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Soft-Boiled/Cozy Mystery & Detection Crime Fiction Booklist
Page Modified: June 1, 2007
A list of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on this list. Titles are alphabetically by author. Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.
Key Authors
- Susan Albert Wittig
- Donna Andrews
- M. C. Beaton
- Carrie Bebris
- Lilian Jackson Braun
- Dorothy Cannell
- Jill Churchill
- Agatha Christie
- Jeanne Dams
- Diane Mott Davidson
- Lindsey Davis
- Carola Dunn
- Earlene Fowler
- Anne George
- Kerry Greenwood
- Martha Grimes
- David Handler
- Carolyn G. Hart
- Joan Hess
- Emyl Jenkins
- Charlotte MacLeod
- Rett MacPherson
- Margaret Maron
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Rex Stout
- Katherine Hall Page
- Elizabeth Peters
- Nancy Pickard
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