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Thereby Hangs a Tail
by Spencer Quinn
"A dognapping/kidnapping triggers events that put Bernie and his canine partner in jeopardy."
Posted January 29, 2010

The Little Detective Agency is aptly named: first, because the lead detective's name is Bernie Little; second, because there are only two partners -- Bernie and his faithful dog, Chet, who also serves as the narrator for their adventures. When a local police lieutenant asks Bernie and Chet to play Read more...


The School of Essential Ingredients
by Erica Bauermeister
"A special cooking class involves much more than recipes."
Posted December 28, 2009

They meet on Monday nights -- strangers drawn together at a cooking class, each with his or her own reason for being there. Carl and Helen are an older couple who seem to have found happily-ever-after; Claire is a harried young mother taking a break from her husband and Read more...


Doppelgangster
by Laura Resnick
"Double trouble and supernatural doings in the Big Apple."
Posted December 16, 2009

Esther Diamond is currently making ends meet by waiting tables, albeit at a restaurant frequented by Italian mobsters. Just your typical New York actress -- other than that little incident during her last acting job, when she had to help a local sorcerer stop his evil apprentice from unleashing a deadly Read more...


The Bad Book Affair
by Ian Sansom
"The entertaining exploits of a full-time librarian/part-time detective in a small Irish coastal town."
Posted December 15, 2009

Israel Armstrong is about to turn 30. As if that wasn't bad enough, he has recently broken up with his girlfriend; he's a Londoner stuck in a tiny town in northern Ireland -- living in a converted chicken house -- and he works a dead- end job as a librarian Read more...


Once in a Lifetime
by Cathy Kelly
"Life, love and tragedy in a small Irish town."
Posted December 15, 2009

Kenny's Department Store is the pride of Ardagh, a small town in Ireland. Known for selling one-of-a-kind, handmade items and offering customers old-fashioned elegance and personal service, the store has been hard-hit by changes in the economic climate and competition from cheaper, larger chains Read more...


Deeper than the Dead
by Tami Hoag
"A sadistic killer stalks a small California town."
Posted December 15, 2009

Fall, 1985. Four fifth-graders make a gruesome discovery in the forest near a local park in quiet, pleasant Oak Knoll, California. A woman has been murdered and buried in a shallow grave, her eyes and mouth glued shut. The children's teacher, Anne Navarre, arrives at the scene as Read more...


Lullaby for the Nameless
by Sandra Ruttan
"A series of killings has disturbing similarities to a case thought to be long closed."
Posted November 13, 2009

A serial killer is at work, and a task force of RCMP officers is on the case. Constables Nolan, Tain and Hart have joined the hunt -- Nolan working apart from his two colleagues, and Tain and Hart together as partners. But all three of them start to discover chilling connections Read more...


Let Darkness Come
by Angela Hunt
"A great mystery and a revealing courtroom drama."
Posted November 13, 2009

An inexperienced young attorney fights to defend her client, an abused wife accused of murdering her husband, in what seems to be an airtight case. Briley Lester, a hardworking young attorney at a prestigious Chicago law firm, is stunned when the senior partners assign her to a high-profile murder Read more...


Evil at Heart
by Chelsea Cain
"An obsessed detective and a seductive serial killer play a deadly game -- for the third time."
Posted August 11, 2009

The notorious "Beauty Killer," Gretchen Lowell, has escaped from prison and seems to have wasted no time in savagely claiming more victims in the Portland, Oregon, area. Archie Sheridan, the detective who is Gretchen's only surviving victim, is in a psychiatric hospital, scarred mentally and physically from their last Read more...


Hunt Her Down
by Roxanne St. Claire
"You can run from your past, but can you ever truly escape it?"
Posted August 11, 2009

Deserted by her mother and never knowing her father, Magdalena Varcek was raised by her grandmother, "Baba," who told her to always look for the signs the universe would give to make decisions in her life. After Baba dies, the signs lead teenaged runaway Maggie to Ramon Jimenez. Too late Read more...


Undone
by Karin Slaughter
"A twisted predator is targeting women in Atlanta. What's the connection among the victims?"
Posted June 10, 2009

Dr. Sara Linton has seen some gruesome sights in her work, but nothing has prepared her for the woman brought into the ER after being hit by a car. Sara's exam reveals that the woman had been bound, starved and tortured before the accident. Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Read more...


Martyr
by Rory Clements
"Conspiracy and murder in Elizabethan England."
Posted May 16, 2009

John Shakespeare (older brother to William) is an investigator who reports directly to Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth. When Blanche Howard, a young cousin of the queen, is found brutally murdered, with papers nearby that contain libelous statements and threats against Elizabeth, Shakespeare must move quickly Read more...


The Neighbor
by Lisa Gardner
"The search for a missing woman uncovers some dark, eerie secrets."
Posted May 16, 2009

Sandra and Jason Jones seem to have the perfect life: both are young and good looking; she's a schoolteacher, he's a reporter; they have an adorable little girl and an older but well-kept house in a good neighborhood. But when Sandra disappears from the house one night Read more...


The Devlin Diary
by Christi Phillips
"A conspiracy from the past has deadly consequences in the present."
Posted April 15, 2009

In the rough-and-tumble London of the late 1600s, Hannah Devlin carries on her father's legacy as a doctor (although unlicensed), struggling to keep her small household together. Her life changes when she is forcibly taken to Whitehall Palace by none other than Lord Arlington, Secretary of State Read more...


The Frailty Of Flesh
by Sandra Ruttan
"A mystery from north of the border, involving a murdered child, a missing girl and family secrets."
Posted October 15, 2008

The death of a child is always tragic, but even more so if a family member is involved. When police find the body of 4- year-old Jeffrey Reimer in a local park, his older brother, Christopher, comes forward and claims that his teenaged sister killed the boy. Now Shannon Read more...


Fallen
by Claire Delacroix
"A thrilling urban fantasy set in a well-constructed and scary futuristic universe."
Posted September 15, 2008

It's 2099 and the United States no longer exists. In the new world of the Republic, major cities are nuclear hot zones, inhabited by wolves. Women must be nearly completely covered in public. Those who have been affected by radiation are known as Sub-Human Atomic Deviants, or "shades Read more...


Exposed
by Alex Kava
"How do you expose a ruthless killer when you are in quarantine?"
Posted September 15, 2008

A seemingly innocuous box of donuts sent to Assistant Director Cunningham at Quantico's FBI offices leads to a nightmare for him and Agent Maggie O'Dell, who's with him when he finds the threatening note inside. The note gives a time and place that a "crash" is supposed Read more...


Sweetheart
by Chelsea Cain
"Dark, disturbing and breathtaking sequel to the incomparable thriller HEARTSICK."
Posted August 15, 2008

Detective Archie Sheridan is still haunted by Gretchen Lowell, the seductive serial killer who once kidnapped and tortured him. Gretchen is in prison, but Archie has continued to see her on a regular basis. He tells himself it's to get details to help identify at least some of Gretchen Read more...


Fractured
by Karin Slaughter
"GBI agent Will Trent returns to help solve a most shocking and bizarre case of murder/kidnapping."
Posted July 19, 2008

Abigail Campano experiences a mother's worst nightmare when she comes home to find a stranger has brutally attacked her daughter Emma -- and is still standing over the girl's body with a knife in his hand. When he approaches Abigail, a violent struggle ensues and she kills him. As Read more...


South Of Hell
by P. J. Parrish
"PI Louis Kincaid becomes involved in a complex missing-persons cold case."
Posted July 19, 2008

A possible break in a cold case brings P.I. Louis Kincaid from sunny Florida to chilly Michigan, where he faces not- so-pleasant memories from his college days and early experiences as a cop. His memories aren't nearly as disturbing as those of a traumatized young girl, Amy Read more...


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1 comment posted.

Re: One Touch of Scandal (12:07pm September 26, 2010):

My reward was chocolate until I got put on a low-cholesterol diet. Now it's a trip to a local candy shop for something sugary and nonfat!

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