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What might be next for the Mystery Book Club? Here's a compilation of ideas we're working our way through (posted April, 2015 - some may have been tackled by now). There are over 100. And growing. We won't get to the end of the list, but will enjoy trying
POTENTIAL MYSTERY LIST, 2014 [authors we haven't read, combos | |
we'd like to try, things somebody once mentioned] | |
AUTHOR | WHERE, WHAT, WHO, WHEN, WHY |
Megan Abbott | modern noir, US |
Lori Armstrong | Julie Collins, US, West, present |
Robert Barnard | Brit, all eras, civilized crime |
Linda Barnes | Carlotta Carlyle, Boston PI/Michael Sprague |
Benjamin Black | [aka John Banville] Quirke. Irish coroner. |
Rick Boyer | Doc' Adams, MA physician[?] detective |
Simon Brett | Charles Paris. Brit theatricals. |
Thomas Cavanagh | Head Games': Mike Garrity. Florida. |
Wendy Clinch | Vermont, Winter: 'Ski Diva' mysteries |
Jeffery Cohen | Aaron Tucker: PI with autistic/Asperger son/US |
Elliot Freed: moviehouse owner/detective/US | |
Philip R. Craig | J.W. Jackson. Cape Cod mysteries |
Amanda Cross | Kate Fansler. US academic/scholarly |
aka Carolyn Heilbrun. | |
Elizabeth Daly | Henry Gamadge. Us bookish mysteries, 1940's |
Lindsey Davis | Marcus Didius Falco. Rome. A while ago. |
William L. DeAndrea | Matt Cobb. US. TV Troubleshooter |
Jane Dentinger | Jocelyn O'Roarke. US theatricals. |
Garry Disher | Australia: 'Wyatt' series & police procedurals |
Daphne du Maurier | "Rebecca" [maybe a movie/mystery combo?] |
Loren Estleman | Amos Walker. Hardboiled Michigan PI. |
Valentino. Old-film-related Hollywood mysteries | |
Penelope Evans | "Freezing". That's all I've got. |
Karin Fossum | Inspector Sejer. Norwegian police. |
Tana French | Irish police. Current, with old roots. |
Stephen Greenleaf | John Marshall Tanner. San Francisco PI. |
Tarquin Hall | Vish Puri. India. Current. |
Joseph Hansen | Dave Brandstetter. Gay hardboiled PI. |
Joseph Heywood | Grady service. Michigan "Woods Cop" mysteries. |
Carl Hiaasen | "Skinny Dip" et al. Florida, present. |
Steve Hockensmith | Cowboys, Mysteries, Humor. "Holmes on the Range" |
Juris Jurjevics | "Trudeau Vector" . Arctic Circle mystery/suspense. |
Jon Katz | Death by Station Wagon: Suburban Dad mysteries. |
[Yes, the Dog Guy] | |
H.R.F. Keating | Ghote. Indian police, 1960's-70's |
Michael Koryta | Lincoln Perry. Midwestern PI. Current. |
Jane Langton | Homer Kelly. Academic mysteries. MA. |
Margaret Lawrence | Hannah Trevor. Midwife. US. Revolutionary Era. |
John Lawton | Inspector Troy. WW II & onward. |
Jill Lepore/Jane Kamensky | "Blind Spot" Colonial America, pre-Revolution. |
John Lescroart | Dismas Hardy. SF lawyer. Current. |
Laura Lippman | Tess Monaghan. Baltimore reporter. |
Henning Mankell | Kurt Wallender. Swedish police inspector. Present. |
Ed McBain | 87th Precinct. NYC police procedurals, 1950's - 2000. |
James McClure | Kramer & Zondi. South Africa. Police. 1970's. |
Magdalen Nabb | Marshall Guarnaccia. Florence, Italy. |
Michael Nava | Henry Rios. Gay Chicano lawyer. |
Barbara Neely | Blanche White. African-American cleaning woman/detective. |
Jo Nesbo | Harry Hole. Nuff said. |
Rebecca Pawel | Carlos Tejada Leon. Guardia Civil. Fascist Spain, 1930's. |
Arturo Perez-Reverte | Spain, mostly. "The Fencing Master", et al. |
Elizabeth Peters | Amelia Peabody. Our favorite Egyptologist. |
Phil Rickman | Merrily Watkins. Female Brit cleric/"Paranormal Advisor" |
Cynthia Riggs | Victoria Trumbull. 92 y/o Martha's Vineyardian. |
Michael Robertson | Baker Street Letters, sequels. Holmes-based mystery. |
Michael Robotham | Joseph O'Laughlin. Psychologist. Australia/England. |
Kate Ross | Julian Kestrel. Brit. Regency-era dandy. |
S.J. Rozan | Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series. NY. Present. |
Hank Phillippi Ryan | Charlotte McNally. TV reporter, MA. |
James Sallis | Lew Griffin. Black New Orleans PI. |
Steven Saylor | Gordianus the Finder. Ancient Rome. |
John Shannon | Jack Liffey. LA sort-of-PI. Present. |
Julie Smith | Skip Langdon. New Orleans policewoman. |
"New Orleans Mourning" won Edgar. | |
Rebecca Stead | "When You Reach Me". YA SF/Mystery. |
Frank Tallis | Max Leibermann. 1902 Vienna psychoanalyst. |
William F. Tapply | Brady Coyne. Boston lawyer/detective. |
P.J. Tracy | MonkeeWrench gang. Computers/police. Minnesota. |
Helene Tursten | Irene Huss. Police inspector. Sweden, again. |
Arthur Upfield | Napoleon Bonaparte. Australiian Aboriginal Police inspector, 1930's - 1950's. |
Janwillem van de Wetering | Grijpstra & de Gier. Amsterdam cops. |
Wendelin van Draanen | Sammy Keyes. Kid-to-YA mystery. |
Michael Walters | Neugui [New Guy?]. Mongolia. Senior Security Official. |
AND in ADDITION | |
Steve Ulfelder | Alcoholic detectives. Conway Sax. |
Walter Mosley | Black New York. Leonid Magill. |
Persia Walker | Black New York. Lanie Price. Harlem. Jazz Age. |
Carol O'Connell | Female Police inspectors. Kathleen Mallory. NY. |
Anne Holt | Female Police inspectors. Hanne Wilhelmsen. Norway. |
Political Mysteries | Suggestions? William Tapply mentioned… |
Fredric Brown | Chicago. Ed & Am, PIs, 1940's - '60's |
Ed Ifkovic | Authors as Fictional Detectives: Edna Ferber |
Joanna Challis | Daphne Du Maurier |
J.J. Murphy | Dorothy Parker |
Louis Bayard | Edgar Allan Poe |
Kathryn Guare | Local [Vermont] Authors |
Lloyd Richards | Local [Vermont] Authors |
Jennifer McMahon | Local [Vermont] Authors |
Kevin McNeil Brown | Local [Vermont] Authors |
Sara Henry | Local [Vermont] Authors |
[& OTHERS] | |
George V. Higgins | Dialogue Driven |
Lou Berney | Dialogue Driven |
Ross Thomas | Dialogue Driven |
Ken Bruen | Ireland, The Troubles, & Beyond |
Stuart Neville | Ireland, The Troubles, & Beyond |
Scott Turow | "Presumed Innocent" & "Presumed Guilty" |
Dick Francis | Horses & Racing |
Stephen Dobyns | Horses & Racing |
Anne Perry | William Monk/Thomas Pitt & "Murder of the Century" |
Abigail Padgett | Bo Bradley or Blue McCarron |
Katherine Forrest | Kate Delafield. Lesbian police officer. First 'mainstream' series. |
Dana Stabenow | |
Howard Fast | [as E.V. Cunningham]. Masao Masuto. |
Michael Gruber | |
Jason Webster | Death in Valencia. Spain, present. |
Eleanor Kuhns | A Simple Murder. U.S., just after Revolutionary War. |
Rebecca Cantrell | A Game of Lies. Hannah Vogel. Berlin journalist, ~1936. |
Siobhan Dowd | London Eye Mystery. England, for Grades 3-7. |
Julia Keller | Killing in the Hills - West Virginia |
Val McDermid | |
Minette Walters | |
Jim Thompson | |
Ellery Queen | |
Bruce Alexander |