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mystery police procedural 

2011: #39 – The Cold Room (J.T. Ellison)

July 15, 2011 1 Comment

Book #39 was The Cold Room, the fourth book in J.T. Ellison’s Taylor Jackson series. The back of the book reads: He can truly love her only once her heart stops. Homicide detective Taylor Jackson thinks she’s seen it all in Nashville—from the Southern Strangler to the Snow White Killer. But she’s never seen anything as perverse as The Conductor. Once his victim is captured,

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2011: #25 – The Complaints (Ian Rankin)

April 26, 2011 2 Comments

Book #25 was The Complaints, the first in a new series by Ian Rankin. The back of the book reads: Nobody likes The Complaints–they’re the cops who investigate other cops. It’s a department known within the force as "The Dark Side," and it’s where Malcolm Fox works. He’s a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an

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2011: #22 – The Likeness (Tana French)

April 2, 2011 5 Comments

Book #22 was The Likeness by Tana French, the second book in her Dublin Murder Squad series.  The back of the book reads: The haunting follow up to the Edgar Award-winning debut In the Woods Tana French astonished critics and readers alike with her mesmerizing debut novel, In the Woods. Now both French and Detective Cassie Maddox return to unravel a case even more sinister

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2011: #12 – Bloody Mary (J.A. Konrath)

February 21, 2011 2 Comments

Book #12 was Bloody Mary, the second book in J.A. Konrath’s Jack Daniels series.  The back of the book reads: Lieutenant Jack Daniels is back, and this time she has to solve one of her goriest cases ever. Someone is running around Chicago dismembering women, and the spare body parts are winding up at the local morgue. In addition to the headaches of the job,

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That’s I before M, 5 letters, no Ys. Obsessed with books. A lot.

   

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