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Detecting Detroit
Mystery Series
A stolen season : an Alex McKnight novel by Steve Hamilton
American detective by Loren D. Estleman
Better than sex a mystery featuring Anneke Haagen by Susan Holtzer
Concrete hero : a Ben Perkins mystery by Rob Kantner
Mystery Women
A spoonful of poison by M.C. Beaton
A cat named Brat : an Alice Nestleton mystery by Lydia Adamson
Tomb of the golden bird by Elizabeth Peters
Borderline by Nevada Barr
Death By The Decades
1930s
The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Peril at end house by Agatha Christie
Murder in the Oval Office by Elliott Roosevelt
Night over water by Ken Follett
1940s
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Cats And Their Sleuths
A cat in the wings : an Alice Nestleton mystery by Lydia Adamson
Only the cat knows by Marian Babson
High country by Nevada Barr
Agatha Raisin and the case of the curious curate by M.C. Beaton
Mysteries Through The Decades
1930s
The Maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Fer-de-lance : a Nero Wolfe mystery by Rex Stout ; introduction by Loren D. Estleman
1940s
The postman always rings twice by James M. Cain
Hand in glove by Ngaio Marsh
1950s
Cop hater by Ed McBain
Mysteries With Female Detectives
A cat named Brat : an Alice Nestleton mystery by Lydia Adamson
The Darling Dahlias and the cucumber tree by Susan Wittig Albert
Lie down with the devil by Linda Barnes
Restored to death by Nancy Bell
African American Mystery Books
Salt River : a novel by James Sallis
A darker shade of crimson : an Ivy League mystery by Pamela Thomas-Graham
Of blood and sorrow : a Tamara Hayle mystery by Valerie Wilson Wesley
Strange bedfellows : a Charlotte Justice novel by Paula L. Woods
Sun, Sand, and Romance
In too deep by Cherry Adair
Swept away by Toni Blake
Surviving Demon Island by Jaci Burton
The life of Reilly by Sue Civil-Brown
Prisoners of War
Day by A.L. Kennedy
Empire of the Sun : a novel by J.G. Ballard
In our strange gardens by Michel Quint ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray
King Rat by James Clavell
If You Like Bible Fiction
If you like Bible Fiction, try these books:
Faith of my fathers : a novel by Lynn Austin
Among the gods by Lynn Austin
Gods & Kings by Lynn Austin