Sunday, May 26, 2013

The Big Line-Up (or) What's Next?

This ALMOST looks like me....
Lined up on two shelves within arms reach of where I sit and read and surf the net are books I've amassed in the last couple of years that look really good, that have tempted me.  I don't get to read them because every time I finish a book, there are a couple of library books waiting to be read, books that I've reserved and waited forever for and only have three weeks before they need to be returned because there's such a waiting list for them that they can't be renewed.  So this summer, I'm taking a few of these on my trip with me.  Now I need to decide which ones!  Goodreads, help me!


Next-in-the-series to read:

Andrews, Sarah (Wyoming geologist EmHansen): #1 Tensleep
Bass, Jefferson (Body Farm series): #1 Carved in Bone
Black, J. Carson (writing as Margaret Falk): The Desert Waits
Browning, Sinclair (Tucson PI Trade Ellis): #2 The Last Song Dogs
Burke, Jan (Irene Kelly): #1 Goodnight, Irene
Cain, Chelsea  (Portland, OR. Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell): #3- Evil at Heart read it!  Now ready for #4
Castillo, Linda  (ex-Amish Chief of Police Kate Burkholder):  awaiting new release (#5)
ChildLee (Jack Reacher, ex-military loner): any-reading out-of-order
Coben, Harlen (Myron Bolitar, NJ Sports Agent): #3 Fade Away
Coel, Margaret(Wind River Reservation: Father John O'Malley  & Lawyer Vicki Holden): #1 The Eagle Catcher
Cole, David  (Laura Winslow, AZ Computer Hacker): Dragonfly Bones
Connelly, Michael  (Harry Bosch, LA Cop): #8 - City of Bones read it! Now ready for #9
ConnorBeverly (Forensic Investigator Diane Fallon): #1 One Grave Too Many
ConnorBeverly  (Forensic Anthropologist Lindsay Chamberlain:): #1 A Rumor of Bones
Crais, Robert (El:vis Cole): any-reading out-of-order
Cramer, Rebecca  (Tucson T'hono O'odham Linda Bluenight): #2 The View from Frog Mountain
Crider, Bill (rural TX Sheriff Dan Rhodes): and order? #15 Of All Sad Words
Cutler, Judith (Antiques dealer Lina Townend): #1 Drawing the Line
Doiron, Paul (Maine Game Warden Mike Bowditch): #2-
Dunning, John (Denver homocide detective Cliff Janeway) #1 Booked to Die
Evanovich, Janet (NJ Bounty Hunter Stephanie Plum): #14 Fearless Fourteen
Folsum, Karen (Norwegian Police Inspector Sejer):
Fowler, Earlene (So. California Benni Harper folk-art museum curator): #2 Irish Chain
Francis, Dick (most are stand-alones about horse racing): any-reading in any order
Gagnon, Michelle (FBI agent Kelly Jones): #2 Bone Yard (couldn't get into #1 tunnels, so try this one first)
Grafton, Sue (Santa Teresa, CA PI Kinsey Milhone): #21 U is for Undertoe
Greenlaw, Linda (ex-Miami-Homicide Detective Jane Bunker, now in Maine): #2 Fisherman's Bend
Grippando, James (Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck): any order, #7 Last Call
Hamilton, Denise (LA Investigative Reporter Eve Diamond): #2 Sugar Skull
Hamilton, Steve (Alex McKnight-Michigan UP): #1 A Cold Day in Paradise
Hand, Elizabeth (NYC Druggie Photographer Cass Neary): I read #2 first, so #1 or # 3 next:
Handler, David (CT State cop Desiree Mitry & NY film critic Mitch Berger): #1 The Cold Blue Blood
Hawke, Richard  (Fritz Malone): #1 Speak of the Devil  
Hewson, David (Rome detective Nic Costa): #1 A Season for the Dead
Hilton, Matt (ex-military op and CIA agent Joe Hunter): #1 Dead Men's Dust
Hoag, Tami  (Kovac & Liska): #1 Ashes to Ashes - which I don't have, I have #2 Dust to Dust
Jance, J. A.  (Sedona, AZ Blogger Ali Reynolds): #3 Hand of Evil
Jance, J. A. (Cochise Cty, AZ Sheriff Joanna Brady): any order?
Johansen, Iris (Eve Duncan): any order
Kellerman, Faye (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus): any-am reading out-of-order
Krueger, William Kent (Former northern Minnesota Sheriff "Cork" O'Connor): #2 Boundary Waters
Kuzneski, Chris (Jonathon Payne & David Jones): #2 Sign of the Cross (don't have #1)
McGarrity, Michael (NM State Police Detective Kevin Kerney): #4 Hermit's Peak
Miller, Susan Cummins  (Tucson-based   Frankie MacFarlane): #2 Detachment Fault
Muller, Marcia (San Francisco PI Sharon McCone): any order, have read #10 and #15
O'Connell, Carol (NYC Police Detective Katherine Mallory) : #2 The Man Who Cast Two Shadows
O'Shaughnessy, Perri (Lake Tahoe lawyer Nina Reilly): Have read #1 and #10...
Parker, Barbara (Suspicion series): Read the 1st a zillion years ago, reread it first?
Parker, Robert B. (Boston PI Spenser): any order
Parks, Brad (Newark investigative reporter Carter Ross): #2 Eyes of the Innocent
Pearson, Ridley  (Sun Valley, ID Sheriff Walt Fleming): #3
Pelecanos, George (Washington D.C. Spero Lucas): #2
Riordan, Rick (San Antonio-based Tres Navarre): #2
Sandford, John (Minnesota State Investigator Virgil Flowers): have read #1-2-and-4, so #3: Rough Country
Satterthwaite, Walter  (Santa Fe, NM PI Joshua Croft): read #2 but not #1, read #3 next
Sefton, Maggie (Kelly Flynn): #2
Slaughter, Karen (Will Trent): (read #7)
Spencer-Fleming, Julia (upstate NY; Rev. Clare Fergusson & Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne ): #1 In the Bleak Midwinter
Talton, Jon (Phoenix): #2
Thomas, Steven  (honorable crook Robert Rivers):#1 Criminal Paradise 
Betsy Thornton (Bisbee, AZ clerk Chloe Newcomb #6 PREQUEL:
James Thompson (Inspector Kari Vaara)#1 Snow Angels  (2009)
Trigoboff, Joseph  (NYC Det. Yablonsky)The Bone Orchard 
Verdon, John (retired NYC super-sleuth Dave Gurney): have read all 3, am awaiting the next!!
Webb, Betty (AZ PI Lena Jones): #3 Desert Shadows


Non-Series Novels to Read
Berg, Elizabeth: The Last Time I saw You (2010) Goodreads:  3.25 (4326 ratings)
Bloom, ElizabethThe Mortician's Daughter (2007) Goodreads: 3.36 (142 ratings)
Bolton, S. J.: Sacrifice (2008) a stand-alone novel  Goodreads: 3.86 (1778 ratings)
Brokaw, Charles: The Atlantis Code (2009) Goodreads 3.48 (1467 ratings)
Davis, KathrynThe Walking Tour (1999) Goodreads:  3.24 (120 ratings)
Doss, James D.: The Shaman Sings (#1 Charlie Moon) (1994) Goodreads: 3.85 (525 ratings)
Dudman, Martha Tod: Black Olives (2008) Goodreads: 2.87 (113 ratings)gave it away
Easterman, Daniel: Brotherhood of the Tomb (1989/1995) Goodreads: 3.59 (100 ratings)
Ellory, R. J.:  A Quiet Belief in Angels (2007) Goodreads: 3.79 (2138 ratings)
Erdich, Louise:  The Painted Drum (2005) Goodreads:  3.77 (3079 ratings)
Fox, KathrynSkin and Bone (2008) Supposedly #3 in a series, but the protagonist in this novel had, apparently, only a minor place in #1 & 2, so I'm considering it a stand-alone  Goodreads: 3.74 (256 ratings)
Gardner: LisaThe Survivor's Club (2001) - stand-alone Goodreads 3.97 (5443 ratings)
Graham, HeatherThe Presence (2004)   Goodreads: 3.91 (1310 ratings) read another by her and hated it
Green, John: The Fault in Our Stars (2012) Goodreads: 4.52 (231 thousand! !)
Hiestand, Jo: Siren Song (McLaren Case Mystery) (2012) Goodreads: 3.50 (just 4 ratings)
James, E. L.Fifty Shades of Grey (2012) Goodreads:  3.60 (519 thousand ratings)
Kate, Lauren: Fallen (#1 Fallen) (2009) Goodreads: 3.75 (156 thousand ratings!)
Kline, Christina BakerThe Way Life Should Be (2007) Goodreads: 3.57 (672 ratings)
Masello, RobertVigil (2005) Goodreads 3.37  (178 ratings)
Michaels, Barbara: Stitches in Time (1995) Goodreads 3.89 (1534 ratings)
Morsi, PamelaBitsy's Bait & BBQ (2007) Goodreads: 3.57 (698 ratings) 
Pelecanos, GeorgeWhat It Was (2012) (#5 Derek Strange & Terry Quinn) Goodreads: 3.69 (727 ratings)
Roy, LoriBent Road (2010) Goodreads: 3.48 (1600 ratings)
Rubin, Sarah:  Someday Dancer (2012) Goodreads: 3.87 (135 ratings) gave to Laura
Shreve, Anita: Sea Glass (2002)Goodreads:  3.59 (13,451 ratings)
Shreve, Anita: Testimony (2008) Goodreads: 3.48 (14 thousand ratings)
Silvey, Craig: Jasper Jones (2009 Australia) Goodreads: 4.00 (4500 ratings)
Winthrop, Elizabeth: Island Justice (1999) Goodreads 3.37 (49 ratings)
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz: Shadow of the Wind (2001) Goodreads:  4.19 (137,190 ratings)


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