Monday, September 1, 2008

Adult Mysteries Read

The following are mysteries I've read since I landed in Tucson in August of 2002.

ADDISON, Corban
     The Garden of Burning Sand (4)

ARMSTRONG, Lori 
Mercy Gunderson, South Dakota
       2- Mercy Kill (4.5)
       3 - Merciless (4)

ATKINS, Ace - continuing Robert B. Parker's Spenser series
       Lullaby (4)

AYOOB, Michael
        In Search of Mercy (3)

BARCLAY, Linwood
       The Accident (4)
       No Time for Goodbye (3.5)

BARNES, Linda
Carlotta Carlyle, Boston
       Cold Case (4.5)

BARR, Nevada
National Parks
       Deep South (4.5)

BLACK, J. Carson
Laura Cardinal, Tucson
       1 - Darkness on the Edge of Town (5)
       2 - Dark Side of the Moon (3)
       3 - The Devil's Hour (4)
       4 - Cry Wolf (2)
       5 - Flight 12; A Laura Cardinal Thriller  (4)
non-Tucson Cyril Landry
       The Shop (2)
Tess McCrae - Tucson
       The Survivor's Club

BLACKSTOCK, Terri
          Twisted Innocence (2)

BLOCK, Lawrence - Matthew Scudder, NYC
1- The Sins of the Fathers (2.5)

BRACKMANN, Lisa
       Getaway (3.5)

BROWN, Dan
       Angels and Demons (5)
       DaVinci Code (5)

BROWN, Sandra
          Deadline (4)

BUCHANAN, Edna
       Margin of Error (3)


CAIN, Chelsea
Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell
       1 -  Heart Sick (5)
       2 - Sweetheart (4)
       3 - Evil at Heart (4)
       4 - The Night Season (4)
       5 - Kill You Twice (5)
       6-  Let Me Go (3)

Kick Lannigan & John Bishop
       1 - One Kick  (3.5)

CASTILLO, Linda 
ex-Amish Chief of Police Kate Burkholder
       1 - Sworn to Silence (4)
       2 - Pray for Silence (4)
       3 - Breaking Silence (5)
       4 - Gone Missing (4.5)
       4.5 - Long Lost (short story) (3)
       5 - Her Last Breath (4)
       6 - The Dead Will Tell (5)
       6,5 - (short story) A Hidden Secret
       7 - After the Storm  (4.5)

CHILD, Lee
Jack Reacher, ex-Army intelligence, no address
       1 - The Killing Floor (4)
       4 - Running Blind  (3)
       10- The Hard Way (3.5/Liked it a lot)
       11- Bad Luck and Trouble (3.5)
       12- Nothing to Lose (3.5)
       14- 61 Hours (3.5)
       15.5 - Second Son (3)
       16- The Affair (4)
       18 -  Never Go Back  (4)
       19.5 - Small Wars  (4)

COBEN, Harlan
Myron Bolitar, NJ Sports agent
       1 - Deal Breaker (5)
       2 - Drop Shot (3)
standalone
        Six Years (3)
        Missing You (2)

COLE, David - Laura Winslow, Arizona
       1 - Butterfly Lost (3) 2000
       2 -The Killing Maze (4) 2001
       3 - Stalking Moon (3.5) 2002
       4 - Scorpion Rain (3) 2002

CONNELLY, Michael
Harry Bosch, LA
       1-The Black Echo (5)
       2-The Black Ice (5)
       3-The Concrete Blonde (4)
       4- The Last Coyote (5)
       5-Trunk Music (5)
       6-Angels Flight (5)
       8-City of Bones (4.5)
       9-Lost Light (4.5)
      10-The Narrows (3) (The Poet and Terry McCaleb's death)
      11 - The Closers (5)

Terry McCaleb, LA
       Blood Work (5)
Standalone
       Chasing the Dime (3.5)

CONNOR, Alex
       The Other Rembrandt (4)

CORNWELL, Patricia
Kay Scarpetta, all-over-the-place
      19Red Mist  (4)
Win Garrano, Boston:
       At Risk (4)
       The Front (3 and 5 lots of unanswered questions)
Andy Brazil
       3 - Isle of Dogs

CRAIS, Robert
Elvis Cole, LA
       7- Indigo Slam (4.5)
       8- L. A. Requiem (5)
       10- The Forgotten Man (5)
       11- The Watchman (5) [it's really Joe Pike's story]
       12 - Chasing Darkness (4.5)
       13- Taken (4.5)
Standalone
        Demolition Angel

CRAMER, Rebecca
Linda Bluenight, Tucson
       Mission to Sonora (2)

DEAVER, Jeffrey
Lincoln Rhyme
       4 -Stone Monkey (4.5)

DEKKER, Ted
       Saint (-1)

DOIRON, Paul 
Mike Bowditch, Maine Game Warden
       1- The Poacher's Son (4)
       2- Trespasser (3.5)

DUNNING, John
Cliff Janeway, Denver Bookman/Retired Cop
       1 - Booked to Die
       Deadline

EVANOVICH, Janet
Stephanie Plum, NJ
       Three to Get Deadly (3)
       Four to Score (4)
       High Five (3.5)
       Hot Six (4)
       Seven Up (3)
       Hard Eight (3)
       To the Nines (3.5)
       Ten Big Ones (3)
       Eleven on Top (4)
       Twelve Sharp (4)
       Lean Mean Thirteen (3.5)
       Fearless Fourteen (4)
       Finger Lickin' Fifteen (1)

FAIRSTEIN, Linda
Alexandra Cooper
       4 - The Deadhouse (4)

FIELDING, Joy
       Heartstopper  (3)

FLORA, Kate
       Girls' Night Out  - an eBook of 32 pgs. (5)
       Playing God  (#1 Joe Burgess) (4)

FOLSUM, Karin - Inspector Sejer, Norway
       Don't Look Back (4.5)

FOWLER, Earlene
Benny Harper
       1-Fool's Puzzle (4)

FRANCIS, Dick - various British Horse Racing
       Dead Heat (2.5)
       Break In (Kit Fielding #1) (4) 1986
       Bolt (Kit Fielding #2) (3.5) 1986
       Hot Money (3) 1987
       Decider (4) 1993
       10 Lb. Penalty (5)1997
       Dead Cert (3.5)

FREY, Stephen
       Forced Out (2)

GALBRAITH, Robert (J. K. Rowling)
Cormoran Strike, London PI
       1-The Cuckoo's Calling (4)
       2-The Silkworm (4)

GARDNER, Lisa 
Quincy & Rainie
       4 - The Killing Hour (4)
       6 - Say Goodbye (5) Very disturbing

GEAR, Kathleen O'Neal & W. Michael 
Anasazi Mysteries
       1 -The Visitant (4)
       2 - Summoning God (4)

GERRITSON, Tess
       The Bone Garden (2)

GOMEZ-JIRADO, Juan
       The Moses Expedition (2)

GRAHAM, Heather
       2 - Deadly Harvest (1)

GRAFTON, Sue
Kinsey Millhone, Santa Teresa, CA
       P is for Peril
       Q is for Quarry (4)
       R is for Ricochet (4)
       S is for Silence (3)
       T is for Trespass (4)
       U is for Undertow (4)

GRAVES, Sarah
Lizzie Snow, Bearkill, Maine
     Winter at the Door  (2.5)

GREENLAW, Linda - near Ellsworth, ME
       Slipknot (3)

GREGORY, Jill, and TINTORI, Karen (stand-alones)
       The Book of Names (3)

GRIFFITHS, Elly
Ruth Galloway, Norfolk, England forensic archaeologist
      1 -  Crossing Places, The (4)
      2 - The Janus Stone (4)

GRIMES, Martha
       Biting the Moon (2.5)

GRIPPANDO, James 
Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck
       3 - Last to Die (4)

GRISHAM, John (stand-alones)
       The Summons (2)

GROSS, Andrew
 The Dark Tide (2.5)

GROSSMAN, Lev
       Codex (5)

GUILD, Nicholas
       Blood Ties (4)

HAMILTON, Denise
Eve Diamond, LA Investigative Reporter
       1 - The Jasmine Trade (5)
       2 - Sugar Skull (3)

HAMILTON, Steve
       The Lock Artist (4)

HAND, Elizabeth
Cass Neary, NYC photographer, druggie, dark...
       1 - Generation Loss (3)
       2 - Available Dark (4)

HARRIS, Charlaine
Snookie Stackhouse LA Vampires
       1- Dead Until Dark (3.5)

HARRIS, Lisa
Southern Crimes #1
        1-Dangerous Passage (1)

HART, Carolyn
       Death in Paradise (2.5)

HAYMAN, James
       Girl in the Glass (4)
       Darkness First  (3)
       The Cutting (4)
       Chill of the Night  (4)

 HINTON, S. E.
       Hawkes Harbor (3.5)

HOFFMAN, Jilliane
       Last Witness (4)

HOOPER, Kay
       Chill of Fear (2)

HOWARD, Linda
       Cry No More (3)

ILES, Greg
       Blood Memory (5)

JACKSON, Lisa
       Shiver (3)

JANCE, J. A. - Sedona
       1 - Edge of Evil (1)
       2- Web of Evil (2)
       3 - Hand of Evil (1)

JOHANSEN, Iris
       And Then You Die (3)

KAMINSKY, Stuart M.
       Vengeance (4)

KAUFMAN, Thomas
       Drink the Tea (5)

KELLERMAN, Faye
       Gun Games  (3.5)
       Forgotten (3)
       The Burnt House (4)
       The Mercedes Coffin (3)

KELLERMAN, Jonathan
       Deception (3.5)
       Victims (4)
       The Murder Book (3.5)
       Rage (4)

KHOURY, Raymond
       The Last Templar (3)

KING, Laurie R.
Standalone
A Darker Place

KONRATH, J. A.
Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels, Chicago PD
       1- Whiskey Sour (4)
       2- Bloody Mary (2)

KRUEGER, William Kent 
Corcoran "Cork" O'Connor, northern Minnesota
       1 - Iron Lake (5)
       2 - Boundary Waters  (4.5)

LANCET, Barry
Jim Brodie, SF Antique Japanese Art Dealer/expert and Investigator
       1 - Japantown (DNF-2)

LARSSON, Stieg
Lisbeth Salander & Mikael Blomkvist, Sweden
     The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (5)

LEONARD, Elmore
       Pagan Babies (5)

LEVERONE, Allan
Kristin Cunningham, Boston FBI Special Agent
          Flight 12:  A Kristin Cunningham Thriller  (2)

LINDSAY, Jeffry
       Darkly Dreaming Dexter (4)

LIPPMAN, Laura
Tess Monaghan
        10- Another Thing to Fall (4)
         8- By a Spider's Thread (3)
not Tess Monaghan
       Life Sentences (2.5)

LOGUE, Mary
Claire Watkins, Wisconsin cop
       9- Lake of Tears (2)

LOVELACE, Merline
Samantha Spade, Air Force Technology analyst
       All the Wrong Moves (2)

MARA, Will
Jason Hammond, Billionaire amateur sleuth
       Frame 232 (2)

MARON, Margaret
       Last Lessons of Summer (3)

MARSONS, Angela
D.I. Kim Stone, Black Country (West Midlands) ENGLAND
     1 - Silent Scream (5)

MAYOR, Major
Joe Gunther, Brattleboro, VT state detective
       Tag Man (2.5)

McDERMID, Val
       The Grave Tatoo (3)

McGARRITY, Michael
Kevin Kerney, NM
       1- Tularosa (4.5)
       2- Mexican Hat (4)
       3- Serpent Gate (4)

Miller, Susan Cummins 
Frankie MacFarlane (Tucson based)
       1- Death Assemblage (3.5)

MITCHELL, James
       Choke Point (3.5)

MORRELL, David
Frank Belanger (Asbury Park, NJ ex-cop)
        Creepers (3)

MULLER, Marcia
Sharon McCone
       11 - Trophies and Dead Things (4)
       16 - A Wild and Lonely Place (3)
standaloneCape Perdido  (2)

NASH, Jonathan
       Twenty-Seven Bones (3)

NEGGERS, Carla
Sharpe & Donovan; Boston-based FBI
         Saint's Gate  (2)

O'CONNELL, Carol
Kathleen Mallory
       Mallory's Oracle (5)

O'SHAUGHNESSY, Perry
Lake Tahoe
       Motion to Supress (5)
       Unlucky in Law (3)

PARKER, Barbara
       Dark of Day (5)

PARKER, Robert B
Spenser, Boston
       27 - Hugger Mugger (2)
       28 - Potshot (3)
       30 - Back Story (4)
       31 - Bad Business (4)
       33 - School Days (4.5)
       34 - Hundred-Dollar Baby (4)
       36 - Rough Weather (3)
       37 - The Professional (4ish)
       39 - Painted Ladies (5)
Jesse Stone, Paradise, Mass.
       Stranger in Paradise (3.5)
Sunny Randall
       3 - Shrink Rap (3.5)
       5 - Blue Screen (4)

PARKS, Brad
Carter Ross
       Faces of the Gone (4)

PATTERSON, James
1st to Die (2)
Violets are Blue (4)

PEARSON, Ridley
Sheriff Walt Fleming, Sun Valley, ID
       2 - Killer View (3.5)

PELELCANOS, George
Spero Lucas, Washington, DC
       1 - The Cut (4.5)

PERRY, Thomas 
Jane Whitefield
       4 - Blood Money (4)

PESSL, Marisha
       Night Film

PRESTON, Douglas & Lincoln Child
       12 - Two Graves (3)

RIORDAN, Rick
Tres Navarre, San Antonio
       1- Big Red Tequila (4.5)

ROBB, J. D.
       Naked in Death (3)

ROBINSON, Steve
Jefferson (JT) Tayte, Genealogist
       1 - In the Blood (2.5)

ROBOTHAM, Michael
       Night Ferry (5)

ROSENBERG, Nancy Taylor
       Sullivan's Law (1.5)

ROSENFELT, David
          Down to the Wire (3.5)

SANDFORD, John
Virgil Flowers, Minnesota
       1- Dark of the Moon (5)
       2.  Heat Lightning (4)
       3 - Rough Country (4)
       4-  Bad Blood (5)
       5 - Shock Wave (5)
       6 - Mad River (4.5)
       7 - Storm Front (3)
       8 - Deadline  (3)
Lucas Davenport, Minnesota
       1 - Rules of Prey (4)
Standalone
       Dead Watch (3.5)

SATTERTHWAITE, Walter
Joshua Croft, Santa Fe
       2- At Ease with the Dead (5)

SCOTTOLINE, Lisa
Rosato & Associates
       5 - Moment of Truth (2) 2000
       8 - Dead Ringer (3)
       9 - Killer Smile (3) 2004
   
SEFTON, Maggie
Kelly Flynn
       1- Knit One, Kill Two (3)

SETTERFIELD, Diane
       The Thirteenth Tale (4)

SLAUGHTER, Karin
Will Trent
       7 - Criminal  (5)
Grant Country, Georgia
       1 - Blindsighted (3)

SMITH, Alexander
       1- Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency (2.5)

SPENCER-FLEMING, Julia
       8- Through the Evil Days (DNF-Didn't like it at all)

STABENOW, Dana 
Kate Shugak, Alaska
       6 - Blood Will Tell (4)

SWAIN, James
       2- The Night Stalker (4.5)

TALTON, Jon - Phoenix
       1- Concrete Desert (4)

TAPPLY, William G.
Stoney Calhoun, ME
       1- Bitch Creek (4.5)
       2- Gray Ghost (4)
 Brady Coyne, ME
       Cutter's Run (4)

TAYLOR, Sarah Stewart
Sweeney St. George, Harvard/Mass.
       O'Artful Death (Set in VT) (1.5 and 4)

TEY, Josephine
       The Daughter of Time (3)

THOMPSON, James
Kari Vaara, Finnish Chief Police Inspector
       1 - Snow Angels (4.5)

THORNTON, Betsy
Chloe Newcomb, Dudley (Bisbee), AZ
       1- The Cowboy Rides Away (5)
       2- High Lonesome Road (4)
        3- Ghost Towns (5)
       4- Dead for the Winter (4.5)
       5- A Song for You (5)

THURLO, David & Aimee
Vampire NatAm Cop
       Second Sunrise (3.5)

TISHY, Cecelia
Regina Cutter, Boston "psychic"
       Now you See Her (3)

URE, Louise
       Forcing Amaryllis (2 and 4)

VanGIESON, Judith
The Stolen Blue (2)

VERDON, John
Dave Gurney, retired NYC super-sleuth, upper NY state
       1- Think of a Number (5)   
       2 - Shut Your Eyes Tight (4)
       3 - Let the Devil Sleep (4)
       4 - Peter Pan Must Die (4.5)

WALKER, Walter
       Crime of Privilege (3)

WEAVER, Tim
        4 - Never Coming Back (5)

WEBB, Betty
       1- Desert Noir (3.5)
       2- Desert Wives (4)
       3 - Desert Shadows (4)

WOLF, Dick
NYPD Detective Jeremy Fisk
       1 - The Intercept (4)

WOODS, Stuart -
Stone Barrington
       15 - Hot Mahogany
Will Lee
       5 - The Run

1 comment:

Judee said...

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