Overbooked Book Lists
Amateur Sleuths Booklist
Page Modified: June 19, 2009
Updated as time allows...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.
- Agatha Raisin
and the Love from Hell
Author: Beaton, M.C.
Publisher: Minotaur $ 22.95 ISBN: 0312207662 Date: 2001
Booklist
Recently married to James Lacey, amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin quickly finds that marriage is not all it's cracked up to be. The newlyweds are living in separate cottages and each suspects the other of having an affair. When James turns up missing, a blood stain the only evidence, Agatha is determined to find her husband.
Suggested Reading: Traditional British
Updated 8/27/01 - The Hanging in the Hotel: Fethering
Author: Brett, Simon
Publisher: Prime Crime $ 23.95 ISBN: 0425196518 Date: 2004
Booklist
A group of local businessmen has descended upon the hotel where Jude is waitressing as a favor to a friend. In this installment of the Fethering mystery series, Jude suspects foul play as a new member tries to join the group.
Updated 7.6.04 - Double Shot
Author: Davidson, Diane Mott
Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060527293 Date: 2004
PW
"Today's foremost practitioner of the culinary whodunit" (Entertainment Weekly) whips up a rich souffle of murder and mischief as her trusty heroine Goldy Schultz gets caught up in a web of secrets and lies that could tear her family apart.
Suggested Reading: Cooked Books
Updated 9.18.04 - The Cold Blue Blood: Berger &
Mitry
Author: Handler, David
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312280033 Date: 2001
Kirkus
From Edgar Award-winning author Handler comes a fresh new mystery series starring a highly mismatched romantic duo who team up to solve the mystery of the dead man in the vegetable garden.
Updated 8/23/01 - Engaged to Die: A Death on Demand Mystery
Author: Hart, Carolyn
Publisher: Morrow $ 23.95 ISBN: 006000469x Date: 2003
PW
"The reigning monarch of the amateur sleuth mystery" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and the multiple winner of the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards serves up a deadly and delightful new tale.
Updated 2.20.03 - Murder Off Mike: A Talk
Radio Mystery
Author: Krieg, Joyce
Publisher: Minotaur $ 23.95 ISBN: 0312310269 Date: 2003
PW
Booklist
The winner of the 2002 St. Martin's Press/Malice Domestic Contest for Best First Traditional Mystery introduces Shauna J. Bogart, a smart, sassy radio talk show host at Sacramento's top-rated local station who launches her own investigation into the "suicide" of a fellow shock jock.
Suggested Reading: First Fiction & Mystery Debuts
Updated 3.27.03 - Dead Clever
Author: Thomas, Scarlett
Publisher: Justin Charles $ 24.95 ISBN: 1932112014 Date: 2003
Library Journal
Lily Pascale is the hippest new heroine to come from London since Bridget Jones. In her first mystery, she finds herself smack in the middle of a real life crime--Stephanie Duncan's decapitated corpse has just turned up on campus!
Updated 1.16.03
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Ann Chambers Theis: Collection Management Administrator, Chesterfield County (VA) Public Library. 9501 Lori Rd. or P.O. Box 297, Chesterfield, VA, 23832. Phone: 804.748.1760. 
I really appreciate all the e-mail I receive from avid readers and writers and regret that I am not able to respond to all correspondents.
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