"Chef for a Day" at Ronald McDonald House

A couple of Sundays ago, three of my colleagues met me at the Tucson Ronald McDonald house to prepare the Sunday evening meal for the people staying there.  There were eight families, averaging four people per family (which I understand is the norm.)  The kitchen is huge - it has two identical sides, each side with a dishwasher, two sinks, two stoves, a multitude of refrigerators, and cupboards filled with every tool and spice that we might ever need.

The facility is beautiful, warm, and friendly.  The volunteers who were staffing the area were extremely kind...and so thankful to us.  And we had fun.  We did a good did and had a good time doing so.

What did we prepare?  We were told that many of the meals provided are spaghetti and/or tacos.  We decided to have two different casseroles - one being vegetarian; two desserts; homemade rolls; and a big tossed salad.  Everything has to be prepared on site. It took the four of us about two hours to unload, get our bearings, and prepare the meal for 30.

We served:

Chicken-Rice Casserole
Chicken Enchalada Casserole
Rolls
Tossed Salad
Brownies
Millionaire's Pie

I can't wait to do it again.

MOVIE - Spare Parts

Rating/Time

Wide/Limited release

Viewed date at

RT Critic: Audience:

Cag: 6/Awesome 5/Loved it 4/Liked it a lot 3/Liked it 2/It was okay 1/Didn’t like it

Directed by

Studio

Based on the book by

Actors

My comments:

RT Summary:

17. Shine Shine Shine - Lydia Netzer

Audio read by Joshilyn Jackson - beautifully!

9 unabridged discs

2012 St. Martin's Press

309 pgs.

Adult CRF

Finished 11-24-2015

Goodreads rating:  3.48

My rating:  4 Liked it a whole lot

TPPL

Setting: Contemporary Virginia (but many flashbacks to Burma and rural Pennsylvania)

My comments:  This is a really difficult book to rate.  It was read beautifully by Joshilyn Jackson, one of the wonderful things about the book.  The characters were over-the-top quirky - I love quirky but are these characters just a little too-too far....every single one of them? Maxon, the husband, is awesome and believable; utterly and wonderfully autistic, I wanted more of him. Emma, the mother, sickening so quickly and refusing to die, having played such a huge part in teaching Maxon how to fit into a world that was different - and not so understanding of - a person like him.   But this is Sunny's story, and Sunny is the one I had the most difficulty with. One minute I though I had her pegged, but the next...?  The story is pretty cool - fanciful and unbelievable (as well as believable) and exotic and different and funny, too. Whew!  I guess I really liked almost all of it.  

Goodreads book summary:  A debut unlike any other, Shine, Shine, Shine is a shocking, searing, breathless love story, a gripping portrait of modern family, and a stunning exploration of love, death and what it means to be human.
          Sunny Mann has masterminded a life for herself and her family in a quiet Virginia town. Her house and her friends are picture-perfect. Even her genius husband, Maxon, has been trained to pass for normal. But when a fender bender on an average day sends her coiffed blonde wig sailing out the window, her secret is exposed. Not only is she bald, Sunny is nothing like the Stepford wife she’s trying to be. As her facade begins to unravel, we discover the singular world of Sunny, an everywoman searching for the perfect life, and Maxon, an astronaut on his way to colonize the moon.                   Theirs is a wondrous, strange relationship formed of dark secrets, decades-old murders and the urgent desire for connection. As children, the bald, temperamental Sunny and the neglected savant Maxon found an unlikely friendship no one else could understand. She taught him to feel -- helped him translate his intelligence for numbers into a language of emotion. He saw her spirit where others saw only a freak. As they grew into adults, their profound understanding blossomed into love and marriage.     

           But with motherhood comes a craving for normalcy that begins to strangle Sunny’s marriage and family. As Sunny and Maxon are on the brink of destruction, at each other’s throats with blame and fear of how they’ve lost their way, Maxon departs for the moon, where he’s charged with programming the robots that will build the fledgling colony. Just as the car accident jars Sunny out of her wig and into an awareness of what she really needs, an accident involving Maxon’s rocket threatens everything they’ve built, revealing the things they’ve kept hidden. And nothing will ever be the same.

16. One Kick - Chelsea Cain

# 1 in a new series about Kit Lannigan

Audio read by Heather Lind

8 unabridged discs

2014 Simon & Schuster

309 pgs.

Adult murder mystery

Finished 2/20/2015

Goodreads rating:  3.77

My rating:    3.5 I liked it

TPPL

Setting: mostly Oregon/Washington and a bit of SanDiego - contemporary

1st sentence/s:

My comments:  Whew!  So what do I think about this book?  Setting, plot, characters, let's see.  Plot, though horribly grizzly, was well conceived and written in an interesting way; jumping back and forth on itself as memories from Kit's kidnapped years keep appearing. There are really three mysteries being examined - current abductions, Kit's abduction, and the mysterious identity and intentions of John Bishop. The setting flips between the American northwest and the San Diego area. The only character I couldn't totally get into was that of the protagonist!  She was so cockily sure of herself, but many of her actions were immature and poorly thought-out.  I felt no sexual pull at all between Kit and Bishop, so when it began straying in that direction, I was disconcerted.  I want to know more information about her "brother", James, and look forward to another book that might answer many of the questions that Kit ... and I ... have about Bishop.

Goodreads book summary:  Kick Lannigan, 21, is a survivor. Abducted at age six in broad daylight, the police, the public, perhaps even her family assumed the worst had occurred. And then Kathleen Lannigan was found, alive, six years later. In the early months following her freedom, as Kick struggled with PTSD, her parents put her through a litany of therapies, but nothing helped until the detective who rescued her suggested Kick learn to fight. Before she was thirteen, Kick learned marksmanship, martial arts, boxing, archery, and knife throwing. She excelled at every one, vowing she would never be victimized again. But when two children in the Portland area go missing in the same month, Kick goes into a tailspin. Then an enigmatic man Bishop approaches her with a proposition: he is convinced Kick's experiences and expertise can be used to help rescue the abductees. Little does Kick know the case will lead directly into her terrifying past…

POETRY PICTURE BOOK - Got Geography!

Poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by Philip Stanton

2006. Greenwillow Books

32 pgs.

Goodreads rating:2.93

My rating: 4

Endpapers Deep brick-cranberry

16 poems (wish there were more!)

full-colored edge-to-edge painting using deep, gorgeous colors

Latitude Longitude Dreams

Magellan moved via stars
Steered his ship by celestial rays.
Columbus sailed on over the edge
Discovering lands and waterways.

They traversed their dreams, set their course
Voyaging over oceans and seas.
Etching earth with invisible designs
Crossing rivers, rivers, ice, and trees.

These lines that slide from pole to pole
Wrapping around the watery girth
Coordinate all of us on this globe
Our home, our ship, or planet earth.

         ~ Drew Lamm and James Hildreth

If I Were the Equator

If I were the equator
I would have an attitude.
I'd boast the most about my no degrees of latitude.
I'd say, though there are other lines who run from east to west
with nearly 25,000 miles I clearly am the best.
My equidistance from the poles,
I'd mention with a laugh,
makes me the one -- the only one -- who

splits the globe in half.
Smack dab
between the Tropics
with the sun high up above,
indeed,
I'd plead,
what on earth could there be
about me not to love?

             -Kathryn Madeline Allen

Horizon
Just as the thin line
in a long division problem
divides the greater number
by the smaller,
horizon
divides earth and sky.

Gozinta, my mother called division,
explaining to me
the mysteries of math.
But earth does not gozinta sky,
held in place by horizon,
else we would all be flung,
unwilling, into the greater stars.

            - Jane Yolen

My comments:  There are some great poems in here (J. Patrick Lewis, Carl Sandburg, David Harrison, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Jane Yolen, Kristine O'Connell George, and Marilyn Singer to name a few) - but it's a very short selection.  The gorgeous, brilliantly-colored illustrations set them all off perfectly.

Goodreads: Geography is more than maps and globes, more than latitude and longitude lines, more than continents, oceans, islands, and your own neighborhood.
          In Got Geography! Lee Bennett Hopkins gathers vivid poems by sixteen poets and Philip Stanton creates glorious artwork to show that geography isn't just about finding your way. It's the jumping-off point for dreams and imagination.
          If you've got geography, you're ready for adventure. . . .

15. The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths

#1 Ruth Galloway, Norfolk (England) forensic archeologist

Audio read by Jane McDowell

8 unabridged cds (8:27)
2009 AudioGO

2010 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

320 pgs.

Adult murder mystery with archaeological overtones

Finished 2/14/2015

Goodreads rating: 3.85

My rating:    4 - Loved it

TPPL

Setting: Contemporary Norfolk, England

1st sentence/s:  "They wait for the tide and set out at first light.   It has rained all night and in the morning the ground is seething gently, a mist rising up to join the overhanging clouds."

My comments:  I'm quite excited to have found a new mystery series, and it seems to have pulled me right in! Ruth Galloway, in her late thirties, short and overweight (12 1/2 stone, but I'm not at all sure how much that is) lives by herself with her cats in a small cottage in the salt marshes near Norfolk, England.  I can't quite picture this salt marsh, where people who are walking along can get swallowed up and die/drown, or easily get pulled out to sea.  I really want to see this place!  I think I've actually been quite close, taking the train from Cambridge to Norwich a few years ago - while looking for Norfolk on a map of Britain, it seemed quite close.  Ruth's relationship with Inspector Harry Nelson was really interesting, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it's going to develop in later books.  Their working relationship and respect for each other is strong, but the personal relationship that's begun certainly has some far-reaching possibilities. Although resolution of the mystery was, indeed, pretty easy to figure out, I'm expecting some good things from books-to-come in this series.  This was just setting them up!

Goodreads book summary:  When she’s not digging up bones or other ancient objects, quirky, tart-tongued archaeologist Ruth Galloway lives happily alone in a remote area called Saltmarsh near Norfolk, land that was sacred to its Iron Age inhabitants - not quite earth, not quite sea.
      When a child’s bones are found on a desolate beach nearby, Detective Chief Inspector Harry Nelson calls Galloway for help. Nelson thinks he has found the remains of Lucy Downey, a little girl who went missing ten years ago. Since her disappearance he has been receiving bizarre letters about her, letters with references to ritual and sacrifice.
      The bones actually turn out to be two thousand years old, but Ruth is soon drawn into the Lucy Downey case and into the mind of the letter writer, who seems to have both archaeological knowledge and eerie psychic powers. Then another child goes missing and the hunt is on to find her. 
      As the letter writer moves closer and the windswept Norfolk landscape exerts its power, Ruth finds herself in completely new territory – and in serious danger.
     THE CROSSING PLACES marks the beginning of a captivating new crime series featuring an irresistible heroine.

MOVIE - Fifty Shades of Grey

R (1:50)

Wide release 2/13/2015

Viewed date at Roadhouse on opening day 2/13/2015

RT Critic: 27   Audience:   53

Cag: 4/Liked it a lot

Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson

Focus Featires
Contemporary Seattle

Based on the book by E. L. James

Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson, Marcia Gay Harden

My comments:  Yes, I went to see it on opening day.  And yes, I liked it.  I was really curious to see how they'd handle all the x-rated scenes from the book - which was a good half of it - in an R-rated movie. In my very own, personal opinion, the movie worked really well.  Sure, there were things from the book that were missing, but the sex scenes were really well done and titillating enough to make me giggle. The book was pretty poorly written, but the movie was quite well done.  Yes, others disagree with me, but it really worked for me and I enjoyed it.  The leads were terrific.  However, other than perhaps Marcia Gay Harden as Christian's mom and definitely Max Martini as Taylor, I didn't like any of the people cast as the supporting actors.  None of them worked for me. So, all in all, the movie was ten times better than the book, but I'm glad I read the book first.

RT Summary:E.L. James' kinky best-seller gets the big screen treatment with this Universal Pictures/Focus Features co-production. The steamy tale details a masochistic relationship between a college student and a businessman, whose desires for extreme intimacy pen from secrets in his past. 

3 PICTURE BOOKS by Mary Murphy

I found all three of these at the Arivaca Library on 10/17/14.  The two librarians there turned me on to Mary Murphy.

Koala and the Flower

2001 Roaring Brook Press

HC & price

28 pgs  (I wonder if the end pages might have been pulled out?

Goodreads rating:

My rating: 4.5

     Badger and Raccoon see things n black and white.  They are always sure they are right.  Little gray Koala isn't sure about many things.  She asks lots of questions.
     What a clever book - and it has all sorts of atrributes!  Two pages of "graphic novel."  The appearance of a LIBRARY and BOOKS!  Two supposed friends who are subtle bullies.  The excitement of watching plants (flowers! grow from seeds with just a tiny bit of nurturing.  SO much to take in - and all of it was wonderful.

I Like It When ...
Board Book - 12 pgs.
1997

I like it when
     you hold my hand
     you let me help    (thank you)
     we eat new things   (surprise)
     we play peekaboo    (b00)
     you tickle me
     you dance with me
     you read to me
     you hug me tight
     we splash about
     we kiss goodnight

Say Hello Like This!
2014, Candlewick
ages 2 - 5
endpapers:  loud and cool - cows and cucks and chiks.

"A dog hello is licky and loud..."  (turn a half page and see what is described  - "a cat hello is prissy and proud"

Such a vibrant story - both in illustrations AND plot.  I'm not a huge animal person, but the front and back endpapers are just wonderful.

MOVIE - Two Days, One Night

PG-13 (1:35)
Limited release 12/24/2015

Viewed at the Loft with Sheila 2/9/15

RT Critic: 96   Audience: 79

Cag: 3.5 It kept my attention....

Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

IFC Films

In French, with subtitles

Actors: Marion Cotillard

My comments:  Yes, Cotillard did a superb job in this role.  The story was quite interesting, too.  But it was slow.  Really, really slow.  Too slow.  I loved listening to the French.  There really wasn't a whole lot of talking, so I could follow much of the conversation.

RT Summary:  Sandra (Cotillard) has just been released from the hospital to find that she no longer has a job. According to management, the only way Sandra can hope to regain her position at the factory is to convince her co-workers to sacrifice their much-needed yearly bonuses. Now, over the course of one weekend, Sandra must confront each co-worker individually in order to win a majority of their votes before time runs out. With TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT, the Dardennes have turned a relevant social inquiry into a powerful statement on community solidarity, once again delivering a film that is simple on the surface but alive with both compassion and wisdom. 

14. The Evelyn Project - Kfir Luzzatto

Read on my iPhone

2012 Kindle edition, Pine Ten LLC

305 pgs.

Adult CRF/Mystery (supposedly)

Finished 2/9/15

Goodreads rating: 3.83 (30 ratings)

My rating:  1 - Yuck

Setting: Contemporary London, Italy, Austria

1st sentence/s: "London welcomed Franco back as he alighted on the sunny sidewalk, right after the end of his weekly student reception hour, by cunningly thrusting upon him an elderly millionaire who spoke in riddles."

My comments:  I hate reviewing a book when I don't like it, but I guess I've got to be honest.  I didn't like this story - or the storytelling - at all.  It was all tell, no show.  It was like the author made an outline and then filled in a few nouns and verbs.  No character development and very little plot development....nothing surprising or disconcerting, and no reason to read through until the end.  Yuck.

Goodreads book summary:  A loving father's cry for help gets into the wrong hands, and a hundred years later things get out of control.
          Evelyn’s father did everything that was in his power to save his dying daughter, black magic included. But when a century later his plea for help gets into the wrong hands, all hell breaks loose.
          Caught in the slippery battlefield between the Vatican and a cult that wants to change the past, a young Italian professor and a beautiful French aspiring actress are too busy running away from murder and conspiracy to let physical attraction develop into love.
          And it doesn’t help that Her Majesty's Secret Service decides to take an interest in what everybody else is doing and to pull some strings of its own. Quite the contrary, in fact…

MOVIE - Jupiter Ascending

PG-13 (2:05)

Wide release 2/6/15

Viewed date at Roadhouse with Cyra on Friday, 2/6/2015

RT Critic: 22   Audience:   51

Cag:  1.5/Didn't like it, but it wasn't quite gag-worthy

Directed by Lana Wochowski & Andy Lochowski (who also wrote it)

Warner Borthers

Action/Adventure/ SciFi

Actors: Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum

My comments:  Yuck.  I love a good sci-fi, but this sure wasn't a good one.  Lots of whizzing around in outer space, careening this way and that, explosions, light shows...but all without being able to tell what was going on, lots of plot "stuff" you had to guess at...but lots and lots and LOTS of really great ears.  Yup, ears.  All the space aliens had different weird ears, and I loved 'em all!

RT Summary: From the streets of Chicago to the far-flung galaxies whirling through space, "Jupiter Ascending" tells the story of Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), who was born under a night sky, with signs predicting she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning other people's houses and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along-her genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos.

13 - Since You've Been Gone - Morgan Matson

Audio read by Suzy Jackson

11 unabridged discs (12.75 hrs.)

2014, Recorded Books

449 pgs.

YA CRF

Finished 2/7/2015

Goodreads rating:  4.17

My rating:   4.5 Totally loved it- didn't want it to end

TPPL

Setting: contemporary coastal Connecticut, the summer before Senior year. 

My comments:  This book was so much fun to listen to!  Suzy Jackson did a terrific job as a reader, and although her voice for Emily was sweet and young, when she became Frank (especially) she added just enough male inflection to make it sound masculine and believable.  The story itself was great, watching a timid girl come into her own.  Such a nice change from the grizzlier YAs I've read recently.  And this book was totally and wonderfully real.  I think I was a lot like Emily when I was 17.....  So why not a five?  The last few chapters dragged a bit, at least compared to the rest of the book.

Goodreads book summary:  The Pre-Sloane Emily didn't go to parties, she barely talked to guys, she didn't do anything crazy. Enter Sloane, social tornado and the best kind of best friend—the one who yanks you out of your shell. 
          But right before what should have been an epic summer, Sloane just… disappears. No note. No calls. No texts. No Sloane. There’s just a random to-do list. On it, thirteen Sloane-selected-definitely-bizarre-tasks that Emily would never try… unless they could lead back to her best friend.
          Apple Picking at Night? Okay, easy enough.
          Dance until Dawn? Sure. Why not?
          Kiss a Stranger? Wait… what?
          Getting through Sloane’s list would mean a lot of firsts. But Emily has this whole unexpected summer ahead of her, and the help of Frank Porter (totally unexpected) to check things off. Who knows what she’ll find?
          Go Skinny Dipping? Um…

Mysteries, Mysteries, Mysteries - My Favorite Genre - With a Few Thrillers Thrown In

At the BOTTOM of this list are other mysteries I've read - either stand-alone or titles that I'm quite sure I will not continue with their series.

Armstrong, Kelley
Casey Duncan, Rockton (Hidden Village in the Yukon)
1 - City of the Lost (4.5)
2 - A Darkness Absolute (4)
3 - This Fallen Prey (2/4)
4 - Watcher in the Woods, 2019 (4.5)
5 - Alone in the Wild, 2020 (5)

6 -  A Stranger in Town, 2021 (4.5)

7 - The Deepest of Secrets, 2022 (3.5)

Series Title Switch:  Haven's Rock

.5 - Dead Letter Days , 2023 (5)

1 - Murder at Haven's Rock , 2023 (4)

2 - The Boy Who Cried Bear, 2024 (4)

Armstrong, Lori 
Mercy Gunderson, South Dakota
former sniper, now cop
1- No Mercy
2- Mercy Kill (4.5)
2.25 Holding Mercy
2.5  Silent Mercy
3 - Merciless (4)

Atkins, Ace
continuing with the Spenser series (Robert B. Parker) after Parker's death
40 -  Lullaby
41 - Wonderland
42 - Cheap Shot
43 - Kickback
44 - Slow Burn
45 - Little White Lies (2017)

Barker, J. D.
4MK Mysteries (Chicago Police detective Sam Porter)
1 - The Fourth Monkey, 2017 (5)
2 - The Fifth to Die, 2018 (5)
3 - The Sixth Wicked Child, 2019 (5) READ 8/2020

Black, D. D.

Thomas Austin WA PI previously NYC detective

1 - The Bones at Point No Point (3.5)

2 - The Shadows of Pike Place (3.5)

3 - The Fallen of Foulweather Bluff

4 - The Horror at Murder Cove

5 - The Terror in the Emerald City

6 - The Drowning at Dyes Inlet

7 -  The Nightmare at Manhattan Beach

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)
4.5 - Flight 12; A Laura Cardinal Thriller  (4)
5 - Ladies Man (1/28/19) Kindle Unlimited

Cyril Landry (non-Tucson)
1 - The Shop (2)
2 - Hard Return (4)
3 - Spectre Black (3.5)

Tess McCrae - Tucson
The Survivor's Club

Maggie O'Neill, Tombsone
Roadside Attraction  (ebook)

Writing as Margaret Falk:
Darkscope  (4) on Kindle
Dark Horse
The Desert Waits - have book

Black, Lisa

Gardiner & Renner, Forensic Pathologist & Serial Killer cop

1.  That Darkness (4)

2.  Unpunished (2.5)

3.  Perish

4.  Suffer the Children

5.  Let Justice Descend

6.  Every Kind of Wicked

Box, C. J.
Joe Pickett, Wyoming Game Warden
1 - Open Season (4)
2 - Savage Run
3 - Winterkill
4 - Trophy Hunt
4.5  Dull Knife
5 - Out of Range
6 - In Plain Sight
7 - Free Fire
8 - Blood Trail
9 - Below Zero
10 - Nowhere to Run
11 - Cold Wind
11.5 - The Master Falconer
12 - Force of Nature
13 - Breaking Point
14 - Stone Cold
15 - Endangered
16 - Off the Grid
17 - Vicious Circle
18 - The Disappeared

Browning, Sinclair
Trade Ellis, Tucson part-time PI
1 - The Last Song Dogs - have book
2 - The Sporting Club - have book
3 - Rode Hard, Put Away Dead
4 - Crack Shot  - have book
5 - Traggedy Ann - have book

Bryndza, Robert
DCI Erika Foster
1 - The Girl in the Ice
2 - The Night Stalker
3 - Dark Water
4 - Last Breath
5 - Cold Blood
6 - Deadly Secrets

PI/former cop Kate Marshall

1.  Nine Elms, 2019 (3.5)

2.  Shadow Sands, 2020 (4)

Burke, Alafair
NYC cop Ellie Hatcher
1 - Dead Connection
2 - Angel's Tip
3 - 212
4 - Never Tell
5 - All Day and a Night

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

Kick Lannigan
1 - One Kick
2 - Kick Back

Castillo, Linda
Kate Burkholder, Ohio Amish Country Chief of Police
1 - Sworn to Silence
2 - Pray for Silence
3 - Breaking Silence
4 - Gone Missing
4.5 - Long Lost (ebook 52 pgs.)
5 - Her Last Breath
6 - The Dead Will Tell
6.5 - A Hidden Secret (ebook 74 pgs.)
7 - After the Storm 
7.5 - Seeds of Deception (ebook 74 pgs.)
8 - Among the Wicked
8.5 - Only the Lucky
9 - Down a Dark Road
9.5 - In Dark Company( eBk 60 pgs.)
10 - A Gathering of Secrets
10.5 -In Plain Sight (67 pgs.)
11 - Shamed
11.5  - The Pact (65 pgs.)
12 - Outsider (7/7/20) READ 8/2020

12.5 - Disappeared (54 gs.)

13 - Fallen

14 - The Hidden One 

14.5 - Hallowed Ground

15.  An Evil Heart

Carter, Scott William
Garrison Gage, PI, Oregon Coast
1 - The Gray and Guilty Sea (using the pseudonym of Jack Nolte)
2 - A Desperate Place for Dying (4.5)
3 - The Lovely, Wicked Rain (4.5)
4 - A Shroud of Tattered Sails (4)
5 -  A Lighthouse for the Lonely Heart (3.5)

Carter, Scott William

Karen Pantelli, former FBI agent

1 - Throwaway Jane, 2020 (4.25)

2 - Lethal Beauty, 2021 (3.5)

Child, Lee
Jack Reacher
1 - The Killing Floor
2 - Die Trying
3 - Tripwire
4 - Running Blind 
5 - Echo Burning
6 - Without Fail
7 - Persuader
8 - The Enemy
9 - One Shot
10 - The Hard Way
11 - Bad Luck and Trouble
12 - Nothing to Lose
13 - Gone Tomorrow - have book
14 - 61 Hours
15 - Worth Dying For 
15.5 - Second Son (ebook 32 pgs.)
16 - The Affair
16.5 - Deep Down (ebook 48 pgs.)
16.6 - Jack Reacher's Rules
17 - A Wanted Man - have on AUDIBLE
17.5 - High Heat (ebook 64 pgs.)
18 -  Never Go Back - TPPL
18.5 - Not a Drill (ebook 52 pgs.)
19 - Personal - have on AUDIBLE
19.5 - Not a Drill (ebook 45 pgs.)
19.6 - Small Wars (eBook 44 pgg.)
20 - Make Me
21 - Night School (2016)
22 - The Midnight Line (2017)
22.3  Too Much Time
22.5  The Christmas Scorpion
23 - Past Tense (2018)
23.5  The Fourth Man
24 - Blue Moon (2019)
25.  The Sentinel coming 10/27/2020

Clark, Tracy

Det. Harriet (Harry) Foster, Chicago PD
1.  Hide (2023) 3

2.  Fall coming 2023

Coben, Harlan
Myron Bolitar, Sports Agent
1 - Deal Breaker
2 - Drop Shot
3 - Fade Away - have book
4 - Back Spin - have book & cd
5 - One False Move - have book
6 - The Final Detail - have book
7 - Darkest Fear
8 - Promise Me - have cd
9 - Long Lost - have cd
10 - Live Wire - have HC book
11 - Home

STANDALONES:
The Boy From the Woods, 2020 (5)
Caught, 2010 (4)
Don't Let Go, 2017 (Nap Dumas) 5
Fool Me Once,  2016
Gone for Good, 2002
Hold Tight, 2008 - have cd
The Innocent, 2005 -  (Matt Hunter) have cd
Missing You,  2014 (Kat Donovan) 2
No Second Chance, 2003
Run Away, 2019 (4)
Six Years (Jake Fisher) 2013 (3)
Stay Close, 2012
The Stranger, 2015
Tell No One, 2001 - have book (David Beck)
The Woods, 2007 - have cd (Paul Copeland)

Coffin, Bruce Robert
Det. John Byron, Portland, ME PD
1.  Among the Shadows (2016) 3.5

Cole, David
Laura Winslow- Arizona - Hopi cyber-investigator
1 - Butterfly Lost - no review (read)
2 - The Killing Maze - no review (read)
3 - Stalking Moon - no review (read)
4 - Scorpion Rain - no review (read)
5 - Dragonfly Bones - have book
6 - Shadow Play - have book
7 - Falling Down - have book

Connelly, Michael
Harry Bosch, LAPD cop
1 - The Black Echo - no review - read
2 - The Black Ice - no review - read
3 - The Concrete Blonde - no review - read
4 - The Last Coyote
5 - Trunk Music
6 - Angel's Flight 
7 - A Darkness More Than Night (Terry McCaleb #2) (skipped)
8 - City of Bones
9 - Lost Light
10 - The Narrows (The Poet and Terry McCaleb's death)
11 - The Closers
12 - Echo Park - have cd
13 - The Overlook - have cd
14 - The Brass Verdict (Mickey Haller #2) - have cd
15 - Nine Dragons
15.5 - Blue on Black (magazine story) 12 pgs.
16 - The Reversal (Mickey Haller #3)
17 - The Drop - have cd
18 - The Black Box - ordered cd on PBS
18.5 - Switchblade (ebook) 32 pgs.
19 - The Burning Room
20 - The Crossing (includes Mickey Haller - #7)
21 - The Wrong Side of Goodbye (11/16)
22 - Two Kinds of Truth (11-31-17)

Connelly, Michael
Renee Ballard, LA Police Detective
1 - The Late Show, 2017 (4)
2.  Dark Sacred Night, 2018 (4) with Harry Bosch #21
3.  The Night Fire, 2019  (5) with Harry Bosch #22

4.  The Dark Hours, 2021 (5) with Harry Bosch #23

5.  Desert Star, 2022 (4) with Harry Bosch

6.  The Waiting, 2024 (5) with Harry Bosch

Cosimano, Elle

Finlay Donovan , Surbuban VA mystery writer

1.  Finlay Donovan is Killing It (5)

2.  Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead (3.5)

3.  Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun

Crais, Robert
Elvis Cole
1 - The Monkey's Raincoat
2 - Stalking the Angel
3 - Lullaby Town
4 - Free Fall
5 - Voodoo River
6 - Sunset Express - have book
7 - Indigo Slam
8 - L.A. Requiem - no review (5)
9 - The Last Detective
10 - The Forgotten Man - no review - (5)
11 - The Watchman (Joe Pike #1)
12 - Chasing Darkness
13 - The Sentry (Joe Pike #3)
14 - Taken (Joe Pike #4)
15 - The Promise (Elvis Cole #16, Scott James & Maggie #2) (5)
16  - The Wanted

Joe Pike (Elvis Cole's cohort)
1 - The Watchman
2 - The First Rule
3 - The Sentry (Elvis Cole #12)
4 - Taken (Elvis Cole #13)
5 - The Promise (Elvis Cole #14)

Scott James & Maggie
1 - Suspect (they will appear with Cole & Pike in upcoming novels!)
2 - The Promise (see above)

Dahl, Julia
Rebekah Roberts, NYC Journalist
1 - Invisible City (4+)
2 - Run You Down (4.5)
3 - Conviction (3.5)

Daniels, Robert
Beth Sturgis, cop & Jack Kale, ex-FBI profiler in Atlanta, GA)
1 - Once Shadows Fall
2 - Wake the Devil

de Castrique, Mark
Sam Blackman, Asheville, NC amputee detective
1 - Blackman's Coffin
2 - Fitzgerald Ruse
3 - The Sandburg Connection
4 - A Murder in Passing
5 - A Specter of Justice

Denfeld, Renee
Naomi Cottle, Child Finder, Oregon
1 - The Child Finder (4)
2 - The Butterfly Girl

Doiron, Paul
Mike Bowditch, Maine Game Warden
1 - The Poacher's Son
2 - Trespasser
3 - Bad Little Falls - have Audible
4 - Massacre Pond (4)
4.5 - The Bear Trap (4)
5 - The Bone Orchard (5)
6 - The Precipice (4+)
7 - Widowmaker (5)
8 - Knife Creek (5)
8.5  Rabid (4)
9 - Stay Hidden (3)

9.5  Backtrack (3)
10 - Almost Midnight (4)
10.5 - The Imposter (4)
11 - One Last Lie (3.5)

11.5 - The Caretaker (4)

12 - Dead by Dawn - never finished!?!

12.5 - Skin and Bones

13 - Hatchet Island

13.5 - Snakebit: A Mike Bowditch Short Story (4)
14.  Dead Man's Wake (4.5)

15.  Pitch Dark (2024) (4)

Dugoni, Robert
Tracy Crosswhite, Washington state FBI
1 - My Sister's Grave (3)
2 - Her Final Breath
3 - In the Clearing (4)
4 - The Trapped Girl (4.5)
5 - Close to Home (4)
6 - A Steep Price (June, 2018)

Dunning, John
Cliff Janeway, Denver homicide detective and rare book expert
1 - Booked to Die
2 - The Bookman's Wake
3 - The Bookman's Promise - have book
4 - The Sign of the Book
5 - The Bookwoman's Last Fling

Elliot, Kendra
Mercy Kilpatrick, Oregon FBI Agent
1 - A Merciful Death (4)
2 - A Merciful Truth A Merciful Truth (2.5)
3 - A Merciful Secret (January 2018)
4 - A Merciful Silence (June 2018)

Ellis, Joy
DI Nikki Galena, Lincolnshire, England
1 - Crime on the Fens (3.75)
2 - Shadow Over the Fens
3 - Hunted on the Fens
4 - Killer on the Fens
5 - Stalker on the Fens
6 - Captive on the Fens
7 - Buried on the Fens
8 - Thieves on the Fens

Ellis, Kate
Joe Plantagenet, DI in Yorkshire, England
1 - Seeking the Dead - on my iPhone
2 - Playing with Bones
3 - Kissing the Demons
4 - Watching the Ghosts
5 - Walking by Night

Evanovich, Janet
Stephanie Plum, Trenton NJ bounty hunter
1 - One for the Money - no review - read
2 - Two for the Dough - no review - read
3 - Three to Get Deadly - no review - read
4 - Four to Score - no review - read
5 - High Five  - no review - read
6 - Hot Six - no review - read
7 - Seven Up  - no review - read
8 - Hard Eight  - no review - read
8.5 - Visions of Sugar Plums (Between the Numbers Bk 1)
9 - To the Nines - no review - read
10 - Ten Big Ones - no review - read
11 - Eleven on Top - no review - read
12 - Twelve Sharp
12.5 - Plum Lovin' (Between the Numbers Bk 2)
13 - Lean, Mean Thirteen
13.5 - Plum Lucky (Between the Numbers Bk 3)
14 - Fearless Fourteen
14.5 - Plum Spooky (Between the Numbers Bk 4)
15 - Finger Lickin' Fifteen
16 - Sizzling Sixteen
17 - Smokin' Seventeen - cd coming from PBS
18 - Explosive Eighteen
19 - Notorious Nineteen
20 - Takedown Twenty
21 - Top Secret Twenty-One
22 - Tricky Twenty-Two
23 - Turbo Twenty-Three (2016)
24 - Hardcore Twenty-Four (11-21-17)
25 - Look Alive, Twenty-Five (2018)
26 - Twisted Twenty-Six (2019)
27 - Fortune and Glory coming 2020

FitzSimmons, Matthew

Gibson Vaughn 

1 - The Short Drop, 2015 READ 8/16/2020

2 - Poisonfeather, 2016 (4)

3 - Cold Harbor, 2017 (4)

Flora, Kate
Joe Burgess - Portland, ME Police Detective
1 - Playing God 
2 - The Angel of Knowlton Park - on iPhone
3 - Redemption
4 - And Grant You Peace
5 - Led Astray (2016)

also by FLORA, Kate
Girls' Night Out  - an eBook of 32 pgs. (5)
 

Fowler, Earlene
Benni Harper - southern California amateur sleuth
1 - Fool's Puzzle - no review - read
2 - Irish Chain - have book
3 - Kansas Trouble - have book
4 - Goose in the Pond - have book
5 - Dove in the Window - have book
6 - Mariner's Compass
7 - Seven Sisters
8 - Arkansas Traveler
9 - Steps to the Altar
10 - Sunshine and Shadow - have book
11 - Broken Dishes
12 - Delectable Mountains
13 - Tumbling Blocks
14 - State Fair
15 - Spider Web

Fox, Candice

Crimson Lake: Ted Concaffy & Amelia Farrow, Australia

1 - Crimson Lake, 2017 (5)

2 - Redemption Point, 2018

3 - Gone by Midnight, 2019

Standalone?

     Gathering Dark, 2021 (4.5/5)

FRANCIS, Dick
Various British horse racing mysteries
10 Lb. Penalty (5)1997
Bolt (Kit Fielding #2) (3.5) 1986
Break In (Kit Fielding #1) (4) 1986
Come to Grief - have book
Dead Cert (3.5)
Dead Heat (2.5)
Decider (4) 1993
Hot Money (3) 1987
Rat Race - have book
Second Wind - have book
Silks - have cd  

Frasier, Anne
Elise Sandberg, Savannah Homicide Detective
1 - Play Dead (4.5)
2 - Stay Dead (4.5)
2.5 - Sincerely Dead (8 pgs.) NO LONGER AVAILABLE
3 - Pretty Dead
4 - Truly Dead

Frasier, Anne

Inland Empire/Reni Fisher

1.  Find Me, 2020 (4.5) READ 7/21/2020

2.  Tell Me, 2021 (4)

Frasier, Anne
Jude Fontaine, Minneapolis Police Detective
1 - The Body Reader (4.5)
2 - The Body Counter (4.5)
3 - The Body Keeper, 2019 (5)

STANDALONE 

Sleep Tight, 2010 (4.5)

Found Object , 2022 (4.5)

The Night I Died, 2023 (4)

Freeman, Brian
Jonathan Strike, Duluth Police Lieutenant
1 - Immoral (3.9) 2005
2 - Stripped
3 - Stalked
4 - In the Dark
5 - The Burying Place
5.5 - Spitting Devil
5.6 - Turn to Stone
6 - The Cold Nowhere
7 - Goodbye to the Dead
8 - Marathon (2017)

Galbraith, Robert (J. K. Rowling)
Cormoran Strike, London PI
       1 - The Cuckoo's Calling (4)
       2 - The Silkworm (4)
       3 - Career of Evil (4)
       4 - Lethal White  (4)

       5 - Troubled Blood (4)

Gardner, Lisa

Frankie Elkins, loner investigator

1.  Before She Disappeared, 2021 (4)

Gardner, Lisa
Quincy & Rainy, Oregon cop & former FBI
1 - The Perfect Husband
2 - The Third Victim
3 - The Next Accident
4 - The Killing Hour - no review - read
5 - Gone
6 - Say Goodbye (very disturbing)

Standalone
The Survivors Club - have book

Gibney, Patricia
Det. Lottie Parker, Ireland
1 - The Missing Ones (2017) 4
              More Coming

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)
       V is for Vengeance (4)
       W is for Wasted
       X (YUP, just plain X)
       Y is for Yesterday (8/22/17)

Gray, Lisa
Jessica Shaw - roving PI
1 - Thin Air , 2019 (4.5)
2 - Bad Memory, 2019 (3.5)
3 - Dark Highway, 2020 (4.5)

4 - Lonely Hearts, 2021 (4.5)

Griffiths, Elly
Galloway, Ruth - Norfolk, England forensic archaeologist
1 - The Crossing Places, 2009 (4)
2 - The Janus Stone, 2010 (4)
3 - House at Sea's End, 2011 (4)
4 - A Room Full of Bones, 2012 (4)
4.5 - Ruth's First Christmas Tree (25 pgs.) READ 8/2020
5 - A Dying Fall, 2013 (4.5)
6 - The Outcast Dead, 2014 (4)
7 - The Ghost Fields 2015 (4)
8 - The Woman in Blue 2016 (3.5)
9 - The Chalk Pit, 2017 (3.5)
10 - The Dark Angel, 2018 (4)
11 - The Stone Circle, 2019 (3.5)

12 -  The Lantern Men, 2020 (3.75

12.5 - The Man in Black

13.  The Night Hawks  (4)

14.  The Locked Room \ (4.25)

15.  The Last Remains(4.5) 2023

Standalone:
The Stranger Diaries, 2019

The Postscript Murders (#2 Harbinder Kaur) 2020 (3.5)

Hamilton, Denise
Eve Diamond - LA Times Reporter
1 - The Jasmine Trade
2 - Sugar Skull
3 - Last Lullaby
4 - Savage Garden
5 - Prisoner of Memory

Hand, Elizabeth
Cass Neary, NYC photographer, druggie, dark...
1 - Generation Loss (3)
2 - Available Dark (4)
3 - Hard Light
4 - The Book of Lamps and Banners coming 9/29/20

Harper, Jane
Aaron Falk, Cop in Financial Crimes, Australia
1 - The Dry (4)
2 - Force of Nature (3.5)

3 - Exiles (4)

Hayman, James
McCabe & Savage (Portland, ME PD)
1 - The Cutting
2 - The Chill of Night
3 - Darkness First  - on my iPhone
4 - Girl in the Glass - on my iPhone
5 - The Girl on the Bridge - on my Audible
6 - A Fatal Obsession - on my Kindle

Hillerman, Anne
(Continuing with her father's Leaphorn & Chee Navajo police mysteries, and now including Femal police officer Bernadette Manuelito)
19 - Spider Woman's Daughter 2013 (3.5)
20 - Rock with Wings
21 - Song of the Lions (2017)

Hillerman, Tony
Leaphonr & Chee, Navajo Tribal Police
17 - Skeleton Man have cd

Holliday, Scott
Det. Scott Barnes (Detroit SciFi)
1.  Punishment  (4)
2.  Machine City (Oct. 2018) (have Audible) (3)

Hopkins, Karen Ann
Sheriff Serenity Adams, Blood Rock, Indiana, Amish country and town
1.  Lamb to the Slaughter (3)
2.  Whispers from the Dead (3)
3.  Secrets in the Grave (3)
4.  Hidden in Plain Sight
5.  Paper Roses

6.  Evil in My Town

7.   Unholy Ground

8.  Bloody Ties

9.  The Widow

10.  Wicked Legacy

11.  Blood Rock

12.  The Offering

13.  Serenity

14.  Night Song

15.   Devil's Eye

16.  Lost Soul

Jacobs, Mara
Anna Dawson, Las Vegas Poker Player
1.  Against the Odds
2.  Against the Spread

Jensen, Jane
Elizabeth Harris, Lancaster Cty, PA Detective
1 - Kingdom Come
2 - In the Land of Milk and Honey (4)

Jones, Darynda

Sunshine Vicram 

1.  A Bad Day for Sunshine (4) READ 8/2020

Kellerman, Faye
Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus, LAPD Lieutentant & Orthodox Jewish wife
1 - The Ritual Bath
2 - Sacred and Profane
3 - Milk and Honey
4 - Day of Atonement - have cd
5 - False Prophet
6 - Grievous Sin
7 - Sanctuary
8 - Justice
9 - Prayer's for the Dead
10 - Serpent's Tooth
11 - Jupiter's Bones
12 - Stalker
13 - The Forgotten (read)
14 - Stone Kiss
15 - Street Dreams
16 - The Burnt House
17 - The Mercedes Coffin
18 - Blindman's Bluff
19 - Hangman
20 - Gun Games
21 - The Beast
22 - Murder 101
23 - The Theory of Death
24 - Bone Box (2017)
25 - Walking Shadows (2018)

Kellerman, Jonathan
Alex Delaware - LA Psychologist Police Consultant
1 -  When the Bough Breaks
2 -  Blood Test
3 -  Over the Edge
4 -  Silent Partner
5 -  Time Bomb
6 -  Private Eyes
7 -  Devil's Waltz
8 -  Bad Love
9 -  Self-Defense
10 -  The Web
11 -  The Clinic
12 -  Survival of the Fittest
13 -  Monster
14 -  Dr. Death
15 -  Flesh and Blood
16 -  The Murder Book (read - 3.5)
17 -  A Cold Heart
18 -  Therapy
19 -  Rage (read - 4)
20 -  Gone
21 -  Obsession
22 -  Compulsion
23 -  Bones
24 -  Evidence - have cd
25 -  Deception
26 -  Mystery - have cd
27 -  Victims  (4)
28 -  Guilt
29 -  Killer
30 -  Motive
31 -  Breakdown
32 - Heartbreak Hotel

Kent, Kathleen
Betty Rhyzyk, Dallas Narcotics
1 - The Dime (4)
2 - The Kiln - coming Spring 2019

Krueger, William Kent
Cork O'Connor
1 - Iron Lake  - no review - read
2 -Boundary Waters 
3 - Purgatory Ridge - have book
4 - Blood Hollow
5 - Mercy Falls
6 - Copper River - have book
7 - Thunder Bay - have book
8 - Red Knife
9 - Heaven's Keep - have cd
10 - Vermilion Drift
11 - Northwest Angle
12 - Trickster's Point
13 - Tamarack County
14 - Windigo Island
15 - Manitou Canyon
16 - Sulfur Springs (8/22/17)
17 - Desolation Mountain (2018)

Standalone
The Devil's Bed - have book

Larsson, Stieg
Mikael Blomkvist, Lisbeth Salander, Sweden
1 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2 - The Girl Who Played With Fire - have cd
3 - The Girls Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
4 - The Girl in the Spider's Web (by Lagercrant)

Lourey, Jess

Steinbeck & Reed, MN Bureau of Investigation

1 - The Taken Ones (2023) 4.5

2 - The Reaping coming 2024

Marsons, Angela
DI Kim Stone, Black Country (West Midlands) ENGLAND
1 - Silent Scream
2 - Evil Games  - have on Kindle
3 - Lost Girls - have on Kindle
4 - Play Dead
5 - Blood Lines
6 - Dead Souls
7 - Broken Bones
9 - Dying Truth

Mayne, Andrew
FBI Agent (& magician) Jessica Blackwood
1 - Angel Killer  (4)
1.5 - Fire in the Sky
2 - Name of the Devil (4)
3 - Black Fall

Mayne, Andrew 
Prof. Theo Cray, Biologist
1 - The Naturalist, The (3)
2 - Looking Glass (March 2018) (4)
3 - Murder Theory (2019) (3)
4 - Dark Pattern (2019) (4.5)

Mayne, Andrew

Prof. Theo Cray & Jessica Blackwood

1 - Mastermind, 2021 (3.5)

2 - The Final Equinox, 2022 (3)

Mayne, Andrew

Other titles

Night Owl (#1 Trasker) 2023 (2)

McGarrity, Michael
Kevin Kerney, NM
1 - Tularosa
2 - Mexican Hat
3 - Serpent Gate
4 - Hermit's Peak - have pb book
5 - The Judas Judge - have pb book
6 - Under Color of Law
7 - The Big Gamble - have pb book
8 - Everyone Dies - have HC book
9 - Slow Kill -  have HC book
10 - Nothing But Trouble - have HC book
11 - Death Song
12 - Dead or Alive
13 - Residue

Miller, Susan Cummins
Frankie MacFarlane (southwest geologist)
1 - Death Assemblage
2 - Detachment Fault - have book
3 - Quarry - have book
4 - Hoodoo
5 - Fracture
6 - Chasm

Moore, Jonathan
Standalones:

Gavin Cain, San Francisco Detective
The Dark Room (2017)

Lee Crowe, San Francisco PI
Blood Relations, 2019

Nickless, Barbara
Sydney Rose Parnell, Denver Railway Cop, ex-Marine in Afghanistan
1.  Blood on the Tracks
2.  Dead Stop

O'Connell, Carol
Kathleen Mallory, NYPD cop
1 - Mallory's Oracle - no review - read
2 - The Man Who Cast Two Shadows - have book
3 - Killing Critics
4 - Stone Angel
5 - Shell Game - have book
6 - Crime School
7 - Dead Famous
8 - Winter House
9 - Find Me
10 - The Chalk Girl
11 - It Happens in the Dark - have book
12 - Blind Sight

Standalones:
Judas Child
Bone by Bone

O'Shaughnessy, Perri
Nina Reilly, Lake Tahoe, NV attorney
1 - Motion to Suppress - no review - read
2 - Invasion of Privacy - have book
3 - Obstruction of Justice
4 - Breach of Promise
5 - Acts of Malice
6 - Move to Strike - have book
7 - Writ of Execution
8 - Unfit to Practice - have book
9 - Presumption of Death
10 - Unlucky in Law
11 - Case of Lies
12 - Show No Fear
13 - Dreams of the Dead

Parker, Robert B.
Spenser, Boston PI
1 - The Godwulf Manuscript
2 - God Save the Child
3 - Mortal Stakes
4 - Promised Land
5 - Judas Goat
6 - Looking For Rachel Wallace
7 - Early Autumn
8 - A Savage Place
9 - Ceremony
10 - The Widening Gyre
11 - Valediction
12 - A Catskill Eagle
13 - Taming a Sea-Horse
14 - Pale Kings and Princes
15 - Crimson Joy
16 - Playmates
17 - Stardust
18 - Pastime
19 - Double Deuce
20 - Paper Doll
21 - Walking Shadow
22 - Thin Air
23 - Chance
24 - Small Vice
25 - Sudden Mischief
26 - Hush Money
27 - Hugger Mugger
28 - Potshot
29 - Widow's Walk - have book
30 - Back Story 
31 - Bad Business
32 - Cold Service
33 - School Days
34 - Hundred-Dollar Baby
35 - Now & Then
36 - Rough Weather
37 - The Professional
38 - Painted Ladies
39 - Sixkill
40 - (Atkins) Lullaby
41 - (Atkins) Wonderland
41.5 - (Brann) Silent Night: A Spenser Holiday Novel
42 - (Atkins) Cheap Shot
43 - (Atkins) Kickback
44 - (Atkins) Slow Burn
45 - Little White Lies (2017)
46 -
47 - (Atkins) Old Black Magic (2018)

Jesse Stone, Paradise, MA police chief
1 - Night Passage
2 - Trouble in Paradise
3 - Death in Paradise
4 - Stone Cold
5 - Sea Change
6 - High Profile
7 - Stranger in Paradise
8 - Night and Day
9 - Split Image
10 - (Brandman) Killing the Blues
11 - (Brandman) Fool Me Twice
12 - (Brandman) Damned If You Do
13 - (Coleman) Blind Spot

Sunny Randall, Boston PI
1 - Family Honor - have book
2 - Perish Twice
3 - Shrink Rap
4 - Melancholy Baby
5 - Blue Screen - no review - read
6 - Spare Change

Parks, Brad
Carter Ross, Newark NJ investigative reporter
1 - Faces of the Gone
2 - Eyes of the Innocent
3 - The Girl Next Door
4 - The Good Cop
5 - The Player
6 - The Fraud

Pearson, Ridley
Walt Fleming, Sun Valley, ID sheriff
1 - Killer Weekend
2 - Killer View
3 - Killer Summer - listened to quite a bit, didn't finish
4 - In Harm's Way - have book

Penny, Louise
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, Three Pines, Quebec
1 - Still Life (3)
2 - A Fatal Grace (4.5)
3 - The Cruelest Month
4 - A Rule Against Murder
5 - The Brutal Telling
6 - Bury Your Dead
6.5 - The Hangman
7 - A Trick of the Light
8 - The Beautiful Mystery
9 - How the Light Gets In
10 - The Long Way Home
11 - The Nature of the Beast
12 - A Great Reckoning
13 - Glass Houses
14 - Kingdom of the Blind

Pierce, Blake
Riley Paige, FBI
1 - Once Gone  2015 (2)
2 - Once Taken
3 - Once Craved
4 - Once Lured
5 - Once Hunted
6 - Once Pined
7 - Once Forsaken
8 - Once Cold
9 - Once Stalked
10 - Once Lost
11 - Once Buried
12 - Once Bound
13 - Once Trapped
14 - Once Dormant
15 - Once Shunned
16 - Once Missed
17 - Once Chosen

Raybourn, Deanna
Veronica Stillwell, 1897 England
1.  A Curious Beginning (5)
2.  A Perilous Undertaking
3.  A Treacherous Curse
4  A Dangerous Collaorations
5. A Murderous Relation

Riordan, Rick
Tres Navarre, unlicensed San Antonio PI & Tai Chi master
1 - Big Red Tequila
2 - The Widower's Two-Step - have book
3 - The Last King of Texas
4 - The Devil Went Down to Austin - have book
5 - Southtown - have book
6 - Mission Road
7 - Rebel Island

Standalone
Cold Springs - have book

Robb, J. D.
Eve Dallas, NYPD Detective, 2058
1-  Naked in Death  (4)
2 - Glory in Death (2)

Ross, Barbara

A Maine Clambake Mystery - Julia Snowden

1.  Clammed Up (2013)

2.  Boiled Over

3.  Musseled Out

4.  Fogged Inn

4.5.  Nogged Off

5.  Iced Under

6.  Stowed Away

6.5  Logged On

7.  Steamed Open

7.5  Hallowed Out

8.  Sealed Off

9.  Shucked Apart

9.5  Scared Off

10.  Muddled Through

11.  Hidden Beneath

12.  Torn Asunder

Robotham, Michael
Cyrus Haven, Police Psychologist, England
1 - Good Girl, Bad Girl (4.5)
2 - When She Was Good 2020 (5)

3.  Lying Beside You 2022 (4)

4.  Storm Child 2024 (4.5)

Standalone
Night Ferry (5)

Sandford, John
Virgil Flowers, MN
1 - Dark of the Moon
2 - Heat Lightning
3 - Rough Country
4 - Bad Blood
5 - Shock Wave
6 - Mad River
7 - Storm Front
8 - Deadline
9 - Escape Clause
10 - Deep Freeze
11 - Holy Ghost (4+)
12 - Bloody Genius (4)

Lucas Davenport
1 -Rules of Prey
2 - Shadow Prey - have bk and AUDIBLE
3 - Eyes of Prey - have bk
4 - Silent Prey
5 - Winter Prey
6 - Night Prey
7 - Mind Prey
8 - Sudden Prey
9 - Secret Prey
10 - Certain Prey
11 - Easy Prey
12 - Chosen Prey
13 - Mortal Prey - have book
14 - Naked Prey
15 - Hidden Prey
16 - Broken Prey
17 - Invisible Prey
18 - Phantom Prey
19 - Wicked Prey
20 - Storm Prey - have book
21 - Buried Prey
22 - Stolen Prey
23 - Silken Prey
24 - Field of Prey
25 - Gathering Prey
26
27
28 - Twisted Prey

Kidd & LuEllen, computer genius & cat burglar 
1 - The Fool's Run
2 - The Empress File
3 - The Devil's Code - have HC book
4 - The Hanged Man's Song - have book

Standalone
Dead Watch - have book

Satterthwait, Walter
Joshua Croft - Santa Fe, NM PI
1 - Wall of Glass
2 - At Ease With the Dead (5)
3 - A Flower in the Desert - have book
4 - The Hanged Man
5 - Accustomed to the Dark

Schaefer, Craig

Charlie McCabe, Boston Security/Investigator

1.  The Loot (2019) 4

2.  The Insider (2020) 4

) 4

Sefton, Maggie
Kelly Flynn, CO (Cozy Knitting Mysteries)
1 -  Knit One, Kill Two - no review - read
2 - Needled to Death - have book
3 - A Deadly Yarn - have book
4 - A Killer Stitch
5 - Dyer Consequences
6 - Fleece Navidad
7 - Drop Dead Stitch
8 - Skein of the Crime
9 - Unraveled
10 - Cast On, Kill Off
11 - Close Knit Killer
12 - Yarn Over Murder
13 - Purl Up and Die
14 - Knit to be Tied

Shea, Brian Christopher
Michael Kelly, Boston/Dorchester Police Detective
1.  Murder Board, 2019 (3)
2.  Bleeding Blue (coming Feb. 20)

Stabenow, Dana
Kate Shugak, Alaskan ex-DA investigator
1 -  A Cold Day for Murder
2 - A Fatal Thaw
3 - Dead in the Water
4 - A Cold-Blooded Business
5 - Play With Fire
6 - Blood Will Tell
7 - Breakup
8 - Killing Grounds
9 - Hunter's Moon
10 - Midnight Come Again
11 - The Singing of the Dead
12 - A Fine and Bitter Snow
13 - A Grave Denied
14 - A Taint in the Blood
15 - A Deeper Sleep
16 - Whisper to the Blood
17 - A Night Too Dark
18 - Though Not Dead
19 - Restless in the Graves
20 - Bad Blood

Talton, Jon
David Mapstone, Phoenix ex-cop, history teacher - cop
1 - Concrete Desert - have book  - no review - read (saved in case I want to reread)
2 - Camelback Falls - have HC book AND on Kindle
3 - Dry Heat
4 - Arizona Dreams
5 - Cactus Heart
6 - South Phoenix Rules
7 - The Night Detectives
8 - High Country Nocturne

Thompson, James
Inspector Kari Vaara, Finland
1 - Snow Angels
2 - Lucifer's Tears  - have on Audible
3 - Helsinki White
4 - Helsinki Blood
5 - Helsinki Dead

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)
6 - Dream Queen (prequel)

Kate Waters, Dudley (Bisbee) AZ
1 - Empty Houses (5)

Standalone
A Whole New Life (I can't believe I haven't read this, but I don't seem to have any record of doing so...)

Thurlo, David & Aimee
Lee Nez, NM police officer (who's also a nightwalker/vampire...)
1 - Second Sunrise - have book  - no review - read, liked it
2 - Blood Retribution - have book
3 - Pale Death
4 - Surrogate Evil

Verdon, John
Dave Gurney - upper NY state past hot-shot NYPD detective
1 - Think of a Number
2 - Shut Your Eyes Tight
3 - Let the Devil Sleep
4 - Peter Pan Must Die
5 - Wolf Lake

Webb, Betty
Lena Jones, Arizona PI
1 - Desert Noir - no review - read
2 - Desert Wives - no review - read
3 - Desert Shadows
4 - Desert Run - have book AND on my Kindle
5 - Desert Cut
6 - Desert Lost - have book
7 - Desert Wind
8 - Desert Rage
9 - Desert Vengeance (11/2016)
10 - Desert Redemption (4/19)

White, Loreth Anne
Angie Pallorino (Western Canadian police detective)
1 - The Drowned Girls ()
2 - The Lullaby Girl
3 - The Girl in the Moss

Woods, T. E.

Justice/The Fixer/Mort Grant

1 - The Fixer

2 - Red Hot Fix

Zacharias, Pete

Rooker Lindstrom/ Son of a Serial Killer, not PI

1 - The Man Burned by Winter, 2022 (4)

2 - The Man Trapped by Shadows

ADDISON, Corban
     The Garden of Burning Sand (4)
ALLAN, Howard
     Mayan Star (3)
AMES, Dan
     A Hard Man to Forget: The Jack Reacher Files (#1 Jack Reacher Files) (3)

ANDERSON, Laura

       The Darkling Bride, 2018 (3)
AYOOB, Michael
        In Search of Mercy (3)
BARCLAY, Linwood
       The Accident (4)
       No Time for Goodbye (3.5)
BARR, Nevada
     National Parks
       Deep South (4.5)
BARRY, Jessica
     Freefall (4)

BEAUMONT, S. L.

     Cyber Count (Kat Munro) 2021 (3)

BLACK, Molly

     Beyond Reach  (#2 Reese Link) (3)

     Beyond Reason  (#1 Reese Link/Rookie cop/Coastal Maine) (3)

     Nearly Mine (#1 Grace Ford)  (3)

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)
          Where There's Smoke (1.5)          
BUCHANAN, Edna
       Margin of Error (3)
CAINE, Rachel
        Stillhouse Lake (2)

CLARK, Imogen

         Postcards from a Stranger (3.5)
CLARK, Martin
          The Substitution Order  (5)

COBLE, Colleen

          Fragile Designs, 2024 (2)
CORNWELL, Patricia
     Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, Richmond, VA & top forensic pathologist
          19 - Red Mist (4)
     Andy Brazil
          3 - Isle of Dogs
CRAMER, Rebecca
     Linda Bluenight, Tucson
           Mission to Sonora (2)
DEAVER, Jeffrey
     Lincoln Rhyme
       4 -Stone Monkey (4.5)
DEKKER, Ted
       Saint (-1)
DOLAN-LEACH, Caite
          Dead Letters (3)

DONLEA, Charlie

          Twenty Years Later (4.5)
DOWNS, Andrew
       Mourning Gloria (3)

ELLISON, J. T.

     It's One of Us, 2023 (4.5)

ELSTON, Ashley

     First Lie Wins (5)
FAIRSTEIN, Linda
     Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan ass't DA - Sex Crimes Unit
          4 - The Dead House
FARNSWORTH, Christopher
     Nathaniel Cade, President's Vampire
          1 - Blood Oath (4)

FEENEY, Alice

     Rock Paper Scissors, 2021 (5)

     Daisy Darker  2022 (4)

FERENCIK, Erica

     Girl in Ice (3.5)
FOSSUM, Karin
     Konrad Sejer - Oslo, Norway police inspector
          2 - Don't Look Back

FREY, Stephen
       Forced Out (2)
FRIESWICK, Kris
        The Ghost Manuscript (2.5)

FROST, Jacqueline

        #1 Christmas Tree Farms Twelve Slays of Christmas (2) COZY
GEAR, Kathleen O'Neal & W. Michael 
     Anasazi Mysteries
       1 -The Visitant (4)
       2 - Summoning God (4)
GERRITSON, Tess
       The Bone Garden (2)

       The Spy Coast (#1 The Martini Club, ME) 2023 (4)
GOMEZ-JIRADO, Juan
       The Moses Expedition (2)
GRAHAM, Heather
       2 - Deadly Harvest (1)
GRANT, Kimi Cunningham
        Fallen Mountains (3)
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)
GRIMES, Martha
       Biting the Moon (2.5)
GRIPPANDO, James
       Last to Die (4) #3 Lawyer Jack Swyteck
GRISHAM, John (stand-alones)
       The Summons (2)
GROSS, Andrew
        The Dark Tide (2.5)
GROSSMAN, Lev
       Codex (5)

GROVER, Denise

    A Cry in the Dark #1 Carly Moore (3)
GUILD, Nicholas
       Blood Ties (4)

HALL, Rachel Howzell

          We Lie Here, 2022 (3.5)
HAMILTON, Steve
       The Lock Artist (4)
HARRIS, Charlaine
     Snookie Stackhouse LA Vampires
       1- Dead Until Dark (3.5)
HARRIS, Lisa
     Southern Crimes #1
        1-Dangerous Passage (1)

HARRISON, Rachel

.....Black Sheep , 2023 (3.5)

HART, Carolyn
       Death in Paradise (2.5)

Hart, Liliana

.....Dirty Little Secrets (#1 J. J. Graves) 3.5
HAYES, Terry
.....I Am Pilgrim (5)
HENDRICKS, Greer, and PEKKANEN, Sarah
.....An Anonymous Girl  (4.5)
.....The Getaway (3)
HILLIER, Jennifer
.....Jar of Hearts (4.5)
HINTON, S. E.
       Hawkes Harbor (3.5)
HOFFMAN, Jilliane
       Last Witness (4)
HOOPER, Kay
       Chill of Fear (2)
HOUGHTON, Keith
        Don't Even Breathe (3)
HOWARD, Linda
       Cry No More (3)
ILES, Greg
       Blood Memory (5)
Indridason, Arnaldur
        Jar City (#3 Erlundur/Iceland) 3.5
Jackson, Holly
.....A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, 3
JACKSON, Lisa
       Shiver (3)
JACOBS, Nora
        The Last Equation of Isaac Severy (3.5)
Jance, J. A.
     Ali Reynolds (Sedona Blogger)
          1 - Edge of Evil - no review - read
          2 - Web of Evil
          3 - Hand of Evil

JEWELL, Lisa

     Then She Was Gone (4.5) 2017

JOHANSEN, Iris
       And Then You Die (3)

JONASSON, Ragnar

     The Mist (3.5)
KAMINSKY, Stuart M.
       Vengeance (4)
KAUFMAN, Thomas
       Drink the Tea (5)
KAVA, Alex
       Maggie O'Dell, FBI
        A Perfect Evil (2)
KHOURY, Raymond
       The Last Templar (3)

Kim, Angie

     Happiness Falls (4)
KING, Laurie R.
     Standalone
       A Darker Place
KONRATH, J. A.
     Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels, Chicago PD
       1- Whiskey Sour (4)
       2- Bloody Mary (2)
KUZNESKI, Chris
          1 - The Plantation - have book AND on iPhone (Didn't like it at all)

LABUSKES, Brianna

           Black Rock Bay, 2019 ME coast
LANCET, Barry
      Jim Brodie, SF Antique Japanese Art Dealer/expert and Investigator
       1 - Japantown (DNF-2)
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 (Baltimore reporter then PI)
          10- Another Thing to Fall (4)
      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)

MATHER, Matthew

     Polar Vortex (4.5) 2019
MAYOR, Major
     Joe Gunther, Brattleboro, VT state detective
       Tag Man (2.5)

McCarten, Anthony

       Going Zero (4)
McDERMID, Val
       The Grave Tatoo (3)
MEJIA, Mindy
          Leave No Trace (4)
MILLS, Jon
          Lost Girls:  The Maine Murders (3)
MIRANDA, Megan
       The Perfect Stranger (3.5)
MITCHELL, Caroline
.....Truth and Lies #1 DI Amy Winter (3.5/4)
MITCHELL, James
       Choke Point (3.5)
MORIARTY, Liane
       Nine Perfect Strangers  (4.5)
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)
     standalone - Cape Perdido  (2)
MUNIER, Paula
          A Borrowing of Bones, 2018 (3.5)
NASH, Jonathan
       Twenty-Seven Bones (3)
NEGGERS, Carla
     Sharpe & Donovan; Boston-based FBI
         Saint's Gate  (2)
O'DELL, Tawni
     Angels Burning (5)

PATIS, Vikki

      Girl, Lost (3)
PATTERSON, James
       1st to Die (2)
       Violets are Blue (4)
PEARSON, Ridley
     Sheriff Walt Fleming, Sun Valley, ID
       2 - Killer View (3.5)

PEK, Jane

.....The Verifiers (#1 The Verifiers) 
PEKKANEN, Sarah and HENDRICKS, Greer
.....An Anonymous Girl  (4.5)
.....The Getaway (3)
PELELCANOS, George
     Spero Lucas, Washington, DC
       1 - The Cut (4.5)
PERRY, Thomas 
     Jane Whitefield
       4 - Blood Money (4)
PESSL, Marisha
       Night Film

PETERS, Amanda

.....The Berry Pickers, 2023 (4)
PRESTON, Douglas & Lincoln Child
       12 - Two Graves (3)
PULLEY, D. M.
.....The Buried Book (4.5)
REGAN, Lisa
.....Vanishing Girls (#1 Josie Quinn, Denton PA cop) HORRIBLE narrator (2)

REYNOLDS, Allie

.....Shiver (3.5)

ROBERTS, Nora

.....Northern Lights (3)
ROBINSON, Steve
     Jefferson (JT) Tayte, Genealogist
       1 - In the Blood (2.5)
ROSENBERG, Nancy Taylor
       Sullivan's Law (1.5)
ROSENFELT, David
          Down to the Wire (3.5)
RUSSELL, Alan
          Homecoming, The (3.5/4)
SCOTTOLINE, Lisa
     Rosato & Associates
       5 - Moment of Truth (2) 2000
       8 - Dead Ringer (3)
       9 - Killer Smile (3) 2004
SETTERFIELD, Diane
       The Thirteenth Tale (4)
SLAUGHTER, Karin
          Pretty Girls, (2) 2015
          Blonde Hair Blue Eyes (prequel to Pretty Girls) 4
     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)
ST. JAMES, Simone
     The Sun Down Motel (4)

     The Book of Cold Cases (3)

     The Broken Girls (4.75)
STERNBERGH, Adam
       The Blinds (4)
STEN, Viveca
     1 - Still Waters (3)
SULLIVAN, MATTHEW
     Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore (4.5)
SWAIN, James
       2- The Night Stalker (4.5)

SWANSON, Peter

    Eight Perfect Murders, 2020 (5)
TAPPLY, William G.
     Stoney Calhoun, ME
       1- Bitch Creek (4.5)
       2- Gray Ghost (4)
    Brady Coyne, Boston Lawyer
         There are 28 of these, some going way, way back....
             Cutter's Run (4)
TAYLOR, Sarah Stewart
          1 - O'Artful Death (Set in VT) (1.5 and 4)
TEY, Josephine
       The Daughter of Time (3)
TISHY, Cecelia
     Regina Cutter, Boston "psychic"
       Now you See Her (3)
TOYNE, Simon
        Sanctus (2)
TUDOR, C. J.
     The Chalk Man (4.5)
URE, Louise
       Forcing Amaryllis (2 and 4)
VanGIESON, Judith
       The Stolen Blue (2)
WALKER, Walter
       Crime of Privilege (3)

WALKER, Wendy

       Don't Look For Me (4)
WARD, E. D.
       Night Hunter (#1 Harry Circus, Downeast Maine) (2)
WARE, Ruth
.....The Death of Mrs. Westaway, The (2)
WEAVER, Tim
        4 - Never Coming Back (5)
WENDIG, Chuck
        3 - Zeroes, 2015
WHITE, Stephen
     Alan Gregory'; Boulder, CO psychologist
          16 - Dead Time (4)

Willingham, Stacy

       A Flicker in the Dark (2022) (3)
WOLF, Dick
     NYPD Detective Jeremy Fisk
       1 - The Intercept (4)
WOMACK, Gwendolyn
        The Time Collector (2)
WOODS, Stuart 
     Stone Barrington
       15 - Hot Mahogany
Will Lee
       5 - The Run

YAMASHITA, Iris

      Cara Kennedy, Anchorage AK detective

       1 - City Under One Roof, 2023 (3)