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The Lizard’s Bite  (©2006)   360 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]
Author(s): David Hewson
Series: Nic Costa # 4
Location: Venice, Italy
A Quiet Vendetta  (©2005)
     Mystery   Mafia   Government Agency    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC
Reviews Available by:     [Ali Karim - RAM]
Author(s): Roger Jon Ellory
Location: Louisiana, USA
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death  (©1992)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Amateur Sleuth   Woman Main Character   Senior Sleuths    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): M. C. Beaton
Series: Agatha Raisin # 1
Book Description / Blurb

Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town. But her recipe for social advancement sours when Judge Cummings-Browne not only snubs her entry—but falls over dead! After her quiche’s secret ingredient turns out to be poison, she must reveal the unsavory truth…

Agatha has never baked a thing in her life! In fact, she bought her entry ready-made from an upper crust London quicherie. Grating on the nerves of several Carsely residents, she is soon receiving sinister notes. Has her cheating and meddling landed her in hot water, or are the threats related to the suspicious death? It may mean the difference between egg on her face and a coroner’s tag on her toe…


[4 stars] "Agatha is a retired PR professional who has taken a house in rural England and wants to settle down with her flowers and a quiet life. She is naturally bored, and eager to get involved with village life, incuding the odd murder. She is her own worst enemy, and sets herself up for many misadventures. Supporting characters are interesting and the stories entertain." - Tuggy Curan - RAM
Bark M For Murder  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Dogs   [Short Stories]    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): J. A. Jance , Virginia Lanier , Chassie West , Lee Charles Kelley
Blondes Have More Felons  (©2006)   368 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Alesia Holliday
Series: December Vaughn
Blood Hunt  (©2006)   400 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Lynn Harnett]
Author(s): Ian Rankin
Comment: A stand-alone suspense novel.
Blood on the Sun  (©2006)   307 pp.
     Mystery   Forensics    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Stuart M. Kaminsky
Series: CSI: New York
Borkmann's Point  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural   Hard Boiled    Amazon US PB    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Lynn Harnett]
Author(s): Hakan Nesser
Series: Inspector Van Veeteren
Location: Sweden
Comment: Winner of the 1994 Swedish Crime Writers' Best Novel Award.
Chamomile Mourning  (©2005)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Laura Childs
Series: Theodosia # 6
Cherry Cheesecake Murder  (©2006)   342 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Woman Main Character   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Joanne Fluke
Series: Hannah Swensen # 8
Region: North-Central
Location: Minnesota, USA
Comment: Includes Recipes
Chickenfeed  (©2006)   128 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US PB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]
Author(s): Minette Walters
Comment: Quick Reads book - Quick Reads is World Book Day’s program that encourages new readers with short books accessible to the least able readers. However, the stories written for the series will be of sufficient quality and depth to provide a pleasurable reading experience.
Chocolate Dipped Death  (©2006)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Sammi Carter
Series: Candy Shop Mysteries # 2
Cold Case  (©1997)
     Mystery   Private Investigator    Amazon US PB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Linda Barnes
Series: Carlotta Carlyle # 7
Cold Service  (©2005)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Private Investigator    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Robert B. Parker
Series: Spenser # 32
Company Man  (©2005)   528 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Woodstock - RAM]     [Ali Karim - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Joseph Finder
Comment: AKA: No Hiding Place
Countdown  (©2005)   416 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Psychological Suspense   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Iris Johansen
Series: Eve Duncan / Joe Quinn
Book Description / Blurb

“Don’t kill her. She’s no good to us dead.” These words haunt Jane MacGuire after a shocking attack shatters her world in an instant. Was it a random kidnapping attempt–or the countdown to something far more sinister?

Who is after her–and what do they want so badly they’ll kill anyone in their way? That’s what Jane is determined to find out, without the help of the police, the FBI, or her adoptive parents, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and her husband, Joe Quinn, of the Atlanta PD–because whoever is after her won’t hesitate to hurt those she loves the most. Now Jane will go on the run with the only man who may be more dangerous than those who are pursuing her. A smuggler, a con man, and who knew what else, Mark Trevor had his own mysterious reasons for wanting to keep Jane safe and out of the hands of a killer obsessed with a two-thousand-year-old mystery that could rock the modern-day world.

Orphaned at an early age, Jane grew up the hard way, but she was given a new life, a loving family, and a chance to pursue her interest in one of the greatest archaeological finds ever unearthed. Now someone was trying to destroy that new life before it could even get started. The past is returning with the kind of vengeance that knows no mercy. The countdown has already begun, and it’s approaching zero faster than anyone thinks.

Dark Assassin  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Private Investigator   Police Procedural    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Cheryl - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Anne Perry
Series: William Monk & Hester Latterly # 15
Darker  (©1996)   600 pp.
     Fiction   Mystery   Horror    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Simon Clark
Darkhouse  (©2005)
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC
Reviews Available by:     [Woodstock - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Alex Barclay
Location: Ireland
Comment: Debut Novel. Features NYPD detective Joe Lucchesi
Dead Boogie  (©2006)   224 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Victoria Houston
Series: Loon Lake Fishing Mysteries # 7
Death du Jour  (©2006)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Culinary   Amateur Sleuth   Woman Main Character   Historical    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Dawn Dowdle]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Lou Jane Temple
Series: Spice Box # 2
Comment: Set in 1790 Paris / Includes period Recipes
Death of the Party  (©2005)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Amateur Sleuth   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Dawn Dowdle]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Carolyn G. Hart
Series: Death on Demand # 16
Death Without Company  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Native American    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Woodstock - RAM]
Author(s): Craig Johnson
Series: Walt Longmire # 2
Region: Northwest Rural
Location: Wyoming, USA
Desert Run  (©2006)   380 pp.
     Mystery   Private Investigator   Woman Main Character    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Carl Brookins - RAM]
Author(s): Betty Webb
Series: Lena Jones # 4
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Desert Shadows : Publishing can be murder  (©2004)   243 pp.
     Mystery   Private Investigator   Woman Main Character   Native American    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Betty Webb
Series: Lena Jones # 3
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Desperately Seeking Sushi  (©2006)   256 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Culinary    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Jerrilyn Farmer
Series: Maddie Bean # 8
Dog Eat Dog  (©1996)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Dogs   Cozy   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Carol Schwaderer Dickinson - RAM]
Author(s): Laurien Berenson
Series: Melanie Travis # 3
Dramatist  (©2004)   288 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Woodstock - RAM]
Author(s): Ken Bruen
Series: Jack Taylor # 4
Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American  (©2005)   250 pp.
     Mystery   [Short Stories]    Amazon US TPB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada TPB
Editor(s): Ken Bruen
End of Story  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Psychological Suspense   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Woodstock - RAM]
Author(s): Peter Abrahams
False Impression  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]
Author(s): Jeffrey Archer
Final Fore  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Roberta Isleib
Series: Golf Lover's Mysteries # 5
Flesh Wounds  (©2005)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Police Procedural    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): John Lawton
Series: Frederick Troy
Comment: UK Title: Blue Rondo
Forecast of Evil  (©2006)   204 pp.
     Mystery   Romance    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Laura Bradford
Series: Elise Jenkins and Mitch Burns # 2
Region: North-Central
Location: Michigan, USA
Game of Patience  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Police Procedural    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Carl Brookins - RAM]
Author(s): Susanne Alleyn
Location: Paris, France
Comment: Set in 1796 Paris.
[Book Cover graphic]Getting Old Is the Best Revenge  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Senior Sleuths   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Rita Lakin
Series: Gladdy Gold Detective Agency # 2
Region: Florida
Location: Florida, USA
Comment: Murder on a Bingo Cruise

Gone  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Psychological Suspense   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman
Series: Alex Delaware & Milo Sturgis # 20
[Book Cover graphic]Good Day in Hell  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Hard Boiled   Noir   Adventure    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Woodstock - RAM]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): J. D. Rhoades
Series: Jack Keller # 2
Region: Deep South
Location: North Carolina, USA

Here's the Church, Here's the Steeple  (©2006)   311 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Carl Brookins - RAM]
Author(s): Tempa Pagel
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Comment: Debut Novel
In A Heartbeat  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Romance   Serial Killer    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Rita Herron
Just Add Water  (©2006)   345 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Jinx Schwartz
Series: Hetta Coffey
Kill Me  (©2006)   416 pp.
     Mystery   Psychological Suspense   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Woodstock - RAM]
Author(s): Stephen White
Series: Alan Gregory # 14
Lake of Sorrows  (©2004)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Erin Hart
Comment: Sequel to Haunted Ground
Live Wire  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Government Agency   Government Conspiracy   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Jay MacLarty
Series: Simon Leonidovich # 3
Locked Rooms  (©2005)   416 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Historical   Sherlock Holmes    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Laurie R. King
Series: Mary Russell # 8
Region: CA: SF Bay Area
Location: San Francisco, California,USA
Long Spoon Lane  (©2005)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Historical   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Anne Perry
Series: Thomas & Charlotte Pitt # 24
Missing Persons  (©2005)   400 pp.
     Mystery   Psychological Suspense   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Woodstock - RAM]     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [A. Rolfingsmeier]     [Shirley - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Stephen White
Series: Alan Gregory # 13
Monster  (©2005)   500 pp.
     Mystery   Fiction   Religious Fiction    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Frank E. Peretti
Mourning Dove  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Ethnic   Government Agency   Police Procedural   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Aimee Thurlo , David Thurlo
Series: Ella Clah # 12
Murder at Five Finger Light  (©2005)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Sue Henry
Series: Alex Jensen & Jessie Arnold # 11
Murder in Montparnasse  (©2002)   276 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Woman Main Character    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Kerry Greenwood
Series: Phryne Fisher # 12
Night of the Jaguar  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Supernatural    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Michael Gruber
Series: Iago "Jimmy" Paz # 3
No Place Like Home  (©2005)   368 pp.
     Mystery   Psychological Suspense    Amazon US PB    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Mary Higgins Clark
Location: New Jersey, USA
Not a Girl Detective  (©2005)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Susan Kandel
Series: Cece Caruso # 2
Comment: Cece Caruso works on a biography of Carolyn Keene (The psuedonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the authors they hired to write the Nancy Drew books).
Oh Danny Boy  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Rhys Bowen
Series: Molly Murphy # 5
Book Description / Blurb

While Irish immigrant Molly Murphy contemplates giving up PI work in New York to move West, she+s determined to avoid the handsome but deceiving NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan. That is, until Daniel is accused of accepting bribes and lands himself in the Tombs, the notorious city jail. When Daniel asks Molly to help prove he was framed, she finds herself drawn into the case-and to the case of a serial killer who+s already murdered five prostitutes. Beloved cozy writer and Edgar finalist Rhys Bowen is back with a triumphant fifth installment in the Molly Murphy series.

One Shot  (©2005)   384 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Lee Child
Series: Jack Reacher # 9
Book Description / Blurb

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in–no phone, no address, no commitments–ex—military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, Reacher’s arrival will change everything–about a case that isn’t what it seems, about lives tangled in baffling ways, about a killer who missed one shot–and by doing so give Jack Reacher one shot at the truth.…

The gunman worked from a parking structure just thirty yards away–point-blank range for a trained military sniper like James Barr. His victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time. But why does Barr want Reacher at his side? There are good reasons why Reacher is the last person Barr would want to see. But when Reacher hears Barr’s own words, he understands. And a slam-dunk case explodes. Soon Reacher is teamed with a young defense lawyer who is working against her D.A. father and dueling with a prosecution team that has an explosive secret of its own. Like most things Reacher has known in life, this case is a complex battlefield. But, as always, in battle, Reacher is at his best.

Moving in the shadows, picking his spots, Reacher gets closer and closer to the unseen enemy who is pulling the strings. And for Reacher, the only way to take him down is to know his ruthlessness and respect his cunning–and then match him shot for shot….

Owls Well That Ends Well  (©2005)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Donna Andrews
Series: Meg Lanslow # 6
Prior Bad Acts  (©2006)   382 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Tami Hoag
Series: Sam Kovac & Nikki Liska
Scent to Her Grave  (©2005)   390 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy   Humorous    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): India Ink
Series: Bath and Body Mysteries # 1
Secret Alibi : The Blade Brothers of Cougar County  (©2006)   256 pp.
     Romance   Mystery   Romantic Suspense    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Lori L. Harris
Series: Harlequin Intrigue # 907
See Isabelle Run  (©2005)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Luke Croll - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Elizabeth Bloom
Region: New York City Urban
Location: New York City
Comment: Working title was "Give 'Em Hell, Isabelle"
Book Description / Blurb
See the groom leave the bride at the altar. See the jilted bride bravely pick herself up and start all over again. Meet Elizabeth Leonard - an administrative assistant at a multimedia lifestyle empire where a designing killer is creating a whole new look for murder.
[Book Cover graphic]Sonnet of the Sphinx  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Diana Killian
Series: Poetic Death Mystery # 3
Location: England

Steamed  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Culinary   Cozy   Chick Lit    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Jessica Conant-Park , Susan Conant
Series: Gourmet Girl Mysteries # 1
The Alpine Quilt  (©2005)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Woman Main Character   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Dawn Dowdle[New Review]]
Author(s): Mary Daheim
Series: Emma Lord # 17
The Alpine Recluse  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Woman Main Character   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Mary Daheim
Series: Emma Lord # 18
The Armies of Memory  (©2006)   432 pp.
     Science Fiction   Mystery    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): John Barnes
Series: A Million Open Doors # 3
The Big Bamboo  (©2006)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Humorous    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Tim Dorsey
Region: CA: LA Basin
Location: Hollywood, California, USA
The Circle  (©2005)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Luke Croll - RAM]
Author(s): Peter Lovesey
Book Description / Blurb

Encouraged by his fourteen-year-old-daughter who recognizes his lonely widowhood, Bob Naylor decides to join a writers' circle, believing he might gain some expert help with the poetry which keeps spilling out of his imagination. He discovers a motley collection of wannabe authors who he doubts he has anything in common with, but just as he is deciding not to formally join the group he learns that a publisher who addressed their last meeting has been killed and he stays to see what might develop. The Senior Investigating Officer, Henrietta Mallin, soon has all the members of the group under suspicion and under pressure from her superiors arrests their Chairman. Bob, the only writer who had not met the dead man, is persuaded by some other members of the group to do some investigating of his own. And that is when the trouble really starts, because another death turns the spotlight of suspicion on to him.

The Cold Dish  (©2004)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Native American    Amazon US PB    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Woodstock - RAM]
Author(s): Craig Johnson
Series: Walt Longmire # 1
Region: Northwest Rural
Location: Wyoming, USA
Book Description / Blurb

The citizens of the Cowboy State boast a long and bloody history of dispensing rough justice but the last few decades have bred peace between the white and Native American communities. So when Cody Pritchard is found dead near the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Sheriff Walt Longmire and the general population of Absaroka County are inclined to think it’s a hunting accident. But two years earlier Cody was one four high school boys convicted of brutally raping Melissa Little Bird, a young Cheyenne girl with fetal alcohol syndrome. The boys were guilty but let off with suspended sentences. Was this a revenge killing? Sheriff Longmire intends to find out.

After twenty-four years as sheriff, Walt, along with Deputy Victoria Moretti and lifelong friend Henry Standing Bear, is embroiled in the most volatile and challenging case of his career. He might be the only thing standing between the three remaining boys and a Sharps .45-70 buffalo rifle.

The Color of Law  (©2005)   416 pp.
     Mystery   Legal Setting    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Luke Croll - RAM]
Author(s): Mark Gimenez
Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
Comment: Debut
The Cross Examination of Oliver Finney  (©2006)   400 pp.
     Mystery   Legal Setting    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Randy Singer
The Cymry Ring  (©2006)   322 pp.
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Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Michael Allen Dymmoch
The Dark End of Town  (©2006)   288 pp.
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Author(s): Julia Pomeroy
Series: Abby Silvernale
Location: New York State, USA
The Dead Letter  (©2006)   256 pp.
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Author(s): Lee Goldberg
Series: Diagnosis Murder # 6
The Evidence  (©2006)   320 pp.
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Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Austin Boyd
The Fallen  (©2006)   336 pp.
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Reviews Available by:     [Wes Struebing]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Gina Metz - RAM]     [Ali Karim - RAM]
Author(s): T. Jefferson Parker
Book Description / Blurb

My life was ordinary until three years ago when I was thrown out of a downtown hotel window. My name is Robbie Brownlaw, and I am a homicide detective for the city of San Diego. I am twenty-nine years old.

I now have synesthesia, a neurological condition where your senses get mixed up. Sometimes when people talk to me, I see their voices as colored shapes provoked by the emotions of the speakers, not by the words themselves. I have what amounts to a primitive lie detector. After three years, I don't pay a whole lot of attention to the colors and shapes of other people's feelings, unless they don't match up with their words.

When Garrett Asplundh's body is found under a San Diego bridge, Robbie Brownlaw and his partner, McKenzie Cortez, are called on to the case. After the tragic death of his child and the dissolution of his marriage, Garrett -- regarded as an honest, straight-arrow officer -- left the SDPD to become an ethics investigator, looking into the activities of his former colleagues. At first his death, which takes place on the eve of a reconciliation with his ex, looks like suicide, but the clues Brownlaw and Cortez find just don't add up. With pressure mounting from the police and the city's politicians, Brownlaw fights to find the truth, all the while trying to hold on to his own crumbling marriage. Was Garrett's death an "execution" or a crime of passion, a personal vendetta or the final step in an elaborate cover-up? Amid rampant corruption and tightening city purse strings, whatever conclusion Brownlaw comes to, the city of San Diego -- and Brownlaw's life -- hangs in the balance.

A carefully woven novel of suspense, The Fallen brings to life a superb cast of characters against the all-too-real backdrop of a city fighting for its survival.

The Gardens of the Dead  (©2006)   368 pp.
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