Previous books we've read include:
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
Scarlet Baby by Walter Mosley
Melancholy Baby by Robert B. Parker
I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich
Thieves' Dozen by Donald Westlake
Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Shape of Snakes by Minette Walters
California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
Skin Tight by Carl Hiaasen
The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
The Sid Halley Mysteries by Dick Francis
(Odds Against, Whip Hand, Come to Grief & Under Orders)Early Autumn by Robert B. Parker
The Wrong Hostage by Elizabeth Lowell
The Best American Mystery Stories of 2007
Edited by Otto Penzler and Carl HiaasenIn the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead
By James Lee Burke.Skinwalkers by Tony HillermanThe Caves of Steel by Isaac Isimov
Priest by Ken Bruen
Still Life by Louise Penny
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis by Cara Black
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
The Color of Blood by Declan Hughes
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008
Edited by George Pelecanos and Otto PenzlerRumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murder
by John MortimerThe Water's Lovely by Ruth Rendell
Hold Tight by Harlan Coben
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
The Killing Floor by Lee Child
Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman
The Devils of Bakersfield by John Shannon
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Coming in November 2009 read will be:
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
There will be no formal meeting in December, and we haven't chosen our January 2010 read yet, but our February 2009 read will be:
The Mammoth Book of the World's Best Crime Stories
Edited by Maxim Jakubowski
Participation is definitely encouraged and opinions ferverently desired. The moderator is local mystery critic Kevin Burton Smith, who's been known to express an opinion or two himself.
For any further questions regarding Murder Ink, please e-mail him. If you're the sorta person who likes to talk to a man who likes to talk, he's your man.
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