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[reviewer]     Book / Author  --  Rating

[CB]     Lead, So I Can Follow     by   Harold Adams

[CB]     Chile Death     by   Susan Wittig Albert    [3.5 stars]

[CB]     A Well-Respected Dead Man     by   Tricia Allen    [4 stars]    [2003]

[CB]     Game of Patience     by   Susanne Alleyn    [2006]

[CB]     Headlock     by   Burl Barer    [5 stars]

[CB]     Burning Moon     by   Richard Barre    [2003]

[CB]     Dead Dog Blues     by   Neal Barrett Jr.    [4 stars]

[CB]     Dirty Money     by   Milton Bass

[CB]     Death of a Travelling Man     by   M. C. Beaton

[CB]     Out of Order     by   Charles Benoit    [2006]

[CB]     A Puree of Poison     by   Claudia Bishop    [3 stars]    [2003]

[CB]     Hope to Die     by   Lawrence Block    [5 stars]

[CB]     Hope to Die     by   Lawrence Block

[CB]     Putting Lipstick on a Pig     by   Michael Bowen    [2006]

[CB]     Evan and Elle     by   Rhys Bowen    [4.5 stars]

[CB]     A Stone of the Heart     by   John Brady    [3.5 stars]

[CB]     Jamaica Blue     by   Don Bruns    [4 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Die Trying     by   Lee Child    [4 stars]

[CB]     The Ghost Walker     by   Margaret Coel    [3.5 stars]

[CB]     The Dream Stalker     by   Margaret Coel

[CB]     The Mystery at Orchard House     by   Joan Coggin    [4 stars]

[CB]     A Farewell to Legs     by   Jeffrey Cohen    [2003]

[CB]     The Woman in White     by   Wilkie Collins    [5 stars]

[CB]     Absolute Certainty     by   Rose Connors    [4 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers     by   Troy Cook    [2006]

[CB]     A Crooked Little House     by   Susan Rogers Cooper    [4 stars]

[CB]     The Cross Kisses Back     by   C. R. Corwin    [3.5 stars]    [2003]

[CB]     Indigo Slam     by   Robert Crais    [4 stars]

[CB]     Where the Bodies Are Buried     by   Janet Dawson

[CB]     The Bohemian Murders     by   Dianne Day

[CB]     Reap the Whirlwind     by   Douglas De Bono    [2 stars]

[CB]     The Coffin Dancer     by   Jeffery Wilds Deaver    [4 stars]

[CB]     Footprints In The Butter     by   Denise Dietz    [3.5 stars]

[CB]     Category Five     by   Philip S. Donlay    [2004]

[CB]     Cop Out     by   Susan Dunlap    [3.5 stars]

[CB]     The Cavaradossi Killings     by   David Dvorkin    [2 stars]

[CB]     The Man Who Understood Cats     by   Michael Allen Dymmoch    [4.5 stars]

[CB]     Incendiary Designs     by   Michael Allen Dymmoch    [4 stars]

[CB]     The White Tiger     by   Michael Allen Dymmoch    [2005]

[CB]     The Arsenic Labyrinth     by   Martin Edwards    [2007]

[CB]     Carnage on the Committee     by   Ruth Dudley Edwards    [5 stars]    [2004]

[CB]     Artifacts     by   Mary Anna Evans    [3.5 stars]    [2003]

[CB]     Cold Hit     by   Linda Fairstein    [4 stars]

[CB]     Likely to Die     by   Linda Fairstein    [4.5 stars]

[CB]     A Stitch in Time     by   Monica Ferris    [4 stars]

[CB]     A Bitter Chill     by   Jane Finnis    [2005]

[CB]     Risk     by   Dick Francis    [3.5 stars]

[CB]     Dire Straits     by   Marshall Frank    [3 stars]

[CB]     Chasing The Devil's Tail     by   David Fulmer    [4 stars]

[CB]     Bone Flour     by   Susan K. Funk    [4 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Dead Reckoning     by   Robert Furlani    [3.5 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Dead Reckoning     by   Robert Furlani    [2 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     R. I. P. 37E     by   Bob Garland    [2 stars]

[CB]     Carnosaur Crimes     by   Christine Gentry    [3 stars]    [2005]

[CB]     Too Dead to Swing     by   Hal Glatzer    [3 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Murder on the Ballarat Train     by   Kerry Greenwood

[CB]     Cocaine Blues     by   Kerry Greenwood    [4.5 stars]

[CB]     Urn Burial     by   Kerry Greenwood

[CB]     Death at Victoria Dock     by   Kerry Greenwood    [4.5 stars]

[CB]     The Tarnished Eye     by   Judith Guest    [5 stars]    [2004]

[CB]     Five Card Stud     by   Elizabeth Gunn    [4 stars]

[CB]     Fire Water     by   Sally Gunning

[CB]     Body Language     by   James W. Hall    [3 stars]

[CB]     April Fool Dead     by   Carolyn G. Hart    [3.5 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Dial M For Meat Loaf     by   Ellen Hart    [3.5 stars]

[CB]     Immaculate Midnight     by   Ellen Hart    [4 stars]

[CB]     Rag Man     by   Pete Hautman    [4 stars]

[CB]     A Shot to Die For     by   Libby Fischer Hellmann    [3.5 stars]    [2005]

[CB]     Chicago Blues     by   Libby Fischer Hellmann    [2007]

[CB]     An Image of Death     by   Libby Fischer Hellmann    [3.5 stars]    [2004]

[CB]     An Eye for Murder     by   Libby Fischer Hellmann    [4 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Deadfall     by   Sue Henry    [4 stars]

[CB]     East of Desolation     by   Jack Higgins    [3.5 stars]

[CB]     Arms and the Women     by   Reginald Hill    [4 stars]

[CB]     Witch Cradle     by   Kathleen Hills    [2006]

[CB]     Boat Dollies     by   Joyce Holland    [3 stars]

[CB]     Dead Angler     by   Victoria Houston    [3.5 stars]

[CB]     Hooker     by   Dean Hovey    [3 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Where Evil Hides     by   Dean Hovey    [4 stars]

[CB]     They Died in Vain     by   Jim Huang    [4 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Deadly Interest     by   Julie A. Hyzy    [2006]

[CB]     Tainted Blood     by   Arnaldur Indridason    [2005]

[CB]     Death in a Hot Flash     by   Jane Isenberg    [4 stars]

[CB]     Deadly Advice     by   Roberta Isleib    [3.5 stars]    [2007]

[CB]     Man With an Axe     by   Jon A. Jackson    [3.5 stars]

[CB]     Deadman     by   Jon A. Jackson

[CB]     Dead Folks     by   Jon A. Jackson

[CB]     Skeleton Canyon     by   J. A. Jance    [4 stars]

[CB]     Wake Up Dead     by   Christopher Bonn Jonnes    [3 stars]

[CB]     Dead Low Tide     by   Jamie Katz

[CB]     Flesh and Blood     by   Jonathan Kellerman

[CB]     The Murder Book     by   Jonathan Kellerman    [4 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Hot Pursuit     by   Nora Kelly    [4 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Copper River     by   William Kent Krueger    [2006]

[CB]     Iron Lake     by   William Kent Krueger    [4 stars]

[CB]     Blood Hollow     by   William Kent Krueger    [4 stars]    [2004]

[CB]     The Dead Farmer's Almanac     by   Jim Larranga    [2 stars]

[CB]     A Shark Out Of Water     by   Emma Lathen    [4 stars]

[CB]     Pursuit of Justice     by   Mimi Latt    [3 stars]

[CB]     Riding the Rap     by   Elmore Leonard    [4 stars]

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