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…

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FAMILY VALUES (Police Procedural) - K.C. Constantine - Not Recommended

"The District Attorney of Rocksburg, Pennsylvania asks retired police chief Mario Balzic to come out of retirement to investigate a special case.…

COLOR OF DEATH – VG

Alexander, Bruce – 7^th in series

After Sir John Fielding is wounded, Jeremy Procter must take the lead in investigating a spree of robberies and…

WINTERKILL – VG

Box, C.J. – 3^rd in series

Joe Pickett is caught in the middle between two sets of bad guys, one of whom works for the government,…

THE HACKMAN BLUES – Okay

Bruen, Ken – 2^nd book

Brady is a gay, bipolar, tough guy, criminal-detective ex-con. He is asked to find a white girl in Brixton, which sounds…

GARDEN OF THORNES- Okay

Carl, Lillian Stewart – 3^rd book…