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Massachusetts Mysteries
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Garden Room
This month's topic is all about location, location, location. Some of the titles on this list are cozies, where the crime takes place off the page and there is little or no violence.  Others are hard boiled and include lots of gruesome details.  Whether the main character is a cranky cab driver, a lawyer, a detective or a shaker, they all have one thing in common --- they take place right here, in Massachusetts.
Anthology of Short Stories Various Murder and Mystery in Boston (1987)
Ablow, Keith Frank Clevenger Denial (1998)
Projection (1999)
Compulsion (2002)
Psychopath (2003)
Murder Suicide (2004)
The Architect (2005)
Abraham, Peter Francie Cullingwood A Perfect Crime (1998)
Adamson, Mary Jo Michael Merrick The Blazing Tree (2000)
The Elusive Voice (2001)
Allen, Irene Elizabeth Elliot Quaker Silence (1992)
Quaker Witness (1993)
Quaker Testimony (1996)
Quaker Indictment (1998)
Arnold, Margot Penny Spring & Sir Toby Cape Cod Conundrum (1992)
Barnes, Linda Carlotta Carlyle

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Spraggue

A Trouble of Fools (1987)
The Snake Tattoo (1989)
Coyote (1990)
Steel Guitar (1991)
Snapshot (1993)
Hardware (1995)
Cold Case (1997)
Flashpoint (1999)
The Big Dig (2002)
Deep Pockets (2004)
Heart of the World (2006)

Blood Will Tell (1982) Not Available
Bitter Finish (1983)
Dead Heat (1994)
Cities of the Dead (1996)
Berry, Carole Joyce Neuhauser Nightmare Point (1993)
Blake, Michelle Lily Connor / Boston The Tentmaker (1999)
Earth Has No Sorrow (2001)
The Book of Light (2003)
Blanc, Nero Crossword Mysteries Two Down (2001)
The Crossword Connection (2001)
A Crossworder's Holiday (2002)
A Crossword to Die For (2002)
A Crossworder's Holiday (2002)
Corpus de Crossword (2003)
A Crossworder's Gift (2003)
Anatomy of a Crossword (2004)
Wrapped Up in Crosswords (2004)
A Crossworder's Delight (2005)
Blanchard, Al Steve Asher


James Callahan

Murder at Walden Pond (2001)
Mad Season (2002)

The Iscariot Conspiracy (2001)
The Disappearance of Jenna Drago (2002)

Boylan, Eleanor Clara Gamadge Murder Crossed (1996)
Braver, Gary Rachel Whitman Gray Matter (2002)
Brogan, Jan Addy McNeil Final Copy (2001)
Carter, Stephen L. Talcott Garland The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002)
Clark, Mary Higgins   Death at the Cape (1989)
Coburn, Andrew James Morgan No Way Home (1993)
Conant, Susan Holly Winter A New Leash on Death (1989)
Dead adn Doggone (1990)
Paws Before Dying (1991)
A Bite of Death (1991)
Bloodlines (1992)
Gone to the Dogs (1992)
Ruffly Speaking (1994)
Black Ribbon (1995)
Stud Rites(1996)
Animal Appetite (1997)
The Barker Street Regulars (1998)
Evil Breeding (1999)
Creature Discomforts (2000)
The Wicked Flea (2002)
The Dogfather (2003)
Bride and Groom (2004)
Gaits of Heaven (2006)
Connors, Rose Martha "Marty" Nickerson /
Cape Cod
Absollute Certainty (2003)
Temporary Sanity(2003)
Maximum Security (2004)
False Testimony (2005)
Cook, Thomas Elizabeth Channing The Chatham School Affair (1996)
Craig, Philip R. Martha's Vineyard / Jeff Jefferson A Beautiful Place to Die (1989)
The Woman Who Walked into the Sea (1991)
Double Minded Men (1992)
Cliff Hanger (1993)
Off Season (1994)
A Case of Vineyard Poison (1995)
Death on a Vineyard Beach (1996)
A Deadly Vineyard Holiday (1997)
A Shoot on Martha's Vineyard (1998)
A Fatal Vineyard Season (1999)
Vineyard Blues (2000)
Vineyard Shadows (2001)
Vineyard Enigma (2002)
First Light (2002)
Vineyard Killing (2003)
Murder at a Vineyard Mansion (2004)
Vineyard Prey (2005)
Second Sight (2005)
Dead in a Vineyard Sand (2006)
Cruikshank, Jeffry L. Wim Vermeer / Cambridge Murder at the B-School (2004)
Curry, Jack   Two and Out (2001)
Daniel, David Alex Rasmussen The Tuesday Man (1991)
The Heaven Stone (1994)
The Skelly Man (1995)
Day, Diane Freemont Jones / Boston
(other books in series take place in San Francisco)
The Strange Files of Fremont Jones (1995)
Beacon Street Mourning (2000)
Devane, Terry
(pseudonym for Jeremiah Healy)
Mairead O'Clare / Boston Uncommon Justice (2001)
Juror Number Eleven (2001)
A Stain Upon the Robe (2003)
Dobson, Joanne Karen Pelletier

 

 

Quieter than Sleep (1997)
The Northbury Papers (1998)
The Raven and the Nightingale (1999)
Cold and Pure and Very Dead (2000)
The Maltese Manuscript (2003)
Doolittle, Jerome Tom Bethany Body Scissors (1990)
Strange Hold (1991)
Bear Hug (1992)
Head Lock (1993)
Half Nelson (1994)
Kill Story (1995)
Dreyer, Sarah Stoner Mctavish Shaman's Moon (1998)
Dobbyn, John F. Michael Knight / Boston Neon Dragon (2007)
Ephron, G.H. Dr. Peter Zack Amnesia (2000)
Addiction (2001)
Delusion (2002)
Obsessed (2003)
Guilt (2005)
Crabbe, Evers Duffy House / Boston Fear in Fenway (1993)
Gerritsen, Tess Jane Rizzoli / Boston The Surgeon (2001)
The Apprentice (2002)
The Sinner (2003)
Body Double (2004)
Vanish (2005)
The Mephisto Club (2006)
Goldestone, Nancy Elizabeth Halperin / Berkshires Mommy and the Murder (1995)
Mommy and the Money (1997)
Graves, Ralph Jason Arnold / Martha's Vineyard Champagne Kisses, Cyanide Dreams (2001)
Gunning, Sally Peter Bartholomew / Cape Cod Hot Water (1990)
Under Water (1992)
Ice Water (1993)
Troubled Water (1993)
Rough Water (1994)
Still Water (1995)
Deep Water (1996)
Muddy Water (1997)
Dirty Water (1998)
Fire Water (1999)
Healy, Jeremiah F. John Francis Cuddy / Boston Blunt Darts (1984)
The Staked Goat (1986)
So Like Sleep (1987)
Swan Dive (1988)
Yesterday's News (1989)
Right to Die (1991)
Shallow Graves (1992)
Foursome (1993)
Act of God (1994)
Rescue (1995)
Invasion of Privacy (1996)
The Only Good Lawyer (1998)
Spiral (1999)
 
Higgins, George V. Harry Dell'Appa / Boston Bomber's Law (1993)
Hogan, Chuck Don Maddox / Black Falls, MA The Killing Moon (2007)
Juniper, Alex Marnie / Boston A Very Proper Death (1991)
Kadow, Jeannine Lacie Wagner / Nantucket Dead Tide (2002)
Kallan, Lucielle   C.B. Greenfield - The Tanglewood Murder (1980)
Katz, David Evans Malden, Massachusetts Sin of Omission (2003)
Katz, Jamie Dan Kardon / Buzzard's Bay Dead Low Tide (1998)
A Summer for Dying (2000)
Kellerman, Jonathan Darryl Two Moons & Michael MacCain / Boston Double Homicide (2004)
Kemelman, Harry Rabbi David Small / Barnard's Crossing Friday, th