Book Releases and Reprints July

Mystery Books

47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers (©2006) 282 pp.
	Mystery Humorous Hard Boiled Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Reviews Available by: [Carl Brookins - RAM] Author(s): Troy Cook Comment: Father and daughter Bank-Robbing team… Until the daughter falls in love with a Sheriffs son.

A Friar's Blood Feud (©2005) 416 pp.
	Mystery Historical Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon UK PB Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Michael Jecks Series: Knights Templar Mysteries # 20

A Trouble of Fools (©1987) 240 pp.
	Mystery Private Investigator Amazon US PB Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada PB Author(s): Linda Barnes Series: Carlotta Carlyle # 1

After the Mourning (©2006) 288 pp.
	Mystery Historical Thriller Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon UK PB Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Catherine Thompson - RAM] Author(s): Barbara Nadel Series: Frank Hancock # 2 Comment: Set in 1940

Angels Fall (©2006) 448 pp.
	Mystery Romance Woman Main Character Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Nora Roberts Book Description / Blurb Reece Gilmore has come a long way to see the stunning view below her. As the sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, she has been on the run, desperately fighting the nightmares and panic attacks that haunt her. Reece settles in Angel's Fist, Wyoming - temporarily, at least-and takes a job at a local diner. And now she's hiked this mountain all by herself. It was glorious, she thought, as she peered through her binoculars at the Snake River churning below. Then Reece saw the man and woman on the opposite bank. Arguing. Fighting. And suddenly, the man was on top of the woman, his hands around her throat . . . Enjoying a moment of solitude a bit farther down the trail is a gruff loner named Brody. But by the time Reece reaches him and brings him to the scene, the pair has vanished. When authorities comb the area where she saw the attack, they find nothing. No signs of struggle. No freshly turned earth. Not even a tire track. And no one in Angel's Fist seems to believe her. After all, she's a newcomer in town, with a reputation for being jumpy and jittery-maybe even a little fragile. Maybe it's time to run again, to move on ... Reece knows there's a killer in Angel's Fist, even if Brody, despite his seeming impatience and desire to keep her at arm's length, is the only one willing to believe her. When a series of menacing events makes it clear that someone wants her out of the way, Reece must put her trust in Brody-and herself-to find out if there is a killer in Angel's Fist before it's too late.

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Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Nora Roberts

Book Description / Blurb

Reece Gilmore has come a long way to see the stunning view below her. As the sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, she has been on the run, desperately fighting the nightmares and panic attacks that haunt her. Reece settles in Angel's Fist, Wyoming - temporarily, at least-and takes a job at a local diner. And now she's hiked this mountain all by herself. It was glorious, she thought, as she peered through her binoculars at the Snake River churning below.

Then Reece saw the man and woman on the opposite bank. Arguing. Fighting. And suddenly, the man was on top of the woman, his hands around her throat . . .

Enjoying a moment of solitude a bit farther down the trail is a gruff loner named Brody. But by the time Reece reaches him and brings him to the scene, the pair has vanished. When authorities comb the area where she saw the attack, they find nothing. No signs of struggle. No freshly turned earth. Not even a tire track. And no one in Angel's Fist seems to believe her. After all, she's a newcomer in town, with a reputation for being jumpy and jittery-maybe even a little fragile. Maybe it's time to run again, to move on ...

Reece knows there's a killer in Angel's Fist, even if Brody, despite his seeming impatience and desire to keep her at arm's length, is the only one willing to believe her. When a series of menacing events makes it clear that someone wants her out of the way, Reece must put her trust in Brody-and herself-to find out if there is a killer in Angel's Fist before it's too late.

Bones To Pick (©2006) 320 pp.
	Mystery Woman Main Character Cozy Private Investigator Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Carolyn Haines Series: Southern Belle Mysteries # 6 Location: Mississippi, USA

Born To Be Wild (©2006) 368 pp.
	Mystery Romance Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Reviews Available by: [Webspinner - RAM] Author(s): Catherine Coulter Book Description / Blurb Sunday Cavendish is the woman everyone loves to hate. Independent, outspoken and brazenly sexy, she's clearly the star of the popular soap opera, Born To Be Wild, despite her character's machinations. But Mary Lisa Beverly isn't Sunday - except in front of the cameras. So when a car practically runs her over in idyllic Malibu, she realizes she needs some time off to escape. Returning home to Oregon, quickly reminds her why she left three years ago. Her ex-fiancé and the sister she found in bed with him are now married, her mother barely tolerates her, and she can't remember the last time she had a date. Her father alone is her refuge, that is, until she meets someone off-limits. When the attacks on her life continue after her return to LaLaLand, Mary Lisa turns to her friends and neighbors, her true family, for support. But she doesn't expect to turn to the last man she ever expected to show up on her doorstep. With the threat of danger lurking in every shadow, Mary Lisa must learn to trust her hometown adversary with her life and her heart.

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Reviews Available by: [Webspinner - RAM]
Author(s): Catherine Coulter

Book Description / Blurb

Sunday Cavendish is the woman everyone loves to hate. Independent, outspoken and brazenly sexy, she's clearly the star of the popular soap opera, Born To Be Wild, despite her character's machinations.

But Mary Lisa Beverly isn't Sunday - except in front of the cameras. So when a car practically runs her over in idyllic Malibu, she realizes she needs some time off to escape. Returning home to Oregon, quickly reminds her why she left three years ago. Her ex-fiancé and the sister she found in bed with him are now married, her mother barely tolerates her, and she can't remember the last time she had a date. Her father alone is her refuge, that is, until she meets someone off-limits.

When the attacks on her life continue after her return to LaLaLand, Mary Lisa turns to her friends and neighbors, her true family, for support. But she doesn't expect to turn to the last man she ever expected to show up on her doorstep. With the threat of danger lurking in every shadow, Mary Lisa must learn to trust her hometown adversary with her life and her heart.

Break No Bones (©2006) 400 pp.
	Mystery Forensics Woman Main Character Amazon US HC Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Kathy Reichs Series: Dr. Temperance Brennan # 9 Location: North Carolina, USA Book Description / Blurb It's the second-to-last day of archaeological field school - the students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, when a much more recent burial is uncovered...The skeleton is articulated, the bone fresh and the vertebrae still connected by soft-tissue - it's a case forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan has to take. But, her investigations soon have her in too deep, her entire view of humanity challenged, and the further she probes, the more she seems to be putting herself in danger.

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Author(s): Kathy Reichs
Series: Dr. Temperance Brennan # 9
Location: North Carolina, USA

Book Description / Blurb

It's the second-to-last day of archaeological field school - the students are working on a site of prehistoric graves on Dewees, a barrier island north of Charleston, South Carolina, when a much more recent burial is uncovered...The skeleton is articulated, the bone fresh and the vertebrae still connected by soft-tissue - it's a case forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan has to take. But, her investigations soon have her in too deep, her entire view of humanity challenged, and the further she probes, the more she seems to be putting herself in danger.

Burden of Memory (©2006) 236 pp.
	Mystery Woman Main Character Amateur Sleuth Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Cheryl - RAM] Author(s): Vicki Delany Location: Canada Book Description / Blurb Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who let love in the person of an unreliable screenwriter jettison her career, is now divorced, broke, and come to a "primitive, untamed northern forest" on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly Miss Moira Madison of the fabulously rich Canadian family wishes to write her memoirs. Miss Madison isn't interested in a bestseller. She wants to leave a record of her life and most specifically of her years with the Canadian Army Nursing Sisters of World War II. Her service in the British and then European theater was filled with triumphs and bitter losses and forever shaped her life. Can Elaine tell her story working with decades of old documents? Settling into the family "cottage" and what remains of a lifestyle long gone, Elaine reconnects with her love of researching the past. But somehow her project--she soon discovers the first writer hired oddly drowned in the Lake--stirs someone to murder. . . .

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Reviews Available by: [Cheryl - RAM]
Author(s): Vicki Delany
Location: Canada

Book Description / Blurb

Elaine Benson, a successful novelist who let love in the person of an unreliable screenwriter jettison her career, is now divorced, broke, and come to a "primitive, untamed northern forest" on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job. Elderly Miss Moira Madison of the fabulously rich Canadian family wishes to write her memoirs.

Miss Madison isn't interested in a bestseller. She wants to leave a record of her life and most specifically of her years with the Canadian Army Nursing Sisters of World War II. Her service in the British and then European theater was filled with triumphs and bitter losses and forever shaped her life. Can Elaine tell her story working with decades of old documents?

Settling into the family "cottage" and what remains of a lifestyle long gone, Elaine reconnects with her love of researching the past. But somehow her project--she soon discovers the first writer hired oddly drowned in the Lake--stirs someone to murder. . . .

Calibre (©2006) 224 pp.
	Mystery Hard Boiled Amazon US TPB Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada TPB Reviews Available by: [Catherine Thompson - RAM] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Ken Bruen

Chill Factor (©2005) 400 pp.
	Mystery Thriller FBI Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Sandra Brown Location: North Carolina, USA

Choosers of the Slain (©2006) 400 pp.
	Military Mystery Terrorists Thriller Dark Romance Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): John Ringo Series: Paladin of Shadows # 3

	Crooked (©2006) 320 pp.
		Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada PB Reviews Available by: [Ali Karim - RAM] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Brian M. Wiprud

Crusader's Cross (©2005) 336 pp.
	Mystery Hard Boiled Police Procedural Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): James Lee Burke Series: Dave Robicheaux # 14

Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir 385 pp.
	Mystery Senior Sleuths Noir [Short Stories] Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Author(s): Duane Swierczynski , Jeff Abbott , Megan Abbott , Mark Billingham , Steve Brewer , Ken Bruen , Reed Farrel Coleman , Bill Crider , Sean Doolittle , Laura Lippman Comment: Edited, introduced, and includes a story by Duane Sweirczynski. The other authors listed have written some of the 27 short stories in the anthology. tales by Jeff Abbott, Megan Abbott, Charles Ardai, Ray Banks, Mark Billingham, Steve Brewer, Ken Bruen, Milton Burton, Reed Farrel Coleman, Colin Cotterill, Bill Crider, Sean Doolittle, Victor Gischler, Allan Guthrie, John Harvey, Simon Kernick, Laura Lippman, Stuart MacBride, Donna Moore, Zoe Sharp, Jenny Siler, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, Duane Swierczynski, Robert Ward, Sarah Weinman and Dave White. [Unfortunately, our database only allowed 10 authors to be included in the book entry so I picked some at random. I'm sorry I couldn't include everyone! -- David]

Damn Near Dead: An Anthology of Geezer Noir 385 pp.

Mystery Senior Sleuths Noir [Short Stories] Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Duane Swierczynski , Jeff Abbott , Megan Abbott , Mark Billingham , Steve Brewer , Ken Bruen , Reed Farrel Coleman , Bill Crider , Sean Doolittle , Laura Lippman
Comment: Edited, introduced, and includes a story by Duane Sweirczynski. The other authors listed have written some of the 27 short stories in the anthology. tales by Jeff Abbott, Megan Abbott, Charles Ardai, Ray Banks, Mark Billingham, Steve Brewer, Ken Bruen, Milton Burton, Reed Farrel Coleman, Colin Cotterill, Bill Crider, Sean Doolittle, Victor Gischler, Allan Guthrie, John Harvey, Simon Kernick, Laura Lippman, Stuart MacBride, Donna Moore, Zoe Sharp, Jenny Siler, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, Duane Swierczynski, Robert Ward, Sarah Weinman and Dave White. [Unfortunately, our database only allowed 10 authors to be included in the book entry so I picked some at random. I'm sorry I couldn't include everyone! -- David]

Danger in the Air (©2006) 272 pp.
	Mystery Woman Main Character Amateur Sleuth Aviation Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Reviews Available by: [Pat Reid - RAM] Author(s): R. M. Jackson Book Description / Blurb Jane Logan, an engineer on contract to Global Airlines is asked to look into a series of incidents which caused interrupted flights. When she finds an aircraft mechanic willing to talk to her, both him and his wife turn up dead. Jane has to figure out what's really going on.

Mystery Woman Main Character Amateur Sleuth Aviation Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by: [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): R. M. Jackson

Book Description / Blurb

Jane Logan, an engineer on contract to Global Airlines is asked to look into a series of incidents which caused interrupted flights. When she finds an aircraft mechanic willing to talk to her, both him and his wife turn up dead. Jane has to figure out what's really going on.

Dead and Buried (©2006) 384 pp.
	Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon UK PB Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Quintin Jardine Series: Robert Skinner # 16

Dead Men Don't Lye (©2006) 240 pp.
	Mystery Amateur Sleuth Cozy Amazon US PB Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada TPB Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Tim Myers Series: SoapMaking Mysteries # 1 Comment: new series. Includes soap-making tips. Book Description / Blurb Benjamin Perkins thought he had his hands full taking care of his family's specialty soap store and keeping his quirky clan in line and out of trouble. But he's about to learn that when it comes to murder, there's no such thing as a clean getaway.

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Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Tim Myers
Series: SoapMaking Mysteries # 1
Comment: new series. Includes soap-making tips.

Book Description / Blurb

Benjamin Perkins thought he had his hands full taking care of his family's specialty soap store and keeping his quirky clan in line and out of trouble. But he's about to learn that when it comes to murder, there's no such thing as a clean getaway.

Dead Wrong (©2006) 368 pp.
	Mystery Police Procedural Woman Main Character Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Cheryl - RAM] [Pat Reid - RAM] [Dawn Dowdle] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): J. A. Jance Series: Joanna Brady # 12 Book Description / Blurb Jance brings back Joanna Brady and her life of trying to cope with being a Sheriff, a relatively new wife, mother of a teen, and being pregnant. Into the middle of this come two more serious crimes.

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Reviews Available by: [Cheryl - RAM] [Pat Reid - RAM] [Dawn Dowdle] [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): J. A. Jance
Series: Joanna Brady # 12

Book Description / Blurb

Jance brings back Joanna Brady and her life of trying to cope with being a Sheriff, a relatively new wife, mother of a teen, and being pregnant. Into the middle of this come two more serious crimes.

Deadly Blessings (©2005) 347 pp.
	Mystery Woman Main Character Cozy Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Julie A. Hyzy Series: Alex St. James # 1

Death of a Perfect Wife (©1989) 192 pp.
	Mystery Cozy Police Procedural Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Author(s): M. C. Beaton Series: Hamish MacBeth # 4

Dogged Pursuit (©2006) 320 pp.
	Mystery Dogs Cozy Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Author(s): Lee Charles Kelley Series: Jack Field and Jamie Cutter Location: Maine, USA

Dot.Dead (©2006) 384 pp.
	Mystery Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Reviews Available by: [Cheryl - RAM] [Shirley - RAM] [Pat Reid - RAM] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Keith Raffel Series: Silicon Valley Mysteries Book Description / Blurb When Ian Michaels, a Silicon Valley hotshot, discovers a young, beautiful woman stabbed to death in his house, it takes him a moment to realize that the still-warm corpse is his maid. Far from the gray-haired, cookie-baking grandmother he imagined her to be, Gwendolyn was a stranger to Ian, but her family, old boyfriend, and the Palo Alto police seem to think they were a couple. And despite his best efforts to prove otherwise, the evidence against Ian is growing. It looks like someone is framing Ian for murder, but who? An executive at a tech firm, Ian is anxious to prove his innocence to his boss and mentor Paul Berk, a Silicon Valley legend. As the investigation heats up so does Ian's interest in Gwendolyn's sister, but can she be trusted?

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Reviews Available by: [Cheryl - RAM] [Shirley - RAM] [Pat Reid - RAM] [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Keith Raffel
Series: Silicon Valley Mysteries

Book Description / Blurb

When Ian Michaels, a Silicon Valley hotshot, discovers a young, beautiful woman stabbed to death in his house, it takes him a moment to realize that the still-warm corpse is his maid. Far from the gray-haired, cookie-baking grandmother he imagined her to be, Gwendolyn was a stranger to Ian, but her family, old boyfriend, and the Palo Alto police seem to think they were a couple. And despite his best efforts to prove otherwise, the evidence against Ian is growing. It looks like someone is framing Ian for murder, but who? An executive at a tech firm, Ian is anxious to prove his innocence to his boss and mentor Paul Berk, a Silicon Valley legend. As the investigation heats up so does Ian's interest in Gwendolyn's sister, but can she be trusted?

	Echelon (©2006) 304 pp.
		Mystery Science Fiction Thriller Techno Thriller Government Agency Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Josh Conviser

Edge of Fear (©2006) 352 pp.
	Mystery Romance Romantic Suspense Adventure Paranormal Terrorists Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Cherry Adair Series: Gabriel Edge (T-FLAC Paranormal Agent)

Endless Chain (©2005) 464 pp.
	Romance Mystery Inspirational Fiction Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Emilie Richards Series: Shenandoah Album # 2 Location: Virginia, USA

Faithless (©2005) 400 pp.
	Mystery Thriller Psychological Suspense Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Pat Reid - RAM] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Karin Slaughter Series: Sara Linton / Jeffrey Tolliver / Lena Adams # 5 Book Description / Blurb The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods–then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty, impeccably dressed young woman.

Mystery Thriller Psychological Suspense Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by: [Pat Reid - RAM] [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Karin Slaughter
Series: Sara Linton / Jeffrey Tolliver / Lena Adams # 5

Book Description / Blurb

The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods–then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty, impeccably dressed young woman.

Falcon's Bend Case Files (The Early Cases), Volume 1 (©2006) 212 pp.
	Mystery Police Procedural Supernatural [Short Stories] Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Author(s): Karen Wiesner , Christine Spindler Series: Falcon's Bend

Field of Blood (©2004) 456 pp.
	Mystery Woman Main Character Thriller Amazon US PB Amazon UK PB Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada PB Author(s): Denise Mina Series: Patricia "Paddy" Meehan # 1

Fire Sale (©2005) 416 pp.
	Mystery Private Investigator Woman Main Character Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Webspinner - RAM] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Sara Paretsky Series: V.I. Warshawski # 13

He Who Fears the Wolf (©2005) 288 pp.
	Mystery Police Procedural Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Karin Fossum Series: Inspector Konrad Sejer Mysteries # 2 Region: Scandinavia Comment: Translated by Felicity David

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

I See You (©2006) 320 pp.
	Mystery Romance Thriller Romantic Suspense Woman Main Character Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Reviews Available by: [Cheryl - RAM] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Holly Lisle Book Description / Blurb For paramedic Dia Courvant, each day brings the possibility of facing blood and death. But nothing matched the horror of the day she was dispatched to the scene of a terrible car accident and rescued the sole survivor-only to find her own husband dead in the wreckage. Now, four years later, a series of deadly car crashes has brought handsome detective Brig Hafferty into Dia's life. She's drawn to Brig, but can she trust him enough to tell him of the terror that stalks her? For Dia has received a message warning her of danger and death-a message that seems to have been sent to her from beyond the grave.

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Reviews Available by: [Cheryl - RAM] [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Holly Lisle

Book Description / Blurb

For paramedic Dia Courvant, each day brings the possibility of facing blood and death. But nothing matched the horror of the day she was dispatched to the scene of a terrible car accident and rescued the sole survivor-only to find her own husband dead in the wreckage. Now, four years later, a series of deadly car crashes has brought handsome detective Brig Hafferty into Dia's life. She's drawn to Brig, but can she trust him enough to tell him of the terror that stalks her? For Dia has received a message warning her of danger and death-a message that seems to have been sent to her from beyond the grave.

Idolon (©2006) 464 pp.
	Science Fiction Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Mark Budz

Killer Deal (©2006) 320 pp.
	Mystery Woman Main Character Amateur Sleuth Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Sheryl J. Anderson Series: Molly Forrester # 3

Kittyhawk Down (©2005) 288 pp.
	Mystery Police Procedural Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Garry Disher Series: Inspector Challis Mysteries # 2 Region: Australia Urban Location: Melbourne, Australia

Learning to Kill (©2006) 496 pp.
	Mystery [Short Stories] Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Author(s): Ed McBain , Evan Hunter Book Description / Blurb Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of his stories written before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were first published in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of them appeared under the Ed McBain byline. They were written by Evan Hunter (McBain's legal name as of 1952), Richard Marsten (a pseudonym derived from the names of his three sons), or Hunt Collins (in honor of his alma mater, Hunter College). Here are kids in trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are private eyes and gangs. Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders. Here, too, are cops and robbers. These are the stories that prepared Evan Hunter to become Ed McBain, and that prepared Ed McBain to write the beloved 87th Precinct novels. In individual introductions, McBain tells how and why he wrote these stories that were the start of his legendary career.

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Author(s): Ed McBain , Evan Hunter

Book Description / Blurb

Ed McBain made his debut in 1956. In 2004, more than a hundred books later, he personally collected twenty-five of his stories written before he was Ed McBain. All but five of them were first published in the detective magazine Manhunt and none of them appeared under the Ed McBain byline. They were written by Evan Hunter (McBain's legal name as of 1952), Richard Marsten (a pseudonym derived from the names of his three sons), or Hunt Collins (in honor of his alma mater, Hunter College).

Here are kids in trouble and women in jeopardy. Here are private eyes and gangs. Here are loose cannons and innocent bystanders. Here, too, are cops and robbers. These are the stories that prepared Evan Hunter to become Ed McBain, and that prepared Ed McBain to write the beloved 87th Precinct novels. In individual introductions, McBain tells how and why he wrote these stories that were the start of his legendary career.

Lethal Justice (©2006) 203 pp.
	Mystery Romance Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Fern Michaels Series: Revenge of the Sisterhood # 6

Lights Out Tonight (©2006) 352 pp.
	Mystery Woman Main Character Amateur Sleuth Serial Killer Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Mary Jane Clark Series: KEY Evening News Room # 9 Location: Massachusetts, USA Comment: Key News film and theater critic Caroline Enright

Looking for Peyton Place (©2005) 368 pp.
	Mystery Amazon US PB Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Barbara Delinsky

Murder Over Easy (©2006) 304 pp.
	Mystery Woman Main Character Amateur Sleuth Humorous Cozy Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Reviews Available by: [Dawn Dowdle] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Jimmie Ruth Evans Series: Trailer Park Mysteries Location: Mississippi, USA Book Description / Blurb Melvin Arbuckle, Wanda Nell's boss at the Kountry Kitchen, has been arrested for killing a waitress with an unsavory reputation. Convinced of Melvin's innocence, Wanda Nell puts herself on the trail of a ruthless killer-and almost gets her goose cooked.

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Reviews Available by: [Dawn Dowdle] [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Jimmie Ruth Evans
Series: Trailer Park Mysteries
Location: Mississippi, USA

Book Description / Blurb

Melvin Arbuckle, Wanda Nell's boss at the Kountry Kitchen, has been arrested for killing a waitress with an unsavory reputation. Convinced of Melvin's innocence, Wanda Nell puts herself on the trail of a ruthless killer-and almost gets her goose cooked.

Murder, Mayhem, And a Fine Man (©2006) 272 pp.
	Mystery Romance Christianity Woman Main Character Forensics Thriller Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Claudia Mair Burney Series: Amanda Bell Brown Mysteries # 1

Night Light (©2006) 368 pp.
	Mystery Science Fiction Fiction Religious Fiction Apocalyptic Fiction Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Author(s): Terri Blackstock Series: Restoration # 2

No Ordinary Love (©2006)
	Romance Mystery Adventure Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Author(s): Karen Wiesner Series: Incognito # 1

North Florida Noir (©2006) 208 pp.
	Mystery Noir [Short Stories] Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Michael Lister

Pegasus Descending (©2006) 368 pp.
	Mystery Hard Boiled Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Woodstock - RAM] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): James Lee Burke Series: Dave Robicheaux # 15 Location: New Iberia, Louisiana, USA

Philippine Fever (©2006) 287 pp.
	Mystery Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Reviews Available by: [Pat Reid - RAM] Author(s): Bruce Cook Book Description / Blurb After your main suspect is murdered, how do you find a cargo container full of terrorist weapons when it goes missing in the smuggling capitol of the world - Manilla. ATF agent Sam Haines is in Manilla.

Playback: A Graphic Novel (©2006) 120 pp.
	Mystery Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Catherine Thompson - RAM] Author(s): Raymond Chandler Comment: A Never Produced Screenplay which was rediscovered in the 1980's. Graphics by Francois Ayroles. Ted Benoit is also listed as an author on the cover but we're not sure whether he is an artist or author.

Precinct Puerto Rico (©2002) 245 pp.
	Mystery Police Procedural Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Steven Torres Series: Precinct Puerto Rico # 1

Punishment (©2006)
	Mystery Thriller Amazon UK PB Amazon UK HC Reviews Available by: [Luke Croll - RAM] Author(s): Anne Holt Series: Adam Stubo and Johanna Vik # 1 Region: Scandinavia Location: Norway Comment: US title is "What Is Mine"

Relentless (©2006) 400 pp.
	Mystery Fantasy Religious Fiction Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Robin Parrish Series: Dominion trilogy # 1

Rounding the Mark (©2006) 272 pp.
	Mystery Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Author(s): Andrea Camilleri Series: Inspector Montalbano # 7 Comment: Stephen Sartarelli (Translator)

Mystery Woman Main Character Amateur Sleuth Chick Lit Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Lucy Hawking
Location: London, England

Book Description / Blurb

Thirty-something Fleur Bonner has a career selling fake antiques, a London flat with no central heating, and no focus. She agrees to train for the London marathon, joining the misfits, the lost, and the lonely who make up the Battersea Park New Runner’s Club, hoping it may provide a welcome change in her unfulfilling life. But then her boss disappears, and it appears that her job may actually be a front for art forgery. She quickly goes from girl-about-town to jailbird, not understanding what happened and why. Maybe those “misfits” from the Battersea Park New Runner’s Club can provide some answers. . .

Rusty Nail (©2006) 304 pp.
	Mystery Woman Main Character Serial Killer Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] [Pat Reid - RAM] Author(s): J. A. Konrath Series: Lt. Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels # 3 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA

	Scratch the Surface (©2005) 288 pp.
		Mystery Cats Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Susan Conant Series: Felicity Pride # 1

ScreenScam (©2001) 240 pp.
	Mystery Humorous Legal Setting Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Michael Bowen Series: Rep and Melissa Pennyworth # 1 Location: Indiana, USA

Shifting Skin (©2006) 320 pp.
	Mystery Police Procedural Serial Killer Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon UK PB Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Catherine Thompson - RAM] Author(s): Chris Simms Series: Detective Inspector Jon Spicer # 2 Comment: Note: If not available on Amazon US, try the Amazon Canada Link.

Sleeping with Fear (©2006) 304 pp.
	Mystery Paranormal FBI Thriller Woman Main Character Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Kay Hooper Series: Fear Trilogy / Noah Bishop Special Crimes Unit # 3 Comment: Features FBI psychic Riley Crane

Snapshot (©2006) 288 pp.
	Mystery Police Procedural Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Lynn Harnett] Author(s): Garry Disher Series: Inspector Challis Mysteries # 3 Region: Australia Urban Location: Melbourne, Australia

Split (©2006) 368 pp.
	Mystery Thriller Woman Main Character Amateur Sleuth Forensics Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Tara Moss Series: Makedde (Mak) Location: Vancouver, Canada

TerrO.R. (©2006) 160 pp.
	Mystery Medical Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Reviews Available by: [Ellen George] Author(s): Joseph J. Neuschatz, M.D.

The Assassins Gallery (©2006) 432 pp.
	Mystery Military WW II Thriller Historical Amazon US HC Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): David L. Robbins

The Bee's Kiss (©2006) 288 pp.
	Mystery Historical Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Barbara Cleverly Series: Joe Sandilands # 5 Location: London, England

The Blood Books, Volume I (©2006) 560 pp.
	Fantasy Mystery Supernatural Woman Main Character Werewolves Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB Author(s): Tanya Huff Series: Victory Nelson Comment: Omnibus: Blood Trail and Blood Price

The Castlemaine Murders (©2003) 245 pp.
	Mystery Historical Woman Main Character 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): Kerry Greenwood Series: Phryne Fisher # 13 Nominated for 2004 Ned Kelly Award (Best Crime Novel)

The Cradle Robbers (©2005) 224 pp.
	Mystery Woman Main Character Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Dawn Dowdle] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Ayelet Waldman Series: Mommy Track mysteries # 6

The Dead Hour (©2006) 352 pp.
	Mystery Woman Main Character Thriller Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon UK PB Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Lynn Harnett] [Harriet Klausner] [Woodstock - RAM] Author(s): Denise Mina Series: Patricia "Paddy" Meehan # 2

The Double Eagle (©2005) 400 pp.
	Mystery Thriller Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Woodstock - RAM] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): James Twining Comment: First Novel

Mystery Thriller Amazon UK PB
Author(s): Michael Robotham

Book Description / Blurb

A lost child. A shattered past. A life going under ...Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg, another through the hand, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, losing blood and consciousness fast. It takes six days for him to come out of his coma, and when he does, his nightmare is only just beginning. Because Vincent has no recollection of what happened, and nobody believes him. A mile away from his body, a boat was found covered in blood -- Vincent's and that of three others. Forensics say at least one of them must be dead. Vincent, a police detective, had signed his service pistol out of the station armoury, despite being on leave. Many murder suspects fake amnesia, and the investigating team are not sure this case is any different ...The only clue is a picture in his pocket, a photograph of a young girl, Mickey Carlyle, who disappeared three years ago. And though Mickey is presumed dead, Vincent has the nagging doubt that she is alive and in terrible danger...

The Enemy of God (©2005) 396 pp.
	Mystery Amazon US TPB Amazon Canada TPB Reviews Available by: [Pat Reid - RAM] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Robert Daley Comment: Part murder mystery, part love story, part quest for meaning in the modern world.

	The Fourth Bear (©2006) 416 pp.
		Mystery Fantasy Police Procedural Amazon US HC Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Harriet Klausner] [Woodstock - RAM] Author(s): Jasper Fforde Series: A Nursery Crime

The Hard Way (©2006) 384 pp.
	Mystery Thriller Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Woodstock - RAM] [Ali Karim - RAM] [Harriet Klausner] Author(s): Lee Child Series: Jack Reacher # 10

The Last Days of Newgate (©2006) 320 pp.
	Mystery Thriller Historical Amazon US HC Amazon UK PB Amazon UK HC Amazon Canada HC Reviews Available by: [Catherine Thompson - RAM] Author(s): Andrew Pepper Series: Pyke Mysteries Location: London, England Comment: First Novel. Set in 1829 London.

The Last Kashmiri Rose: Murder and Mystery in the Final Days of the Raj (©2002) 288 pp.
	Mystery Historical 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): Barbara Cleverly Series: Joe Sandilands # 1

The Limehouse Text (©2006) 352 pp.
	Mystery Historical Amazon US TPB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada TPB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Will Thomas Series: Cyrus Baker and his assistant Thomas Llewelyn # 3 Location: London, England

Mystery Legal Setting Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by: [Catherine Thompson - RAM] [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Michael Connelly
Winner 2006 Shamus Award (Best Hardcover)

Book Description / Blurb

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly delivers his first legal thriller an incendiary tale about a cynical defense attorney whose one remaining spark of integrity may cost him his life.

Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn't recognize innocence if it stood in front of him. Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense pro who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, to defend clients at the bottom of the legal food chain. It's no wonder that he is despised by cops, prosecutors, and even some of his own clients.

From bookies to con artists to drunk drivers and drug dealers, they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. But when a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman Haller has his first high paying client in years. It's a franchise case and he's sure it will be a slam dunk in the courtroom. For once, he may be defending a client who is actually innocent.

But an investigator is murdered for getting too close to the truth and Haller quickly discovers that his search for innocence has taken him face to face with a kind of evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, Haller must use all of his skills to manipulate a system in which he no longer believes.

The Messenger (©2006) 352 pp.
	Mystery Terrorists Government Agency Espionage Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC Author(s): Daniel Silva Series: Gabriel Allon

The Operative (©2006) 480 pp.
	Mystery Military Government Conspiracy Thriller

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