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[reviewer]     Book / Author  --  Rating

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

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

[CB]     A Certain Justice     by   John T. Lescroart

[CB]     A Cold Touch of Ice     by   Michael Pearce    [4 stars]

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

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

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

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

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

[CB]     A Simple Shaker Murder     by   Deborah Woodworth    [3.5 stars]

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

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

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

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

[CB]     After Dark     by   Phillip Margolin    [4 stars]

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

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

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

[CB]     Arizona Dreams     by   Jon Talton    [2006]

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

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

[CB]     Baltimore Blues     by   Laura Lippman

[1 paw] [CB]     Better Off Dead     by   Katy Munger    [3.5 stars]

[CB]     Bird Lives     by   Bill Moody    [4 stars]

[CB]     Black Gold     by   Charles H. O'Brien    [4 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Blind Switch     by   John McEvoy    [2 stars]    [2004]

[CB]     Blood Country     by   Mary Logue    [4 stars]

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

[CB]     Blue Wolf     by   Lise McClendon    [5 stars]

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

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

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

[CB]     Burn Factor     by   Kyle Mills    [2 stars]

[CB]     Burning Moon     by   Richard Barre    [2003]

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

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

[CB]     Case of Imagination     by   Jane Tesh    [2006]

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

[CB]     Charm City     by   Laura Lippman    [4 stars]

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

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

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

[CB]     China Trade     by   S. J. Rozan    [4 stars]

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

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

[CB]     Confession     by   Nancy Pickard    [4.5 stars]

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

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

[CB]     Cyanide Wells     by   Marcia Muller    [4 stars]    [2003]

[CB]     Dancing Dead     by   Deborah Woodworth    [4 stars]    [2002]

[CB]     Dark Coulee     by   Mary Logue    [4 stars]

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

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

[CB]     Dead Folks     by   Jon A. Jackson

[CB]     Dead Low Tide     by   Jamie Katz

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

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

[CB]     Deadfall     by   Sue Henry    [4 stars]

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

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

[CB]     Deadman     by   Jon A. Jackson

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

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

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

[CB]     Declared Dead     by   Suzanne Proulx    [2002]

[CB]     Desert Run     by   Betty Webb    [2006]

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

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

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

[CB]     Dirty Money     by   Milton Bass

[CB]     Disturbing the Dead     by   Sandra Parshall    [2007]

[CB]     Drive     by   James Sallis    [2005]

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

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

[CB]     False Fortune     by   Twist Phelan    [2007]

[CB]     Finding Laura Buggs     by   Stanley Gordon West    [3 stars]

[CB]     Fire Water     by   Sally Gunning

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

[CB]     Flash Flood     by   Susan Slater    [2002]

[CB]     Flesh and Blood     by   Jonathan Kellerman

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

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

[CB]     Get Out or Die     by   Jane Finnis    [4.5 stars]    [2003]

[CB]     Glare Ice     by   Mary Logue    [4 stars]

[CB]     Headlock     by   Burl Barer    [5 stars]

[CB]     Here's the Church, Here's the Steeple     by   Tempa Pagel    [2006]

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

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

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

[CB]     House of Blues     by   Julie Smith    [3.5 stars]

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

[CB]     Impulse     by   Frederick Ramsay    [2006]

[CB]     In An Evil Time     by   Bill Pronzini

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

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

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

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

[CB]     Killing Cousins     by   Eugene Aubrey Stratton    [4 stars]

[CB]     Killing Gifts     by   Deborah Woodworth    [4 stars]

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

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