LibGuides: Anthony Awards: 1990s

1990-1999

1990

The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell

Nominees

Pious Deception / Susan Dunlap
A Little Class on Murder / Carolyn G. Hart
Corpus Christmas / Margaret Maron

Katwalk by Karen Kijewski

Nominees

Grime and Punishment / Jill Churchill
The Mother Shadow / Melodie Johnson Howe
The Mark Twain Murders / Edith Skom
The Last Billable Hour / Susan Wolfe

Honeymoon with Murder by Carolyn Hart

Nominees

On My Honor / Malacai Black (Barbara D'Amato)
Murder By Deception / D. R. Meredith
Rough Justice / Keith Peterson
A Collector of Photographs / Deborah Valentine

Michael Gilbert

1991

G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton

G Is for Gumshoe (Kinsey Milhone #7) by Sue Grafton
Call Number: FIC GRAFT SUE G (Adult fiction)

ISBN: 9780805004618

Publication Date: 1990-05-15

When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasn't heard from in six months, it's not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girl's gotta pay her bills, and this should be easy money—or so she thinks. Kinsey finds Agnes in a hospital. Aside from her occasional memory lapses, the octogenarian seems fine. And frightened. Kinsey doesn't know what to make of Agnes's vague fears and bizarre ramblings, but she's got her own worries. It seems Tyrone Patty, a criminal she helped put behind bars, is looking to make a hit. First, Kinsey's car is run off the road, and then days later, she's almost gunned down, setting in motion a harrowing cat and mouse game. So Kinsey decides to hire a bodyguard. With PI Robert Dietz watching her 24/7, Kinsey is feeling on edge…especially with their growing sexual tension. Then, Agnes dies of an apparent homicide, Kinsey realizes the old lady wasn't so senile after all—and maybe she was trying to tell her something? Now Kinsey's determined to learn the truth…even if it kills her.

Nominees

A Ticket to the Boneyard / Lawrence Block
The Good Fight / Lia Matera
If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O / Sharyn McCrumb
New Orleans Mourning / Julie Smith

A Ticket to the Boneyard by Lawrence Block
Call Number: Fiction B6508t (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780688090708

Publication Date: 1990-09-01

Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate enough to share Scudder's name -- are turning up dead. Because a vengeful maniac is determined not to rest until he's driven his nemesis back to the bottle...and then to the boneyard.

Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

Postmortem [CD] (Kay Scarpetta #1) by Patricia Cornwell; C. J. Critt (Narrated by)
Call Number: CD Fiction CO S1

ISBN: 9780788744631

Publication Date: 2002-01-07

Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is trying to unmask a serial killer, but someone is sabotaging her investigation. Worse yet, someone wants her dead.

Nominees

Catering to Nobody / Diane Mott Davidson
Kindred Crimes / Janet Dawson
Where's Mommy Now? / Rochelle Krich
Grave Undertaking / James McCahery

Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
Call Number: Fiction D251c v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0553584707

Publication Date: 2002-02-26

Goldy Bear, recently divorced, has made a home for herself and her young son in scenic Aspen Valley, Colorado. There, calls for Goldilock's Catering have been steady enough to pay the bills. But when a mourner is felled by rat poison during a funeral buffet Goldy is serving, the police quickly close her business. Now it's up to Goldy to find the rat who has tainted her food and her reputation. Diane Mott Davidson whips up a spicy mixture of cooks and crooks, and veteran narrator Barbara Rosenblat brilliantly conveys Goldy's intelligence, wit and energy. As the mystery unfolds, its tension is sweetened by delectable recipes, including Goldy's Dream Cake, Dungeon Bars, and Honey Ginger Snaps.
Catering to Nobody [Streaming Audio] by Diane Mott Davidson; Barbara Rosenblat (Narrated by)
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook

ISBN: 9781449872830

Publication Date: 2011-03-28

Grave Undertaking by James McCahery

Where's Mommy Now? by Rochelle Krich

Nominees

Not a Creature Was Stirring / Jane Haddam
Dead in the Scrub / G. J. Oliphant
Sisters in Crime 2 / Marilyn Wallace

Synod of Sleuths : Essays on Judeo-Christian Detective Fiction by Jon L. Breen & Martin H. Greenberg

Nominees

Deadly Doses : a Writer's Guide to Poisons / Serita Deborah Stevens, with Anne Klarner
Eric Ambler / Peter Lewis
John Dickson Carr : a Critical Study / S. T. Joshi
Trouble is Their Business : Private Eyes in Fiction, Film & Television, 1927-1988 / John Conquest

William Campbell Gault

1992

The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey

The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey
Call Number: Fiction L911d v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780385421140

Publication Date: 1991-09-01

A woman’s body has been found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath. There are no marks on her and no murder weapon. No one will identify her. It looks like Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond has his work cut out for him. Diamond is one of the last detectives of his kind, a gumshoe whose heroes solved crimes by question and answer, door stepping and deduction. To unravel this one, Diamond must locate two missing letters attributed to Jane Austen and defy his superiors in order to save a woman unjustly accused of murder.

Nominees

Rogue Wave / Susan Dunlap
Love Nor Money / Linda Grant
Hour of the Hunter / J. A. Jance
I. O. U. / Nancy Pickard
A Single Stone / Marilyn Wallace

Hour of the Hunter by J. A. Jance
Call Number: Fiction J328w v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780688096304

Publication Date: 1991-11-01

The brilliant psychopath Andrew Carlisle spent only six years in prison for the brutal torture–murder of a young girl of the Tohono O'otham tribe. The testimony of Diana Ladd -- a teacher on the reservation -- put Carlisle behind bars, and now she can't ignore the dark, mystical signs that say a predator has returned to prowl the Arizona desert. Because no matter where Diana and her young son hide . . . he will find them.
Hour of the Hunter [E-Book] by J. A. Jance
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780061747014

Publication Date: 2009-03-17

Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry

Nominees

Carpool / Mary Cahill
A Relative Stranger / Margaret Lucke
The Bulrush Murders / Rebecca Rothenberg
The Chocolate Box / Leslie Watts
Murder on the Run / Gloria White

Homicide : a Year on the Killing Streets / David Simon

Nominees

And the Sea Will Tell / Vincent Bugliosi with Bruce B. Henderson
Sins of the Father : the Landmark Franklin Case : a Daughter, a Memory, and a Murder / Eileen Franklin, William Wright
Witnesses From the Grave : the Stories Bones Tell / Christopher Joyce
Plausible Denial / Mark Lane
Cruel Doubt / Joe McGinniss

And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi; Bruce Henderson
Call Number: 364.1523 B931an (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 0393029190

Publication Date: 1991-01-01

Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd aluminum container washed up out of the lagoon, and beside it on the sand something glitters: a gold tooth in a scorched human skull. The investigation that follows uncovers an extraordinarily complex and puzzling true-crime story. Only Vincent Bugliosi, who recounted his successful prosecution of mass murderer Charles Manson in the best seller Helter Skelter, was able to draw together the hundreds of conflicting details of the mystery and reconstruct what really happened when four people found hell in a tropical paradise.

A Woman's Eye / Sara Paretsky, ed.

Nominees

Cat Crimes / Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman, eds.
Alfred Hitchcock's Home Sweet Homicide / Cahtleen Jordan, ed.
Christmas Stalkings : Tales of Yuletide Murder / Charlotte MacLoeod, ed.
Fifty Years of the Best From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine / Eleanor Sullivan, ed.
Sisters in Crime 4 / Marilyn Wallace, ed.

100 Great Detectives by Maxim Jakubowski

Nominees

Locked Room Murders / Robert Adey
Out of the Woodpile / Frankie Y. Bailey
Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, 3rd ed. / Lesley Henderson
Talking Mysteries : a Conversation with Tony Hillerman / Tony Hillerman
Jim Thompson : Sleep with the Devil / M. J. McCauley

Charlotte MacLeod

The Balloon Man by Charlotte MacLeod
Call Number: Fiction M165b (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0892966572

Publication Date: 1998-12-01

For all the Kellings’ quirks, no other family in Boston is more adept at throwing a wedding. So when Max Bittersohn’s wife, Sarah Kelling, offers to organize his nephew’s nuptials, Max is smart enough to stay out of her way. But when the art-fraud investigator stumbles onto a family mystery, he is drawn into something far more serious than the question of who will catch the bouquet. Stolen years earlier, the priceless Kelling jewels were last seen in Amsterdam, so how did they end up among the wedding gifts? Max is trying to answer that question when a talkative burglar wallops him with a shovel in a failed attempt to rip off the rubies. Then, as the reception winds down, a hot-air balloon lands on the wedding tent, spilling out the Zickerys, a branch of the Kelling clan who prove even odder than the original strain. Family weddings are never easy, but for Max Bittersohn, this one could be murder.
Exit the Milkman by Charlotte MacLeod
Call Number: Fiction M165e (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 089296572x

Publication Date: 1996-08-01

Although he towers over his neighbors, Jim Feldster is otherwise unremarkable, except for his mastery of cow milking and his membership in every lodge, rotary club, and brotherhood that Balaclava County has to offer. And anyone who’s met his wife, Mirelle, a vicious gossip with a hysterical streak, can understand why he never misses a meeting. But one night their neighbors, the sleuthing academics Peter and Helen Shandy, wake at 2:47 a.m. to the sound of Mirelle screaming. Jim hasn’t come home, and she will lose her mind if he isn’t found quickly. None of Jim’s lodge brothers know where to find him, and Peter’s investigation turns up few clues. But when a mystery author comes to town and Mirelle is found murdered, Peter begins to wonder if the master milker is less wholesome than he appears.
The Grub and Stakers House a Haunt by Alisa Craig
Call Number: Fiction M165g (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0688086446

Publication Date: 1993-05-01

Zilla Trott is pouring her cat some chamomile tea when the drifter appears in her kitchen. He is grubby and crude—not at all the kind of person you’d usually find in the pleasant town of Lobelia Falls—but something about him intrigues the aging widow. Perhaps it’s his rugged good looks, or the way he seems to come from another time and place. Or perhaps it’s the fact that he’s been dead for nearly a century. When Lobelia Falls was in its rough-and-tumble frontier infancy, Hiram Jellyby was the best mule driver the town had ever seen, until an argument over a hidden cache of gold left him bleeding to death in a back alley. He returns in spectral form to secure a proper burial, and finds that in modern-day Lobelia Falls, no one knows more about turning the soil than Zilla Trott’s gardening buddies—all members of Dittany Monk’s fearless Grub-and-Stake Gardening and Roving Club.
Rest You Merry by Charlotte MacLeod
Call Number: Fiction M165rd

ISBN: 1562870521

Publication Date: 1993-12-01

Each December, the faculty of Balaclava Agricultural College goes wild with holiday decorations. The entire campus glitters with Christmas lights, save for one dark spot: the home of professor Peter Shandy. But after years of resisting the school’s Illumination festival, Shandy suddenly snaps, installing a million-watt display of flashing lights and blaring music perfectly calculated to drive his neighbors mad. Then the horticulturalist flees town, planning to spend Christmas on a tramp steamer. It’s not long before he feels guilty about his prank and returns home to find his lights extinguished—and a dead librarian in his living room. Hoping to avoid a scandal, the school’s head asks Shandy, sometimes detective, to investigate the matter quietly. After all, Christmas is big business, and the town needs the cash infusion that typically comes with the Illumination. But as Shandy will soon find out, there’s a dark side to even the whitest of white Christmases.

1993

Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron

Nominees

Lullaby Town / Robert Crais
Booked to Die / John Dunning
Southern Ghost / Carolyn Hart
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter / Sharon McCrumb

Booked to Die [Kindle] (Cliff Janeway Novels, Book 1) by John Dunning
Call Number: Kindle-0547 (Request at Circulation Desk)

Publication Date: 1992

Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he’s an avid collector of rare and first editions. Bobby Westfall is a local bookscout, a gentle and quiet man who has sold enough valuable books to keep himself and his cats fed and housed. When Bobby is murdered, Janeway would like nothing better than to rearrange the suspect’s spine. But the suspect, local lowlife Jackie Newton, is a master at eluding the law, and Janeway’s wrathful brand of off-duty justice costs him his badge. Turning to his lifelong passion, Janeway opens a small bookshop—all the while searching for evidence to put Newton away. When prized volumes in a highly sought-after collection begin to appear, so do dead bodies. Now Janeway’s life is about to change in profound and shocking ways as he attempts to find out who’s dealing death along with vintage Chandlers and Twains.

Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely

Nominees

Thyme of Death / Susan Wittig Albert
Decked / Carol Higgins Clark
The Black Echo / Michael Connelly
The Winter Widow / Charlene Weir

Decked (A Regan Reilly Mystery, Book 1) by Carol Higgins Clark
Call Number: Fiction C592r v.1

ISBN: 9780446515498

Publication Date: 1992-07-14

The daughter of a successful mystery writer and a P.I. with pizzazz, Regan Reilly is attending her class reunion at St. Polycarp's England, when the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up under the bushes. It's a case Regan would love to solve, but a prior commitment puts her on a transatlantic cruise. She shouldn't have fretted. The clues to the crime are following her on the Queen Guinevere. Here, on a ship awash with secret lovers, a fortune hunter, a jewel thief and an assassin, Regan is sailing home - and into the hands of a young girl's killer.
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch Series, Book 1) by Michael Connelly
Call Number: Fiction C7523b v.1

ISBN: 9780316153614

Publication Date: 1992-01-21

For maverick Lapd homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit. Pitted against enemies inside his own department and forced to make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, Bosch goes on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him.
The Black Echo [E-Book] (Harry Bosch Series, Book 1) by Michael Connelly
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780316144520

Publication Date: 2002

The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery : the True Story of the Dr. John Branion Murder Case / Barbara D'Amato

Nominees

The Trunk Murderess : Winnie Ruth Judd / Jana Bommersbach
Blood Echoes : the True Story of an Infamous Mass Murder and Its Aftermath / Thomas H. Cook
The Shadow of Death : The Hunt for a Serial Killer / Philip E. Ginsburg
Everything She Ever Wanted : a True Story of Obsessive Love, Murder, and Betrayal / Ann Rule

The Trunk Murderess, Winnie Ruth Judd : the truth about an American crime legend revealed at last by Jana Bommersbach
Call Number: 364.1523 B696t (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780671740078

Publication Date: 1992-11-01

If history is right, a 26 year-old beauty named Winnie Ruth Judd murdered her two best girlfriends one hot Phoenix night in 1931. Then she hacked up their bodies, stuffed the pieces into a trunk, and took them by train to Los Angeles as her baggage. If history is right, she was sentenced to die but ""cheated the gallows"" by acting insane. She spent nearly 40 years in Arizona's insane asylum-flummoxing officials by escaping six times. If history is right, she only got her freedom at age 66-after serving more time than any other convicted murderer in the history of the nation--because Arizona was finally tired of punishing her. But if history is wrong, Winnie Ruth Judd's life was squandered in a horrible miscarriage of justice.

Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991 by Ellen Nehr

Nominees

Dorothy L. Sayers : a Careless Rage for Life / David Coomes
Alias S. S. Van Dine / John Loughery

Hammond Innes and Ralph McInerny

1994

Wolf in the Shadows / Marcia Muller

Wolf in the Shadows (Sharon McCone Mystery, Book 13) by Marcia Muller
Call Number: Fiction M9585m v.13 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780892965250

Publication Date: 1993-07-01

San Francisco sleuth Sharon McCone, faces her greatest challenge when her boyfriend disappears while delivering a $2 million ransom for a kidnapped researcher.

Nominees

The Black Ice / Michael Connelly
Morons and Madmen / Earl Emerson
O Little Town of Maggody / Joan Hess
Sacred Clowns / Tony Hillerman
Old Enemies / Janet LaPierre
Southern Discomfort / Margaret Maron
To Live and Die in Dixie / Kathy Hogan Trocheck
The Sculptress / Minette Walters
Consider the Crows / Charlene Weir

The Black Ice (Harry Bosch Series, Book 2) by Michael Connelly
Call Number: Fiction C7532b v.2 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780316153829

Publication Date: 1993-06-01

Harry investigates the case of a missing narcotics officer rumored to have been peddling a new drug called Black Ice. Martin's.
The Black Ice [E-Book] (Harry Bosch Series, Book 2) by Michael Connelly
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780316135887

Publication Date: 2002

Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.11

ISBN: 9780785732228

Publication Date: 1994-08-01

During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before. Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people. But to decipher it, the two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded tribal secrets—on a sinister trail of blood that links a runaway, a holy artifact, corrupt Indian traders, and a pair of dead bodies.

To Live and Die in Dixie [Streaming Audio] (Callahan Garrity Series, Book 2) by Mary Kay Andrews; Hillary Huber (Read by)
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook

ISBN: 9780062278210

Publication Date: 2013-04-16

mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She's also a former cop and a part-time sleuth. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it takes a fingerprint to set.From her time on the Atlanta police force, Callahan has excelled at mopping up messes of all kinds. But she has no idea what she's getting into when she agrees to work for infamous antiques dealer Elliot Littlefield.The first day on the job, she and her crew are on the trail of a stolen Civil War diary. Soon they are tangling with deadly serious collectors, right-wing radicals, and impulsive teenagers, all of which make the case even more difficult to solve.

Track of the Cat / Nevada Barr

Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon series, Book 1) by Nevada Barr
Call Number: Fiction B2675p v.1

ISBN: 9780399138249

Publication Date: 1993-03-01

Patrolling the remote West Texas backcountry, Anna’s first job as a national park ranger is marred by violence she thought she had left behind: the brutal death of a fellow ranger. When the cause of death is chalked up to a mountain lion attack, Anna’s rage knows no bounds. It’s up to her to save the protected cats from the politics and prejudices of the locals—and prove the kill was the work of a species far less rare…
Track of the Cat [E-Book] by Nevada Barr
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781440674419

Publication Date: 2003
Track of the Cat [Streaming Audio] by Nevada Barr; Barbara Rosenblat (Narrated by)
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook

ISBN: 9781449881283

Publication Date: 2011-03-28

Nominees

Goodnight, Irene / Jan Burke
A Grave Talent / Laurie R. King
Death Comes as Epiphany / Sharan Newman
Child of Silence / Abigail Padgett

A Rose For Her Grave : and Other True Cases / Ann Rule

Nominees

Driven to Kill : Westley Allan Dodd / Gary C. King
The Misbegotten Son : a Serial Killer and His Victims : the True Story of Arthur J. Shawcross / Jack Olsen
Until the Twelfth of Never : the Deadly Divorce of Dan & Betty Broderick / Bella Stumbo

The Misbegotten Son by Jack Olsen
Call Number: 364.1523 O52m (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 0385299362

Publication Date: 1993-02-01

An account of the crimes of Arthur Shawcross describes how the paroled child killer shot, stabbed, suffocated, and strangled sixteen Rochester, New York, prostitutes and examines how the legal system failed his victims.

Mary Higgins Clark Presents Malice Domestic 2 / Martin H. Greenberg, ed.

Nominees

Some Days You Get the Bear / Lawrence Block
Bohannon's Country / Joseph Hansen
The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories 1993 / Ed Hoch, ed.
Criminal Intent 1 / Marcia Muller, Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini

The Fine Art of Murder : the Mystery Reader's Indispensible Companion / Ed Gorman, Martin H. Greenberg, & Larry Segriff

Nominees

The Saint : a Complete History in Print, Radio, Film and Television / Burl Barer
A Reader's Guide to the American Novel of Detection / Marvin Lachman
A Reader's Guide to the Private Eye Novel / Gary Warren Niebuhr
Dorothy L. Sayers : Her Life and Soul / Barbara Reynolds

Tony Hillerman

The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 1) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.1 (Adult Fiction)

Publication Date: 1970

Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place, a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or useful clues. Though it goes against his better judgment, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn cannot help but suspect the hand of a supernatural killer. There is palpable evil in the air, and Leaphorn's pursuit of a Wolf-Witch is leading him where even the bravest men fear, on a chilling trail that winds perilously between mysticism and murder.
Coyote Waits (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 10) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.10 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780060163709

Publication Date: 1990-07-01

An investigation of the murder of a tribal policeman leads to a historical find worth a fortune.
Dance Hall of the Dead [Kindle] by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Kindle-0647 (Request at Circulation Desk)

ISBN: 9780060563745

Publication Date: 2004-02-03

Two Native-American boys have vanished into thin air, leaving a pool of blood behind them. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police has no choice but to suspect the very worst, since the blood that stains the parched New Mexican ground once flowed through the veins of one of the missing, a young Zuñi. But his investigation into a terrible crime is being complicated by an important archaeological dig . . . and a steel hypodermic needle. And the unique laws and sacred religious rites of the Zuñi people are throwing impassable roadblocks in Leaphorn's already twisted path, enabling a craven murderer to elude justice or, worse still, to kill again.
The Fallen Man (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 12) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.12

ISBN: 9780060177737

Publication Date: 1996-12-01

Human bones lie on a ledge under the peak of Ship Rock mountain, the remains of a murder victim undisturbed for more than a decade. Three hundred miles across the Navajo reservation, a harmless old canyon guide is felled by a sniper's bullet. Joe Leaphorn, recently retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, believes the shooter and the skeleton are somehow connected and recalls a chilling puzzle he was previously unable to solve. But Acting Lieutenant Jim Chee is too busy to take an interest in a dusty cold case . . . until the reborn violence of it hits much too close to home.
Finding Moon by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652e

ISBN: 0060177721

Publication Date: 1995-10-01

Until the telephone call came for him on April 12, 1975, the world of Moon Mathias had settled into a predictable routine. He knew who he was. He was the disappointing son of Victoria Mathias, the brother of the brilliant, recently dead Ricky Mathias and a man who could be counted on to solve small problems. But the telephone caller was an airport security officer, and the news he delivered handed Moon a problem as large as Southeast Asia. His mother, who should be in her Florida apartment, is fighting for her life in a Los Angeles hospital -- stricken while en route to the Philippines to bring home a grandchild they hadn't known existed. The papers in her purse send Moon into a world totally strange to him. They lure him down the back streets of Manila, to a rural cockfight, into the odd Filipino prison on Palawan Island and finally across the South China Sea to where Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge is turning Cambodia into killing fields and Communist rockets are beginning to fall on the outskirts of Saigon.
The First Eagle (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 13) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.13 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780060175818

Publication Date: 1998-07-29

When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case--until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open. Now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Leaphorn has been hired to find a hot-headed female biologist hunting for the key to a virulent plague lurking in the Southwest. The scientist disappeared from the same area the same day the Navajo cop was murdered. Is she a suspect or another victim? And what about a report that a skinwalker--a Navajo witch--was seen at the same time and place too? For Leaphorn and Chee, the answers lie buried in a complicated knot of superstition and science, in a place where the worlds of native peoples and outside forces converge and collide.
The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652f (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0060118970

Publication Date: 1971-01-01

John Cotton is the perfect reporter, hearing and seeing it all, but never being noticed until he is caught in a nasty political cover up while searching for a colleague's murderer.
The Ghostway (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 6) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.6

ISBN: 9780060153960

Publication Date: 1985-02-01

Tribal policeman Jim Chee's search for a killer takes him from the desert to Los Angeles.
Hunting Badger (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 14) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.14 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780060192891

Publication Date: 1999-11-09

Three men raid the gambling casino run by the Ute nation and then disappear into the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. When the FBI, with its helicopters and high-tech equipment, focuses on a wounded deputy sheriff as a possible suspect, Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee and his longtime colleague, retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, launch an investigation of their own. Chee sees a dangerous flaw in the federal theory; Leaphorn sees intriguing connections to the exploits of a legendary Ute bandit-hero. And together, they find themselves caught up in the most perplexing -- and deadly -- criminal manhunt of their lives.
The Jim Chee Mysteries : three classic Hillerman mysteries featuring Officer Jim Chee by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.4, 5, 6

ISBN: 9780060164782

Publication Date: 1990-11-27

CONTENTS: People of darkness-- The dark wind-- The ghostway.
The Joe Leaphorn Mysteries : three classic Hillerman mysteries featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Ficton H652L v.1, 2, 3

ISBN: 9780060161743

Publication Date: 1989-09-01

CONTENTS: The blessing way -- Dance hall of the dead -- Listening woman.
Leaphorn and Chee : three classic mysteries featuring Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.7, 8, 9

ISBN: 9780060169091

Publication Date: 1992-09-01

CONTENTS: Skinwalkers -- A thief of time -- Talking God.
People of Darkness [Kindle] (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 4) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Kindle-0112

ISBN: 9781562870577

Publication Date: 1994-09-01

A dying man is murdered. A rich man's wife agrees to pay three thousand dollars for the return of a stolen box of rocks. A series of odd, inexplicable events is haunting Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police and drawing him alone into the Bad Country of the merciless Southwest, where nothing good can survive . . . including Chee. Because an assassin waits for him there, protecting a thirty-year-old vision that greed has sired and blood has nourished. And only one man will walk away.
Sacred Clowns by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.11

ISBN: 9780785732228

Publication Date: 1994-08-01

During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before. Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people. But to decipher it, the two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded tribal secrets—on a sinister trail of blood that links a runaway, a holy artifact, corrupt Indian traders, and a pair of dead bodies.
Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: 813.54 H652h (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 9780060194451

Publication Date: 2001-10-02

When Tony Hillerman looks back at seventy-six years spent getting from hardtimes farm boy to bestselling author, he sees lots of evidence that Providence was poking him along. For example, when an absentminded Army clerk left him off the hospital ship taking the wounded home from France, the mishap put him on a collision course with a curing ceremony held for two Navajo Marines, thereby providing the grist for a writing career that now sees his books published in sixteen languages around the world and often on bestseller lists. Or, for example, when his agent told him his first novel was so bad that it would hurt both of their reputations, he nonetheless sent it to an editor, and that editor happened to like the Navajo stuff.
The Shape Shifter (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 18) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.18

ISBN: 9780060563455

Publication Date: 2006-11-21

Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is called upon once again to solve a crime. This time it's Joe's last case, a case that remains unsolved and contines to haunt him.
The Sinister Pig (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 16) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.16 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780060194437

Publication Date: 2003-05-06

The victim, well dressed but stripped of identification, is found at the edge of the vast Jicarilla Apache natural gas field just inside the jurisdiction of the Navajo Tribal Police, facing Sergeant Jim Chee with a complex puzzle.
Skeleton Man (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 17) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.17 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780060563448

Publication Date: 2004-11-23

Hailed as "a wonderful storyteller" by the New York Times, and a "national and literary cultural sensation" by the Los Angeles Times, bestselling author Tony Hillerman is back with another blockbuster novel featuring the legendary Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee.
Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.7

ISBN: 9780060156954

Publication Date: 1987-01-01

Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police are united in a murder investigation that leads them into the dark world of Navajo witchcraft.
Talking God (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 9) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.9 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780060161187

Publication Date: 1989-06-01

Separate police investigations become closely related when it becomes clear that Henry Highhawk is wanted by others besides the police and is involved in more than grave robbing.
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.8

ISBN: 9780060159382

Publication Date: 1988-06-01

A noted anthropologist arrives at an Anasazi Indian ruin to dig for clay pots and is terrified by what looms out of the darkness. Weeks later she is reported missing. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn unearths a bizarre and mystifying series of murders.
The Wailing Wind (Leaphorn & Chee Novel, Book 15) by Tony Hillerman
Call Number: Fiction H652L v.15

ISBN: 9780060194444

Publication Date: 2002-05-07

To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk—which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene—which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI—which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old "Golden Calf" homicide, a case he had hoped to forget.

1995

She Walks These Hills / Sharyn McCrumb

Nominees

The Concrete Blonde / Michael Connelly
Kolymsky Heights / Lionel Davidson
One for the Money / Janet Evanovich
"K" is for Killer / Sue Grafton
Murder on a Kibbutz / Batya Gur
Pictures of Perfection / Reginald Hill
Cold Shoulder / Lynda La Plante
The 13th Juror / John Lescroart
Crack Down / Val McDermid
Black Betty / Walter Mosley
Not Till the Red Fog Rises / Derek Raymond
Just a Corpse at Twilight / Janwillem van de Wetering

The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch Series, Book 3) by Michael Connelly
Call Number: Fiction C7523b v.3

ISBN: 9780316153836

Publication Date: 1994-06-01

The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his female victims. Now with a single faultless shot, Detective Harry Bosch thinks he has ended the city's nightmare.But the dead man's widow is suing Harry and the LAPD for killing the wrong man; an accusation that rings terrifyingly true when a new victim is discovered with the Dollmaker's macabre signature.So for the second time, Harry must hunt down a death-dealer who is very much alive, before he strikes again. It's a blood-tracked quest that will take Harry from the hard edges of the L.A. night to the last place he ever wanted to go; the darkness of his own heart.
The Concrete Blond [E-Book] (Harry Bosch Series, Book 3) by Michael Connelly
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780316135894

Publication Date: 2002

One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, Book 1) by Janet Evanovich
Call Number: FIC EVANO JAN P1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780684196398

Publication Date: 1994-08-26

Bail-bonds apprehension agent Stephanie Plum--a New Jersey bounty hunter with an attitude--pursues a former vice cop with whom she shares a sordid history and a powerful chemistry.
One for the Money [CD] (Stephanie Plum, Book 1) by Janet Evanovich; Lori Petty (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction EV S1 (Adult CD Audiobooks)

ISBN: 9780743552080

Publication Date: 2006-04-03
One for the Money [Streaming Audio] (Stephanie Plum, Book 1) by Janet Evanovich
Call Number: FIC EVANO JAN P1 Audiobk (OverDrive)

ISBN: 9780743552080

Publication Date: 2004

K Is for Killer (Kinsey Milhone Series, Book 11) by Sue Grafton
Call Number: Fiction G737k (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780805019360

Publication Date: 1994-05-15

Lorna Kepler's mother, certain that her willful, loner daughter has been murdered, hires P.I. Kinsey Millhone when the police are unable to solve the case.
K Is for Killer [CD] (Kinsey Milhone Series, Book 11) by Sue Grafton; Judy Kaye (Read by)
Call Number: CD Fiction GR K

ISBN: 9780739314210

Publication Date: 2004-05-04

The 13th Juror [E-Book] (DIsmas Hardy Series, Book 4) by John Lescroart
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781101531945

Publication Date: 2005 ; 1994

He is obsessed with her innocence. He will be destroyed by her guilt.The walls were champagne. The house was immaculate. A prosperous doctor lived there with his son and his beautiful wife. But the elegant walls hid a family's secret, a wife's shame. And one day shots rang out in the doctor's house. Suddenly Jennifer Witt was in jail, facing the death penalty.Jennifer insisted that she had not killed her abusive husband; and she could never have killed her own son. Dismas Hardy believed her. But Hardy was only part of the defense team, and the only lawyer who continued to believe her...even as her story was torn to pieces, even as her lies came out, even as she was found guilty of murder.Now there's only one thing Jennifer can do to save her life...and she refuses to do it. So Hardy must do it for her. And in a shocking case of violence, betrayal, and lies, his only weapon is the truth...The 13th Juror...When innocence is not enough.

Black Betty (An Easy Rawlins Mystery) by Walter Mosley
Call Number: Fiction M912e v.5

ISBN: 9780393036442

Publication Date: 1994-06-01

1961: For most black Americans, these were times of hope. For former P.I. Easy Rawlins, Los Angeles's mean streets were never meaner...or more deadly. Ordinarily, Easy would have thrown the two bills in the sleazy shamus' face -- the white man who wanted him to find the notorious Black Betty, an ebony siren whose talent for all things rich and male took her from Houston's Fifth Ward to Beverly Hills. There was too much Easy wasn't being told, but he couldn't resist the prospect of seeing Betty again, even if it killed him....

The Alienist / Caleb Carr

The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Call Number: Fiction C311a (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780679417798

Publication Date: 1994-03-15

The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler; a psychologist, or "alienist"; to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over.
The Alienist [E-Book] by Caleb Carr
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781588365408

Publication Date: 2006
The Alienist [Streaming Audio] by Caleb Carr
Call Number: OverDrive Audiobook

ISBN: 9780743584807

Publication Date: 1994

Nominees

Snow Falling on Cedars / David Guterson
Alex Keegan : A Drink Before the War / Dennis Lehane
Mallory's Oracle / Carol O'Connell
Shinju / Laura Joh Rowland
Every Breath You Take / Michelle Spring
Big Town / Doug J. Swanson
Death of a Blue Lantern / Christopher West

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Call Number: Fiction G9838s (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780151001002

Publication Date: 1994-09-12

As a Japanese-American fisherman stands trial for murder on an island in Puget Sound, snow blankets the countryside. The whiteness covers the courthouse, but it cannot conceal the memories at work inside: the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, an unrequited love, and the ghosts of racism that still haunt the islanders.
Snow Falling on Cedars [E-Book] by David Guterson
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780547545080

Publication Date: 1994-09-12

Crime Fiction, 2nd Edition / B. A. Pike & J. Cooper

Nominees

Encyclopedia Mysteriosa / William DeAndrea
The Tony Hillerman Companion / Martin H. Greenberg
The Fatal Art of Entertainment / Rosemary Herbert

The Mysterious West / Tony Hillerman

Nominees

Hollywood Nocturnes / James Ellroy
A Modern Treasury of Great Detective Stories / Ed Gorman, ed.
London Noir / Maxim Jakubowski, ed.
Murder for Halloween : Tales of Suspense / Michele Slung, Roland Hartman, eds.

Criminal Shadows : Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer / David Canter

Nominees

Shot in the Heart / Mikal Gilmore
Dillinger, the Untold Story / G. Russell Giradin with William J. Helmer
The Faber Book of Murder / Simon Rae
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper / Philip Sugden

Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore
Call Number: BIO GILMO FAM S (Adult biography)

ISBN: 9780385422932

Publication Date: 1994-05-01

Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer immortalized by Norman Mailer in The Executioner's Song, campaigned for his own death and was executed by firing squad in 1977. Writer Mikal Gilmore is his younger brother. In Shot in the Heart, he tells the stunning story of their wildly dysfunctional family: their mother, a black sheep daughter of unforgiving Mormon farmers; their father, a drunk, thief, and con man. It was a family destroyed by a multigenerational history of child abuse, alcoholism, crime, adultery, and murder. Mikal, burdened with the guilt of being his father's favorite and the shame of being Gary's brother, gracefully and painfully relates a murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born... a house that, in some ways, [he has] never been able to leave." Shot in the Heart is the history of an American family inextricably tied up with violence, and the story of how the children of this family committed murder and murdered themselves in payment for a long lineage of ruin.

Ruth Rendell (aka, Barbara Vine)

Anna's Book by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
Call Number: Fiction R397a (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780517587966

Publication Date: 1993-06-29

An entry torn from the diary of a dead Englishwoman of Scandinavian descent holds the key to the identity of the woman's daughter.
The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
Call Number: Fiction R397bi

ISBN: 9780307451989

Publication Date: 2009-03-10

Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a woman in a chance encounter–a beautiful, leggy, married woman named Hebe–the two become lovers obsessed with their trysts, spiced up by what the newspapers like to call “adventure sex.” It’s the dress-up and role-play that inspire Ivor to create a surprise birthday present for his beloved that involves a curbside kidnapping. It’s all intended as mock-dangerous foreplay, but then things take a dark turn. After things go horribly wrong, Ivor begins to receive anonymous letters that reveal astonishingly speciﬁc details about the affair and its aftermath. Somehow he must keep his role from being uncovered–and his political future from being destroyed by scandal.
The Bridesmaid by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397b (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780892963881

Publication Date: 1989-08-01

A beautiful woman fascinated by death insists that Philip, whose one eccentricity is a neurotic fear of death and violence, must commit murder to prove his love for her.
The Child's Child by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
Call Number: Fiction R397ch (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781451694895

Publication Date: 2012-12-04

When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair--until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend. A devilishly handsome novelist, James Derain resembles Cary Grant, but his strident comments about Grace's doctoral thesis soon puncture the house's idyllic atmosphere. When he and Andrew witness their friend's murder outside a London nightclub, James begins to unravel, and what happens next will change the lives of everyone in the house.
The Crocodile Bird by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397cr (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780517595763

Publication Date: 1993-09-21

Far from London, the isolated estate called Shrove House looms over the English countryside. Inside, two women hide from the world. For sixteen years, Eve has protected her daughter, Liza, from the corrupting influence of modern life, never letting her outside, hiding her from those who visit, and killing to keep her safe. Raised in her mother’s shadow, Liza has never questioned that this is the way things must be—until the night the police come to call, and Liza flees into the darkness.
Dark Corners by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397e (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781501119422

Publication Date: 2015-10-27

When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighborhood. Carl needs cash, however, so he rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That was colossal mistake number one. Mistake number two was keeping his father's bizarre collection of homeopathic "cures" that he found in the medicine cabinet, including a stash of controversial diet pills. Mistake number three was selling fifty of those diet pills to a friend, who is then found dead. Dermot seizes a nefarious opportunity and begins to blackmail Carl, refusing to pay rent, and creepily invading Carl's space.
A Dark-Adapted Eye [Kindle] by Ruth Rendell writing as Barbara Vine
Call Number: Kindle-0282

ISBN: 9780670809769

Publication Date: 1986

Faith Severn has never understood why the willful matriarch of her high-society family, aunt Vera Hillyard, snapped and murdered her own beloved sister. But long after Vera is condemned to hang, a journalist’s startling discoveries allow Faith to perceive her family’s story in a new light.
End in Tears : a Wexford novel by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.20

ISBN: 0307339769

Publication Date: 2006-07-18

In End in Tears, Edgar Award winning author Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford has his work cut out for him: When Mavis Ambrose is killed by a falling chunk of concrete, the police have no reason to suspect mischief. However, the bludgeoning of the young and gorgeous Amber Marshalson that follows is clearly murder. In the midst of the hottest summer on record, Inspector Wexford is called in to investigate. He discovers the two cases may be linked, and that Amber was at the scene of Mavis’s death. When a third body is found, the case takes a disturbing and unexpected turn. The deeper Wexford digs, the darker the realities become, and what he finds leaves him feeling lost in a world absent of morals.
The Face of Trespass by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397f (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780385016773

Publication Date: 1974-01-01

Two years ago he had been a promising young novelist. Now he survived - you could hardly call it living - in a near derelict cottage with only an unhooked telephone and his own obsessive thoughts for company. Two years of loving Drusilla - the bored, rich, unstable girl with everything she needed, and a husband she wanted dead. The affair was over. But the long slide into deception and violence had just begun. . .
The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: FIction R397gi

ISBN: 9781476784328

Publication Date: 2014-10-07

In the waining months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood. Throughout the summer of 1944--until one father forbids it--the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female. As the discovery makes national news, the friends come together once again, to recall their days in the tunnel for the detective investigating the case. Is the truth buried among these aging friends and memories? This impromptu reunion causes long-simmering feelings to bubble to the surface. Mild-mannered Alan, stuck in a passionless marriage, begins flirting with Daphne, a glamorous widow who was once his teenage sweetheart. Michael, lonely after the death of his wife, considers contacting his estranged father, who sent Michael to live with an aunt after his mother vanished in 1944. Lewis begins remembering details about his Uncle James, an army private who once accompanied the Children into the tunnels, and who later disappeared.
Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397go (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780892963898

Publication Date: 1990-09-01

Growing up in the roughest part of London, Guy Curran never imagined he would fall in love with a rich girl. But from the moment he meets Leonora Chisholm, he knows it’s their destiny to be together. They have a short, passionate teenage fling—over almost before it begins. Leonora moves on, but Guy never will. His love for her is dangerous, and it will destroy them both. Over the next ten years, Guy becomes a millionaire, selling hard drugs and bad art to the jet set of Western Europe. He and Leonora remain friends, sharing weekly lunches—until the day he learns she’s fallen in love with someone else. Seized by murderous jealousy, Guy is about to embark on a mad quest to claim the woman he desires—or die trying.
Harm Done : an Inspector Wexford mystery by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.18

ISBN: 9780609605479

Publication Date: 1999-10-19

The search for the body commenced. Then the victim walked into town. Behind the picture-postcard façade of Kingsmarkham lies a community rife with violence, betrayal, and a taste for vengeance. When sixteen-year-old Lizzie Cromwell reappears no one knows where she has been, including Lizzie herself. Inspector Wexford thinks she was with a boyfriend. But the disappearance of a three-year-old girl casts a more ominous light on events. And when the public's outrage turns toward a recently released pederast and another suspect turns up stabbed to death, Wexford must try to unravel the mystery before any more bodies appear, and before a mob of local vigilantes metes out a rough justice to their least favorite suspect
Heartstones by Ruth Rendell; George Underwood (Illustrator)
Call Number: Fiction R397h (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780060157579

Publication Date: 1987-06-01

Sixteen-year-old Elvira's mother is dead. Elvira is sad, of course, but not so sad as her younger sister Spinny. Spinny is afraid their father, Luke, will be heartbroken, but Elvira knows better -- after all, Luke has her to take her mother's place. But then Luke brings home a pretty young woman and introduces her as his fiancee, and Elvira decides that she will stop at nothing to stop her father's marriage . . .
A Judgement in Stone [Kindle] by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Kindle-0881 (Request at Circulation Desk)

ISBN: 9780375704963

Publication Date: 2000-01-04

On Valentine's Day, four members of the Coverdale family--George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles--were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine's Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life. A brilliant rendering of character, motive, and the heady discovery of truth,
The Keys to the Street by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397j (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780517706855

Publication Date: 1996-08-20

Set in and around London's Regents Park, where the city's wealthiest, poorest, kindest, and most vicious citizens all cross paths, this newest novel by the Edgar and Gold Dagger-winning author of Crocodile Bird tells of the deadly thanks a young woman risks receiving in return for an act of selfless generosity.
The Killing Doll [Kindle] by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Kindle-0288 (Request at Circulation Desk)

ISBN: 9781453210833

Publication Date: 2010-12-28

Weaves together the ultimately deadly stories of Pup Yearman, who sold his soul to the devil, his unhappy older sister, and butcher-knife keeper Diarmit Bawne.
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.15

ISBN: 9780892963904

Publication Date: 1992-06-01

A bank job goes wrong and a Kingsmarkham detective sergeant is killed. Months later, the Flory family are slaughtered at home by an unknown assassin. The cases seem unrelated. But Chief Inspector Wexford is not so sure.
Live Flesh by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397L

ISBN: 9780394555447

Publication Date: 1986-08-12

In a remote corner of London, a woman is walking her dog when a man grabs her from behind. She screams, and her attacker flees, escaping into a nearby house, where he finds another victim. Victor Jenner has a compulsion he does not understand—to grab women, to hurt them—and he also has a gun. When it goes off, grievously wounding a police officer, it marks the beginning of a long stretch in jail for Victor. Released ten years later, Victor meets the young policeman he shot—and falls head over heels for the officer’s girlfriend. Back on the street, Victor is torn between the desire to live a better life and the knowledge that he will soon give in to his most evil yearnings.
The Monster in the Box by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.22

ISBN: 9781439150337

Publication Date: 2009-10-13

In this enthralling new book, Rendell takes Inspector Wexford back to his first murder case—a woman found strangled in her bedroom. Outside the crime scene, Wexford noticed a short, muscular man wearing a scarf and walking a dog. The man gave Wexford an unnerving stare. Without any solid evidence, Wexford began to suspect that this man—Eric Targo—was the killer. Over the years there are more unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham. Now, half a lifetime later, Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence. Wexford tells his longtime partner, Mike Burden, about his suspicions, but Burden dismisses them as fantasy. Meanwhile, Burden’s wife, Jenny, has suspicions of her own. She believes that the Rahmans, a highly respectable immigrant family from Pakistan, may be forcing their daughter, Tamima, into an arranged marriage—or worse.
Murder Being Once Done [Large Print] by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.7 LargeType (Large Print Collection)

ISBN: 9780896215931

Publication Date: 1985, c1972

A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's wrath and the condescension of the London police by doing a little investigating of his own.
The New Girlfriend and Other Stories by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397n (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0394548132

Publication Date: 1986-01-12

CONTENTS: The new girl friend--A dark blue perfume--The orchard walls--Here's house--Bribery and corruption--The whistler--etc.
No Man's Nightingale : an Inspector Wexford novel by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.24 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781476744483

Publication Date: 2013-11-05

A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she was of mixed race and working to modernize the church. Could racism or sexism played a factor in her murder? As he searches the Vicar's house with Buren, Wexford sees a book on her bedside table. Inside the book is a letter serving as a bookmark. Without thinking much, Wexford puts it into his pocket, Wexford soon realizes he has made a grave error - the former policeman has taken away a piece of valuable evidence without telling anybody. What he finds inside begins to illuminate the murky past of Hussein. Is there more to her than meets the eye?
Not in the Flseh : a Wexford novel by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.21 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780307406811

Publication Date: 2008

When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master’s first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a precious mushroom but the bones and tendons of what is clearly a human hand. In Not in the Flesh, Chief Inspector Wexford tries to piece together events that took place eleven years earlier, a time when someone was secretly interred in a secluded patch of English countryside. Now Wexford and his team will need to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the dead man among the eighty-five people in this part of England who have disappeared over the past decade. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that’s become a rarity for the veteran policeman: surprise.
Road Rage by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.17 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0609600567

Publication Date: 1997-08-19

As Road Rage begins, Chief Inspector Wexford is walking through Framhurst Great Wood, just outside his beloved town of Kingsmarkham, for what he tells himself will be the last time. He can no longer bear to look at the natural beauty that will soon be despoiled by the construction of a new highway. Wexford rather despairs of the project; his more sanguine wife, Dora, is active on a committee to save the threatened land. Others are more desperate to achieve their end, and their means include the taking of hostages, including Dora, and the threat to begin murdering them.
A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397u (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780609604175

Publication Date: 1999-03-02

A Sight for Sore Eyes tells three stories, and for the longest time, the reader has no inkling of how they will come together. The first is a story of a little girl who has been scolded and sent to her room when her mother is brutally murdered; as Francine grows up, she is haunted by the experience, and it is years before she even speaks. Secondly, we become privy to the life of a young man, Teddy, born of unthinking young parents, who grows up almost completely ignored. Free of societal mores, he becomes a sociopath, who eventually discovers that killing can be an effective way to get what he wants. Thirdly, we meet Harriet, who from an early age has learned to use her beauty to make her way in the world. Bored by marriage to a wealthy, much older man, she scans the local newspapers for handymen to perform odd jobs around the house, including services in the bedroom. When these three plots strands finally converge, the result is harrowing and unforgettable
Simisola by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.16 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780517700730

Publication Date: 1995-09-11

No one admitted to spotting the doctor's missing daughter—even after the murders began. Melanie Akande, eschewing privilege, had insisted on going to the jobsearch office to find employment. But between that office and the bus stop, she vanished. Inspector Wexford hoped someone would have noticed her, since the Akandes were among the few Africans living in Kingsmarkham. Instead, he had found a middle-aged white woman strangled in bed, and a mysterious black girl buried in a shallow grave. Now Wexford, seeking connections among the three women, cast his baleful eye on the changes in once rural Sussex—from a Kuwaiti millionaire's Rolls-Royce to the growing slums and dismal hopelessness of unemployed youth. What he can't see among them is the shocking, blood-chilling motive to kill. And what he has yet to find is a doctor's missing child . . .
A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.10

Publication Date: 1978

In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are unclear; and whose curious secretary--the plain Polly Flinders--provides the Inspector with more questions than answers. And when a second Grenville West comes to light, Wexford faces a dizzying array of possible scenarios--and suspects--behind the Comfrey murder.
Speaker of Mandarin by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.12 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0394522729

Publication Date: 1983-08-01

Chief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of British tourists. Is he hallucinating, or does a bent old woman with bound feet follow him everywhere? Back in England, he is called to a nearby village where a wealthy woman has been found with a bullet in her head. Murdered. He identifies her as one of the China tourists, and soon decides to question the other members of the group. When he discovers the secrets they are hiding—greed, treachery, theft, adultery—he is forced to ask not who is innocent but who is the least guilty.
Thirteen Steps Down : a novel by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397sx (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 1400098424

Publication Date: 2005-09-27

Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. Gwendolen Chawcer, Mix’s eighty-year-old landlady, has few interests besides her old books and her new tenant. But she does have an intriguing connection to Christie. And when reality intrudes into Mix’s life, he turns to Christie for inspiration and a long pent-up violence explodes. Intricately plotted and brilliantly written, 13 Steps Down enters the minds of these disparate people as they move inexorably toward its breathtaking conclusion.
Tigerlily's Orchids by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R937sy (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781439150399

Publication Date: 2012-03-13

Inviting all of the people in his building to a housewarming party, underachiever Stuart unintentionally triggers a lifestyle clash; while a beautiful Asian woman across the street emerges from her flat and unleashes chaos that deeply worries Stuart's parents.
The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397t (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780394530987

Publication Date: 1985-02-01

When Benet Archdale was a young girl in North London, her mother, Mopsa, made her nervous. The woman was unsound, and posed ever-present dangers. Yet Benet understood her sickness and forgave her threats. In pursuit of a relatively sane life as a novelist and loving single parent, Benet has since kept Mopsa at a distance. But it’s not only the sudden death of Benet’s two-year-old son that shakes her safe world. It’s the past. Mopsa has returned to be at her inconsolable daughter’s side. Nurturing, rational, and seemingly cured, Mopsa is going to do everything she can to ease Benet’s grief. Then, on the other side of town, the child of a barmaid has gone missing. Authorities fear the search can’t end well. As Benet and Mopsa are drawn into the disappearance, the secrets, lies, and desperation of three mothers will converge—by chance and by design. For them, it’s a crime that is at once a delusion, an escape, and a nightmare.
An Unkindness of Ravens by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.13 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0394546032

Publication Date: 1985-08-12

For London’s Chief Inspector Reg Wexford, it wasn’t an official call. He was just being neighborly when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband, Rodney. Apparently, he went to Ipswich on business and never came home. Wexford has an idea what happened: He most likely ran off with one of his girlfriends. However, there are a few nagging concerns, like Rodney’s suspicious letter of resignation and his abandoned car. And is it just a fluke that his disappearance coincides with a rash of stabbings—all straight through the heart, all with male victims. Wexford’s detective instincts must take flight in order to bring down a murderer. Or two. Or three. Because, behind the seemingly placid domesticity of his Sussex neighbors, there is a growing web of tangling secrets, double lives, and triple-crosses.
The Vault : an Inspector Wexford novel by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.23 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9781451624083

Publication Date: 2011-09-13

In the stunning climax to Rendell’s classic A Sight for Sore Eyes, three bodies—two dead, one living—are entombed in an underground chamber beneath a picturesque London house. Twelve years later, when a manhole cover is pulled back, the house’s new owner makes a grisly discovery. Only now, the number of bodies is four. How did somebody else end up in the chamber? And who knew of its existence? With their own detectives at an impasse, police call on former Chief Inspector Wexford, now retired and living with his wife in London, to advise them on the unsolved murders. Wexford, missing the thrill of a good case, jumps at the chance to sleuth again. His dogged detective skills and knack for figuring out the criminal mind take him to London neighborhoods, posh and poor, as he follows a complex criminal trail back to the original murders.
The Veiled One by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397w v.14 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0394572068

Publication Date: 1988-08-12

With Chief Inspector Wexford recovering from a terrorist attack, Inspector Mike Burden investigates a murder.
The Water's Lovely : a novel by Ruth Rendell
Call Number: Fiction R397v (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780307381361

Publication Date: 2007-07-17

When Ismay and Heather's stepfather was discovered dead in the bathtub nine years ago, the police concluded the drowning was an accident. But Ismay has always silently suspected that Heather might have had something to do with it. Now they're older and their lives seem to be moving happily forward. But when Heather becomes seriously involved with a man for the first time, Ismay's long-repressed memories can no longer be ignored. With painful inevitability, Ismay learns that she may not able to keep the dark truth hidden forever.

1996

Under the Beetle's Cellar / Mary Willis Walker

Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker
Call Number: Fiction W183u (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780385468596

Publication Date: 1995-08-01

Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and eleven of his young charges have been held underground at the group's highly fortified compound for forty-six days. While a team of federal negotiators begins to lose all hope of rescuing the hostages, crime reporter Molly Cates sets outto discover everything she can about the cult's iron-willed leader, Samuel Mordecai.

Nominees

The Last Coyote / Michael Connelly
Hard Christmas / Barbara D'Amato
True Crime / Andrew Klavan
Blue Lonesome / Bill Pronzini

The Last Coyote [E-Book] : Harry Bosch Series, Book 4 by MIchael Connelly
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780316137171

Publication Date: 2003

Harry Bosch's life is on the edge. His earthquake-damaged home has been condemned. His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much. And after attacking his commanding officer, he's even had to turn in his L.A.P.D. detective's badge. Now, suspended indefinitely pending a psychiatric evaluation, he's spending his time investigating an unsolved crime from 1961: the brutal slaying of a prostitute who happened to be his own mother.Even after three decades, Harry's questions generate heat among L.A.'s top politicos. And as the truth begins to emerge, it becomes more and more apparent that someone wants to keep it buried. Someone very powerful...very cunning...and very deadly.

True Crime by Andrew Klavan
Call Number: Fiction K631t (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780517702130

Publication Date: 1995-05-27

In the heat of the city, a man is out of time: speeding in a beat-up Ford Tempo, blasting easy-listening music. Reporter Steve Everett drinks too much, makes love to his boss's wife, and has just stumbled upon a shocking truth: a convicted killer is about to be executed for a crime he didn't commit. In the cold confines of Death Row, Frank Beachum is also out of time. Ready to say good-bye to the wife and child he loves and hello to the God he still believes in, Beachum knows he did not kill a convenience store clerk six years ago. But in a few hours—if Steve Everett can't find the evidence to stop it—a needle is going to pierce Frank Beachum's skin. The killing machine is primed. The executioner is waiting. And so is the priest. Now the clock is ticking down and the race is on—between the reporter and his demons, between the system and its lethal flaws, between the last innocent man and society's ultimate crime. . . .

Death in Bloodhound Red / Virginia Lanier

Nominees

The Innocents / Richard Barre
Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca? / G. M. Ford
Hammurabi's Code / Charles Kenney
Murder in Scorpio / Martha C. Lawrence

Deal Breaker / Harlan Coben

Deal Breaker [E-Book] by Harlan Coben
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780307483638

Publication Date: 2009

Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron’s prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend—a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead—the deal starts to go sour. Trying to unravel the truth about a family’s tragedy, a woman’s secret, and a man’s lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business—where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.

Nominees

Bad Medicine / Eileen Dreyer
A Far and Deadly Cry / Teri Holbrook
Charged with Guilt / Gloria White
Closet / R. D. Zimmerman

The McCone Files : the Complete Sharon McCone Stories / Marcia Muller

Nominees

Cat Crimes Takes a Vacation / Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman, eds.
Crimes of the Heart / Carolyn G. Hart, ed.
Malice Domestic 4 / Carolyn G. Hart, ed.
Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes / Paula L. Woods, ed.

Cat Crimes Take a Vacation by Martin Greenberg (Editor); Ed Gorman (Editor)
Call Number: Fictoin C3568 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 1556114443

Publication Date: 1995-07-01

The sixth volume in the popular Cat Crimes series gathers original mysteries by Dorothy Cannell, Barbara Collins, Ed Gorman and others, set in such exotic vacation spots as the French Riviera, Monte Carlo, and the Carribean.

Dead by Sunset : Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer / Ann Rule

Dead by Sunset by Ann Rule
ISBN: 0684802058

Publication Date: 1995-10-03

When attorney Cheryl Keeton's brutally bludgeoned body was found in her van in the fast lane of an Oregon freeway, her husband, Brad Cunningham, was the likely suspect. But there was no solid evidence linking him to the crime. He married again, for the fifth time, and his stunning new wife, a physician named Sara, adopted his three sons. They all settled down to family life on a luxurious estate. But gradually, their marriage became a nightmare....

Nominees

Man Overboard : the Counterfeit Resurrection of Phil Champagne / Burl Barer
Mindhunter : Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit / John Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Circumstantial Evidence : Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town / Pete Earley
Born to Kill : America's Most Notorious Vietnamese Gang, and the Changing Face of Organized Crime / T. J. English

Mindhunter : inside the FBI's elite serial crime unit by John E. Douglas; Mark Olshaker
Call Number: 363.2 D734d (Adult Nonfiction)

ISBN: 0684803763

Publication Date: 1995-10-31

Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals. In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind the scenes of some of his most gruesome, fascinating, and challenging cases—and into the darkest recesses of our worst nightmares. During his twenty-five year career with the Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life.

The Armchair Detective Book of Lists, 2nd ed. / Kate Stine, ed.

Nominees

A Gentle Madness : Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books / Nicholas A. Basbanes
John Dickson Carr : the Man Who Explained Miracles / Douglas G. Greene
Savage Art : a Biography of Jim Thompson / Robert Polito
Ngaio Marsh : the Woman and Her Work / B. J. Rahn, ed.

1997

The Poet / Michael Connelly

The Poet by Michael Connelly
Call Number: Fiction C7523m v.1

ISBN: 9780316153980

Publication Date: 1996-01-01

Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write--and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large. His targets: homicide cops, each haunted by a murder case he couldn't crack. The killer's calling card: a quotation from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. His latest victim is McEvoy's own brother. And his last...may be McEvoy himself.

Nominees

Firestorm / Nevada Barr
Lethal Genes / Linda Grant
Hearts and Bones / Margaret Lawrence
Multiple Wounds / Alan Russell

Firestorm by Nevada Barr
Call Number: Fiction B2675p v.4 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780399141263

Publication Date: 1996-03-19

A raging forest fire in California's Lassen Volcanic National Park traps exhausted firefighters, including Ranger Anna Pigeon, in its midst. Afterward, Anna finds two from her group have been killed. One a victim of the flames. The other, stabbed through the heart. Now, as a rampaging winter storm descends, cutting the survivors off from civilization, Anna must uncover the murderer in their midst.
Firestorm [ E-Book] : Anna Pigeon series, book 4 by Nevada Barr
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781101128480

Publication Date: 2008

Tie

Death in Little Tokyo / Dale Furutani
Somebody Else's Child / Terris McMahan Grimes

Nominees

Tularosa / Michael McGarrity
A Test of Wills / Charles Todd
A Brother's Blood / Michael C. White

Tularosa by Michael McGarrity
Call Number: Fiction M4741k v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780393039221

Publication Date: 1996-04-17

It's been two years since an on-the-job shooting forced ex-Santa Fe chief of detectives Kevin Kerney to retire. He is drawn back into action when Terry Yazzi, his former partner and the man responsible for his wounds, pleads for Kerney's help. Yazzi's son, a soldier, has disappeared in the barren desert surrounding the White Sands Missile Range. Kerney's investigation resurrects the long-forgotten thrill of the hunt—and other emotions surface after meeting the tough-but-beautiful Capt. Sara Brannon, the Army's investigating officer. Together, they uncover a crime far greater than an AWOL soldier: a conspiracy of death that snakes from the secretive world of military operations, to the cutthroat alleys of a Mexican border town, leading them to a final, shocking revelation that may cost them both their lives.

Somebody Else's Child / Terris McMahan Grimes

Nominees

Fade Away / Harlan Coben
The Grass Widow / Teri Holbrook
Walking Rain / Susan Wade
Chain of Fools / Steven Womack

Fade Away by Harlan Coben
Call Number: Fiction C655b v.3 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780385342506

Publication Date: 2008-08-26

Myron must confront a past that is dead and buried--and more dangerous than ever before. The home is top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room is Martha Stewart. The basement is Legos--and blood. The signs of a violent struggle. For Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he once competed against is bringing back memories--of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wannabes, the gamblers, and the groupies, Myron is embarking upon the strange ride of a sports hero gone wrong that just may lead to certain death. Namely, his own.
Fade Away [E-Book] by Harlan Coben
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9780440338437

Publication Date: 2008-09-16

Detecting Women 2 : Reader's Guide and Checklist for Mystery Series Written by Women / Willetta L. Heising

Nominees

Mystery! : a Celebration : Stalking Public Television's Greatest Sleuths / Ron Miller, Karen Sharpe, eds.
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936 : the Making of a Detective Novelist / Barbara REynolds, ed.
By a Woman's Hand : a Guide to Mystery Fiction by Women, 2nd ed. / Jean Swanson, Dean James, eds.

Donald E. Westlake

The Ax by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: Fiction W529au (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780892965878

Publication Date: 1997-06-01

Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search -- with agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding area who could take the job that rightfully should be his, and systematically kills them. Transforming himself from mild-mannered middle manager to ruthless murderer, he discovers skills ne never knew ne had -- and that come to him far too easily.
Baby, Would I Lie by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: Fiction W529aw (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780892965328

Publication Date: 1994-09-01

Having endured the seedy world of tabloid journalism at the Weekly Galaxy, ambitious reporter Sara Joslyn has finally moved on to Trend, a hip New York magazine. But news is news, and Sara is immediately sent to Branson, Missouri, the capital of wholesome entertainment, to cover a sensational celebrity trial. Embattled country music legend Ray Jones is accused of a brutal kidnapping and killing. Making—and mucking—matters worse, Sara’s sleazy former colleagues from the Weekly Galaxy have also infested the town.
Sara is surprised by how much she enjoys a bit of pure, proud Americana—as well as the ruggedly smooth Ray Jones. But when he’s suspected of a second homicide, Sara realizes there’s more to the story. And that someone decidedly unwholesome is getting away with murder in the heartland.
Bank Shot by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: Fiction W592b

ISBN: 9780671211806

Publication Date: 1972-01-01

John Dortmunder has been working an encyclopedia-selling scam while waiting for his next big heist. Unfortunately, his latest mark seems to be wise to the con, and he has to cut his sales pitch short and make a quick escape. But opportunity awaits: Main Street bank has temporarily relocated to a mobile home. All Dortmunder has to do is get past seven security guards, put the bank-on-wheels in gear, and drive away. It’s a simple plan, until it all goes wrong . . .
Don't Ask by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: Fiction W529do (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780892964697

Publication Date: 1993-04-01

Dortmunder has a job offer. He's been hired by third parties to pull off heists in the past, but never to lay his hands on anything this peculiar. Frankly, it's a bone. Not just any bone. A femur. Well, not just any femur, either. A femur which, 800 years ago, was part of a 16-year-old girl who, having been killed and eaten by her own family, was made a saint by the Church. The femur, her only relic, is all that's left. Now two small eastern European countries - Tsergovia and Votskojek - are fighting like dogs over...well, the bone. There's only room for one of them in the United Nations General Assembly, and the choice is in the hands of a powerful Catholic prelate. The country that tosses him the bone is sure to be in like Flynn. Dortmunder's first reaction to the Tsergovian ambassador's offer is to ask for more front money. His second is to round up his gang - light-fingered Kelp, master driver Murch, and man-mountain Tiny Bulcher - and case the Votskojekian mission, a former tramp steamer parked in the East River. The current repository of the bone, it will be the target of a heist carried out by land and sea, with the team displaying the finesse and split-second timing for which they're famous. It should only be that easy. Before the gang can say "Saint Ferghana's knee", they've got a major fiasco on their hands, one that will reach from the snow-capped mountains of Votskojek to a billionaire's art-crammed estate in New Hampshire. But it will show, once and for all, that when it comes to getting revenge, Dortmunder can cut to the bone.
Drowned Hopes by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: Fiction W529dr (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780892961788

Publication Date: 1990-04-01

In his day, Tom was a hard man. He came up with Dillinger in the 1930s, and pulled a lot of high-profile jobs before the state put him away. They meant it to be for good, but after twenty-three years the prisons are too crowded for seventy-year-old bank robbers, and so they let the old man go. Finally free, he heads straight for John Dortmunder’s house. Long ago, Tom buried $700,000, and now he needs help digging it up. While he was inside, the government dammed a nearby river, creating a reservoir and putting fifty feet of water on top of his money. He wants to blow the dam, drown the villagers, and move to Acapulco. If Dortmunder wants a clean conscience to go along with his share, he needs to find a nice way to get the money before Tom’s nasty instincts get the best of both of them.
Get Real by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: Fiction W529fx (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780446178600

Publication Date: 2009-07-17

In Donald E. Westlake's classic caper novels, the bad get better, the good slide a bit, and Lord help anyone caught between a thief named John Dortmunder and the current object of his attention. However, being caught red-handed is inevitable in Dortmunder's next production, when a TV producer convinces this thief and his merry gang to do a reality show that captures their next score. The producer guarantees to find a way to keep the show from being used in evidence against them. They're dubious, but the pay is good, so they take him up on his offer. A mock-up of the OJ bar is built in a warehouse down on Varick Street. The ground floor of that building is a big open space jumbled with vehicles used in TV world, everything from a news truck and a fire engine to a hansom cab (without the horse). As the gang plans their next move with the cameras rolling, Dortmunder and Kelp sneak onto the roof of their new studio to organize a private enterprise. It will take an ingenious plan to outwit viewers glued to their television sets, but Dortmunder is nothing if not persistent, and he's determined to end this shoot with money in his pockets.
Good Behavior by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: Fiction W529g (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780892962402

Publication Date: 1986-10-01

It was supposed to be a simple caviar heist. Dortmunder is almost in the building when the alarm sounds, forcing him up the fire escape and onto the roof. He leaps onto the next building, smashing his ankle and landing in the den of the worst kind of creature he can imagine: nuns. Although decades removed from his Catholic orphanage, Dortmunder still trembles before the sisters’ habits. But these nuns are kinder than the ones he grew up with. They bandage his wound, let him rest, and don’t call the cops—for a price. The father of the youngest member of their order, disgusted by their vow of silence, has kidnapped his daughter, locked her in a tightly guarded penthouse apartment, and is attempting to convince her to renounce her faith. The nuns ask Dortmunder to rescue the girl. It’s an impossible assignment—but one he cannot refuse.
The Hot Rock [Kindle] by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: Kindle-1029 (Request at Circulation Desk)

ISBN: 9781453229170

Publication Date: 2011-10-25

The Dortmunder Gang has been chosen to steal an emerald valued at $500,000. What follows is a mixture of laughs and thrills featuring a car crash in the N.Y. Coliseum, a helicopter attack on a police station, and a wild breakout from an insane asylum.
Memory [Kindle] by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: Kindle-1030

Publication Date: 2010

Hospitalized after a liaison with another man’s wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way even to get home, Paul’s facing steep odds – and a bleak fate if he fails…
The Scared Stiff [E-Book] by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781480428928

Publication Date: 2013-06-25

Attempting a worldwide insurance scam in South America, a con artist finds the natives less than friendlyAfter more than a decade of skipping out on their debts, Lola and Barry owe a lot of money to the wrong people. To escape the loan sharks, Barry decides it's time for one of them to die—or at least to pretend to. As the venue for this insurance fraud, they choose Lola's home country, Guerrera, where death certificates come cheap and government record-keeping is sketchy at best. There is only one problem: la familia. After Barry's death, Lola returns to the US, leaving her husband in the hands of her family as he begins to assume her brother's identity. But the South-American hospitality of Lola's relatives soon wears thin as they realize that their lives might be easier if Barry's death weren't just an act. Conning an insurance company is tricky enough, but no matter the country, no one is more dangerous than the in-laws.
Smoke by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: Fiction W529s (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780892965342

Publication Date: 1995-10-01

Due to a foiled burglary in a high-tech lab doing research for cigarette manufacturers, Freddie Noon, the thief, is now invisible. This condition has clear-cut advantages for a man in Freddie's profession, but now everybody wants a glimpse of Freddie. But Freddie doesn't dare show his face, his shadow, anything. Because Freddie Noon has gotten a taste of invisibility--and he can't quit now.
What's the Worst That Could Happen? by Donald E. Westlake
Call Number: Fiction W529u (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780892965861

Publication Date: 1996-10-01

It started with a ring. A cheap ring. The yellow metal said brass, not gold, and the sparkly bits were certainly not diamonds. But the ring belonged to May's horseplaying uncle, who swore it brought good luck. Dortmunder, who wouldn't kick a little good luck out of bed, puts it to the test when he goes to burglarize Long Island billionaire Max Fairbanks. As luck would have it, Dortmunder is greeted by Fairbanks himself - and a loaded gun - as soon as he strolls through the door. When the cops arrive, the mogul adds insult to injury by claiming that Dortmunder's lucky ring is actually his. Big mistake, big guy. As soon as Dortmunder can give the cops the slip, the world's most single-minded burglar goes after the fat cat with a vengeance and a team of crooks that only he can assemble. And from the get go everything will go Dortmunder's way - everything, that is, except the ring.

1998

No Colder Place / S. J. Rozan

Nominees

Devil's Food / Anthony Bruno
Deception Pass / Earl Emerson
The Club Dumas / Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Eye of the Cricket / James Sallis

The Club Dumas [Kindle] by Alexander Stadler; Sonia Soto (Translator); Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Call Number: Kindle-0843 (Request at Circulation Desk)

ISBN: 9780547538181

Publication Date: 2006-05-01

Lucas Corso, a rare book hunter, is called in to authenticate a fragment of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers," found in the possession of a murdered bibliophile, and soon finds himself involved in an adventure in which life imitates literature.

Killing Floor / Lee Child

Killing floor (Jack Reacher, Book 1) by Lee Child
Call Number: Fiction C535r v.1 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780399142536

Publication Date: 1997

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.

Nominees

If I Should Die / Grace Edwards
Except the Dying / Maureen Jennings
Bird Dog / Philip Reed
Skin Deep, Blood Red / Robert Skinner

Big Red Tequila / Rick Riordan

Nominees

Charm City / Laura Lippman
The Salaryman's Wife / Sujata Massey
23 Shades of Black/ K. J. A. Wishnia

1999

Blood Work / Michael Connelly

Blood Work by Michael Connelly
Call Number: Fiction C7523c (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780316153997

Publication Date: 1998-03-02

When Graciella Rivers steps onto his boat, ex-FBI agent Terrell McCaleb has no idea he's about to come out of retirement. He's recuperating from a heart transplant and avoiding anything stressful. But when Graciella tells him the way her sister, Gloria, was murdered, Terry realizes he has no choice. Now the man with the new heart vows to take down a predator without a soul. For Gloria's killer shatters every rule that McCaleb ever learned in his years with the Bureau-as McCaleb gets no more second chances at life...and just one shot at the truth.

Nominees

Blind Descent / Nevada Barr
On Beulah Height / Reginald Hill
Gone, Baby, Gone / Dennis Lehane
Framework for Death / Aileen Schumacher

Blind Descent by Nevada Barr
Call Number: Fiction B2675p v.6 (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0399143718

Publication Date: 1998-03-23

Park ranger Anna Pigeon is enjoying the open spaces of Colorado when she receives an urgent call. A young woman has been injured while exploring a cave in New Mexico's Carlsbad Cavern Park. Before she can be pulled to safety, she sends for her friend Anna. Only one problem: a crushing fear of confined spaces has kept Anna out in the open her whole life.
Blind Descent [E-Book] : Anna Pigeon series, book 6 by Nevada Barr
Call Number: OverDrive E-Book

ISBN: 9781101145142

Publication Date: 2009

Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
Call Number: Fiction L522g (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 0688153321

Publication Date: 1998-07-22

In Gone, Baby, Gone, the master of the new noir, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island), vividly captures the complex beauty and darkness of working-class Boston. A gripping, deeply evocative thriller about the devastating secrets surrounding a little girl lost, featuring the popular detective team of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, Gone, Baby, Gone was the basis for the critically acclaimed motion picture directed by Ben Affleck and starring Casey Affleck, Ed Harris, and Morgan Freeman.

Iron Lake / William Kent Krueger

Nominees

Sympathy for the Devil / Jerrilyn Farmer
Tiger's Palette / Jacqueline Fiedler
A Cold Day in Paradise / Steve Hamilton
Eleven Days / Donald Harstad

Butcher's Hill / Laura Lippman

Nominees

Zen Attitude / Sujata Massey
The Widower's Two-Step / Rick Riordan
Remedy for Treason / Caroline Roe
Murder Manual / Steven Womack

Deadly Pleasures Magazine / George Easter, ed.

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Mystery Reader's Walking Guide : Washington, D.C. / Alzina Stone Dale
Dark City : the Lost World of Film Noir / Eddie Muller
Silk Stalkings : More Women Write of Murder / Victoria Nichols, Susan Thompson
Mystery and Suspense Writers : the Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage / Robin Winks, Maureen Corrigan, eds.

Anthony Awards

1990

The Sirens Sang of Murder by Sarah Caudwell

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Pious Deception / Susan Dunlap

A Little Class on Murder / Carolyn G. Hart

Corpus Christmas / Margaret Maron

Katwalk by Karen Kijewski

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Grime and Punishment / Jill Churchill

The Mother Shadow / Melodie Johnson Howe

The Mark Twain Murders / Edith Skom

The Last Billable Hour / Susan Wolfe

Honeymoon with Murder by Carolyn Hart

Nominees

On My Honor / Malacai Black (Barbara D'Amato)

Murder By Deception / D. R. Meredith

Rough Justice / Keith Peterson

A Collector of Photographs / Deborah Valentine

Michael Gilbert

1991

G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton

Nominees

A Ticket to the Boneyard / Lawrence Block

The Good Fight / Lia Matera

If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O / Sharyn McCrumb

New Orleans Mourning / Julie Smith

Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

Nominees

Catering to Nobody / Diane Mott Davidson

Kindred Crimes / Janet Dawson

Where's Mommy Now? / Rochelle Krich

Grave Undertaking / James McCahery

Grave Undertaking by James McCahery

Where's Mommy Now? by Rochelle Krich

Nominees

Not a Creature Was Stirring / Jane Haddam

Dead in the Scrub / G. J. Oliphant

Sisters in Crime 2 / Marilyn Wallace

Synod of Sleuths : Essays on Judeo-Christian Detective Fiction by Jon L. Breen & Martin H. Greenberg

Nominees

Deadly Doses : a Writer's Guide to Poisons / Serita Deborah Stevens, with Anne Klarner

Eric Ambler / Peter Lewis

John Dickson Carr : a Critical Study / S. T. Joshi

Trouble is Their Business : Private Eyes in Fiction, Film & Television, 1927-1988 / John Conquest

William Campbell Gault

1992

The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey

Nominees

Rogue Wave / Susan Dunlap

Love Nor Money / Linda Grant

Hour of the Hunter / J. A. Jance

I. O. U. / Nancy Pickard

A Single Stone / Marilyn Wallace

Murder on the Iditarod Trail by Sue Henry

Nominees

Carpool / Mary Cahill

A Relative Stranger / Margaret Lucke

The Bulrush Murders / Rebecca Rothenberg

The Chocolate Box / Leslie Watts

Murder on the Run / Gloria White

Homicide : a Year on the Killing Streets / David Simon

Nominees

And the Sea Will Tell / Vincent Bugliosi with Bruce B. Henderson

Sins of the Father : the Landmark Franklin Case : a Daughter, a Memory, and a Murder / Eileen Franklin, William Wright

Witnesses From the Grave : the Stories Bones Tell / Christopher Joyce

Plausible Denial / Mark Lane

Cruel Doubt / Joe McGinniss

A Woman's Eye / Sara Paretsky, ed.

Nominees

Cat Crimes / Martin H. Greenberg, Ed Gorman, eds.

Alfred Hitchcock's Home Sweet Homicide / Cahtleen Jordan, ed.

Christmas Stalkings : Tales of Yuletide Murder / Charlotte MacLoeod, ed.

Fifty Years of the Best From Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine / Eleanor Sullivan, ed.

Sisters in Crime 4 / Marilyn Wallace, ed.

100 Great Detectives by Maxim Jakubowski

Nominees

Locked Room Murders / Robert Adey

Out of the Woodpile / Frankie Y. Bailey

Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers, 3rd ed. / Lesley Henderson

The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery : the True Story of the Dr. John Branion Murder Case / Barbara D'Amato