Book Reviews Detetive and Police Procedural Mysteries

Detective Mysteries and Police Procedurals

Boris Akunin
	B	The Turkish Gambit
	B	The Winter Queen
Margery Allingham
	C	The Black Dudley Murder
	B	The Case of the Late Pig
	B	Dancers in Mourning
	D	The Death of a Ghost
	A	The Fashion in Shrouds
	A	The Fear Sign (aka Sweet Danger and Kingdom of Death)
	B	Look to the Lady
	B	Mystery Mile
	C	Police at the Funeral
Robert Barnard
	C	Political Suicide
Nevada Barr
	A	Blind Descent
	B	Blood Lure
	C	Borderline
	A	Burn
	B	Deep South
	B	Endangered Species
	B	Firestorm
	B	Flashback
	B	Hard Truth
	C	Ill Wind
	C	Liberty Falling
	B	A Superior Death
	B	Track of the Cat
	B	Winter Study
Jefferson Bass
	B	Carved in Bone
M.C. Beaton
	B	Death of a Gentle Lady
	D	Death of a Glutton
	C	Death of a Maid
	C	Death of a Snob
Cara Black
	B	Murder in the Marais
	B	Murder in the Sentier
Lawrence Block
	F	One Night Stands and Lost Weekends
Stephen Booth
	B	Blind to the Bones
Rhys Bowen
	B	Death of Riley
	C	Evans Above
	B	Murphy's Law
James Lee Burke
	B	Cimarron Rose
Raymond Chandler
	B	The Big Sleep
	B	Farewell My Lovely
Agatha Christie
	C	Dead Man's Folly
	C	Hallowe'en Party
	A	The Murder At the Vicarage
	A	Murder on the Orient Express
	A+	The Mysterious Affair at Styles
	A	The Tuesday Club Murders
Beverly Cleverly
	A	The Last Kashmiri Rose
James L. Conway
	B	Dead and Not So Buried
Patricia Cornwell
	B	Unnatural Exposure
Colin Cotterill
	A	The Coroner's Lunch
	B	Thirty-Three Teeth
Colin Dexter
	C	The Daughters of Cain
	C	Last Bus to Woodstock
	B	Last Seen Wearing
	B	The Remorseful Day
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
	A+	The Hound of the Baskervilles
Jeanne L Drouillard
	A	Your Thoughts Can Trap You
John Dunning
	B	Booked to Die
	B	The Bookman's Promise
	A	The Bookman's Wake
	B	The Bookwoman's Last Fling
	B	Deadline
	B	The Sign of the Book
Warren Ellis
	A	Gun Machine
Linda Fairstein
	C	The Bone Vault
	C	Entombed
	A	Final Jeopardy
	B	Hell Gate
	B	Lethal Legacy
Lyndsay Faye
	A	The Gods of Gotham
Corey Lynn Fayman
	C	Black's Beach Shuffle
Nicolas Freeling
	B	A Dwarf Kingdom
Tana French
	B	In the Woods
Tess Gerritsen
	D	The Bone Garden
Sue Grafton
	B	A is for Alibi
	C	N is for Noose
	A	O is for Outlaw
	B	P is for Peril
	B	Q is for Quarry
	B	R is for Ricochet
	B	S is for Silence
	B	T is for Trespass
	B	U is for Undertow
	B	V is for Vengeance
Dorien Grey
	A	Aaron's Wait
	A	The Bottle Ghosts
	A	Caesar's Fall
	A	The Paper Mirror
	A	The Role Players
Martha Grimes
	D	The Five Bells and Bladebone
Batya Gur
	C	Literary Murder a Critical Case
Jane Haddam
	B	A Stillness in Bethlehem
Carolyn Haines
	A	Penumbra
Dashiell Hammett
	B	The Maltese Falcon
Jim Michael Hansen
	C	Shadow Laws
Sue Henry
	D	Deadfall
	B	Death Takes Passage
	B	Murder on the Iditarod Trail
	B	The Serpents Trail
	C	The Tooth of Time
Susan Hill
	B	The Various Haunts of Men
Tony Hillerman
	C	The Blessing Way
	C	Dance Hall of the Dead
M.J. Hollingshead
	B	The Inspector's Wife
Arnaldur Indriđason
	A	Jar City
	A	Silence of the Grave
	A	Voices
P.D. James
	B	A Certain Justice
	B	Cover Her Face
	B	Death in Holy Orders
	B	The Murder Room
	B	Original Sin
	B	The Private Patient
	A	Shroud for a Nightingale
	B	A Taste for Death
J.A. Jance
	B	Birds of Prey
	B	Breach of Duty
	B	Damage Control
	B	Dead to Rights
	B	Dead Wrong
	A	Desert Heat
	A	Devil's Claw
	B	Exit Wounds
	C	Failure to Appear
	B	Fire and Ice
	C	Improbable Cause
	B	Injustice for All
	C	Justice Denied
	B	Long Time Gone
	C	Minor in Possession
	B	A More Perfect Union
	B	Outlaw Mountain
	C	Paradise Lost
	B	Partner in Crime
	A	Payment in Kind
	A	Rattlesnake Crossing
	B	Skeleton Canyon
	B	Shoot, Don't Shoot
	B	Taking the Fifth
	A	Tombstone Courage
	B	Trial by Fury
	B	Until Proven Guilty
	A	Without Due Process
Karen Kijewski
	A	Alley Kat Blues
	A	Copy Kat
	C	Honky Tonk Kat
	B	Kat Scratch Fever
	B	Kat's Cradle
	B	Katapult
	B	Katwalk
	B	Stray Kat Waltz
	B	Wild Kat
Laurie R. King
	B	The Game
	B	Justice Hall
	B	The Language of Bees
	B	Locked Rooms
	B	The Moor
	B	Night Work
Mary Kruger
	A	Death on the Cliff Walk
Ken Kuhlken
	B	The Angel Gang
	B	The Do-Re-Mi
	C	The Loud Adios
	B	The Venus Deal
Jane Langton
	D	The Dante Game
Betty Sullivan LaPierre
	A	Double Trouble
Paul Levinson
	B	The Consciousness Plague
	B	The Pixel Eye
	B	The Silk Code
William Manchee
	A	Black Monday
	A	Brash Endeavor
	A	Ca$h Call
	A	Deadly Distractions
	A	Death Pact
	A	Disillusioned
	A	Plastic Gods
	A	Second Chair
	A	Trouble in Trinidad

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	C	Death's Half Acre
	C	Fugitive Colors
	A	Hard Row
	B	High Country Fall
	B	Home Fires
	B	Killer Market
	C	One Coffee With
	A	The Right Jack
	B	Rituals of the Season
	C	Sand Sharks
	A	Shooting at Loons
	B	Slow Dollar
	B	Southern Discomfort
	B	Storm Track
	B	Three-Day Town
	C	Uncommon Clay
	B	Up Jumps the Devil
	B	Winter's Child
Ngaio Marsh
	B	Artists in Crime
	B	Clutch of Constables
	A	Colour Scheme
	A	Death and the Dancing Footman
	B	Death in Ecstasy
	A+	Death of a Fool
	A	Death of a Peer
	C	Died in the Wool
	A	The Nursing Home Murder
	D	Overture in Death
	B	Photo Finish
	B	Spinsters in Jeopardy
	C	Tied Up in Tinsel
	B	When in Rome
Archer Mayor
	B	Chat
	B	Open Season
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Walter Mosley
	B	Fear Itself
	B	Fear of the Dark
	B	Fearless Jones
Marcia Muller
	B	Burn Out
	B	Dead Midnight
	B	The Ever-Running Man
	A	There's Something in a Sunday
	B	Vanishing Point
Carol O'Connell
	B	The Chalk Girl
	B	Crime School
	A	Dead Famous
	A	Find Me
	B	Killing Critics
	B	Mallory's Oracle
	C	The Man Who Cast Two Shadows
	C	Shell Game
	C	Stone Angel
	B	Winter House
Sara Paretsky
	B	Fire Sale
Robert B. Parker
	B	Back Story
	C	Blue Screen
	B	A Catskill Eagle
	B	Ceremony
	C	Death in Paradise
	B	Double Deuce
	B	God Save the Child
	B	The Godwulf Manuscript
	B	High Profile
	B	Hugger Mugger
	B	Hush Money
	B	The Judas Goat
	A	Looking for Rachel Wallace
	B	Night and Day
	A	Night Passage
	A	Painted Ladies
	B	Pale Kings and Princes
	B	Paper Doll
	B	Playmates
	B	Potshot
	B	Promised Land
	C	A Savage Place
	B	Sea Change
	B	Small Vices
	C	Split Image
	C	Stardust
	B	Stone Cold
	B	Stranger in Paradise
	C	Trouble in Paradise
	C	Widow's Walk
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	B	Black Water
	B	The Blue Hour
	B	Cold Pursuit
	B	Laguna Heat
	B	Red Light
Eliot Pattison
	A	Ashes of the Earth
	B	The Skull Mantra
Ellis Peters
	D	Rainbow's End
Ian Rankin
	A	The Falls
	B	Set in Darkness
	B	Tooth and Nail
John Howard Reid
	A	The Health Farm Murders
John R. Riggs
	D	A Dragon Lives Forever
J.D. Robb
	B	Betrayal in Death
	B	Born in Death
	B	Calculated in Death
	C	Celebrity in Death
	B	Ceremony in Death
	A	Conspiracy in Death
	B	Creation in Death
	A	Divided in Death
	B	Glory in Death
	B	"Haunted in Death" Bump in the Night
	C	Holiday in Death
	C	Imitation in Death
	B	Immortal in Death
	B	Indulgence in Death
	C	Innocent in Death
	A	Judgment in Death
	B	Loyalty in Death
	D	Memory in Death
	B	"Missing in Death" The Lost
	B	Naked in Death 11/7/2003
	C	Origin in Death
	B	Portrait in Death
	B	Promises in Death
	B	Purity in Death
	B	Rapture in Death
	B	Remember When
	B	Reunion in Death
	B	Salavation in Death
	c	Seduction in Death
	C	Silent Night
	B	Strangers in Death
	A	Survivor in Death
	B	Vengeance in Death
	C	Visions in Death
	B	Witness in Death
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	B	The Best-Kept Secret
	B	Collision Bend
	B	The Cleveland Connection
	B	The Cleveland Local
	B	Deep Shaker
	C	The Duke of Cleveland
	B	Full Cleveland
	B	The Lake Effect
	B	Pepper Pike
	B	A Shoot in Cleveland
Nora Roberts
	A	Blue Smoke
	C	High Noon
	C	Northern Lights
	B	Remember When
Chris Rogers
	A	Bitch Factor
	B	Chill Factor
	B	Rage Factor
S.J. Rozan
	B	A Bitter Feast
	B	China Trade
	B	Concourse
	B	Ghost Hero
	B	Mandarin Plaid
	A	No Colder Place
	A	On the Line
	B	Reflecting the Sky
	A	The Shanghai Moon
	B	Stone Quarry
	A	Winter and Night
John Sandford
	B	Dark Moon
Dorothy Sayers
	B	Busman's Honeymoon
	A	Gaudy Night
	A	Murder Must Advertise
	B	Whose Body?
Julie Smith
	B	82 Desire
	A	The Axeman's Jazz
	C	Crescent City Kill
	C	House of Blues
	A	Jazz Funeral
	B	The Kindness of Strangers
	B	Mean Woman Blues
	C	New Orleans Beat
	A	New Orleans Mourning
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Dana Stabenow
	C	A Cold Day for Murder
Rex Stout
	B	Death of a Dude
	C	A Family Affair
	B	The Father Hunt
	C	The Rubber Band
	A	Where There's a Will
Josephine Tey
	C	Brat Farrar
	A	The Daughter of Time
Lisa Unger
	A	Beautiful Lies
Leland Waldrip
	A	Griz Nightmare
	A	Vigilante Virus
Jacqueline Winspear
	A	Among the Mad
	B	Birds of a Feather
	B	Elegy for Eddie
	B	An Incomplete Revenge
	C	A Lesson in Secrets
	A+	Maisie Dobbs
	C	Messenger of Truth
	A	Pardonable Lies
Dorian Yeager
	C	Cancellation by Death
	C	Eviction by Death
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