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Brudner, Alan. Mind Games. Salvo. Oct. 2001. 189p. ISBN 1-930486-20-0. pap. $14.95. M Cliff and his wife made a bargain: ultimate computer firm Cybronics provides a college education for son [...]

Hegwood, Martin. Massacre Island. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Oct. 2001. c.288p. ISBN 0-312-28095-5. $23.95. M Private eye Jack Delmas (A Green-Eyed Hurricane), hired to find out why four people were murdered [...]

Kilmer, Nicholas. Lazarus, Arise. Poisoned Pen. Oct. 2001. c.184p. ISBN 1-890208-80-9. $24.95. M Kilmer's latest art mystery (after Dirty Linen) centers on chance: Boston art collector Clayton Reed's agent, Fred [...]

Kaminsky, Stuart M. Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express. Mysterious. Oct. 2001. c.277p. ISBN 0-89296-747-1. $24.95. M Moscow police inspector Rostnikov rides the famed train in search of a valuable historical [...]

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia. Blood Sinister. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Oct. 2001. c.320p. ISBN 0-312-27485-8. $23.95. M This remarkable British police procedural series continues as Detective Inspector Bill Slider investigates the [...]

Granger, Ann. Shades of Murder. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Oct. 2001. c.288p. ISBN 0-312-28445-4. $23.95. M Many years after the murder of their ancestor, two old women decide to sell their [...]

Douglas, Carole Nelson. Chapel Noir. Forge: Tor. Oct. 2001. c.480p. ISBN 0-312-85493-5. $25.95. M Victorian opera diva/sleuth Irene Adler (in Arthur Conan Doyle's classic A Scandal in Bohmia, she was [...]

Banks, T.F. The Thief Taker: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner. Delacorte. Oct. 2001. c.288p. ISBN 0-385-33571-7. $23.95. M Bucking an official verdict of accident in the death of a [...]

Landry, Dallari. The Bayou Privilege. Creative Arts. Oct. 2001. c.222p. ISBN 0-88739-356-X. $24.95; pap. ISBN 0-88739-354-3. $16.50. M Breathless confusion, inconsistent characterization, and inappropriate overdramatization (or total lack thereof) mar [...]

Alexander, Bruce. Smuggler's Moon. Putnam. Oct. 2001. c.256p. LC 2001019726. ISBN 0-399-14774-8. $24.95. M Sir John Fielding, a blind, 18th-century London judge, and his orphan accomplice, Jeremy, visit the smuggler's [...]

Bowen, Rhys. Murphy's Law. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Oct. 2001. c.224p. ISBN 0-312-28206-0. $22.95. M Bowen, creator of the Constable Evan Evans mysteries, begins a new series with a fascinating account [...]

McBride, Susan. Overkill. Mayhaven. Oct. 2001. c.256p. ISBN 1-878044-87-7. pap. $14.95. M In this sequel to And Then She Was Gone, former Dallas policewoman Maggie Ryan finds rural Litchfield to [...]

Kelner, Toni L.P. Mad as the Dickens. Kensington. Oct. 2001. c.288p. ISBN 1-7566-838-6. $22. M Pregnant Laurie Anne Fleming's hometown of Byerly, NC, offers not only a plethora of sympathetic [...]

Hall, Russ. Island. Tropical. Oct. 2001. 249p. ISBN 0-9666173-6-3. pap. $16.95. M The narrator, his business friend Chancy, and Rolf, a weathered fisherman acquaintance, embark on a Bahamian fishing trip. [...]

Handler, David. The Cold Blue Blood. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Oct. 2001. c.304p. ISBN 0-312-28003-3. $23.95. M Film critic/author Mitch Berger rents an old carriage house on a small [...]

Ripley, Ann. Harvest of Murder. Kensington. Oct. 2001. c.304p. LC 2001086917. ISBN 1-57566-775-4. $22. M A dog-walking professor friend of series sleuth and PBS-TV garden show host Louise Eldridge (The [...]

Tapply, William G. Past Tense. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Oct. 2001. c.304p. ISBN 0-312-28442-X. $24.95. M Brady Coyne and girlfriend Evie (Scar Tissue) become prime suspects when a stalker from Evie's [...]

Sedley, Kate. The Weaver's Inheritance. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Sept. 2001. c.256p. ISBN 0-312-27684-2. $23.95. M Fifteenth-century sleuth Roger the Chapman (The Eve of Saint Hyacinth) investigates a man who claims [...]

Nabb, Magdalen. Property of Blood. Soho, dist. by Farrar. Sept. 2001. c.256p. ISBN 1-56947-251-3. $23. M Marshal Guarnaccia, featured in some ten previous titles, investigates the kidnap-for-ransom of an American-born [...]

Maitland, Barry. The Chalon Heads: A Kathy and Brock Mystery. Arcade, dist. by Little, Brown. Sept. 2001. c.336p. ISBN 1-55970-570-1. $24.95. M Police detectives David Brock and Kathy Kolla (The [...]

Atherton, Nancy. Aunt Dimity: Detective. Viking. Oct. 2001. c.229p. ISBN 0-670-03021-X. $22.95. M A newcomer to town quickly shows herself to be hateful, spiteful, and malicious, so her subsequent murder [...]

Berenson, Laurien. Once Bitten. Kensington. Sept. 2001. c.288p. LC 00-111997. ISBN 1-57566-677-4. $22. Series sleuth Melanie Travis (Unleashed), a teacher and dog handler, goes in search of the sometime wedding [...]

Kahn, Sharon. Don't Cry for Me, Hot Pastrami. Scribner. Sept. 2001. c.295p. LC 2001020827. ISBN 0-684-87155-6. $24. M Ruby (Fax Me a Bagel), a plump-and-proud rabbi's widow and part-owner of [...]

Fraser, Anthea. Past Shadows. Severn House. Sept. 2001. 249p. ISBN 0-7278-5726-6. $25.99. M A victim of nightmares stemming from the long-ago murder of her aunt and committed to her faltering [...]

Blanchard, Al. Murder at Walden Pond. Salvo. Sept. 2001. 198p. ISBN 1-930486-28-6. pap. $14.95. M Two weeks after a young woman speaks with eighth-grade history teacher Steve Asher about her [...]

Ephron, G.H. Addiction. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Sept. 2001. c.304p. ISBN 0-312-26677-4. $23.95. M Forensic psychologist Peter Zak, recovering from the murder of his wife, agrees to treat the troubled, possibly [...]

Neel, Janet. O Gentle Death. Minotaur: St. Martin's. 2001. c.240p. ISBN 0-312-28052-1. $22.95. M Amid the several broken and/or rearranged marriages and assorted teenaged children that here occupy center stage [...]

Glassman, Steve. The Near Death Experiment. Tropical Pr. 2001. 265p. ISBN 0-9666173-7-1. pap. $16.95. M Rupert 'Bru' Bruton agrees to research the toxicity of plastic orange juice containers for exorbitantly [...]

Abramo, J.L. Catching Water in a Net. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Oct. 2001. c.224p. ISBN 0-312-28232-X. $22.95. M San Franciscan narrator Jake Diamond easily fits the traditional hard-boiled, whiskey-in-a-drawer, [...]

Andrews, Donna. Revenge of the Wronght-Iron Flamingos. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Oct. 2001. c.304p. ISBN 0-312-27729-6. $23.95. M It's 'period crafts and costumes only' at the Yorktown Colonial crafts [...]

Decure, John. Reef Dance. Minotaur: St: Martin's. Sept. 2001. c.384p. ISBN 0-312-27297-9. $24.95. M Attorney J. Shepard defends various indigent parents in a Los Angeles juvenile dependency court but daydreams [...]

Hayes, John R. Catskill. Thomas Dunne Bks: St. Martin's. Sept. 2001. c.272p. ISBN 0-312-28153-6. $23.95. M In 1938 Chicken Corners, a small town in New York State's Catskill Mountains, an [...]

Lewis, Roy. A Form of Death. Allison & Busby, dist. by International Pubs. Marketing. Apr. 2001. 220p. ISBN 0-7490-0482-7. $24.95. M Series protagonist Eric Ward, a highly principled former policeman-turned-solicitor, [...]

Crawford, Louise. Blaize of Glory. Five Star. Apr. 2001. c.250p. ISBN 0-7862-3013-4. $23.95. M Two unsettling cases engage Sacramento psychologist/PI Blaize McCue's attention. A high school friend, now an actress, [...]

Kienzle, William X. The Sacrifice. Andrews McMeel. Apr. 2001. c.288p. ISBN 0-7407-1226-8. $22.95. M The impending ordination of a former Episcopal priest into the Catholic church in Detroit turns into [...]

Douglas, Carole Nelson. Cat in a Leopard Spot. Forge: Tor. Apr. 2001. c.384p. ISBN 0-312-85370-X. $24.95. M Feline investigator Midnight Louie (Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit) and partner Temple Barr--public [...]

Richman, Phyllis. Who's Afraid of Virginia Ham? HarperCollins. May 2001. c.256p. ISBN 0-06-018389-6. $23. M In her third culinary mystery (Murder on the Gravy Train, The Butter Did It), Chas [...]

Robinson, Lynda S. Slayer of Gods. Mysterious. Jun. 2001. c.256p. ISBN 0-89296-705-6. $23.95. M The fabulous Lord Meren series (Drinker of Blood) continues as Meren tracks the elusive poisoner of [...]

Haddam, Jane. True Believers. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Apr. 2001. c.336p. ISBN 0-312-20929-0. $24.95. M Retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian (Skeleton Key) investigates an unusual apparent murder/suicide in a Philadelphia church, [...]

Davis, Lisa E. Under the Mink. Alyson, dist. by Consortium. Apr. 2001. c.280p. ISBN 1-55583-556-2. pap. $12.95. M Blackie Cole, a talented, scrabbling lesbian singer in a late 1940s Greenwich [...]

Linscott, Gillian. The Perfect Daughter. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Apr. 2001. c.320p. ISBN 0-312-27296-0. $22.95. M Amateur sleuth Nell Bray, protagonist for this series set in pre-World War I England, investigates [...]

Davidson, Diane Mott. Sticks & Scones. Bantam. Apr. 2001. c.320p. ISBN 0-553-10724-0. $23.95. M Aspen Meadows caterer/sleuth Goldy Schulz (Prime Cut) prepares an Elizabethan feast for the owners of a [...]

Bowen, Peter. Cruzatte and Maria. Minotaur: St. Martin's. 2001. c.272p. ISBN 0-312-26253-1. $22.95. M This time out, series sleuth Gabriel Du Pre (The Stick Game) serves as historical consultant for [...]

Aird, Catherine. Little Knell. Minotaur: St. Martin's. Apr. 2001. c.208p. ISBN 0-312-26983-8. $22.95. M Series detective C. D. Sloan (Stiff News) investigates a bizarre case of murder after a formerly [...]

Rahi, Chuck. Genetic Witness. Creative Arts. Apr. 2001. c.276p. ISBN 0-88739-312-8. pap. $16.50. M Retired FBI agent Ben Connars obsesses over an unsolved murder case from 1959. At that time, [...]

Ripley, J.R. Lost in Austin. Long Wind. Apr. 2001. c.243p. ISBN 1-892695-06-5. $19.95. M Disillusioned lawyer Tony Kozol (Skulls of Sedona), playing fill-in guitar for a well-known country singer in [...]

Hedrich, Cleda. Threat of a Stranger. NewSouth. Apr. 2001. c.280p. ISBN 0-9671680-0-7. $22.95. M Diane and Mel Rath's five-year-old son vanishes from their North Carolina mountain cabin, apparently never to [...]

Damron, Carla. Keeping Silent. Write Way. Apr. 2001. c.278p. ISBN 1-885173-90-3. $23.95. M Social worker/therapist Caleb Knowles attempts to help his deaf brother Sam cope with the inexplicable murder of [...]

Khachadourian, Simon. The Cocktail Shaker. Antique Collectors' Club. 2000. 144p. photogs. ISBN 0-85667-520-2. $45. DEC ARTS Although cocktails may not appeal to every taste, the vintage shakers--many surprisingly beautiful--used to [...]

Mickelbury, Penny. Paradise Interrupted. S. & S. Feb. 2001. c.288p. ISBN 0-684-85991-2. $23. M Fans of the Carole Ann Gibson series will appreciate this change of pace as the heroine [...]