When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware)39 reviews Jonathan Kellerman Ballantine Books, 2003 Where it all started. + A Cool Psychologist and a Gay Detective + Another great mystery + The Beginning             I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia (An Amanda Pepper mystery)4 reviews Gillian Roberts Fawcett, 1993 A Great Book!! + Philly mystery + The Real Villain Is In Plain Sight This is a really good book and one of the best in the series. Amanda Pepper is a well developed, funny character. She gets a little help from her policeman boyfriend and family. I recommend the entire Pepper series.             The Complete Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes5 reviews Arthur Conan Doyle Gramercy, 2001 I have this or a very similar edition it's charming + great literary classic + classic sleuths + Wonderful, just wonderful! + Lots of fun             Dead Sand: A Lewis Cole Mystery2 reviews Brendan DuBois Otto Penzler Books, 1994 A Star (5, actually) is Born + Great First Novel...but "Dead Sand" is the first book by Dubois that I've read but it won't be the last. What a treat to stumble across a new-to-me mystery writer who is literate & conjures such believable characters, peopling a well-plotted book. The author creates a real sense of place - a term much bandied about & ...             Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 1)382 reviews Charlaine Harris Ace Books, 2001 Immediately Addicted + btme2 + Page turning + Absolutely have to read!             BUT I WOULDN'T WANT TO DIE THERE (Jenny Cain Mystery)1 review Nancy Pickard Pocket, 1994 Smashing! It takes a really exceptional American writer to wean me away from my favourite English historical mysteries, but Nancy Pickard is such a smooth and accomplished writer that I can't resist her books. I just don't know what took me so long to find them. It doesn't matter what aspect of mystery ...             Dead Midnight (Sharon McCone Mysteries)26 reviews Marcia Muller Grand Central Publishing, 2003 McCone continues to grow in this series. + Tell the cover artist Roger DIDN'T jump off the GOLDEN GATE! + Series Continues: Dead Midnight by Marcia Muller Not only does Muller not allow her series to become stale, I really am of the opinion that each successive book in the Sharon McCone series is better than the last. McCone is a satisfying heroine who has grown into her success as the head of her own investigative agency in San Francisco. Unmarried, ...             Murder In Scorpio (An Elizabeth Chase Mystery)7 reviews Martha C. Lawrence St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1996 Best debut novel I've since read Nevada B's Track of the Cat + Lawrence's star is sure to rise + Let the CHASE begin + This book is a winner!             The Beekeeper's Apprentice195 reviews Laurie R. King Bantam, 1996 Interesting entry into the Holmes legend + Great fun for Sherlock Holmes fans and independent women + A delightful read + My favorite book!!! + Delightful             Carnal Hours (Nathan Heller)4 reviews Max Allan Collins Signet, 1995 Intense storyline + A murder in paradise. + The elusive Max Allen Collins... + Very good             I Am the Only Running Footman9 reviews Martha Grimes Onyx, 2001 Bonded The deceased, Sheila Broome, lived in Exeter. Racer disturbed Richard Jury to call him to the crime scene. It is another death, that of Ivy Childess, that causes Wiggins to make the conection between Ivy Childess and Sheila Broome because of the manner of death. As connections are teased out ...             Lady Yesterday (The Amos Walker Series #7)2 reviews Loren D. Estleman I Books, 2002 Another winner for Amos Walker "Lady Yesterday" is the 7th novel in the superb Amos Walker private detective series. Once again, our wise cracking and world weary hero prowls the streets of his native Detroit with moves as fast as his wit. In this outing, Walker's favorite femme fatale, the recovering hooker Iris (first ...             The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Book 1)407 reviews Alexander McCall Smith Anchor, 2003 life-affirming book with the unforgettable main character + Took me a while but..... When Precious Ramotswe's father, Obed, dies and leaves her all the cattle with the advice to sell it and buy herself a good business, she decides to become a private detective, the first lady detective in Botswana, and perhaps in the whole of Africa. Mma Ramotswe, smart, fat and good-natured, ...             Flying Finish5 reviews Dick Francis Jove, 1999 Never give in! + Sky High Stakes + Flying + A good early Francis novel             False Prophet (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus Novels)10 reviews Faye Kellerman Avon, 2005 not a good choice if you want a book you can put down and read casually.... + False Prophet + DOUBLE DECKED + Slow to start, but still a great book             Turquoise Lament6 reviews John D. Macdonald Fawcett, 1996 My Favorite McGee (so far) + Turquoise Lament + Vacation in paradise, McGee style After reading about 11 JDM McGee series books I have to say that this is one of my very favorites. The characters interesting, the musings on target with today's worries and complaints and the story very entertaining. I was at Hilton Head and read this in a couple of days on the beach. Excellent ...             The Dark Place (A Gideon Oliver Mystery)11 reviews Aaron Elkins Berkley, 2005 Raves for the Dark Place by Aaron Elkins + Fancinating Story + The Dark Place - A Sparkling Gem + This impressive anthropological mystery should've been the first in the series! + Interesting, original, page-turner             Death on Demand17 reviews Carolyn G. Hart Crimeline, 1987 the christie caper + Beginning of a Hunt The characters on the island are fun and I love Max & Annie. Max's mother is a stitch. The plot was excellant really made you interested to see what happened.             The Coast Road (Cliff Hardy series) Peter Corris Allen & Unwin, 2005 Cliff Hardy trades the mean streets of Sydney for the Illawarra escarpment, a rugged undeveloped area of Australia, in this latest hard-boiled detective novel. First hired by the daughter of the late, wealthy Frederick Farmer to investigate his mysterious and fiery death, Hardy is then called in on a second case—the disappearance of the young daughter of Marisha Karatsky, an exotic, ...             Rita Mae Brown: Three Mrs. Murphy Mysteries: Wish You Were Here; Rest in Pieces; Murder at Monticello5 reviews Rita Mae Brown Wings, 2003 On my top ten list! + Great book! I especially like the animal communication. + get the mrs murphy story from the beginning + 3 Great Books Together! + Lighthearted and fun!