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 Hollywood Station: A NovelBest Price: $7.35 Hollywood Station is not the Joseph Wambaugh we have come to know and enjoy. Unfortunately, he... |  Echo ParkBest Price: $1.65 Few in the trade have Connelly's juice these days. His books are Top 10 staples (this should... |  The Blue KnightBest Price: $19.98 Joseph Wambaugh never ceases to entertain me. The Blue Knight is one of his earlier works, and... |  Long Spoon Lane: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt NovelBest Price: $3.64 Long Spoon Lane: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel, by Anne Perry was another excellent mystery... |  Dark Assassin: A William Monk Novel (William Monk Novels)Best Price: $5.74 Several years after being kicked off the Metropolitan Police Force (which was at least partly... |
 Rising Sun: A NovelBest Price: $4.18 I am not a hard-core Crichton fan, but have read enough of his books to expect a combination of... |  Photo-Finish / Light Thickens / Black Beech and HoneydewBest Price: $11.08 |  The Franchise AffairBest Price: $7.25 A teenage girl, missing for weeks, reappears with a story of being kidnapped and imprisoned by... |  Overnight Float (Penguin Mysteries)Best Price: $2.99 This book is proof that writing a good mystery must be harder than it looks, if two such... |  Through a Glass, Darkly (Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)Best Price: $3.24 I'm sorry for the title of my review as I've been a loyal and avid reader of the... |
 Murder ConfoundedBest Price: $14.88 Majorcan police inspector Enrique Alvarez returns to investigate the connection between a... |  The Problem of the Missing MissBest Price: $7.00 The Rev. Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) becomes a proto-Holmes to the Dr. Watson of... |  That Way Murder Lies: A Mitchell and Markby Mystery (Meredith and Markby Mysteries)Best Price: $28.95 Meredith Mitchell is rather looking forward to her upcoming marriage to Detective Superintendent... |  A Good Day to Die: A NovelBest Price: $5.99 In London Detective Sergeant Dennis Milne was known to straddle the legal line when it comes to... |  Black and Blue: An Inspector Rebus Mystery (Inspector Rebus Novels)Best Price: $7.17 Bible John killed three women, and took three souvenirs. Johnny Bible killed to steal his... |
 Falconer's Judgement (A William Falconer Medieval Mystery)Best Price: $4.97 I am a fan of medieval mysteries, but found this one very disappointing. The tale is told... |  Death in Ecstasy (Dead Letter Mysteries)Best Price: $5.00 This is one of Ms. Marsh's earlier mysteries and it shows in how soon into the novel the... |  When in RomeBest Price: $14.69 WHEN IN ROME presents us with a tantalizing tale of Mr. Sebastian Mailer, an up-scale tour guide... |  The Heat of LiesBest Price: $1.25 Young, beautiful, police detective Julian Palmer is growing up. Just a few years out of the New... |  Final Vinyl Days (Ballantine Reader's Circle)Best Price: $1.79 I love short stories, and I really enjoyed Jill McCorkle's "Crash Diet",... |
 Mood to Murder (Betty Trenka Series, 4)Best Price: $5.93 Forced into retirement after three decades as an office manager, Betty Trenka moves to East... |  Rutland PlaceBest Price: $3.10 Anne Perry's mystery stories are notable for their immense wealth of detail about Victorian... |  Used to KillBest Price: $2.50 As a rule, I avoid women authors, particularly it when comes to mystery novels. Female authors,... |  Sadie When She Died (87th Precinct Mystery)Best Price: $13.98 This is the fifteen book in the series that I have read, and except for "Lady, I Did... |  Fuzz (Signet)Best Price: $102.46 Twice outfoxed by a brilliant maniac, the men of the 87th attempt to find out who shot the... |
 The Bone Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel)Best Price: $5.58 A few years ago a friend recommended a new author to me. She said Jeffrey Deavers was absolutely... |  A Slow BurningBest Price: $3.00 I don't mind a big book. I DO mind a medium-sized book posing as a big book--when I see a... |  The Case Has AlteredBest Price: $1.49 I will admit that NOT ONLY have I NOT read all of Grimes' work, but that what I have read... |  Chains of CommandBest Price: $6.95 Somehow I know people are going to say I took this too seriously, but this book was bad. What... |  Red on Red: A NovelBest Price: $6.79 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) If... |
 Gospel (Vol. Book 9) (Harpur & Iles Mysteries)Best Price: $4.45 While some writers of police procedurals feature a detective who reappears throughout a long... |  The Third Deadly Sin (The Deadly Sins Novels)Best Price: $14.52 This one may be one of Sanders better books over all, but it isn't quite as good as... |  Final Account (An Inspector Banks Mystery)Best Price: $3.16 I made the mistake of reading these books in the middle: I started with In a Dry Season and... |  Blue Plate Special (Sunny Childs Mysteries)Best Price: $3.25 This is a terrific series and the latest installment didn't disappoint. Sunny is a very... |  Reunion in DeathBest Price: $3.72 As some may have noticed from my other reviews of this series, I'm not reading them exactly... |
 The Graveyard ShiftBest Price: $3.06 I don't know why I bothered finishing this book rather than dropping it halfway through. ... |  J.D. Robb Box Set (In Death)Best Price: $13.80 I started reading the series with the intention of reading only the first three books. Now,... |  The Clockwork Teddy: A Bear Collector's Mystery (Bear Collector's Mysteries)Best Price: $1.99 Brad and Ashleigh are combining business with pleasure. Brad has had to return to San Francisco... |  Kindred In DeathBest Price: $1.03 In Robb's latest book "Kindred in Death" we find Eve still fighting crime and... |  Not Exactly a BrahminBest Price: $1.00 Telegraph Avenue ain't what it used to be now that gentrification has gotten under... |
 Into Thin AirBest Price: $7.95 Unlike the shopper from Carpenteria (reveiw below or above). I really enjoyed the book. I love... |  Nocturne: A Novel of the 87th Precinct (87th Precinct Mysteries)Best Price: $2.15 The police officers of the 87th precinct have a new homicide to work. The two detectives on the... |  Double Homicide: Boston / Sante FeBest Price: $0.01 Why? Because these two novellas feel like the clearing out of old drawers. Because Faye... |  Bellows Falls (Joe Gunther Mysteries)Best Price: $23.95 The whole thing begins simply enough. Joe Gunther is asked to help the police chief of nearby... |  Decked (Regan Reilly Mysteries, No. 1)Best Price: $30.00 Definitely hard to put down! Carol Higgins Clark brings forth enjoyable, intriguing characters.... |
 Angels Flight (Harry Bosch)Best Price: $8.24 "Angels Flight" is Michael Connelly's eighth book, his sixth to feature Harry... |  Jigsaw (87th Precinct Mysteries)Best Price: $29.75 "Jigsaw" is a solid, tightly-wound suspense yarn in the 87th Precinct series that... |  Street DreamsBest Price: $1.19 I read over several of the other reviewers comments and I agree with some and disagree with... |  Wolf to the Slaughter: An Inspector Wexford Novel (Mortalis)Best Price: $5.24 Writing: Exquisite Plot: Nifty Suspense Factor: Solid Entertainment Value: Good if you like... |  The Art of MurderBest Price: $5.73 The subculture Somoza has created here is fascinating, strange and somewhat fetishistic. The... |
 A Death in Tuscany (Michele Ferrara)Best Price: $7.48 This was my first read of this writer and I rather enjoyed it. He kept the action moving and my... |  Crooks, Crimes, and Christmas (Worldwide Library Mysteries)Best Price: $20.91 A WAY TO THE MANGER - By: Susan Slater When a local teenage girl turns up missing, Ben Pecos, a... |  The Poster Boy: Sounds Like Murder, Vol. IVBest Price: $0.99 Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents Sounds Like Murde original, unabridged... |  Murder Being Once Done (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries)Best Price: $43.50 A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no... |  Roses Are Red (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))Best Price: $24.65 This book was an excellent addition to the Alex Cross series. Cross is back better than ever to... |
 Dust to Dust (Random House Large Print)Best Price: $7.90 New York Times bestseller Tami Hoag is at the top of her form in her newest thriller, blending... |  LightningUnlike most of the 87th series, this one only has two stories involved. The one that relates to... |  Serpent's Tooth: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)Best Price: $2.73 SERPENT'S TOOTH is one of the better novels in this series; her reduction of time spent on... |  True Believers: A Gregor Demarkian Novel (Gregor Demarkian Novels)Best Price: $2.75 True Believers is a very characteristic Jane Haddam mystery. Although I did puzzle out the... |  The ProtectorsBest Price: $7.25 This is a continuation of the series featuring NYC police detectives McKenna & Cisco. Dan... |
 To Darkness and to Death (A Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery)Best Price: $4.47 At least one other reviewer said this was the best yet in the Clare/Russ series. How very true!... |  The ComplaintsBest Price: $5.42 In 2007, Scottish novelist Ian Rankin released EXIT MUSIC --- the 18th and perhaps final novel... |  The Naming of the Dead (Inspector Rebus)Best Price: $7.25 Having read and enjoyed Ian Rankin's previous books with John Rebus as the main character,... |  BloodlineBest Price: $7.99 A killer is on the loose. The victims: children whose mothers can't protect them. The past... |  Gonna Take a Homicidal Journey (Lauren Laurano Mysteries)Best Price: $2.19 In this fourth outing, Lauren Laurano, NYC private investigation, agrees to spend some time with... |
 Dirty Laundry: A Charlotte Justice Novel (Charlotte Justice Novels)Best Price: $5.34 Paula Woods takes us to the space of an affluent black professional woman connected viscerally... |  Service of All the DeadBest Price: $10.87 Colin Dexter was born in 1930 and, over the course of his writing career, has won CWA Gold... |  Badlands: A Novel of SuspenseBest Price: $2.51 The word that came to my mind after reading this book was "WOW!" Badlands is located... |  Maigret and the Man on the Bench (Maigret Mystery Series)Best Price: $4.26 Simenon is said to have described his stories as sketches, somewhat like preliminary drawings by... |  Maigret And The ApparitionBest Price: $7.00 Lapointe advises Maigret at his apartment that Inspector Lognon, a plain-clothes detective, has... |
 The Hidden AssassinsBest Price: $2.99 It's been said that 99% of detective work is mind-numbing tedium. If true, I'll admit... |  Maigret and the Headless CorpseBest Price: $14.09 I've been avoiding buying this book because of the grisly images conjured up by the title.... |  Maigret and the Death of a Harbor-MasterBest Price: $55.95 Simenon was clearly drawn to obscure ports. He achieves the terse intensity of haiku with his... |  Maigret's RevolverBest Price: $27.95 Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. A hugely prolific writer, his best known... |  The Chinese Maze Murders: A Judge Dee Mystery (Judge Dee Mysteries)Best Price: $4.99 I have read all the Judge Dee mysteries at least twice, and really love them. However, I have... |
 Still Waters (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)Best Price: $2.99 Detective Chief Inspector Mark Lapslie of the Essex PD is a solitary man, but not by choice.... |  Coffin In FashionBest Price: $90.80 For all you Coffin series lovers this book is a must read. It gives the reader insight to the... |  Coffin and the Paper ManBest Price: $2.94 Following the brutal stabbing of a young girl, John Coffin, chief commander of the Docklands... | Final Vinyl Days (Ballantine Reader's Circle) Best Price: $1.79 I love short stories, and I really enjoyed Jill McCorkle's "Crash Diet",... | Mood to Murder (Betty Trenka Series, 4) Best Price: $5.93 Forced into retirement after three decades as an office manager, Betty Trenka moves to East... |
| Rutland Place Best Price: $3.10 Anne Perry's mystery stories are notable for their immense wealth of detail about Victorian... | Used to Kill Best Price: $2.50 As a rule, I avoid women authors, particularly it when comes to mystery novels. Female authors,... | Sadie When She Died (87th Precinct Mystery) Best Price: $13.98 This is the fifteen book in the series that I have read, and except for "Lady, I Did... | Fuzz (Signet) Best Price: $102.46 Twice outfoxed by a brilliant maniac, the men of the 87th attempt to find out who shot the... | The Bone Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel) Best Price: $5.58 A few years ago a friend recommended a new author to me. She said Jeffrey Deavers was absolutely... |
| A Slow Burning Best Price: $3.00 I don't mind a big book. I DO mind a medium-sized book posing as a big book--when I see a... | The Case Has Altered Best Price: $1.49 I will admit that NOT ONLY have I NOT read all of Grimes' work, but that what I have read... | Chains of Command Best Price: $6.95 Somehow I know people are going to say I took this too seriously, but this book was bad. What... |  Sacred and Profane (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)Best Price: $3.26 "Sacred and Profane," the second Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel, proves to be even a... |  Shoot/Don't Shoot (Joanna Brady Mysteries, Book 3)Best Price: $0.93 In J.A. Jance's book revolving around the life of Joanna Brady, the just-elected sheriff... |
 Blood Money: A MysteryBest Price: $4.69 Caring and compassionate, LAPD homicide detective Jessica Drake isn't about to write off the... |  The Right Hand of AmonBest Price: $4.88 I really wanted to like this book because I'm a big fan of Elizabeth Peters and Lynda... |  A Shroud of Midnight Sun (Inupiat Eskimo Mysteries)Best Price: $7.68 Christopher Lane has a great mystery series. Expect to get your money's worth when you read... |  Snakeskin ShamisenBest Price: $4.99 Hiroshima survivor gardener Mas Arai attends a gala honoring his friend attorney George... |  The Garden of EvilBest Price: $1.91 THE GARDEN OF EVIL opens in a curious way. Aldo Caviglia was a baker at one time, but now he is... |
 CabalBest Price: $49.69 I've read a few of Dibdin's Aurelio Zen works and liked this one the least -- I... |  Tramp (Lilly Bennett Mysteries)Best Price: $14.35 Lilly Bennett was born to wealth and privilege. However, the vibrant Lilly is too intelligent of... | |||
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