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A Conspiracy of Violence: Chaloner's First Exploit in Restoration London  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Espionage    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Luke Croll - RAM]
Author(s): Susanna Gregory
Series: Thomas Chaloner # 1
Location: London, England
A Killer Collection  (©2006)   224 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): J. B. Stanley
Series: Killer Collectibles # 1
A Long Shadow  (©2006)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Sandi - RAM]
Author(s): Charles Todd
Series: Ian Rutledge # 8
A Perfect Evil  (©2000)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Serial Killer   Police Procedural   FBI    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Alex Kava
Series: Maggie O'Dell # 1
Location: Nebraska, USA
A Window in Copacabana  (©2005)   256 pp.
     Mystery   Noir   Police Procedural    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Shirley - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Ellen Garbuny - RAM]     [Gina Metz - RAM]
Author(s): Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Series: Inspector Espinosa # 4
Region: South America
Location: Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
All Night Long  (©2006)   416 pp.
     Mystery   Romance   Romantic Suspense    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Jayne Ann Krentz
Assault And Pepper  (©2005)   240 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Culinary   Ethnic    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Tamar Myers
Series: Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries with Recipes # 13
Batteries Required  (©2005)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Jennifer Apodaca
Series: Samantha Shaw # 4
Blindfold Game  (©2006)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Military   Government Agency   Terrorists   Thriller    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Dana Stabenow
Region: Alaska
Location: Alaska, USA
Blood and Honey  (©2006)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]
Author(s): Graham Hurley
Series: Detective Inspector Joe Faraday # 6
Book Description / Blurb

The discovery of a headless corpse on the rocks below cliffs on the Isle of Wight is only the beginning of a journey for DI Joe Faraday to the centre of the grim trade in human cargo from the crippled societies of the Balkans. From cheap labour to prostitution, Portsmouth, like every other city in the UK is home to untold human misery; a black economy built on illegal immigration. Joe Faraday is determined to find the real criminals that lie behind the tabloid hysteria. Detective Constable Winter on the other hand is determinded only to find a way out of the disciplinary action that threatens his entire career. A burgeoning relationship with a young prostitute isn't exactly helping his cause. Graham Hurley has written another vivid novel of all too human policeman struggling against an overwhelming tide of crime. This is crime writing with a vivid edge of documentary realism.

Blood Memory  (©2005)   512 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Forensics   Serial Killer   Woman Main Character    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): Greg Iles
Location: Mississippi, USA
Bone Thief  (©2006)   377 pp.
     Mystery   Serial Killer   Psychological Suspense   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Thomas O'Callaghan
Book Description / Blurb

In his extraordinary debut novel of psychological suspense, Thomas O’Callaghan proves himself a worthy successor to Thomas Harris as he introduces one of the most compelling and terrifying serial killers since Hannibal Lecter in a book where every harrowing page crackles with the white-knuckle feel of a race against time and the gritty authenticity of a real forensic investigation.

A housewife snatched in broad daylight. A tattooed drifter displayed under a boardwalk. A wealthy, high-society heiress left in a city dump. A busy, young mother on her last errand.

The women seem to have no connection except one: they have all been the victims of the Bone Thief, a twisted madman who slays his victims and steals their bones as gruesome trophies.

Since tragedy struck his own family, Lieutenant John W. Driscoll has been a man on the edge of both sanity and life. But now, with New York City in the grip of panic, Driscoll is needed more than ever. With time running out and the stakes rising every hour, he’ll have to guide a troubled team while battling his own demons in order to hunt and catch the most cunning predator he’s ever faced—a serial killer who is the very soul of evil and whose most shocking revelation is yet to come.

Capitol Murder  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Legal Setting   Political Intrigue   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): William Bernhardt
Series: Ben Kinkaid # 14
Region: Washington D.C.
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Carved in Bone  (©2006)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Forensics    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Gina Metz - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Shirley - RAM]     [Molli Struebing]
Author(s): Jefferson Bass
Series: Body Farm Mysteries # 1
Comment: By the FOUNDER of the REAL "Body Farm", working on a 30-year old "mummy".
Charon's Landing  (©1999)   496 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Adventure   Espionage    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Jack B. DuBrul
Series: Philip Mercer # 2
Location: Alaska, USA
City for Ransom  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Police Procedural   Forensics    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Robert W. Walker
Series: Inspector Alastair Ransom and Dr. Jane Francis Tewes # 1
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Cold Granite  (©2005)   480 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural   Hard Boiled    Amazon US PB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Stuart MacBride
Series: Scottish Detective Logan McRae # 1
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Cold in the Earth  (©2005)   368 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Aline Templeton
Series: Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming # 1
Location: Scotland
Cold Relations  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Dogs    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Shirley - RAM]     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Cheryl - RAM]
Author(s): Gerald Hammond
Region: UK: Scotland
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Comment: Features: Detective Sergeant Honey Laird
Book Description / Blurb

Edinburgh’s gorgeous Detective Sergeant Honey Laird had finally cleared her overflowing desk and was looking forward to spending some time with her husband when an email from her old school friend provoked yet another difficult case. Honey soon finds herself trying to babysit her friend’s ex-husband Andrew: a trigger-happy, former SAS officer with a temper, a head injury and a penchant for attractive women. "Cold Relations" wriggles through twist after turn and guarantees a slew of unforgettable characters led by the delightful Honeypot and her trusty crime-solving labrador, Pippa.

Dance of Death  (©2005)   464 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child
Series: Special Agent Pendergast
Comment: Several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously murdered, and Pendergast is framed for the deeds.
Dark Eye  (©2005)   480 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Police Procedural   Thriller   Serial Killer    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): William Bernhardt
Region: Northwest
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Dead Simple  (©2005)   416 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US TPB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Peter James
Series: Detective Superintendent Roy Grace # 1
Death Dance  (©2006)   416 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural   Hard Boiled    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Luke Croll - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Linda Fairstein
Series: Alexandra Cooper # 8
Death of a Bore  (©2005)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Luke Croll - RAM]     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]     [Carol - SLC - RAM]
Author(s): M. C. Beaton
Series: Hamish MacBeth # 21
Derailed  (©2003)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): James Siegel
Devil's Due  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Romance   Mystery   Woman Main Character   Private Investigator    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Rachel Caine
Series: Silhouette Bombshell
Edge of Evil  (©2006)   400 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): J. A. Jance
Series: Ali Reynolds # 1
Location: Sedona, Arizona, USA
Comment: Features Alison Reynolds, divorced 40-something former newscaster turned pajama-clad blogger
Entombed  (©2005)   416 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural   Hard Boiled    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Linda Fairstein
Series: Alexandra Cooper # 7
Every Breath You Take  (©2005)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Romance   Woman Main Character   Romantic Suspense    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Judith McNaught
Feint of Art  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy   Romantic Suspense    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Hailey Lind
Series: Annie Kincaid - Art Lovers Mysteries # 1
Region: CA: SF Bay Area
Location: San Francisco, California,USA
Fleeced  (©2001)   265 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 # 5
Location: New York City
Gone  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Psychological Suspense    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Lisa Gardner
Got the Look  (©2006)   400 pp.
     Mystery   Kidnapping   Serial Killer   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Shirley - RAM]
Author(s): James Grippando
Series: Jack Swytek # 5
Location: Florida, USA
Island Intrigue  (©2006)   225 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Wendy Howell Mills
Series: Sabrina Dunsweeney # 1
Jill 9  (©2006)   300 pp.
     Mystery   Romance   Romantic Suspense    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Sandi - RAM]     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): J. D. Tynan
Book Description / Blurb

Jill is destined to become the ninth victim in a string of complex murders – but not if FBI Agent Ian Hamlin has anything to say about it. A love triangle like no other, Jill is caught between the seemingly perfect Mr. Right and the dark, brooding man sent to protect her.

Malpractice in Maggody  (©2006)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Humorous   Woman Main Character   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Joan Hess
Series: Arly Hanks # 15
Mark of the Lion  (©2006)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Romance   Adventure   Historical   Woman Main Character    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Lynn Harnett]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Suzanne Arruda
Series: Jade Del Cameron # 1
Region: Africa
Comment: Debut Novel
Book Description / Blurb

In 1919, when most women only dream of adventure, Jade del Cameron lives it. After growing up tough on a New Mexico ranch, then driving an ambulance along the front lines of World War I, she can fire a rifle with deadly precision and stare down men maddened by shell shock. Now, still suffering lingering trauma from the Great War, she sets off for Africa, determined to fulfill a man's dying wish...and never expecting to become involved in murder.

Married to the Mop  (©2006)   245 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Barbara Colley
Series: Charlotte Larue
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Memory in Death  (©2006)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Science Fiction   Futuristic   Police Procedural    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): J. D. Robb , Nora Roberts
Series: Eve Dallas & husband Roarke # 22
Location: New York City
Comment: Set in 2059 / Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb
Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery   TV Tie In    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Lee Goldberg
Series: Monk
Murder at the Foul Line: Original Tales of Hoop Dreams and Deaths from Today's Great Writers  (©2003)   368 pp.
     Mystery   Sports   [Short Stories]    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Luke Croll - RAM]     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Editor(s): Otto Penzler
Night Laws  (©2006)   382 pp.
     Mystery   Legal Setting    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Jim Michael Hansen
Obsessed  (©2005)   400 pp.
     Mystery   Religious Fiction   Thriller   Holocaust    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Ted Dekker
Comment: Moves back and forth between a NAZI concentration camp in 1944 and L.A. in the early 1970's.
On the Run  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Senior Sleuths   Amateur Sleuth   Woman Main Character   Christianity    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Lorena McCourtney
Series: Ivy Malone # 3
Origin in Death  (©2005)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Futuristic   Police Procedural    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): J. D. Robb , Nora Roberts
Series: Eve Dallas & husband Roarke # 21
Location: New York City
Comment: Set in 2059 / Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb
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
PlagueMaker  (©2006)   368 pp.
     Mystery   FBI   Medical   Thriller    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Tim Downs
Popped  (©2003)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Private Investigator   Woman Main Character   Humorous    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Carol Higgins Clark
Series: Regan Riley # 7
Priest  (©2006)
     Mystery    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC
Reviews Available by:     [Woodstock - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Ken Bruen
Series: Jack Taylor # 5
Region: Ireland
Location: Ireland
Pursuit  (©2006)   256 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Series: Inspector Espinosa # 5
Region: South America
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Book Description / Blurb

A hospital psychiatrist feels he’s being stalked by a young patient. For as long as possible, he convinces himself that the young man is harmless, but when the doctor’s daughter disappears and the patient goes missing, too, he calls on Espinosa for help. Soon after, the patient turns up dead.

With his death begins a chain of other deaths, each more mysterious than the one that preceded it, each seemingly linked to the doctor and his former patient. As Espinosa learns more about the doctor’s history, it becomes harder to discern the stalker from the stalked, reality from fantasy, and the sane from the diabolical. In this installment of the “seductive, fascinating” (The New York Times Book Review) series, the sultry maze of Rio de Janeiro’s streets conspires against Espinosa, confounding his judgment, stymieing his search, and, somewhere, concealing a murderer.

Redemption  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Psychological Suspense   Thriller   Kidnapping    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]
Author(s): Richard Burke
Book Description / Blurb

When Matthew's wife Charlotte is kidnapped, his world is thrown into chaos. Who has taken her - and why? There are no demands made for her release, just a threat that if he calls the police, Charlotte will lose the baby she is carrying - and then Matthew will lose her. Matthew is paralysed, haunted by the gloating phonecalls of her captor. As a prison governor, Matthew is convinced that Charlotte's abduction may be related to his job. Unable to talk to anyone in authority, he resorts to the only help he can find - Monk, an ex-prisoner who appears to have gone straight since his release, but has underworld contacts Matthew can only guess at. It's a devil's pact, but time is running out.

Revelations  (©2006)   279 pp.
     Science Fiction   Mystery   Religious Fiction   Nasa   Space   Thriller    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): M. Scott Byrnes
Book Description / Blurb

Huddled over her seismometer on the frozen surface of Mars, NASA geologist Kathy Palmer struggles to explain the image that just appeared on her monitor. Simultaneously, sixty-five million miles away, brilliant scientist Tim Redmond bolts upright in bed, inexplicably terrified.

In a matter of days, these two strangers will unite in the face of a stunning revelation: our traditional perceptions of God are wildly inaccurate, and Armageddon is quickly approaching. Mankind's only chance of survival lies with Palmer and Redmond, who must sift through clues on Mars—and within religious doctrine on Earth—to solve a cosmic riddle as old as time itself.

The two soon discover, however, that it's not just a perplexing mystery that stands in their way, but something infinitely more imposing—the pernicious being that's protected the secret for billions of years.

Roaring Thunder: A Novel of the Jet Age  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Military   Mystery   Aviation   Historical   Techno Thriller    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Walter J. Boyne
Showdown  (©2006)   375 pp.
     Mystery   Religious Fiction   Thriller    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Ted Dekker
Sinister Shorts  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   [Short Stories]    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Perri O'Shaughnessy
Skeleton Man  (©2004)   256 pp.
     Mystery   Ethnic    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Woodstock - RAM]
Author(s): Tony Hillerman
Series: Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee # 17
Slipping into Darkness  (©2006)   400 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]
Author(s): Peter Blauner
Spurred Ambition  (©2006)   310 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Legal Setting    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Twist Phelan
Series: Pinnacle Peak Mysteries # 3
Book Description / Blurb

After her first attempt at breaking and entering, business attorney Hannah Dain heads for the cliffs of Pinnacle Peak, Arizona to rock climb—and winds up in the middle of an anti-Indian protest turned violent. She escapes, but makes an enemy. This is the least of her worries, as a recent shocking family revelation sends her on a hunt for someone who has been gone for almost thirty years—someone who may not want to be found.

Then Hannah meets Tony Soto. From the moment he saves her from a climbing mishap, Hannah is beguiled by the Native American/Latino who is passionately committed to the betterment of his tribe. What becomes a near-fatal attraction jeopardizes Hannah's relationship with her boyfriend, Cooper Smith, and enmeshes her in a kidnapping tied to a complex securities fraud.

Is Tony an innocent victim, or is he part of an elaborate financial hoax where more than money is at stake? When murder ratchets up the ante, only by taking a gutsy chance can Hannah unravel the scheme and find the key to the mystery of her past.

Strange Bedfellows  (©2006)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural   Woman Main Character   Ethnic    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Cheryl - RAM]     [Shirley - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Paula L. Woods
Series: Charlotte Justice # 4
Sunstroke  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Luke Croll - RAM]
Author(s): Jesse Kellerman
Location: Mexico
Book Description / Blurb

Gloria Mendez is 36, single and obsessed with her boss, Carl. For him, she is the 'world's best secretary'. For her, he is her future husband and the man she thinks about every waking hour. So when Carl disappears and is later found murdered whilst on a mysterious trip to a small town in Mexico, Gloria's world falls apart. Distraught and restless, she travels to Mexico to try to make some sense of his death. But what she discovers about the man she was in love with shocks her to the core. Nothing about him was as it seemed - from his business interests, to his family background, to his very identity. And the more she discovers about Carl, the closer Gloria comes to the dark forces which claimed her boss's life - and now threaten her own.

Terror Town  (©2006)   256 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Stuart M. Kaminsky
Series: Abe Lieberman # 9
The Best British Mysteries IV (2006)  (©2006)   354 pp.
     Mystery   [Short Stories]    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Shirley - RAM]     [Cheryl - RAM]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Editor(s): Maxim Jakubowski
The Black Angel  (©2005)   496 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Private Investigator    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Gina Metz - RAM]     [Ali Karim - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): John Connolly
Series: Charlie Parker # 5
Book Description / Blurb

The Black Angel begins with the disappearance of a young prostitute from one of New York City's seamiest neighborhoods. Like so many tormented souls before her, the girl's mother is inevitably drawn to Charlie Parker's doorstep desperate for redemption and revenge. Despite the danger that his chosen profession imposes on his wife and newborn daughter, Parker knows that the woman and her troubles cannot be ignored. As always, he is driven as much by the evil that simmers in the hidden honeycomb world as he is by the ties of friendship and blood.

As Parker gets closer to the girl's captors, he discovers that her disappearance is linked to a church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the myth of an object known as the Black Angel -- an object considered by evil men to be beyond priceless. But the Black Angel is not a legend. It is real. It lives. It dreams. And the mystery of its existence may contain the secret of Parker's own origins.

The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell  (©2006)   208 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Cats    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Lilian Jackson Braun
Series: Cat Who . . . # 28
The Dead Sea Codex  (©2006)   160 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Archaeology    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Sarah Wisseman
[Book Cover graphic]The Deep Blue Alibi  (©2006)   496 pp.
     Mystery   Legal Setting   Thriller   Humorous    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Shirley - RAM]     [Cheryl - RAM]     [Woodstock - RAM]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Paul Levine
Series: Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord # 2
Location: Florida, USA

The Delilah Complex  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Romance   Woman Main Character   Psychological Suspense    Amazon US PB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Ali Karim - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): M. J. Rose
Series: Butterfield Institute # 2
The Female of the Species : Tales of Mystery and Suspense  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   [Short Stories]    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
The Finishing School  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Romance   Thriller   FBI   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Shirley - RAM]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Michele Martinez
Series: Melanie Vargas # 2
Location: New York City
The Forgotten Man  (©2005)   352 pp.
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Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Woodstock - RAM]
Author(s): Robert Crais
Series: Elvis Cole # 10
The Genesis Protocol  (©2006)   376 pp.
     Science Fiction   Military   Mystery   Thriller   Medical    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Dayton Ward
Book Description / Blurb

Resident Evil meets Jurassic Park. Science has developed a contained, man-made ecosystem inhabited by an intricate array of bizarre, deadly lifeforms unlike anything else on earth. What could possibly go wrong?

The Hostage  (©2006)   480 pp.
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Author(s): W. E. B. Griffin
Series: Presidential Agent # 2
Comment: Features Delta Force Major Charley Castillo.
Book Description / Blurb

Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more he is the man to whom the president turns when he needs an investigation done discreetly. And no situation demands discretion more than the one before them now. An American diplomat's wife is kidnapped in Argentina, and her husband murdered before her eyes. Her children will be next, she is warned, if she doesn't tell them where her brother is-a brother, as it turns out, who may know quite a bit about the burgeoning UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal. There is an awful lot of money flying around, and an awful lot of hands reaching out to grab it-and some of those hands don't mind shedding as much blood as it takes.

The Hunt Club  (©2006)   416 pp.
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Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): John T. Lescroart
Series: Hunt Club
Region: CA: SF Bay Area Urban
Location: San Francisco, California,USA
The Island Off Stony Point  (©2006)   220 pp.
     Mystery   Kidnapping   FBI    A