., Eddie Bourque, a political reporter for the shoddy Lowell Empire, looks into the brutal…
ContinueAdded by LJ Roberts on November 6, 2003 at 11:30am — No Comments
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