2010 Reading List

January: Cold Case.
Sue Grafton:  “O” is for Outlaw
Robert Barnard:  Bones in the Attic

February: Queens of Crime.
Agatha Christie: Death in the Clouds/ Death in the Air.
Dorothy Sayers: Whose Body?. Ngaio Marsh: Death of a Peer aka Surfeit of Lampreys

March: Fathers of Crime.
Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles

April: Male vs. Female PI.
Marcia Muller: The Broken Promise Land.
Ross MacDonald: The Wycherly Woman

May: Religious Sleuths.
Harry Kemelman: Friday The Rabbi Slept Late.
Ralph McInerny: Last Things

June: Culinary.
Lou Jane Temple: The Spice Box.
Michael Bond: Monsieur Pamplemousse

July: Wild Card.
Carol O’Connell:  Mallory’s Oracle
Michael Chabon:  The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

August: Professional vs. Amateur Detectives.
Thomas Adcock:  Dark Maze
Joan Hess:  Roll Over and Play Dead

September: Academic.
Jane Haddam:  Headmaster’s Wife
Lev Raphael:  The Edith Wharton Murders

October: Cozy vs. Hard Boiled.
Raymond Chandler:  The Big Sleep
Caroline Hart:  A Little Class On Murder

November: Big City vs. Small Town Cops.
Gabriel Cohen: The Graving Dock.
Francine Mathews: Death in Rough Water

December: Wild Card.
Tana French:  In The Woods
Peter Robinson:  Close to Home