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A Final Judgment  (©2006)
     Mystery   Private Investigator    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Michael A. Black
Series: Ron Shade # 3
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
A Good Day to Die  (©2005)   336 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Ali Karim - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Woodstock - RAM]
Author(s): Simon Kernick
Series: Denis Milne (aka Mick [Marcus] Kane) # 4
A Stolen Season  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Private Investigator   Police Procedural    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Woodstock - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Catherine Thompson - RAM]
Author(s): Steve Hamilton
Series: Alex McKnight # 7
Arizona Dreams  (©2006)   216 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Carl Brookins - RAM]
Author(s): Jon Talton
Series: David Mapstone # 4
Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
At Some Disputed Barricade: 1917  (©2006)
     Mystery   Military   Historical   WW I
Author(s): Anne Perry
Series: World War I (Anne Perry) # 4
Black Widow White Lies  (©2006)   296 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Margaret Tessler
Location: New Mexico, USA
Blinded By Darkness  (©2005)   200 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Tony Burton
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.

Brinyside Chowder  (©2006)   204 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Senior Sleuths    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Margaret Searles
Series: Mrs. Millet and Mrs. Hark Mysteries
Calculated Loss  (©2006)   400 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Sandi - RAM]     [Cheryl - RAM]     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Linda L. Richards
Series: Madeline Carter # 3
Book Description / Blurb

Madeline drops everything to investigate the suspicious death of her ex-husband.

Calling the Dead  (©2006)   156 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Native American    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Marilyn Meredith
Series: Tempe Crabtree Mystery
Carbs and Cadavers  (©2006)   277 pp.
     Mystery   Culinary   Cozy    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): J. B. Stanley
Series: Supper Club Mysteries # 1
Location: Virginia, USA
Cat Breaking Free  (©2005)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Cats    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Series: Joe Grey and Dulcie # 11
Coronado Stories  (©2006)   240 pp.
     Fiction   Mystery   Romance    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Dennis Lehane
Book Description / Blurb

Performed as a play in late 2005. See http://www.coronadotheplay.com/

Creepers  (©2005)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    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]     [Ali Karim - RAM]
Author(s): David Morrell
Book Description / Blurb

Urban explorers run into more danger than expected in abandoned New Jersey hotel.

Cruel Music  (©2006)   312 pp.
     Mystery   Historical    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Beverle Graves Myers
Series: Baroque Mysteries # 3
Damnation Street  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Private Investigator   Hard Boiled   Noir    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Lynn Harnett]
Author(s): Andrew Klavan
Series: Weiss and Bishop # 3
Region: CA: SF Bay Area
Location: San Francisco, California,USA
Deadly Interest  (©2006)
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Cozy    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Carl Brookins - RAM]
Author(s): Julie A. Hyzy
Series: Alex St. James # 2
Deceit  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Conspiracy    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Ali Karim - RAM]     [Luke Croll - RAM]
Author(s): James Siegel
Book Description / Blurb

It looks like just another car crash: a head-on collision on a lonely stretch of desert highway that leaves one driver dead. But Tom Valle, the local newspaperman assigned to the story, is damned good at spotting lies. And for Valle, once a star reporter at America's most prestigious daily, this so-called accident may be just the ticket he needs to resurrect his career and get him out of the aptly named town of Littleton, California, for good. Yet as Valle eagerly starts investigating, he finds himself the only one who cares about getting the story right. As he starts checking facts, and unveiling lie after lie, he finds himself completely alone -- and negotiating a dark trail of corruption, cover-ups, fraud, and murder that stretches back for decades. The more he discovers, the closer he gets to the heart of a conspiracy that threatens to destroy him. From a seedy after-hours bar in L.A. to a remote cabin in the woods to the dark corridors of a psychiatric ward, Valle is desperately seeking redemption in the truth. But, as the boy who cried wolf so many times before, will anyone believe him?

Delete All Suspects  (©2005)   256 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Woman Main Character   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Donna Andrews
Series: Turing Hopper # 4
Double Exposure  (©1998)
     Mystery    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC
Author(s): Carol Smith
Drive  (©2005)   158 pp.
     Mystery   Hard Boiled   Noir    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Carl Brookins - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): James Sallis
Every Fear  (©2006)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Rick Mofina
Series: Jason Wade # 2
Eye of God  (©2006)   216 pp.
     Mystery   Private Investigator   Christianity    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Jon L. Breen
Book Description / Blurb

Al Hasp and Norm Carpenter are partners in a successful Orange County private investigation firm. When Norm, considered the brains of the outfit, announces he has become a born-again Christian and will be resigning, Al asks him to take one final case. It means going undercover in the organization of televangelist and faith healer Vincent Majors. Al believes Majors is a phony and when Majors' son-in-law, a pro basketball coach, is murdered, the case takes on added complications and then explodes at a Christian college in Southern California. Neither an attack on nor a promotion of fundamentalist Christianity, this is a refreshing look behind the scenes of one of America’s biggest businesses, in the entertaining guise of classical whodunit.

Eye of the Wolf  (©2005)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Native American   Legal Setting   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Webspinner - RAM]     [Shirley - RAM]
Author(s): Margaret Coel
Series: Wind River Reservation Mysteries # 11
Book Description / Blurb
A psychopathic killer has brutally murdered three Shoshone Indians and posed their bodies on a historical battlefield. Is his intent to provoke a civil war between the reservation's Shoshone and Arapaho inhabitants, or is his target actually Father John O'Malley?
Family Business  (©2006)   296 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Janet LaPierre
Series: Port Silva # 9
Location: California, USA
Comment: Police Chief Vince Gutierrez / Patience and Verity Mackellar, dba Patience Smith, Investigations
[Book Cover graphic]Fear  (©2006)   352 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Jeff Abbott

Grave Sight  (©2005)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Fantasy   Supernatural    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Charlaine Harris
Series: Harper Connelly # 1
Book Description / Blurb

Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who's passed, and share their very last moment. The way Harper sees it, she's providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living-but she's used to most people treating her like a blood-sucking leech. Traveling with her step-brother Tolliver as manager and sometime-bodyguard, she's become an expert at getting in, getting paid, and getting out fast. Because for the living it's always urgent-even if the dead can wait forever.

Grave Surprise  (©2006)   295 pp.
     Mystery   Fantasy   Supernatural    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Lynn Harnett]
Author(s): Charlaine Harris
Series: Harper Connelly # 2
Harbingers  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Science Fiction   Supernatural   Thriller    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): F. Paul Wilson
Series: Repairman Jack # 10
[Book Cover graphic]Herr Schnoodle & Mcbee  (©2006)   283 pp.
     Mystery   Dogs   Cozy    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): P. K. Paranya

High Water Hellion  (©2006)
     Mystery   Woman Main Character    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Glynn Marsh Alam
Series: Luanne Fogarty # 5
Region: Florida
Location: Florida, USA
Hornswoggled  (©2006)   242 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Donis Casey
Series: Alafair Tucker # 2
Location: Oklahoma, USA
Comment: Set in 1913
Jar City  (©2003)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon US TPB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Arnaldur Indridason
Series: Reykjavik Murder Mysteries # 1
Comment: Translated by Bernard Scudder. Original title appears to be Mýrin. Also published with English Title: Tainted Blood.
Look-Alike : Nighthawk Island  (©2006)   256 pp.
     Mystery   Romance    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Rita Herron
Series: Harlequin Intrigue # 939
Love, Lies and Liquor  (©2006)   224 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Amateur Sleuth   Woman Main Character   Senior Sleuths    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): M. C. Beaton
Series: Agatha Raisin # 17
Margaritas & Murder  (©2005)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Carol - SLC - RAM]     [Shirley - RAM]
Author(s): Jessica Fletcher , Donald Bain
Series: Murder She Wrote # 24
Location: Mexico
Max Unlocks the Universe  (©2006)   240 pp.
     Mystery   Private Investigator   Dogs    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Mark Bouton
Series: Max Austin # 2
Monkey Man  (©2006)   232 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Shirley - RAM]     [Sandi - RAM]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Steve Brewer
Series: Bubba Mabry # 7
Moonblind  (©2006)   189 pp. (Recently Added)
     Mystery   Veterinarian   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Laura Crum
Series: Dr. Gail McCarthy # 9
Motif for Murder  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Cozy   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Laura Childs
Series: Scrapbook Mysteries # 4
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Murder In Metropolis  (©2003)   264 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Lonnie Cruse
Series: Metropolis Mysteries # 1
Murder in the Dark  (©2006)   288 pp. (Recently Added)
     Mystery   Historical   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Kerry Greenwood
Series: Phryne Fisher # 16
Out Cold  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): William G. Tapply
Series: Brady Coyne # 22
Painted Veil  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Historical    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Beverle Graves Myers
Series: Baroque Mysteries # 2
Pearls Before Swine  (©2006)   252 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Jo A. Hiestand
Location: England
Predator  (©2005)   432 pp.
     Mystery   Police Procedural   Thriller   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
Series: Kay Scarpetta # 14
Primary Storm  (©2006)   288 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Political Intrigue    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Brendan Dubois
Series: Lewis Cole # 6
Red Ice for a Shroud  (©2006)   312 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): R. J. Harlick
Series: Meg Harris Mysteries # 2
Region: Canada: Quebec Rural
Location: Quebec, Canada
Roman Dusk  (©2006)   368 pp.
     Mystery   Fantasy   Romance   Historical   Vampire   Horror    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Series: Ragoczy, the Count Saint-Germain # 19
Sacred Cows  (©2005)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Police Procedural   Academic    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Cheryl - RAM]     [Luke Croll - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Karen E. Olson
Series: Annie Seymour # 1
Comment: Crime reporter Anne Seymour
Scoop  (©2006)   432 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Kit Frazier
Series: Cauley MacKinnon
Location: Texas, USA
[Book Cover graphic]Secondhand Smoke  (©2006)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Shirley - RAM]     [Cheryl - RAM]     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Karen E. Olson
Series: Annie Seymour # 2
Location: Connecticut, USA

Slay Ride  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Mystery   FBI    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Chris Grabenstein
Series: Christopher Miller
Sleight Of Hand  (©2006)   368 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Legal Setting   Woman Main Character    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Kate Wilhelm
Series: Frank and Barbara Holloway # 10
The Beast  (©2005)
     Mystery   Serial Killer    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC
Reviews Available by:     [Luke Croll - RAM]
Author(s): Roslund Hellstrom
Region: Scandinavia
Location: Sweden
Comment: Translated by Anna Paterson
The Black Dahlia  (©1987)   384 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US PB    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): James Ellroy
The Blood Books, Volume III  (©2006)   544 pp.
     Fantasy   Mystery   Supernatural   Woman Main Character   Werewolves    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Tanya Huff
Series: Victory Nelson
Comment: Omnibus: Blood Debt and Blood Bank
The Camel Club  (©2005)   624 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): David Baldacci
Series: The Camel Club # 1
The Case of the Roasted Onion  (©2006)   240 pp.
     Mystery   Amateur Sleuth   Senior Sleuths   Cozy   Veterinarian    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Claudia Bishop
Series: The Casebook of Dr. McKenzie # 1
Book Description / Blurb

On their farm nestled in upstate Trumansburg, New York, veterinarian Austin McKenzie and his wife Madeline keep themselves busy looking after a variety of ailing farm animals and pets in poor health. But while they may be able to mend creatures great and small, they have yet to find a cure for murder.

The Dark Water: The Strange Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes  (©2004)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Sherlock Holmes    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK PB    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): David Pirie
The Dead Letters  (©2006)   400 pp.
     Fiction   Mystery   Horror   Psychological Suspense    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Author(s): Tom Piccirilli
The Drowning Man  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Native American   Legal Setting   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Margaret Coel
Series: Wind River Reservation Mysteries # 12
Location: Wyoming, USA
The Gardens of the Dead  (©2006)   368 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Legal Setting    Amazon US HC    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Luke Croll - RAM]
Author(s): William Brodrick
Series: Father Anslem # 2
Location: London, England
Book Description / Blurb

In his first novel, THE SIXTH LAMENTATION, William Brodrick introduced Father Anslem, the barrister turned monk who found himself plunged into the tangled history of occupied Paris. Now, in THE GARDENS OF THE DEAD, Father Anslem is brought back to his own past at the Bar, and someone else's secrets. Elizabeth Glendinning QC has lost faith in the legal system to which she has given her life. In an attempt to restore it, she has secretly devised a scheme to bring a guilty man back to court -- Graham Riley, whom she had successfully defended some ten years previously. As part of an elaborate contingency plan, Elizabeth leaves the unsuspecting Anslem with a key to a safety deposit box, to be opened in the event of her death. Three weeks later she is found dead in the East End of London. Once the box has been opened, a chain of events is triggered as if from beyond the grave, and Anslem is led to fulfill what Elizabeth has begun.

The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library  (©2006)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Supernatural    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Alice Kimberly
Series: Haunted Bookshop # 3
The Hunt Ball  (©2005)   336 pp.
     Mystery    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Rita Mae Brown
Series: Sister Jane - Foxhunting Mysteries # 4
The Last Secret  (©2006)   408 pp.
     Mystery   Religious Fiction   Christianity   Archaeology   Thriller    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Lynn Sholes , Joe Moore
Series: Cotten Stone # 2
The Mephisto Club  (©2006)   368 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Medical   Woman Main Character    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Lynn Harnett]     [Cheryl - RAM]     [Pat Reid - RAM]     [Harriet Klausner]     [Ellen Garbuny - RAM]     [Sandi - RAM]
Author(s): Tess Gerritsen
Series: Maura Isles and Jane Rizzoli # 6
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Book Description / Blurb

PECCAVI

The Latin word is scrawled in blood at the scene of a young woman’s brutal murder: I HAVE SINNED. It’s a chilling Christmas greeting for Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli, who swiftly link the victim to controversial celebrity psychiatrist Joyce O’Donnell–Jane’s professional nemesis and member of a sinister cabal called the Mephisto Club.

On top of Beacon Hill, the club’s acolytes devote themselves to the analysis of evil: Can it be explained by science? Does it have a physical presence? Do demons walk the earth? Drawing on a wealth of dark historical data and mysterious religious symbolism, the Mephisto scholars aim to prove a startling theory: that Satan himself exists among us.

With the grisly appearance of a corpse on their doorstep, it’s clear that someone–or something–is indeed prowling the city. The members of the club begin to fear the very subject of their study. Could this maniacal killer be one of their own–or have they inadvertently summoned an evil entity from the darkness? Delving deep into the most baffling and unusual case of their careers, Maura and Jane embark on a terrifying journey to the very heart of evil, where they encounter a malevolent foe more dangerous than any they have ever faced . . . one whose work is only just beginning.

The Old Buzzard Had It Coming  (©2005)   226 pp.
     Mystery   Historical   Woman Main Character   Amateur Sleuth    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Pat Reid - RAM]
Author(s): Donis Casey
Series: Alafair Tucker # 1
Location: Oklahoma, USA
Comment: Set in 1912
The Operative  (©2006)   480 pp.
     Mystery   Military   Government Conspiracy   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Luke Croll - RAM]
Author(s): Duncan Falconer
Series: Stratton # 3
Comment: AKA: Bomb Surgeon
The Sisters  (©1986)   312 pp.
     Mystery   Espionage   Thriller    Amazon US PB    Amazon US TPB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada TPB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Robert Littell
The Wrong Man  (©2006)   480 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Psychological Suspense    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): John Katzenbach
Vicious Circle : A Novel of Mutual Distrust  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Mystery   Espionage   Thriller   Terrorists    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Robert Littell
Book Description / Blurb

An Israeli government minister is assassinated in the home of his mistress. Leading the Palestinian assassination team is Dr. Ishmael al-Shaath, a half-blind Palestinian doctor imprisoned by the Israelis for years for crimes he did not commit. Days later, Elihu, an aging and decorated Mossad officer, leads his final raid, killing a Hamas leader in his bed—and barely escaping with his life.

Out of this familiarly cyclical scenario emerges what is perhaps Robert Littell’s most heartfelt and suspenseful novel. Isaac Apfelbaum, a well-known fundamentalist Rabbi, is taken hostage by Dr. al-Saath, who demands the release of several Palestinian prisoners in exchange for his prisoner. As Israel coaxes Elihu out of retirement to hunt down the terrorist who motivated his final mission, al-Saath and Apfelbaum find themselves building an extraordinary relationship between hostage taker and hostage: parallels between these two battle-hardened partisans become the bonds that could lead to reconciliation. But with Elihu’s Mossad strike team closing in and a peace treaty at stake, has the vicious circle already been closed?

Ferociously suspenseful and brilliantly topical, Vicious Circle is a thriller that, like The Company before it, breaks down an entire culture of violence into the corrupted consciences that embody it.

Violet Dawn  (©2006)   336 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Christianity    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Brandilyn Collins
Series: Kanner Lake # 1
Voices  (©2006)   320 pp.
     Mystery   Thriller   Police Procedural    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): Arnaldur Indridason
Series: Reykjavik Murder Mysteries # 3
Comment: Translated by Bernard Scudder. Original title appears to be Roddin.
Without Warning  (©2006)
     Mystery   Thriller    Amazon UK PB    Amazon UK HC
Reviews Available by:     [Luke Croll - RAM]
Author(s): Carol Smith
Wreath of Deception  (©2006)   272 pp.
     Mystery   Woman Main Character   Crafts   Amateur Sleuth   Cozy    Amazon US PB    Amazon Canada PB
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]     [Dawn Dowdle]
Author(s): Mary Ellen Hughes
Series: Craft Corner Mysteries

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

1635: Cannon Law  (©2006)   432 pp.
     Science Fiction    Amazon US PB    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada PB    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Eric Flint , Andrew Dennis
Series: The Assiti Shards # 5
A Walk on the Nightside  (©2006)   400 pp.
     Fantasy    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Author(s): Simon R. Green
Series: Nightside
Comment: Omnibus: "Something from the Nightside", "Agents of Light and Darkness", and "Nightingale's Lament"
[Book Cover graphic]Alpha  (©2006)   304 pp.
     Science Fiction   Space Opera    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Author(s): Catherine Asaro
Book Description / Blurb

Charon was the most ruthless-and brilliant-criminal of the twenty-first century, a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research. He is dead now, and General Thomas Wharington believes his team of experts has deleted all the electronic copies the megalomaniacal inventor created of himself. However, one major problem remains: Alpha, the only android survivor of Charon's cybernetic empire.

Outwardly indistinguishable from a human woman, Alpha has superhuman strength and speed, and perhaps even more deadly capabilities still unknown. Thomas's superiors want her dismantled and studied, but to Thomas it feels like murder. He stalls for time, a move that could prove disastrous. Alpha escapes from an escape-proof compound, kidnaps Thomas, and takes him to one of Charon's hidden installations. Charon might be dead, but Alpha continues to carry out her late master's orders, and she refuses to elaborate on what those orders entail. Her behavior is becoming more human-or so it seems. Is she developing emotions and a conscience, or is she just learning to counterfeit them as a means of carrying out her enigmatic orders? And do those orders include Thomas's death sentence?


Alphanauts  (©2006)   325 pp.
     Science Fiction   Adventure    Amazon US TPB    Amazon Canada TPB
Reviews Available by:     [Cheryl - RAM]
Author(s): J. Brian Clarke
Book Description / Blurb

After being away from Earth for more than three years, space travelers can no longer live on their home world because of the mind destroying condition known 'Earth Allergy Syndrome'. These travelers are, in fact, forced to become citizens of the galaxy.

Alphanauts follows the adventures of a small band of these men and women on Genser's World, an earth-like planet of Alpha Centauri. Along the way they meet the degenerate descendants of another space-traveling species and their intelligent ‘catbird’ symbiots, two ancient cyborg intelligences, and a malevolent computer intelligence which must be destroyed before it evolves into a form that will inevitably annihilate everything they have worked so hard to build.

And, as if the colonists have not enough troubles, they are also forced to deal with a threat from their own kind; a second and much larger group of refugees from a ruined Earth who, within the tunnels and chambers of their asteroid-ship, plan a fascist utopia on the new world.

Armageddon's Children  (©2006)   384 pp.
     Fantasy   Science Fiction    Amazon US HC    Amazon Canada HC
Reviews Available by:     [Harriet Klausner]
Author(s): Terry Brooks
Series: Pre-Shannara Trilogy # 1
Brokedown Palace  (©1986)   352 pp.
     Fantasy    Amazon US PB