[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: Mystery April 2009

  • From: "Melissa Green" <graduate56@xxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:36:51 -0600

where do you get these newsletters that you forward?
I am just curious.  They are pretty enteristing.
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  "The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring."
  ~ Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French author
  New and Recently Released!

  Grave Goods: A Mistress of the Art of Death Novel - by Ariana Franklin
  Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
  Check Library Catalog
  Pub Date: 03/19/2009
  ISBN-13: 9780399155444
  ISBN-10: 0399155449
  Historical Mystery. Will King Arthur ever return? The rebellious 12th-century 
Welsh think he will, but King Henry II wants to destroy those hopes. So when
  a box of bones containing the remains of a male and a female are discovered 
after Glastonbury Abbey is burned down, the king sends Adelia Aguilar, an 
Italian
  medical doctor who studies bones and corpses, to (hopefully) determine that 
the skeletons are those of the once and future king, Arthur, and his queen,
  Guinevere. Readers who enjoy CSI and books by Kathy Reichs and Patricia 
Cornwell should enjoy this old-school look at forensic science. This is the 3rd
  in this entertaining series; to examine the 1st, pick up Mistress of the Art 
of Death.

  The Renegades - by T. Jefferson Parker
  Publisher: Dutton
  Check Library Catalog
  Pub Date: 02/10/2009
  ISBN-13: 9780525950950
  ISBN-10: 0525950958
  Police Procedural. If you enjoyed T. Jefferson Parker's L.A. Outlaws, it's 
your lucky day--Charlie Hood rides again (albeit in a different location)! Now
  patrolling a rural section of America's West that he finds just as dangerous 
as L.A., Charlie finds his preference for working alone overruled when he
  is assigned to partner with Terry Laws, a popular cop nicknamed Mr. 
Wonderful. But when someone uses a machine gun to kill Laws their first night 
out,
  Charlie finds out that Mr. Wonderful may not have been such a great guy after 
all. The Renegades is an "engrossing tale of justice and redemption" (Library
  Journal, in a starred review) where the good guys are sometimes the bad guys 
too.

  The Samaritan's Secret: An Omar Yussef Mystery - by Matt Beynon Rees
  Publisher: Soho
  Check Library Catalog
  Pub Date: 02/01/2009
  ISBN-13: 9781569475454
  ISBN-10: 1569475458
  Mystery. In his 3rd outing, Omar Yussef, a history teacher who lives in 
Bethlehem, travels to Nablus, on the northern West Bank, in order to attend his
  friend Sami's wedding. Once he arrives, Sami (a policeman) tells him about a 
couple of cases: a sacred scroll has been stolen and a Samaritan who was in
  charge of millions of dollars in government money has been killed...and the 
money is missing. Matt Beynon Rees' latest novel is "a tearjerker as well as
  a page-turner" (Kirkus Reviews) and it gives a fascinating glimpse at modern 
life in Palestine. If you're intrigued, pick up the first two books in this
  critically acclaimed series, The Collaborator of Bethlehem and A Grave in 
Gaza.

  Murder at the Academy Awards: A Red Carpet Murder Mystery - by Joan Rivers 
with Jerrilyn Farmer
  Publisher: Pocket Books
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  Pub Date: 02/03/2009
  ISBN-13: 9781416599371
  ISBN-10: 1416599371
  Humorous Mystery. The Academy Awards ceremony always has beautiful 
celebrities and the best (and worst!) that fashion has to offer--but this year, 
death
  shows up too. A troubled young Best Actress nominee who's fresh out of rehab 
dies from an apparent overdose right in front of celebrity reporter Maxine
  Taylor (who is modeled, of course, on Joan Rivers). Max, who heard the 
teenager's whispered last words, is sure the actress was killed. The critics 
really
  like Murder at the Academy Awards--Kirkus Reviews calls it "brisk" and 
"funny" and, in a starred review, Publishers Weekly calls it "impressive." If 
you're
  a fan of Joan Rivers and love Hollywood, we nominate this book for you to 
read.
  First Chapter

  All the Colors of Darkness - by Peter Robinson
  Publisher: William Morrow
  Check Library Catalog
  Pub Date: 03/01/2009
  ISBN-13: 9780061362934
  ISBN-10: 006136293X
  Police Procedural. Mark Hardcastle, a set designer for a theater company, is 
found hanging from a tree. His partner, Laurence Silber, is soon discovered
  beaten to death in his expensive apartment. Some think this is a clear case 
of a lovers' quarrel turned into a murder-suicide, but DCI Alan Banks and DI
  Annie Cabbot don't agree...especially when they learn that Silber was a 
former spy. Fans of spy novels (like those written by John le Carré) will enjoy
  All the Colors of Darkness, the 18th in a long-running mysteries, as should 
series regulars--in a starred review, Library Journal says that Robinson 
"branches
  out into new territory in what may be his best novel yet."

  Revelation: A Matthew Shardlake Mystery - by C.J. Sansom
  Publisher: Viking
  Check Library Catalog
  Pub Date: 02/05/2009
  ISBN-13: 9780670020515
  ISBN-10: 0670020516
  Historical Mystery. In 1543, King Henry VIII rules England and plots to take 
Catherine Parr as his sixth wife. Meanwhile, a serial killer seems to be at
  work and one of his victims is a friend of hunchbacked London lawyer Matthew 
Shardlake. Matthew, at the behest of his friend's wife, looks into the man's
  death and discovers that the murder is being covered up by powerful people 
and that it might be linked to the soon-to-be-queen's household as well as to
  a young religious fanatic whom Matthew is representing. This is the 4th 
outing for Shardlake, and readers who've enjoyed his previous cases will know to
  expect well-researched historical details about life in London as well as 
deft plotting.
  Oh, Those "Wicked" Ways

  Wicked City - by Ace Atkins
  Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
  Check Library Catalog
  Pub Date: 04/10/2008
  ISBN-13: 9780399154577
  ISBN-10: 0399154574
  Historical Crime Novel. In 1954, criminals had the run of Phenix City, 
Alabama, both on the streets and in the government--a magazine even called it 
"the
  wickedest city in America." But when the newly elected state attorney 
general, Albert Patterson, is killed in cold blood in one of the town's alleys, 
some
  of the townspeople have had enough. Led by the dead man's son and his friend, 
family man Lamar Murphy, they take on killers, brothel madams, professional
  gamblers, and corrupt cops. Challenging the underworld is always a dangerous 
proposition, but what adds extra oomph to this gripping story is the fact
  that it's based on real events.

  Even the Wicked: A Matthew Scudder Novel - by Lawrence Block
  Publisher: HarperCollins
  Check Library Catalog
  Pub Date: 02/01/1998
  ISBN-13: 9780380725342
  ISBN-10: 0380725347
  Mystery. A vigilante serial killer named "the Will of the People" is at work 
in New York City, ridding the Big Apple of people who aren't very nice--a child
  molester, a Mafia don, and the like. The high-profile murderer pens letters 
that he sends to the media, announcing his next victim. Next up? A prominent
  defense lawyer. The attorney, who has been quite successful at keeping his 
clients free, now needs Matthew Scudder to help him save himself; Scudder, who's
  also working the case of a bizarre killing of a dying AIDS victim, agrees. In 
this 13th entry in the series, recovering alcoholic Scudder is more balanced
  and less violent, but the plotting is just as good (in a starred review, 
Kirkus Reviews calls it "an ingenious whodunit").

  Blood of the Wicked - by Leighton Gage
  Publisher: Soho Press
  Check Library Catalog
  Pub Date: 12/26/2007
  ISBN-13: 9781569474709
  ISBN-10: 1569474702
  Police Procedural. Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil's Federal Police is 
assigned a high-profile case: figuring out who assassinated Bishop Dom Felipe
  Antunes while he was visiting the remote town of Cascatas do Pontal for a 
church consecration. Silva and his nephew Hector Costa, who's also a federal
  officer, travel to the rural town to investigate the killing, but they are 
soon involved in local politics, as tensions between wealthy landowners and
  landless workers threaten to erupt. Toss in street crime, Silva's troubled 
past, lots of violence, more deaths, and you've got "a gripping and brutal tale
  of murder and vengeance" (Library Journal). The 2nd book in this series, 
Buried Strangers, was just released.

  No Peace for the Wicked - by Pip Granger
  Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
  Check Library Catalog
  Pub Date: 01/01/2006
  ISBN-13: 9781590582169
  ISBN-10: 1590582160
  Historical Mystery. In 1956 London, Lizzy, who lives above the Soho nightclub 
run by Bandy Bunyan and Sugar Plum Flaherty, offers to take in her neighbor's
  part-Chinese teenage niece, Peace...who soon disappears. If you enjoy fresh, 
interesting characters in your mysteries, this book has you covered--in a
  starred review, Booklist calls Lizzy "lovable" and says that "a more unusual 
and likable group of misfits would be hard to find in any mystery series."
  Though this is the 4th Soho book that Granger has written, they can be read 
in any order as they are not chronological and feature various characters in
  the lead roles.
  First Chapter

  Wicked Fix: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery - by Sarah Graves
  Publisher: Bantam Books
  Check Library Catalog
  Pub Date: 05/01/2000
  ISBN-13: 9780553578591
  ISBN-10: 0553578596
  Cozy Mystery. You might think that a fresh corpse hanging on a cemetery gate 
would unsettle a small town, but it doesn't when the town is Eastport, Maine,
  and the body belongs to troublemaker Reuben Tate. Manhattan transplant 
Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree finds Reuben's remains and is further pulled into the 
case
  when her ex-husband, Victor, is arrested for the murder (while the man is 
annoying, he is unquestionably innocent). If you enjoy Diane Mott Davidson's
  Goldy Bear mysteries, check out this series--like Goldy, Jake often gets help 
from her ex-husband, teenage son, and best friend. Wicked Fix is Jake's 3rd
  outing; the 12th, A Face at the Window, was recently published.

  Wicked Break: A Noah Braddock Novel - by Jeff Shelby
  Publisher: Penguin Group USA
  Check Library Catalog
  Pub Date: 06/05/2007
  ISBN-13: 9780451412416
  ISBN-10: 0451412419
  Mystery. Surfer and private investigator Noah Braddock reluctantly (he'd 
rather be riding waves) accepts a case involving missing 19-year-old San Diego
  State University student Linc Pluto. Did the kid just run away? Noah quickly 
discovers that the teenager has dubious ties to a white supremacist group
  and a room full of illegal weapons. When Linc's coed neighbor is killed after 
talking to Noah, he knows something sinister is going on, but there'll be
  at least one more dead body and a brutal beating before he figures it all 
out. If you're a fan of witty banter and hard-boiled detectives, you'll like
  Noah (who's appeared in one other book, Killer Swell).
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