MyShelf Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Action, Adventure Fiction Reviews
Archive 1998 - 2003
(Listed by author)


Anthology
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century - Edited Tony Hillerman &  Otto Penzler
Cat Crimes Thru Time - Edited by Ed Gorman 

A Deadly Dozen - Susan B. Casmier, Aljean Harmetz, Cynthia Lawrence
The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunits - Edited by Mike Ashley
Malice Domestic 9 - Edited by Joan Hess
Murder & Obsession - Hardboiled Anthology
Murder, Mayhem and Mistletoe -
Mystery in Mind - Rhine Research Center (Various Authors)
Royal Whodunnit - Edited by
Mike Ashley (editor)  
 
A
J L Abbott
The Third Corner 
Peter Abrahams
A Perfect Crime
Peter Abresch
Killing Thyme

Tip A Canoe
Robert Aiello
Shadow in the Mirror
Susan Wittig Albert
Mistletoe Man
Letha Albright
Daredevil's Apprentice
Bobby Jaye Allen
Every First Saturday

Early's Pride
Jack Allen
Change of Heart - [ REVIEW 1 ] [ REVIEW 2 ]
Tracy Allen
Texas Weather
Ralph Allen
The Heart of Matthew Jade 
Edmund Andracki
Fatal Prognosis
James Anderson
The Affair of the Bloodstained Cosy
The Affair of the Multilated Mink
Donna Andrews
Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos
Barbara Pearson Arau
Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah 
Robert E. Armstrong
Index of Suspicion
Mark Arsenault
Spiked
David Ambrose
The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk
Michael Asher
The Eye of Ra
Deborah Turrell Atkinson
Primitive Secrets
[ REVIEW 1 ] [ REVIEW 2 ]

Curt Autry
The Reunion

B
Annette Burget Bailey
Postmortem
Frankie Y. Bailey 
Death's Favorite Child

A Dead Man's Honor
Old Murders
David Baldacci
Saving Faith

Last Man Standing

Split Second - [book]
Frank Baldwin
Jake & Mimi

Brittan Barclay
Off Pace   [ REVIEW 1 ] [ REVIEW 2 ]

Nevada Barr
Blood Lure
Lynnette Baughman
Thin Disguise 
M C Beamon
Eyewitness
Harrison T. Beardsley
Flying for an Angel
M.C. Beaton
Death of a Dustman
Agatha Raisin & the Quiche of Death
Agatha Raisin & the Vicious Vet
Death Of A Celebrity

Agatha Raisin And The Love From Hell

Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate

Death of a Village
Albert A. Bell, Jr.
Kill Her Again

All Roads Lead to Murder
Laura Belgrave
Quietly Dead

Deadly Associations
Marc Bernier
Living Dead Man
Ron and Janet Benrey
Little White Lies
William Bernhardt
Murder One
Linda Berry
Death and the Easter Bunny
Death and the Hubcap 
Michael A. Black
A Killing Frost

Michelle Black
Solomon Spring
The Second Glass of Absinthe

Al Blanchard
The Iscariot Conspiracy
The Disappearance of Jenna Drago
Alice Blanchard
The Breathtaker
Alice Blanchard
A Darkness Peering
Joan Blacher
Murder Canyon
Lawrence Block
Hit Man
The Burglar in the Rye 

Hope to Die

Enough Rope
Norman Bogner
The Deadliest Art
Michael Bond
Monsieur Pamplemousse on Probation
Monsieur Pamplemousse on Vacation
Mark Bornstein
Brick Mallery, Private Investigator [audio]
Paula Boyd
Hot Enough to Kill

Dead Man Falls
D. Edward Bradley
Leeward
Sandra Brewer
Murder For Beltene
Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson
Deathblow
Danger Crossed Moments
Jan Brogan
Final Copy
Dale Brown
Air Battle Force
D.J. Brown
Sweet Revenge
Sandra Brown
UnSpeakable
[audio]
Pat Browning
Full Circle
Sinclair Browning
Rode Hard, Put Away Dead
Alan Brudner
Mind Games
Edna Buchanan
Suitable for Framing
D. W. Buffa
The Judgement
The Legacy
[audio]   
T.Davis Bunn
The Great Divide
Alafair Burke
Judgment Calls
James Lee Burke
Heartwood

Purple Cane Road 
Bitterroot
 
Jan Burke
Bones
EL Burton
Soft Money
Melody Bussey
Crazy Cats
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Frank Caceres
Because They Were
Austin S. Camacho
Collateral Damage
Wanda Canada
Island Murders 
R. Poole-Carter
What Remains 
Lillian Stewart Carl
Shadows in Scarlet
Carol Caverly
Dead in Hog Heaven
Sandra Levy Ceren
Prescription for Terror
Andrew Ceroni
Meridian
David Champion
Phantom Virus
Lee Child
Without Fail
Persuader
Laura Childs
Death by Darjeeling
Lawrence Christopher
All About Mary
P. F.  Chisholm
Famine Of Horses

A Plague of Angels 
Agatha Christie
Black Coffee

The Harlequin Tea Set
Philomel Cottage & Other Stories [audio]

The Unexpected Guest
Sad Cypress [audio]

The Affair of the Pink Pearl & Finessing the King
[audio]
Black Coffee
Jill Churchill 
Anything Goes

In the Still of the Night 
The House of Seven Mables

Someone to Watch Over Me
Love for Sale
Bell, Book, and Scandal
Edie Claire
Never Buried

Never Preach Past Noon
Mary Higgins Clark
Silent Night

Daddy's Little Girl

Before I Say Goodbye
Mindy Starns Clark
Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels
A. Carman Clark
The Maine Mulch Murder
Alys Clare
The Tavern in the Morning
Chatter of the Maidens

The Faithful Dead
Peter Clement
Critical Condition
Barbara Cleverly
The Last Kashmiri Rose

Ragtime in Simla
The Damascened Blade

LB Cobb
Splendor Bay
Promises Town

Latonya Collier
Seduction in a Maze
Dennis Collins
The Unreal McCoy
Max Allen Collins
Road to Perdition
Natalie R. Collins
Sisterwife
Judith Woolcock Colombo
Night Crimes [ REVIEWS 1 ] [ REVIEWS 2]
Jennifer Colt
The Butcher of Beverly Hills
The Mangler of Malibu Canyon
Tom Coffey
Miami Twilight
Mark Cohen
The Fractal Murders
Nancy J. Cohen
Murder by Manicure

Body Wave
Alan Cook
Catch a Falling Knife

M.E. Cooper
Key Deceptions

Uncivil Death

Key Confrontations
- [REVIEW 1
] [ REVIEW 2 ]  

Michael Connelly
A Darkness More Than Night
Chasing The Dime - [AUDIO ] [ BOOK ]
City of Bones

Lost Light - [ BOOK] [ AUDIO]

The Harry Bosch Novels Volume 2
Elizabeth Corley
Fatal Legacy
Bernard Cornwell
Gallows Thief

Patricia Daniels Cornwell
The Last Precinct

Catherine Coulter
The Edge
 
Philip A. Craig
A Fatal Vineyard Season
Michael Craft
Desert Autumn
Louise Crawford
Blaize of Glory
Hat Trick
David Cray
Little Girl Blue
Freeman Willis Crofts
Anything to Declare?
Deborah Crombie
A Share in Death
Sharon Cullars
Celia
D
Mary Daheim
Holy Terrors
Hocus Croakus
Barbara D'Amato
White Male Infant
Carla Damron
Keeping Silent
Ron Danklefs
Radio Rage
Chari Davenport
Christmas Party
Diane Mott Davidson
Sticks and Scones
Chopping Spree
Lindsey Davis
Two for the Lions

Ode to a Banker
A Body in the Bath House

The Jupiter Myth
The Accusers
The Jupiter Myth
Dianne Day 
Death Train to Boston
Beacon Street Mourning
Elizabeth Dearl
Diamondback

Twice Dead [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Jeffery Deaver
The Empty Chair
The Bone Collector
[audio]
Jeffery Wilds Deaver
The Lesson of Her Death
 
Kathleen Delaney
Dying for a Change
Nelson Demille
The Lions Game
[audio]
Jo Dereske
Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence
Colin Dexter
The Remoseful Day
Deanne Devine
Lost Hunters
David Dickinson
Death & The Jubilee
Denise Dietz
Fifty Cents for Your Soul
Douglas Dinunzio
Hot-Wired in Brooklyn [e-book]
Joanne Dobson
Cold and Pure and Very Dead

The Maltese Manuscript
Paul Doherty
The House of Death
The Hangman's Hymn
The Plague Lord
Veronica Dolan
Calendar of Death
Don Donaldson
Do No Harm
Ronald Dondiego
A Wicked Twist of Fate
Deborah Donnelly
Veiled Threats
Truly Donovan
Chandler's Daughter
Margaret Doody
Aristotle Detective
Aristotle & The Secrets of Life
Tim Dorsey
The Stingray Shuffle
Lee Driver
The Good Die Twice
Rebecca S. Duckro
The Last Coffin
Catherine Dunbar
False Images
Sophie Dunbar
A Bad Hair Day

Behind Elcaire's Doors
Redneck Riviera
Shiveree
Christine Duncan
Safe Beginnings
Carola Dunn
Rattle His Bones
Michael Allen Dymmoch
The Man Who Understood Cats
E
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Blood Sinister
Grace F. Edwards
No Time to Die
Michael B. Edwards
Murder at the Panionic Games
Kit Ehrman
At Risk
Aaron Elkins
Turncoat
Kate Ellis
The Bone Garden

An Unhallowed Grave
Jean D. Erhardt
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
Lynn Erickson
Searching for Sarah
Tom Eslick
Snow Kill

Loren D. Estleman
Sinister Heights

Janet Evanovich
High Five
Seven Up [ REVIEW 1 ] [ REVIEW 2 ]
To The Nines
Everson & Chadwick
Summon the Shadows 
F
Jerrilyn Farmer
Dim Sum Dead
David Farris
Lie Still
Sandra Feder
Side Effect
Monica Ferris
Crewel World
Robert Ferrigno
Flinch
Kay Finch
Final Decree
Gerrie Ferris Finger
Look Away From Evil
Judy Fitzwater
Dying to Get Her Man
Scott Flander
Four to Midnight
G.M. Ford
Fury

Black River
Alan Dean Foster
Primal Shadows
Jimmy Fox
Deadly Pedigree

Lineages and Lies
Ron Franscell
The Deadline
Ruth Francisco
Confessions of a Deathmaiden

Margaret Frazer
The Squire's Tale

J. F. Freedman
Bird's-Eye View
[audio]

Above the Law
Christy Tillery French
Wayne's Dead

Chasing Demons
Shelley Freydont
Halloween Murder
David Fulmer
Chasing The Devil's Tail [ REVIEW 1 ] [ REVIEW 2 ]
Dale Furutani
Kill of the Shogun
 
G
Lou Gallio
Omega-Alpha
Lisa Gardner
The Other Daughter

The Third Victim
Paul Garrison
Sea Hunter
Nancy Geary
Misfortune
Redemption
Roberta Gellis
A Personal Devil
Lucretia Borgia & The Mother of Poisons

Bone of Contention
Lucrezia Borgia and the Mother of Poisons
Anne George
Murder Boogies With Elvis
Elizabeth George
A Traitor to Memory
Bartholomew Gill
Death of an Irish Sinner

Death in Dublin
Howard Gimple
Deadly Refuge
Danielle Girard
Chasing Darkness
Annette Gisby
Silent Screams
Steve Glassman
The Near Death Experience
Hal Glatzer
Too Dead To Swing
Janet Gleeson
The Grenadillo Box

The Serpent in the Garden
Joel Goldman
Motion to Kill
Philip Gooden
The Pale Companion 
Alms For Oblivion
Christine Goff
Death of a Songbird
Eileen Goudge
Wish Come True
Sue Grafton
O Is For Outlaw
Pip Granger
Not All Tarts are Apples
Anne Underwood Grant
Voices in the Sand
Tracy Grant
Beneath a Silent Moon
 
John MacLachlan Gray
The Fiend In Human
Sarah Gregory
Captiol Scandel
Susanna Gregory
A Summer of Discontent
A Killer in Winter
Andrew M. Greeley
Bishop in the West Wing
Irish Stew!
Tim Green
The Fifth Angel (audio)
Susanna Gregory
A Masterly Murder
An Order For Death
J. Gregory Griffis
Collision of Fate
Kate Grilley
Death Dances to an Ill Wind
James Grippando
A King's Ransom
John Grisham
The Summons
Kevin P. Grover
Strike Hard
Patricia Guiver
The Beastly Bloodline
Beth Gutcheon
More Than You Know
Amy Gutman
The Anniversary
H
Mark Haeuser
Battleground USA (The Beginning)
Brian Haig
Mortal Allies
[audio]
The Kingmaker [ AUDIO ][ BOOK ]
Private Sector
- [audio]
Robert Lee Hall
Ben Franklin takes the Case
Ben Franklin and a Case of Christmas Murder
Lorie Ham
Murder in Four Part Harmony
The Trouble With Tenors
Steve Hamilton
North of Nowhere

The Hunting Wind
Barbara Hambly
Die Upon A Kiss
Sylvian Hamilton
The Pendragon Banner
Lucy Harkness
The Happy Pigs
Daniel Elton Harmon
The Chalk Town Train & Other Tales
Charlaine Harris
Shakespeare's Counselor
Dead by Dark
Carolyn Hart
Sugarplum Dead
April Fool Dead

Engaged to Die
Lee Harris
The Aprils Fool's Day Murder
Norm Harris
Fruits of a Poisonous Tree
Jonathan Harrington
 Great Day for Dying
Jean Marie Haugen
Dove in the Window
J.M. Hayes
Mad Dog and Englishman
Prairie Gothic
L.C. Hayden
Where Secrets Lie

Who's Susan

When Collette Died
Libby Fischer Hellmann
An Eye For Murder
A Picture of Guilt
Richard Helms
Joker Poker
Voodoo That You Do
Juicy Watusi
Lauren Henderson
Freeze my Margarita
Patty Henderson
The Burning of Her Sin
Sue Henry
Dead North [ REVIEW 1 ] [ REVIEW 2 ]
Beneath The Ashes
Cold Company

Death Trap
Kathy Hepinstall
Absence of Nectar
Julie Wray Herman
Three Dirty Women and The Bitter Brew
John Herrmann
Murder at the Red Dog
Brian Hill and Dee Power
Overtime
Tony Hillerman
Skinwalkers
Kathleen Hills
Past Imperfect
Teri Holbrook
The Mother Tongue
Tami Hoag
Dust to Dust
Hazel Holt
Mrs Malory and the Fatal Legacy
Stephen Horn
In Her Defense

Law of Gravity
Joan Hall Hovey
Listen to the Shadows
[ebook]
Nowhere to Hide
Chill Waters
Nowhere to Hide
Tamara Lea Hoyt
City of Grateful Night
 
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Greg Iles
 24 Hours
Walter Ihlefield
Banshee Rising
Roberta Isleib
Six Strokes Under

A Buried Lie
 
J
Nancy Baker Jacobs
Double or Nothing

Flash Point
Jane Jakeman
In The Kingdom of Mists
Adam-Michael James
Undo the Deed
P.D. James
Death in Holy Orders
J. A. Jance
Paradise Lost [ REVIEW 1 ] [ REVIEW 2 ]
Birds of Prey
Hour of the Hunter
Exit Wounds
Hank Janson
Women Hate Till Death
Patrick K. Jassoy
It Isn't Easy Being Johnny Style
Michael Jecks
The Sticklepath Strangler

The Mad Monk of Gidleigh
The Templar’s Penance
Jerry Jellison
Measure of Vengeance
Maureen Jennings
Except the Dying
Catherine Jinks
The Norary
Cathie John
Beat a Rotten Egg to the Punch
Add One Dead Critic
Carve a Witness to Shreds
Claire M Johnson
Beat It Stiff
Beat Until Stiff

Jill Jones
Remember Your Lies

Susanna Jones
The Earthquake Bird
Pauline Baird Jones
Missing You
K
Larry Kahn
The Jinx
Stuart M. Kaminsky
Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express
Larry Karp
Scamming the Birdman

The Midnight Special
The Music Box Murders
Schuyler Kaufman
Dear Mouse
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Brian Kavanagh
Capable of Murder

Embroidered Corpse
H. R. F. Keating  
Jack, The Lady Kille
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