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A Dinner To Die For  (©2006)   240 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Claudia Bishop
Series: Hemlock Falls # 13
A Killing Night  (©2005)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Private Investigator   Serial Killer    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Jonathon King
Series: Max Freeman # 4
A Question of Murder  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Jessica Fletcher , Donald Bain
Series: Murder She Wrote # 25
Book Description / Blurb

Jessica Fletcher is attending a writer's conference at a historic mansion in the Berkshires, where her friends are hosting a murder-mystery party. As both crime-solver and mystery author, Jessica is an old hand at this kind of thing. So she swears to the Savoys that she won't reveal the secrets of their play and goes about enjoying the weekend with her colleagues. But when a young actor's murder scene appears all too real, no one can tell what's scripted and what isn't. They say the show must go on, but now everyone is wondering: Who really dunit?

African Ice  (©2006)   372 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Adventure    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Jeff Buick
Angels Passing  (©2002)   432 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Graham Hurley
Series: Detective Inspector Joe Faraday # 3
Book Description / Blurb

"Angels Passing" is a Dickensian trawl through the depths of life in Portsmouth. With a compactly labyrinthine plot, uniquely human policemen, a grotesque rogues gallery of squalid villains and a shadowy child as anti-hero - it's a breathtaking and harrowing ride. Devoted to the events of just one week, and focused around two investigations - the hunt for a ten year old boy, who may be linked to the death of a teenage girl and a murder enquiry prompted by the discovery of the body of a small time crook on wasteland north of the city - "Angels Passing" takes us to the core of complex relationships, serves as a grimly recognisable post-mortem on a society that is coming apart at the seams. This is at once an unremittingly realistic fast moving crime thriller and a bleakly moving novel about the price children are paying for a society that is in freefall.

Assumed Dead  (©2006)   232 pp.
     Mystery   Medical   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Eleanor Sullivan
Series: Monika Everhardt # 3
Bad Guys  (©2005)   448 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US PB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Linwood Barclay
Bleeding Hearts  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Susan Wittig Albert
Series: China Bayles # 14
Location: Texas, USA
Blood Orange Brewing  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Laura Childs
Series: Theodosia # 7
Blue Shoes and Happiness  (©2006)   240 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]
Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
Series: The No 1 Ladies Detective agency # 7
Burned  (©2005)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Private Investigator   Woman Main Character   Humorous    Amazon US PB    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Carol Higgins Clark
Series: Regan Riley # 8
Charmed to Death  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Fantasy   Woman Main Character   Supernatural   Witchcraft   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Shirley Damsgaard
Series: Ophelia and Abby # 2
City of Tiny Lights  (©2005)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Private Investigator   Government Agency    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Shirley - RAM]
Author(s): Patrick Neate
Location: London, England
Comment: Features Tommy Akhtar, a Ugandan-Indian London PI.
Cocaine Blues  (©1989)   326 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Woman Main Character    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Carl Brookins - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Kerry Greenwood
Series: Phryne Fisher # 1
Comment: alternate title: Death by Misadventure
Code Black  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Aviation   Thriller    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Philip S. Donlay
Book Description / Blurb

As a blizzard bears down on Chicago’s O’Hare airport, a critical air traffic control facility is shut down by a grizzly accident. When the radar reappears, two planes have collided. Wayfarer flight 880 — with half the roof ripped away — flies on in the evening sky. Seated in the back, amid dead and dying passengers, is Donovan Nash, a pilot who fights decompression and oxygen deprivation to make it to the cockpit. Donovan is forced to fly this unfamiliar plane with no electrical power or functioning instruments. With help from Audrey Parrish, a woman from his carefully concealed past, and a handful of survivors, Donovan struggles to keep the 737 airborne.

On the ground, Dr. Lauren McKenna waits for Donovan, her fiancée, to arrive in Chicago, only to hear firsthand of the midair collision. Faced with a hostile airline executive who secretly wants the stricken airliner to vanish into the icy waters of Lake Michigan, Lauren must convince Henry Parrish, an unlikely ally, to help save the man she loves. Lauren and Henry have to stay one step ahead of the Airline as well as heightened security, to execute a daring midair solution to save Donovan and any survivors.

Consigned to Death  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Jane K. Cleland
Series: Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries # 1
Cripple Creek  (©2006)   272 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): James Sallis
Series: Turner # 2
Region: Appalachia
Location: Tennessee, USA
Cut to Black  (©2004)   480 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Graham Hurley
Series: Detective Inspector Joe Faraday # 5
Dark Harbor  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Police Procedural   Government Agency    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Stuart Woods
Series: Stone Barrington # 12
Comment: Also includes Agent Holly Barker
Dark Tort  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Woman Main Character   Culinary    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Diane Mott Davidson
Series: Goldy Bear # 13
Dead as a Doornail  (©2005)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Fantasy   Horror   Vampire    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Charlaine Harris
Series: Sookie Stackhouse # 5
Dead Days of Summer  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Amateur Sleuth   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Carolyn G. Hart
Series: Death on Demand # 17
Dead Man Running  (©2006)   240 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Rett MacPherson
Series: Victory O'Shea # 9
Book Description / Blurb

At the request of a local journalist, genealogist Torie O'Shea sets out to research her Missouri hometown's two mayoral candidates: incumbent Bill Castlereagh and his challenger, Sheriff Colin Brooke, Torie's stepfather. With the discovery of a body linked to the Chicago Mafia, Torie's research into the mayor's genealogy turns up more questions than answers. As the case unravels, the mayor flees town and Torie makes a shocking discovery that might lead to her own demise.

Dead Man's Bones  (©2005)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Susan Wittig Albert
Series: China Bayles # 13
Location: Texas, USA
Dead Run  (©2005)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): P. J. Tracy
Series: Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth # 3
Deadlight  (©2003)   432 pp.
     Mystery   Military   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Graham Hurley
Series: Detective Inspector Joe Faraday # 4
Book Description / Blurb

Faraday is thrown into the violent legacy of the Falklands War.

Debts of Dishonor  (©2006)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Jill Paton Walsh
Series: Imogen Quy
Detour  (©2005)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): James Siegel
Digging Up Trouble  (©2006)   256 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Heather Webber
Series: Nina Quinn # 3
Location: Ohio, USA
Eight of Swords  (©2005)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Supernatural   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): David Skibbins
Series: Warren Ritter # 1
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Winner 2004 St. Martin's Press / Malice Domestic (Best First Traditional Mystery)
Face Down Beside St. Anne's Well  (©2006)   231 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Woman Main Character    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Kathy Lynn Emerson
Series: Lady Susanna Appleton # 10
Filet Mignon  (©2006)   256 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Senior Sleuths    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Margaret Searles
Series: Mrs. Millet and Mrs. Hark Mysteries
Location: California, USA
Final Winter  (©2006)   522 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Government Agency    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Brendan Dubois
Firetrap  (©2006)   368 pp.
     Mystery   Firefighting / Firefighters   Thriller    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Webspinner - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Earl Emerson
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
Fugitive Shoes  (©2006)   427 pp.
     Fiction   Mystery   Romance   Woman Main Character   Thriller    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Erin O'Rourke
Full Scoop  (©2006)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Romance    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Janet Evanovich , Charlotte Hughes
Series: Full # 6
Location: South Carolina, USA
Green 61  (©2006)   232 pp.
     Mystery   Legal Setting   Thriller    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Carol - SLC - RAM]
Author(s): Cody Fowler Davis
Region: Florida
Location: Florida, USA
Comment: An Anderson Parker (prosecuting attorney) legal thriller. First of a series. Murder in Florida's intercostal waterways.
Book Description / Blurb

Anderson Parker, an honest young trial attorney, faces off against his unscrupulous former boss, Justin Cartwright, in a court case in which three people were killed in a boating accident. Although his client is responsible, defense attorney Cartwright will stop at nothing to defeat Parker.

[Book Cover graphic]Hare Today, Dead Tomorrow  (©2006)   400 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Veterinarian   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Cynthia Baxter
Series: Reigning Cats and Dogs # 4

High Priestess  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Supernatural   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): David Skibbins
Series: Warren Ritter # 2
Location: Berkeley, California, USA
Hit Parade  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US PB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Lawrence Block
Series: Keller # 3
Hitched  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Private Investigator   Woman Main Character   Humorous    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Carol Higgins Clark
Series: Regan Riley # 9
House  (©2006)   400 pp.
     Mystery   Fiction   Religious Fiction   Thriller   Supernatural    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Frank E. Peretti , Ted Dekker
Book Description / Blurb

In rural Alabama, two couples find themselves in a fight for survival. Running from a maniac bent on killing them, they flee deep into the woods. They seek refuge in an old house that's been vacated for years . . . or so they think. They soon discover that others are dwelling in the lower level of the house--and they don't take kindly to visitors. With danger present in the house, they try to leave--but the house won't let them.

Worse, they soon realize the killer has purposely lured them to this house. As they huddle around an old fireplace, a tin can falls from through the chimney. Scrawled on its side is a message from the killer: He claims to have killed God and now demands more dead bodies.

The characters come to realize that the house, while real, mirrors their own heart and soul . . . and unless each can defeat the evil within, the evil in the house will surely claim them. House is a modern tale that will have readers searching their own spiritual pulse long after they reach the last page.

Hunter's Dance  (©2004)   301 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Police Procedural    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Kathleen Hills
Series: Constable John McIntire
Region: North-Central
Location: Michigan, USA
Iron Orchid  (©2005)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural   Woman Main Character   Government Agency    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Stuart Woods
Series: Holly Barker # 4
Location: New York City
Comment: Holly resigns her position as the Orchid Beach Chief of Police to work for the CIA.
Johnny Come Home  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Fiction    Amazon US PB    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]
Author(s): Jake Arnott
Comment: N ote: if not available on Amazon US, try Amazon Canada
Killing Floor  (©1997)   359 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Lee Child
Series: Jack Reacher # 1
Location: Georgia, USA
Winner 1998 Anthony Award (Best First Mystery Novel)
Nominated for 1998 Dilys Award
Winner 1998 Barry Award (Best First Novel)
Legends : A Novel of Dissimulation  (©2004)   386 pp.
     Mystery   Espionage   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Ali Karim - RAM]
Author(s): Robert Littell
Lie By Moonlight  (©2005)   400 pp.
     Romance   Mystery   Historical    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Amanda Quick
Lost Lake  (©2005)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Woman Main Character   Government Conspiracy   Legal Setting    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Gina Metz - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Phillip Margolin
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Madman  (©2006)   350 pp.
     Fiction   Mystery   Religious Fiction   Historical    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Tracy Groot
Map of Bones  (©2005)   448 pp. (Recently Added)
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): James Rollins
Series: Sigma Force
Million Dollar Baby  (©2006)   379 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Historical    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Amy Patricia Meade
Series: Marjorie McClelland # 1
Miss Julia Stands Her Ground  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Ann B. Ross
Series: Miss Julia # 7
Location: North Carolina, USA
Miss Julia's School of Beauty  (©2005)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Humorous    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Ann B. Ross
Series: Miss Julia # 6
Motor Mouth  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Romance   Humorous   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Janet Evanovich
Series: Barney (Alexandra Barnaby) # 2
[Book Cover graphic]Murder A'la Mode  (©2004)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Private Investigator   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): G. A. McKevett
Series: Savannah Reid # 10

Murder at the Racetrack : Original Tales of Mystery and Mayhem Down the Final Stretch from Today's Great  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Sports   [Short Stories]    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Editor(s): Otto Penzler
Murder in Vegas  (©2005)   352 pp.
     Mystery   [Short Stories]    Amazon US PB    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]
Editor(s): Michael Connelly
Region: Northwest Urban
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Comment: 22 short stories from the International Association of Crime Writers, edited by Michael Connelly
Book Description / Blurb

Featuring stories by: James Swain, S.J. Rozan, Wendy Hornsby, Michael Collins, T.P Keating, J. Madison Davis, Sue Pike, Joan Richter, Libby Hellmann, Tom Savage, Edward Wellen, K. J. A. Wishnia, Linda Kerslake, John Wessel, Lise McClendon, Ronnie Klaskin, Ruth Cavin, A.B. Robbins , Gay Toltl Kinman, Micki Marz, Rick Mofina, Jeremiah Healy

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
Once Upon Stilettos  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Fantasy   Romance   Mystery   Magic   Chick Lit   Humorous   Cozy    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Shanna Swendson
Series: Kathleen "Katie" Chandler # 2
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….

One Tuesday Morning  (©2003)   675 pp.
     Mystery   Fiction   Religious Fiction   Firefighting / Firefighters   Inspirational Fiction   Christianity    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Karen Kingsbury
Series: September 11th Series (Kingsbury) # 1
Overexposed  (©2006)   300 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US TPB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]
Author(s): Michael Blair
Series: Granville Island Mysteries
Perfect Nightmare  (©2005)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Horror   Psychological Suspense   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Gina Metz - RAM]
Author(s): John Saul
Book Description / Blurb
Every parent's nightmare becomes her reality when Kara Marshal's daughter vanishes from her bedroom.
Promise Me  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Sports   Private Investigator   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Woodstock - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Harlan Coben
Series: Myron Bolitar # 8
Second Sight  (©2004)   320 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Philip R. Craig , William G. Tapply
Series: Brady Coyne / J. W. Jackson # 2
Region: New England Rural
Location: Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA
Silent Waters  (©2006)   400 pp.
     Military   Mystery   Thriller   Political Intrigue   Submarines   Terrorists    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Jan Coffey
Sofie Metropolis  (©2005)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Private Investigator   Humorous   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Tori Carrington
Series: Sofie Metropolis # 1
Some Welcome Home  (©2005)   376 pp.
     Mystery   Military   Woman Main Character   Vietnam or Vietnam Vet   Police Procedural   Historical    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Sharon Wildwind
Series: Elizabeth Pepperhawk / Avivah Rosen
Sun and Shadow   400 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Ake Edwardson
Series: Chief Inspector Erik Winter
Location: Sweden
Sun Storm  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural   Thriller   Psychological Suspense   Woman Main Character    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Lynn Harnett]
Author(s): Asa Larsson
Region: Scandinavia
Location: Sweden
Comment: Debut Novel / Winner of Sweden's Best First Crime Novel award.
Survival Instinct  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Romance   Adventure   Woman Main Character   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Doranna Durgin
Series: Silhouette Bombshell
The Cane Mutiny  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Tamar Myers
Series: Den of Antiquity # 13
The Cipher Garden  (©2005)   235 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Police Procedural    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Martin Edwards
Series: Lake District Mysteries # 2
Location: England
The Death of Achilles  (©2005)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Humorous    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Cheryl - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Wes Struebing]
Author(s): Boris Akunin
Series: Erast Petrovich Fandorin # 4
Location: Moscow, Russia
Comment: Set in 1882 / Translated by Andrew Bromfield
The Ezekiel Option  (©2005)   350 pp.
     Mystery   Religious Fiction   Terrorists   Political Intrigue   Apocalyptic Fiction    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Joel C. Rosenberg
Series: Political Thrillers (Rosenberg) # 3
Book Description / Blurb
Woven through the writings of the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel, more than 2,500 years old, are eerily prescient descriptions of modern countries then unborn, modern alliances then unformed, and an imminent day of unspeakable terror. Now, with the clock ticking down to war, two Americans are caught in the crossfire, wondering, Is the last judgment at hand?
The Goodbye Body  (©2005)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Joan Hess
Series: Claire Molloy # 15
The Heat of the Moon  (©2006)   292 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Sandra Parshall
Comment: First Novel
Book Description / Blurb

Young veterinarian Rachel Goddard’s world begins to crumble when a client rushes into the animal hospital with a basset hound struck by a car during a thunderstorm. The dog owner’s terrified tot, drenched with rain, loses sight of her mother in the flurry of activity and screams, “Mommy! I want Mommy!” Instantly Rachel is hurled back in time to a day in her own childhood when her baby sister Michelle uttered the same cry while thunder crashed and rain poured down on them. The unearthed memory feels like a fragment from a nightmare, and Rachel doesn’t understand its meaning or the anguish it stirs up in her.

When she seeks answers she learns nothing from Michelle or from Judith, their loving but manipulative mother. Judith is a psychologist who is only too happy to have her adult daughters still living in her elegant Tudor house outside Washington, DC. But their apparently serene home is a house of secrets where Judith’s unspoken rules forbid questions about the family history or the daughters’ long-dead father. As more baffling memories surface, Rachel begins to suspect that nothing about her family is what it seems. Fighting her mother’s attempts to control her, Rachel embarks on a quest that takes her deep into her own memory as well as halfway across the country. The heartbreaking truth she uncovers will shatter her world and force her to make an unthinkable choice.

The Heat of the Moon is Sandra Parshall’s first novel.

The Lighthouse  (©2005)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC