One problem that has hit me recently is that my crime fiction collection has become unwieldy enough that I have forgotten some of the books I have waiting for me on my TBR pile. This has led to duplications and me missing out on a rare book I thought I already owned. The best solution I could come up with was a public list of books in and around the genre that I own but have not reviewed yet. A few titles I own but will never review (because they are by friends and family) are omitted.
Feel free to give me a shout if there’s a particular title here you would be interested in seeing me read and review.
Last Updated: 12/25/22
Ben Aaronovitch
Midnight Riot
Megan Abbott
Dare Me
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Average Jones
Catherine Aird
The Stately Home Murder
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Rashomon and Other Stories
Peter Alding
Ransom Town
Richard Aleas
Little Girl Lost
Margery Allingham
The Crime at Black Dudley
Death of a Ghost
The Fear Sign
Flowers for the Judge
Hide My Eyes
The Mind Readers
Pearls Before Swine
Ten Were Missing
Traitor’s Purse
Delano Ames
Corpse Diplomatique
She Shall Have Murder
Kingsley Amis
Colonel Sun
Augusto de Angelis
The Hotel of the Three Roses
Charlotte Armstrong
The Albatross
The Balloon Man
The Better to Eat You
Dream of Fair Woman
A Little Less Than Kind
Night Call and Other Stories of Suspense
The Witch’s House
Margaret Armstrong
Murder in Stained Glass
Lois Austen-Leigh
The Incredible Crime
George Axelrod
Blackmailer
Deb Baker
Murder Passes the Buck
Sandra Balzo
Murder on the Orient Espresso
Olivier Barde-Cabucon
The Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths
John Franklin Bardin
The Last of Philip Banter
Robert Barnard
A City of Strangers
Death and the Chaste Apprentice
Death and the Princess
Death in a Cold Climate
Death of a Salesperson and Other Untimely Exits
Death of an Old Goat
Fete Fatale
A Hovering of Vultures
Out of the Blackout
Political Suicide
Posthumous Papers
The Skeleton in the Grass
Vivian Barz
Forgotten Bones
Roger Bax
A Grave Case of Murder
David Beckler
Brotherhood
George Bellairs
Death Before Breakfast
Death in Desolation
Death in Room Five
Death March for Penelope Blow
Death Stops the Frolic
Half-Mast for the Deemster
Murder Makes Mistakes
James R. Benn
Billy Boyle
Jenna Bennet
A Cutthroat Business
Anthony Berkeley
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
The Silk Stockings Murder
The Wintringham Mystery
Nicholas Blake
The Dreadful Hollow
Malice in Wonderland
The Private Wound
Thou Shell of Death
The Widow’s Cruise
Lawrence G. Blochman
Wives to Burn
Boileau-Narcejac
She Who Was No More
Vertigo
Anthony Boucher
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars
Dorothy Bowers
Deed Without A Name
Daniel Boyd
Easy Death
Pamela Branch
The Lion in the Cellar
Christianna Brand
The Crooked Wreath
Death in High Heels
Tour de Force
Gil Brewer
77 Rue Paradis
Flight to Darkness
The Tease
Sin for Me
Douglas E. Browne
Too Many Cousins
Leo Bruce
Death of a Commuter
Ken Bruen
Bust (with Jason Starr)
The Max (with Jason Starr)
Slide (with Jason Starr)
John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Bude
Death on the Riviera
Alafair Burke
The Ex
James Lee Burke
The Neon Rain
W. J. Burley
Wycliffe and the Three-Toed Pussy
Miles Burton – See also RHODE, John
The Secret of High Eldersham
Christopher Bush
The Case of the Haven Hotel
The Plumley Inheritance
Jim Butcher
Fool Moon
Storm Front
James Scott Byrnside
The 5 False Suicides
James M. Cain
The Cocktail Waitress
Mildred Pierce
Alice Campbell
Keep Away from Water
Roger A. Canaff
City Dark
Bernard Capes
The Mystery of the Skeleton Key
Bernice Carey
The Body on the Sidewalk
Amanda Carmack
Murder at Fontainebleau
John Dickson Carr
The Blind Barber
Death Watch
The Devil in Velvet
Fire, Burn!
The Four False Weapons
Hag’s Nook
The Hollow Man
Most Secret
The Nine Wrong Answers
The Plague Court Murders
The Seat of the Scornful
Eliza Casey
Lady Takes the Castle
Anna Castle
Murder by Misrule
Henry Cauvain
The Killing Needle
Henry Cecil
The Asking Price
Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Jennifer J. Chow
Death by Bubble Tea
Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Five Little Pigs
The Secret Adversary
Octavus Roy Cohen
Jim Hanvey, Detective
Max Allan Collins
Deadly Beloved
Quarry
Two for the Money
J. J. Connington
The Two Tickets Puzzle
Hugh Conway
Dark Days (Christmas Annual)
S. A. Cosby
Blacktop Wasteland
Joan Cowdry
Murder of Lydia
Alisa Craig
A Pint of Murder
Edmund Crispin
Buried for Pleasure
Frequent Hearses
The Glimpse of the Moon
Holy Disorders
The Long Divorce
The Moving Toyshop
Swan Song
Freeman Wills Crofts
Anything to Declare?
The Hog’s Back Mystery
The Loss of the Jane Vosper
Man Overboard
Sir John Magill’s Last Journey
Sudden Death
James Crumley
The Last Good Kiss
Moray Dalton
The Belfry Murder
The Belgrave Manor Crime
The Body in the Road
The Case of Alan Copeland
Death in the Cup
The Night of Fear
One by One They Disappeared
The Strange Case of Harriet Hall
Elizabeth Daly
Arrow Pointing Nowhere
And Dangerous to Know
Death and Letters
Evidence of Things Seen
The House WIthout The Door
Night Walk
Somewhere in the House
The Wrong Way Down
Frederic Dard
The Wicked Go To Hell
Hilary Davidson
One Small Sacrifice
Frederick C. Davis
Deep Lay the Dead
Lindsey Davis
Venus in Copper
Federico de Roberto
Agony
Jane Dentinger
Murder on Cue
D. M. Devine
My Brother’s Killer
Carter Dickson
Nine and Death Makes Ten
She Died A Lady
Garry Disher
The Dragon Man
Dorothy Cameron Disney
The Strawstack Murders
Paul Doherty
The House of Death
The Mask of Ra
The Nightingale Gallery
Satan in St. Mary’s
Rose Donovan
The Mystery of Ruby’s Sugar
Teresa Dovalpage
Queen of Bones
Samantha Downing
My Lovely Wife
Arthur Conan Doyle
(The whole Holmes canon)
Maurice Drake
The Mystery of the Mud Flats
Lord Dunsany
Two Bottles of Relish
M. G. Eberhart
Enemy in the House
Murder by an Aristocrat
Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose
Rampo Edogawa
Gold Mask
Martin Edwards
All the Lonely People
The Coffin Trail
Kim Ekemar
The Murders on Three Bridges
Stanley Ellin
Stronghold
James Ellroy
L.A. Confidential
Lucille Emerick
The Web of Evil
A. A. Fair
Cats Prowl at Night
J. Jefferson Farjeon
No. 17
Thirteen Guests
The Z Murders
Christa Faust
Choke Hold
John Russell Fearn
Pattern of Murder
E. X. Ferrars
Root of All Evil
Something Wicked
Rudolph Fisher
The Conjure-Man Dies: A Harlem Mystery
Ian Fleming
Casino Royale
Diamonds are Forever
Dr No
For Your Eyes Only
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Live and Let Die
The Man WIth the Golden Gun
Moonraker
The Spy Who Loved Me
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
J. S. Fletcher
Paradise Court
Brian Flynn
The Billiard Room Mystery
The Case of the Black Twenty-Two
The Case of the Purple Calf
The Creeping Jenny Mystery
The Edge of Terror
Fear and Trembling
The Five Red Fingers
The Fortescue Candle
The Horn
Invisible Death
The League of Matthias
Murder en Route
The Mystery of the Peacock’s Eye
The Orange Axe
The Padded Door
The Spiked Lion
The Sussex Cuckoo
The Triple Bite
Robin Forsythe
Murder on Paradise Island
The Pleasure Cruise Mystery
Karin Fossum
When the Devil Holds the Candle
Nev Fountain
The Axeman Cometh (Drama)
Cursed Among Sequels
DVD Extras Include: Murder
Geek Tragedy
Christopher Fowler
Full Dark House
George R. Fox
The Fangs of the Serpent
William Francis
I. O. U. Murder
Nicholas Freeling
Lady Macbeth
Dianne Freeman
A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder
R. Austin Freeman
The Adventures of Romney Pringle
John Thorndyke’s Cases
The Mystery of 31 New Inn
Frank Froest
The Crime Club
The Rogues’ Syndicate
Erle Stanley Gardner
The Count of 9
Shills Can’t Cash Chips
Andrew Garve
No Tears for Hilda
Michael Genelin
Dark Dreams
Anthony Gilbert
Death in Fancy Dress
Michael Gilbert
The Danger Within
Death Has Deep Roots
Death in Captivity
Smallbone Deceased
Frank Goldammer
The Air Raid Killer
Eaton K. Goldthwaite
Root of Evil
David Goodis
The Wounded and the Slan
Caroline Graham
The Killings at Badger’s Drift
Kelsey Grammer
Bitter Brew
Anna K. Green
The Affair Next Door
Graham Greene
Brighton Rock
The Ministry of Fear
Our Man in Havana
The Third Man
Kerry Greenwood
Blood and Circuses
Flying Too High
Susanna Gregory
A Plague on Both Your Houses
John Grisham
The Reckoning
Rachel Howzell Hall
These Toxic Things
We Lie Here
Janice Hallett
The Twyford Code
Paul Halter
The Crimson Fog
The Fourth Door
The Gold Watch
The Mask of the Vampire
The Night of the Wolf
Penelope’s Web
The Picture from the Past
The Seven Wonders of Crime
Barbara Hambly
A Free Man of Color
Henrietta Hamilton
Answer in the Negative
Dashiel Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
Zhou Haohui
Death Notice
Cyril Hare
Suicide Excepted
William Harrington
Columbo: The Grassy Knoll
Mette Ivie Harrison
The Bishop’s Wife
Frances Noyes Hart
The Bellamy Trial
Macdonald Hastings
Cork in the Doghouse
Mavis Doriel Hay
The Santa Klaus Murder
Annie Haynes
The Crime at Tattenham Corner
The House in Charlton Crescent
The Man with the Dark Beard
Who Killed Charmian Karslake?
Mark Hebden
Death Set to Music
Peter J. Heck
Death on the Mississippi
Lorenz Heller
A Party Every Night
A Rage at Sea
Keigo Higashino
Salvation of a Saint
Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley
This Sweet Sickness
Russell Hill
Robbie’s Wife
Tony Hillerman
Dance Hall of the Dead
James Hilton
Was it Murder?
Chester Himes
The Real Cool Killers
Keiichiro Hirano
A Man
Dolores Hitchens
Sleep with Slander
Sleep with Strangers
Orrie Hitt
The Cheaters
Dial “M” for Man
Edward D. Hoch
More Things Impossible
The Sherlock Holmes Stories of Edward D. Hoch
James Hogg
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Blotted Out
The Death Wish
Echo of a Careless Voice
The Girl Who Had To Die
Kill Joy
The Shoals of Honour
The Thing Beyond Reason
The Unfinished Crime
The Virgin Huntress
Who’s Afraid?
Widow’s Mite
Roy Horniman
Kind Hearts and Coronets: Israel Rank
Vechel Howard
Murder on Her Mind
Dorothy B. Hughes
The Expendable Man
In A Lonely Place
Richard Hull
Keep It Quiet
Jane Hur
The Forest of Stolen Girls
The Red Palace
Jack Iams
Girl Meets Body
Michael Innes
Carson’s Conspiracy
Going It Alone
Robert Innes
Confessional
Flatline
Reach
Ripples
Spotlight
Untouchable
Peter Interland
Dying to Get In
D. E. Ireland
Wouldn’t It Be Deadly?
Polly Ivey
Hooked
Claude Izner
Murder on the Eiffel Tower
Charlotte Jay
The Fugitive Eye
Martin Jensen
A Man’s Word
Edgar Jepson
The Loudwater Mystery
Ianthe Jerrold
Let Him Lie
The Studio Crime
Doug Johnstone
Breakers
A Dark Matter
Stephen Mack Jones
August Snow
Carolyn Keene
Secrets Can Kill
Day Keene
Dead Dolls Don’t Talk
Hunt the Killer
Joy House
Sleep with the Devil
Too Hot to Hold
Wake Up To Murder
Mary Kelly
The Christmas Egg
Due to a Death
Harry Kemelman
Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
Baynard H. Kendrick
Blood on Lake Louisa
Vaseem Khan
Bad Day at the Vulture Club
Murder at Malabar House
Un-Su Kim
The Plotters
Sherwood King
If I Die Before I Wake
Stephen King
Joyland
Natsuo Kirino
The Real World
Kathleen Moore Knight
Terror by Twilight
Helen Knowland
Madame Baltimore
Ronald Knox
Double Cross Purposes
The Footsteps at the Lock
Daniel Kraus
Blood Sugar
Michael Kurland
A Study in Sorcery
Hilda Lawrence
Duet of Death
Maurice LeBlanc
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
The Exploits of Arsene Lupin
John LeCarre
A Murder of Quality
Gypsy Rose Lee
Mother Finds a Body
Elmore Leonard
52 Pick-up
Peter Lerangis
The 3 Investigators: Crimebusters #9 Foul Play
Gaston Leroux
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Ira Levin
The Boys from Brazil
The Stepford Wives
Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Murder in the South of France
Vanessa Lillie
Little Voices
Martin Limon
Jade Lady Burning
Ed Lin
Ghost Month
M. Louisa Locke
Maids of Misfortune
Richard Lockridge
Murder for Art’s Sake
Vernon Loder
The Mystery at Stowe
E. C. R. Lorac
Bats in the Belfry
Fell Murder
Murder by Matchlight
Murder in Vienna
Peter Lovesey
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories
The Last Detective
The TIck of Death
Charlotte MacLeod
The Odd Job
Philp MacDonald
The Noose
Isabella Maldonado
The Cipher
Lindsay Marcott
Mrs. Rochester’s Ghost
Ngaio Marsh
Enter a Murderer
Edward Marston
The Laughing Policeman
The Railway Detective
A. E. W. Mason
The Witness for the Defense
J. C. Masterman
An Oxford Tragedy
Seicho Matsumoto
Pro Bono
The Voice
Ed McBain
Cut Me In
Helen McCloy
Through a Glass Darkly
Horace McCoy
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Jill McGown
Murder Motive
Murder… Now and Then
The Murders of Mrs Austin and Mrs Beale
The Other Woman
A Perfect Match
Pat McIntosh
The Harper’s Quine
Mark McShane
Ill Met By A Fish Shop on George Street
Tom Mead
Death and the Conjurer
Nicholas Meyer
The Seven Per Cent Solution
Margaret Millar
The Devil Loves Me
A. A. Milne
The Red House Mystery
Adam Mitzner
Dead Certain
Meghan Scott Molin
The Frame-Up
Allison Montclair
The Right Sort of Man
Keith Moray
The Gathering Murders
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Velvet was the Night
Anne Morice
Murder in Married Life
Robbie Morrison
Edge of the Grave
Walter Mosley
Down the River unto the Sea
Ottessa Moshfegh
Eileen
Patricia Moyes
Dead Men Don’t Ski
Murder a la Mode
Murder Fantastical
Season of Snows and Sins
Abir Mukherjee
The Shadows of Men
Thomas Mullen
Darktown
Max Murray
The Voice of the Corpse
Derrick Nabarro
The Rod of Anger
Anita Nair
A Cut-Like Wound
Shizuko Natsuki
Death from the Clouds
Innocent Wind
The Obituary Arrives at Two o’Clock
Portal of the Wind
Barbara Neely
Blanche on the Lam
Richard Neely
The Plastic Nightmare
While Love Lay Sleeping
Jo Nesbo
The Bat
Fabian Nicieza
Suburban Dicks
Helen Nielsen
Dead on the Level
James Norman
The Nightwalkers
Maureen O’Brien
Dead Innocent
Joyce Carol Oates
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey
Lenore Offord
The 9 Dark Hours
The Glass Mask
The Smiling Tiger
Riku Onda
The Aosawa Murders
Baroness Orczy
The Old Man in the Corner
Rodrigues Ottolengui
Final Proof
Edward Packard
Choose Your Own Adventure #9: Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?
Stuart Palmer
The Penguin Pool Murder
The Puzzle of the Silver Persian
I. J. Parker
Black Arrow
Brad Parks
Interference
Rebecca Pawel
Death of a Nationalist
Winifred Peck
The Warrielaw Jewel
Hugh Pentecost
The Obituary Club
Ellis Peters
The Rose Rent
Saint Peter’s Fair
Max Phillips
Fade to Blonde
Eden Phillpotts
The Grey Room
Euan B. Pollock
The Price to Pay
Jean Potts
The Evil Wish
Go, Lovely Rose
Home is the Prisoner
The Little Lie
The Man with the Cane
The Only Good Secretary
Oliver Potzsch
The Beggar King
The Dark Monk
The Hangman’s Daughter
E. R. Punshon
The Bath Mysteries
The Conqueror Inn
Crossword Mystery
The Dark Garden
Helen Passes By
The House of Godwinsson
Information Received
It Might Lead Anywhere
Murder Abroad
Mystery Villa
Night’s Cloak
Secrets Can’t Be Kept
Suspects Nine
There’s a Reason for Everything
Ellery Queen
Drury Lane’s Last Case
E. & M. A. Radford
Death and the Professor
Death of a Frightened Editor
Murder Isn’t Cricket
R. V. Raman
A Will to Kill
Arthur B. Reeve
The Silent Bullet
Seeley Register
The Dead Letter
Ruth Rendell
The Best Man to Die
Means of Evil and Other Stories
No More Dying Then
To Fear a Painted Devil
Put On By Cunning
Shake Hands For Ever
The Speaker of Mandarin
Wolf to the Slaughter
John Rhode – see also BURTON, Mile
Blackthorn House
The Claverton Affair
Death at Harley Street
Dr. Priestley Investigates
Peril at Cranbury Hall
The Robthorne Mystery
Tragedy on the Line
The Venner Crime
Craig Rice
The Corpse Steps Out
Luanne Rice
The Shadow Box
Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Haunted Lady
Miss Pinkerton
Katherine Roberts
Center of the Web
Theodore Roscoe
I’ll Grind Their Bones
Holly Roth
Too Many Doctors
Rosemary Rowe
The Germanic Mosaic
Laura Joh Rowland
Bundori
The Dragon King’s Palace
The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria
The Samurai’s Wife
Shinju
Harriet Rutland
Bleeding Hooks
Knock, Murderer, Knock!
P. B. Ryan
Still Life with Murder
Rafael Sabatini
The Evidence of the Sword
James Sallis
Drive
George Sanders
Stranger at Home
Dorothy L. Sayers
Busman’s Honeymoon
Gaudy Night
Hangman’s Holiday
Have His Carcase
In the Teeth of the Evidence
Murder Must Advertise
The Nine Tailors
Striding Folly
Strong Poison
David J. Schow
Gun Work
Mabel Seeley
The Chuckling Fingers
Victoria Selman
Blood for Blood
Ritu Sethi
His Hand in the Storm
Dell Shannon
Case Pending
Robert Silverberg
Blood on the Mink
Georges Simenon
The Carter of ‘La Providence’
The Grand Banks Café
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
Pierre Siniac
Death on Bastille Day
Henry Slesar
Enter Murderers
Derek Howe Smith
Model for Murder
Shelley Smith
This Is Our House
Mickey Spillane
Dead Street
Christopher St. John Sprigg
Death of an Airman
Pass the Body
Dana Stabenow
A Cold Day for Murder
Fire and Ice
Domenic Stansberry
The Confession
Jason Starr
Bust (with Ken Bruen)
Fake I.D.
The Max (with Ken Bruen)
Slide (with Ken Bruen)
Vincent Starrett
Dead Man Inside
Daniel Stashower
The Dime Museum Mystery
The Floating Lady Murder
Viveca Sten
Still Waters
Rex Stout
Fer-de-Lance
John Straley
The Woman Who Married A Bear
John Stephen Strange
Murder Gives a Lovely Light
Linda Stratmann
Mr. Scarletti’s Ghost
The Royal Ghost
Arkady Strugatsky
The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn
Dylan Struzan
A Bloody Business
Peter Swanson
Eight Perfect Murders
Julian Symons
The Belting Inheritance
The Immaterial Murder Case
Akimitsu Takagi
Honeymoon to Nowhere
The Tattoo Murder Case
Karou Takamura
Lady Joker, vol. 1
Andrew Taylor
The Leper House
Josephine Tey
A Shilling for Candles
Jim Thompson
The Alcoholics
The Criminal
Cropper’s Cabin
The Getaway
The Golden Gizmo
The Grifters
Heed the Thunder
The Kill-Off
Now and On Earth
Recoil
The Rip-Off
Savage Night
South of Heaven
A Swell-Looking Babe
The Transgressors
Wild Town
Basil Thomson
Richardson’s First Case
Robert Thorogood
Death Knocks Twice
The Killing of Polly Carter
The Three Investigators (Various)
The Mystery of the Deadly Double
The Mystery of the Laughing Shadow
The Mystery of the Missing Mermaid
The Mystery of the Nervous Lion
The Secret of Shark Reef
Molly Thynne
The Draycott Murder Mystery
He Dies and Makes No Sign
Charles Todd
A Test of Wills
Marilyn Todd
Virgin Territory
Anti Tuomainen
Palm Beach, Finland
J. V. Turner
Below the Clock
Ilaria Tuti
Flowers Over the Inferno
Michael Underwood
Hand of Fate
Janwillem van de Wetering
The Blond Baboon
S. S. van Dine
The Benson Murder Case
The Bishop Murder Case
Robert van Gulik
Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
The Chinese Gold Murders
The Chinese Nail Murders
The Willow Pattern
Fred Vargas
The Chalk Circle Man
S. S. van Dine
The Benson Murder Case
The Winter Murder Case
Various
The Anatomy of Murder (By Members of The Detection Club)
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories
Bodies from the Library
Bodies from the Library II
Deep Waters: Mysteries on the Waves
Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries
Future Crimes
Murder for Revenge
Showbusiness is Murder
Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries
St. Petersburg Noir
Zagreb Noir
Irma Venter
Hard Rain
Barbara Vine
The Birthday Present
Scott von Doviak
Charlesgate Confidential
Henry Wade
Bury Him Darkly
The Duke of York’s Steps
The Dying Alderman
A Dying Fall
Gold Was Our Grave
The Hanging Captain
The High Sheriff
The Litmore Snitch
Lonely Magdalen
The Missing Partners
Mist on the Saltings
Policeman’s Lot
The Verdict of You All
J. H. Wallis
The Woman He Chose
Colin Watson
Coffin Scarely Used
Donald E. Westlake
Memory
Patricia Wentworth
Grey Mask
Donald Westlake
Brothers Keepers
Ethel Lina White
The Lady Vanishes
Fred M. White
The Cardinal Moth
Harry Whittington
Body and Passion
Call Me Killer
Like Mink, Like Murder
To Find Cora
Hugh Windsor
Lead Him to Death
Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs
Ariel S. Winter
The Twenty-Year Death
Cornell Woolrich
The Bride Wore Black
Night Has A Thousand Eyes
Waltz into Darkness
June Wright
The Devil’s Caress
Kristin Wright
The Darkest Flower
Anthony Wynne
Murder of a Lady
The Mystery of the Evil Eye
Seishi Yokomizo
Death on Gokumon Island
The Village of the Eight Graves
Hideo Yokoyama
Six Four
Ovidia Yu
The Mimosa Tree Mystery
Israel Zangwill
The Perfect Crime
Roger Zelazny
The Dead Man’s Brother
Very cool.
CRUMLEY!
I would put that in bold if I weren’t lazy.
I just reread The Chinese Nail Murders, and think you would like it. But if you already own the Crumley ….
PS I saw N N Taleb called Dard the best french prose writer of the 20th century! My library has several Dards, all in French. Maybe after I get through my graded readers and dual language books …
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This makes my TBR mountain look like a mere hill. I’ve not read it but have heard interesting things about The Night of the Jabberwock so would be glad to see another take on it.
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Yes – I am swimming in reading matter atm. I have some time off coming up soon and hopefully I can get to Jabberwocky then as I have heard good things!
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I loved this book so can’t wait to read your thoughts on it!
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Well, that seems to settle it! I will have to make sure it comes sooner rather than later then.
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Holy cow this is probably the biggest TBR pile I’ve come across, god speed solider – lol. I love crime fiction so I will have to go through this list a little more carefully and get some new books for my summer reading. Thanks so much for sharing. You definitely don’t need any more recommendations but I just finished a book that I think you and fellow crime fiction readers will really like called “West Texas Dead: A Kailey and Shinto Mystery” by author Frances Hight. This book had me hooked from start to finish. This is an “investigation gone wrong” crime fiction that really delivers on all fronts. I loved the main characters (best friends who are also partners) and the premise was so cool and interesting. I really enjoyed wondering what they would run into next as they find themselves picking through a murder case that is not what it seems! I never felt like any of it was out of the realm of possibility and the characters presented felt like they could have been pulled straight out of the real world. It is one of those books where anything is possible and you never know what will come next! A really fun and thoughtful summer read! You can read more about the book or the author here – https://www.franceshight.com/
Happy Summer and Happy Reading!
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The Stately Home Murder might be the best of Aird’s books so I would give that a try. Apart from that, everything by Carr and Gulik.
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Thank you for the suggestions. I will endeavor to get to the Aird soon. I read several of the van Gulik novels back in the day and remember loving them so I am looking forward to revisiting those…
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