British Mysteries

Mark Billingham
§ Sleepy Head
Steven Booth
§ Dancing with the Virgins
Rhys Bowen
§ Her Royal Spyness
Tony Broadbent
§ The Smoke
Ken Bruen
§ The Guards
Deborah Crombie
§ In a Dark House
§ Water Like a Stone
Clare Curzon
§ Don’t Leave Me
Anthony Eglin
§ The Blue Rose
Geraldine Evans
§ Dead Before Morning
Christopher Fowler
§ Full Dark House
§ White Corridor
Elizabeth George
§ Careless in Red
§ With No One As Witness
Caroline Graham
§ A Ghost in the Machine
Ann Granger
§ The Companion
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
§ Dear Departed
§ Game Over
§ Gone Tomorrow
Erin Hart
§ Haunted Ground
Patricia Harwin
§ Arson & Old Lace
Reginald Hill
§ The Stranger House
Elizabeth Ironside
§ The Accomplice
§ Death in the Garden
P.D. James
§ The Murder Room
M.G. Kincaid
§ Last Seen in Aberdeen
§ The Last Victim in Glen Ross
Peter Lovesey
§ The Reaper
Stuart McBride
§ Bloodshot
§ Cold Granite
§ Dying Light
Val McDermid
§ The Distant Echo
Jill McGown
§ Death in the Family
§ A Tribute to Jill McGown
Denise Mina
§ The Dead Hour
§ Field of Blood
Ann Purser
§ Murder on Monday
Ian Rankin
§ Dead Souls
§ Fleshmarket Alley
Danuta Reah
§ Listen to the Shadows
Ruth Rendell
§ The Rottweiler
Peter Robinson
§ Close to Home
Sarah Smith
§ Chasing Shakespeares
Peter Watson
§ Landscape of Lies
Laura Wilson
§ Telling Lies to Alice


The Smoke, Tony Broadbent, Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's, $23.95.

This is a great, fun read that should appeal to absolutely anyone that enjoys a enjoys a good story. Imagine Cary Grant's cat burglar character in It Takes a Thief turned Cockney, just after W.W.II, and you get the idea, though nothing in this novel is expected or predictable. To top it off Broadbent has some of the most delicious language skills I've encountered in quite some time, as well as a very well thought out sense of character, time and place. Not to be missed.

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