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 Hiaasen

In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead
By James Lee Burke.

Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman

The 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 Penzler

Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murder
by John Mortimer

The 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

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

The House Without a Key by Earl Derr Biggers

The Mammoth Book of the World's Best Crime Stories
Edited by Maxim Jakubowski

The Black Ice by Michael Connelly

The Golden One by Elizabeth Peters

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Chicago Way by Michael Harvey


Our July 2010 read will be:

Road Dogs by Elmore Leonard


And our August 2010 read will be:

Homicide:
A Year on the Killing Streets
by David Simon


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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