THE AMBER ROOM – G

Berry, Steve – 1st book

When Judge Rachel Cutler's father dies under suspicious circumstances, he leaves…

MASKS OF MURDER – G

Canby, C.C. – 1st book

When Detective Zeke Mallard is found brutally murdered in his own garage, it is up to Zeke’s partner, rookie Detective Richard Lanslow,…

BLOOD JUNCTION – G

Carver, Caroline – 1st book

When journalist India Kane travels from Sydney to the outback town of Cooinda for a reunion with her friend, Lauren, she has no idea…

RAGTIME IN SIMLA – VG

Cleverly, Barbara – 2nd in series

Scotland Yard Commander Joseph Sandilands, a World War I hero, has accepted an invitation to spend his vacation at the…

DON’T LEAVE ME – G

Curzon, Clare – 15th in series

Years after a rich woman disappears, her daughter also vanishes under suspicious circumstances. Superintendent Mike Yeadings…

The East Bay Mystery Readers' Group -

7 October 2003 Meeting Recap

BOOKS FOR OCTOBER 7th are:

THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE (Historical Mystery) - Barbara Cleverly - EXCELLENT

"Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is asked to look into a series of deaths in Calcutta in 1922. A number of British officers' wives have died in what looks like the work of a clever…

SMUGGLER’S MOON - VG

Alexander, Bruce – 8th in series…

MEMORY AND DESIRE – Okay

Carl, Lillian Stewart – 1^st book…

AN OLD MAGIC – VG

Cleverly, Barbara – stand alone…

MORGUE MAMA: THE CROSS KISSES BACK – G

Corwin, C.R. – 1st book

Dolly Madison Sprowls, 67-year-old keeper of the newspaper morgue, and a determined cub reporter, Aubrey McGinty,…

MESOZOIC MURDER – Okay

Gentry, Christine – 1st book

Ansel Phoenix, who makes her living drawing dinosaurs, unearths the body of colleague and ex-lover Nick Capos while digging with…

THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE – Ex

Niffenegger, Audrey – 1st book

Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, have known each other since Clare was six and…

NO GRAVES AS YET – Okay

Perry, Anne – 1st in series…

THIS DEADLY GRIEF – G+

Power, Patricia – 1st book

Daphne Wilder accepts her godmother’s invitation to come to her beautiful Montreal home as a temporary live-in companion. But then…

RELIC - VG

Preston, Douglas, Lincoln Child – 1st Pendergast book

Graduate Student Margo Green, and FBI agent Frank Pendergast search for a savagely murderous predator within the…

FROSTLINE - G

Scott, Justin – 3rd in series

In quaint Newbury, Conn., real estate broker Abbott gets caught in a nasty land battle between two neighbors: cantankerous Vietnam vet…

HARD AS NAILS –VG…

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…