Reflecting the Sky
10 best books like Reflecting the Sky (S.J. Rozan): Without a Word, A Stranger In My Grave, Faded Coat of Blue, Camouflage, Tracking Time, Cold and Pure and Very Dead, A Season of Knives, The Bride's Kimono, The People's Train, The White Trilogy
| Author | Carol Lea Benjamin |
| ISBN | 0060539011 |
Critics around the country have consistently praised Shamus Award-winning author Carol Lea Benjamin for her razor-sharp writing, stylish plotting, and characters so rich and fully fleshed that you feel as if you've known them all of your life. Now, in a tale of family secrets and heartbreaking betrayals,...
| Author | Margaret Millar |
| ISBN | 0749002239 |
When I decided to go on a bender with female mystery writers from the mid-twentieth century, this book caught my eye for a couple reasons. I read that Ross MacDonald (the Lew Archer mysteries) and Millar were married, and because Millar had already made a reputation for herself as a mystery writer, Ross...
| Author | Owen Parry |
| ISBN | 0380976420 |
Veteran of Queen Victoria's wars and recent immigrant to America, Abel Jones believed he had left his days in uniform behind. Now, firmly rooted on the shores of his adopted land-where American has taken up arms against American in this most terrible of conflicts-he has signed on as a confidential agent...
| Author | Bill Pronzini |
| ISBN | 0765325640 |
Nameless may not like David Virden, but the case is simple enough: find his ex-wife—and they know where she is. Deliver some papers to her and it’s all done. But she refuses the papers, sends a message to Virden to never contact her again, and slams the door.
His colleague, Tamara,...
| Author | Leslie Glass |
| ISBN | 0451202287 |
April risks her career to investigate the disappearance of a young doctor in Central Park.
When Maslow Atkins goes for a quick run and doesn't come back, April's usually flawless cop instincts tell her that he is alive. She orders a massive search using the city's best K-9 tracking unit, though...
Cold and Pure and Very Dead
| Author | Joanne Dobson |
| ISBN | 0553580027 |
The Agatha Award-Nominated Author of Quieter Than Sleep
Professor Karen Pelletier has made a name for herself as one of the leading scholars of literature at exclusive Enfield College. But when an offhand comment sets off a firestorm of controversy, she finds herself embroiled in a scandal...
| Author | P.F. Chisholm |
| ISBN | 1890208329 |
In 1592, Sir Robert Carey, a handsome courtier fleeing his creditors, his father's wrath, and the close scrutiny of his Queen, came north to Carlisle to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the West March. The presence of his true love, the married Elizabeth Widdrington, was no mere coincidence. Before...
| Author | Sujata Massey |
| ISBN | 0061031151 |
Antiques dealer Rei Shimura has managed to snag one of the most lucrative and prestigious jobs of her career: a renowned museum in Washington, D.C., has invited her to exhibit her kimonos and give a lecture on them. Accompanied by a gaggle of Japanese office ladies bent on a week of shopping, Rei lands...
| Author | Tom Keneally |
| ISBN | 0340951850 |
I haven't read Schindler's Ark (or —— List, if you're American), so I can't comment on whether or not The People's Train is better or even the same kind of book; in fact, I didn't even know who Keneally was until after I bought it. I can tell you, however, that it's interesting to see a story about Russians...
| Author | Ken Bruen |
| ISBN | 1932112022 |
Hip, violent and funny vignettes of the mean streets of southeast London tie together this rowdy set of short novels by Bruen (The Guards), a modern Irish master of the hard-boiled.
Collecting A White Arrest (1998), Taming the Alien (1999) and The McDead (2000) for first U.S. publication,...
| Author | Sandi Ault |
| ISBN | 0425219224 |
When WILDFIRE erupts on a patchwork of land including the Southern Ute Reservation, Jamaica Wild is sent to find an old Ute man named Grampa Ned, who has vanished. Jamaica risks danger to go after him, but the fire crowns and torches through the area, forcing her to run for her life. As she escapes, Jamaica...
