Thursday, January 28, 2010
Hamish Macbeth
#2: Death of a Cad OWN
#5: Death of a Hussy OWN
#7: Death of a Prankster OWN
#8: Death of a Glutton OWN / Read 10/9/10
Monday, December 7, 2009
CoffeHouse Mystery Series
#2 Through the Grinder
#3 Latte Trouble
#4 Murder Most Frothy
#5 Decaffeinated Corpse
#6 French Pressed
#7 Espresso Shot
#8 Holiday Grind
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery Series
Mary Russell Mystery Series
The Language of Bees (April 2009) ISBN 9780553804546 Returning to summertime Sussex, Russell and Holmes anticipate problems with a beehive gone mad, but little anticipate what–and who–awaits them on their arrival. Bohemian artists, religious fanatics, and a thinned-down Mycroft: will wonders never cease? | |
Locked Rooms (2005) ISBN 978-0-553-58341-0 (A Booksense Pick) Setting sail from their adventures in India during the spring of 1924, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes turn their faces toward San Francisco. Russell knows that the time has come to close up the house and business interests she inherited on the death of her family, ten years before. Little does she anticipate the complexity of events her past is built upon, the layers of trust and betrayal that are locked inside her memory. Only Holmes suspects what lies therein–and even he is not prepared for the danger that unfolds. | |
The Game (2004) ISBN 978-0-553-58338-0 This New York Times bestseller features the world’s greatest detective — and her husband. Mary Russell and her partner, Sherlock Holmes, are setting off for the wilds of India, jousting with maharajas and British spymasters alike as they search for a missing figure from an earlier age of colonial spycraft. | |
Justice Hall (2002) ISBN 978-0-553-58111-9 (A Booksense Choice)Two old friends reappear, in decidedly different guise: the two “Bedouin” guides from O Jerusalem are in England, caught in a mesh of honor and justice and the death of a young nephew. | |
O Jerusalem (1999) ISBN 978-0-553-58105-8 Mycroft Holmes has a little job that needs doing, in 1919 Palestine, where an unfinished war is about to blow up and Russell finds that life as a Bedouin is not all strong coffee and candied almonds. | |
The Moor (1998) ISBN 978-0-312-42739-9 A hound stalks Dartmoor by night, and Holmes calls Russell to the side of an old man from his past, Sabine Baring-Gould, the squire of Lew Trenchard. | |
A Letter of Mary (1997) ISBN 978-0-312-42738-2 A first-century manuscript that would turn Christianity on its ear; the death of a friend; and Mary Russell as the private secretary of a misogynist colonel. | |
A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995) ISBN 978-0-312-42737-5 (Nero Award Winner) Russell, just twenty-one, meets a charismatic feminist mystic in London and faces a choice about the future. | |
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice READ 2009 (1994) ISBN 978-0-312-42736-8 (Agatha nominee; ALA notable book; 100 favorite books of the IMBA) The book that begins the adventure: In 1915, young Mary Russell meets Sherlock Holmes on the Sussex Downs, and becomes his apprentice-in-crime. |