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Great New Mystery and Crime Novels Posted September 2005

These new mystery and crime novels can be found in the New Fiction area under the author's last name.

          

Rozan, S. J.
Absent Friends
A New York City fireman, Jimmy McCafferty, who died in the World Trade Center attack, is first celebrated as a hero and then accused of being connected to organized crime. Rozan shifts between past and present as she examines McCafferty's life and the day that changed our lives.

Kelly, Jim
The Fire Baby
While Philip Dryden's wife, Laura, remains locked in a coma, Philip becomes involved in a decades-old tragedy involving the crash of a U.S. Air Force plane. The investigation takes an odd turn when Laura appears to have left a message relating to the case on her touch-sensitive recorder.

Rankin, Ian
Fleshmarket Alley
Edinburgh investigator John Rebus finds his cynical soul transformed by the new face of racism when he investigates the murder of an illegal immigrant.

Mosley, Walter
Little Scarlet
This is the ninth installment of the Easy Rawlins series. Rawlins is asked by the LAPD to help find who killed a black woman during the Watts riot of 1965.

Smith, Martin Cruz
Wolves Eat Dogs
Russian investigator Arkady Renko has found the perfect vacation spot: the dreaded no-man's-land around Chernobyl, where he goes to investigate a murder but finds himself drawn by the ambience. Cruz conjures a shadow world much like The Twilight Zone.

McCall Smith, Alexander
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
Botswana sleuth Precious Ramotswe faces new cases and a personal crisis in this sixth entry in the series.

                

Mortimer, John
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
Masterful characterization and a spellbinding plot, filled with the arcane lore and intrigues of the Old Bailey, make this a special treat for fans of Rumpole.

Connelly, Michael
The Narrows
Connelly builds tension exponentially through superb use of dramatic irony and multiple points of view. The stunning finale in the cement-lined Los Angeles River provides the reader with a breathtaking climax to a truly suspenseful story.

Mills, Mark
Amagansett
Mills's thriller about a murder in the Long Island community of Amagansett just after World War II combines a love story with the investigation, starring a Basque fisherman and a cop trying to resurrect his career in the wake of a scandal.

Lindsay, Jeffry
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
The narrator of this mystery is not your everyday crime solver. Dexter Morgan works for the police as a blood-splatter expert, but on his own time, he's a serial killer.

Cotterill, Colin
The Coroner's Lunch
Dr. Siri Paiboun, the seventy-year-old chief medical examiner of Laos, suddenly has his cushy job take a turn for the serious when the wife of a party leader turns up dead and the bodies of tortured Vietnamese soldiers start bobbing to the surface of a Laotian lake.

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