RIOT ACT (Amateur Sleuth-London-Cont) – VG

Sharp, Zoe – 2^nd in series

Piatkus, 2002-Hardcover

Charlie Fox is an self-defense expert and ex-Special Forces. She is house- and dog-sitting--a Rhodesian Ridgeback named Frank—for her

friend but things turn ugly when teenage gangs start terrorizing the

neighborhood. The neighbors hire…

MEW IS FOR MURDER (Amateur Sleuth-Boston-Cont) – G+

Simon, Clea – 1^st in series

Poisoned Pen Press, 2005- Hardcover

Theda Krakow is a freelance journalist and cat lover. Passing a house in her neighborhood with a multitude of cats, she is concerned the

elderly woman, Lillian, may be a cat hoarder.

On a…

MURDER ON NOB HILL (Legal Thriller-San Francisco-1880) – VG

Tallman, Shirley – 1^st in series

St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004- Hardcover

Sarah Wollson is an intelligent, independent young woman who is determined to be a lawyer. She brazens her way to represent her…

COLD IN THE EARTH (Police Procedural-Scotland-Cont) – VG

Templeton, Aline – 1^st in series

Hodder & Stoughton, 2005- Hardcover

Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming is also a mother and wife raising chickens and sheep in Scotland. When foot-and-mouth disease breaks out in their area, she and her neighbors are faced with losing all…

TO KINGDON COME (Private Investigators-Europe-1884) – VG

Thomas, Will – 2^nd in series

A Touchstone Book, 2005- Hardcover

The Irish Republican Brotherhood has blown up part of Scotland Yard and the blast does damage to the offices of Investigator Cyrus Barker and his young Welsh assistant, Thomas

Llewelyn. Barker volunteers…

RENDER UP THE BODY (Legal Thriller-Colorado-Cont) – G

Wesson, Marianne – 1^st book

Harper Collins, 1998 – Hardcover

Cinda Hayes has left her job as a sex-crimes prosecutor to become the director of the Boulder County Rape Crisis

Center.

However, her former teacher and mentor, Justice Hilton James, asks…

WHILE I DISAPPEAR (Amateur Sleuth-California-1950s) – VG

Wright, Edward – 2^nd in series

Putnam, 2004- Hardcover

John Ray Horn is a former movie cowboy who now collects gambling debts for his former Indian co-star, Joseph Mad Crow. When John and Joseph

visit a bar to persuade a man again bothering Joe's niece, John sees a…