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Amateur Sleuths Booklist

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.

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• 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