And Kirkus' Best Mysteries
- Dec. 21st, 2006 at 2:15 PM
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WHAT CAME BEFORE HE SHOT HER by Elizabeth George
MAD MOUSE by Chris Grabenstein
THE OLD WINE SHADES by Martha Grimes
NO GOOD DEEDS by Laura Lippman (tall and beautiful and nice - what's not to like, plus she writes like a dream)
NO TRACE by Barry Maitland
THE DEAD HOUR by Denise Mina (full disclosure: I liked her Garnet Hill triology better)
DAYS OF RAGE by Kris Nelscott (an Oregonian!)
STILL LIFE by Louise Penny
BLUE SHOES AND HAPPINESS by Alexander McCall Smith
ALL MORTAL FLESH by Julia Spencer-Fleming (full disclosure: I blurbed her first book, then she went on to bigger and better things. Before her first novel, the only thing she had written was Star Trek fan fic)
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