MBTB's Favorite Books Through the Years

Penzler, Otto, ed., “In Pursuit of Spenser” (2012)

Weinman, Sarah, “Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense” (2013)

Berkeley, Anthony, the Roger Sheringham series, beginning with “The Layton Court Mystery” (1925)

Crispin, Edmund, “The Moving Toyshop” (1946)

Upson, Nicola, “An Expert in Murder” (2008) (featuring Josephine Tey)

Walsh, Jill Paton (and Dorothy Sayers), “A Presumption of Death” (2003), “The Attenbury Emeralds” (2011)

Barnes, Linda, “Steel Guitar” (1991), “Cold Case” (1997)

Barr, Nevada, “Deep South” (2000)

Burke, Jan, “Bones” (1999)

Chazin, Suzanne, “The Fourth Angel” (2001)

Connor, Beverly, “Airtight Case” (2000)

Dionne, Karen, “The Marsh King’s Daughter” (2017)

Elo, Elisabeth, “North of Boston” (2014)

Farmer, Jerrilyn, “Dim Sum Dead” (2001)

Gaylin, Alison, “And She Was” (2012)

Grafton, Sue, “B Is for Burglar” (1985), “U Is for Undertow” (2009), “X” (2015), “Y Is for Yesterday” (2017)

Gran, Sara, “Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead” (2011), “The Infinite Blacktop” (2018)

Graves, Sarah, “The Dead Cat Bounce” (1997)

Harris, Charlene, “Dead Until Dark” (2001), “An Ice Cold Grave” (2007), “Grave Secret” (2009)

Hightower, Lynn, “The Debt Collector” (2000)

Isaacs, Susan, “Magic Hour” (1991), “Compromising Positions” (1978), “Long Time No See” (2001)

Johnson, Claire M., “Beat Until Stiff” (2003)

Johnson, Diane, “Le Mariage” (1996)

Kamal, Sheena, “The Lost Ones” (2017) (aka “Eyes Like Mine”)

Kandel, Susan, “I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason” (2004)

Kelly, Mary Ann, “Park Lane South, Queens” (1990)

Kent, Kathleen, “The Dime” (2018)

Kijewski, Karen, “Kat Scratch Fever” (1997)

Kramer, Julie, “Stalking Susan” (2008)

Lippman, Laura, “What the Dead Know” (2007), “Lady in the Lake” (2019)

Lutz, Lisa, “The Spellman Files” (2007)

Masterman, Becky, “Rage Against the Dying” (2013), “A Twist of the Knife” (2017)

Miller, Jax, “Freedom’s Child” (2016)

O’Connell, Carol, “Judas Child” (1998), “Crime School” (2002), “Bone by Bone” (2008)

O’Donohue, Clare, “Life Without Parole” (2012)

O’Flynn, Catherine, “What Was Lost” (2007)

Pall, Ellen, “Corpse de Ballet” (2002)

Paretsky, Sara, “Blood Shot” (1988)

Pickard, Nancy, “Bum Steer” (1989)

Piesman, Marissa, “Unorthodox Practices” (1989)

Pochoda, Ivy, “Visitation Street” (2013)

Prowell, Sandra West, “The Killing of Monday Brown” (1994)

Rogan, Barbara, “Dangerous Fiction” (2013)

Rozan, S. J., “A Bitter Feast” (1998)

Smiley, Jane, “Duplicate Keys” (1984)

Spencer-Fleming, Julia, “In the Bleak Midwinter” (2002)

White, Ellen Emerson, “All Emergencies, Ring Super” (1997)

Wolfe, Susan, “The Last Billable Hour” (1989)

Abbott, Megan, “Give Me Your Hand” (2018)

Arango, Sacha, “The Truth and Other Lies” (2014, US Ed. 2015)

Barclay, Linwood, “Trust Your Eyes” (2013)

Bauer, Belinda, “Rubbernecker” (2013), “Snap” (2018), “Exit” (2021)

Beverly, Bill, “Dodgers” (2017)

Faust, Ron, “The Blood Red Sea (2005)

Finn, A.J., “The Woman in the Window” (2018)

Harris, Thomas, “The Silence of the Lambs” (1988)

Harrison, Colin, “The Finder” (2008)

Hobbs, Roger, “Ghostman” (2013)

Johnston, Tim, “The Current” (2019)

Kushner, Rachel, “The Mars Room” (2018)

Laukkanen, Owen, “The Professionals” (2012)

Lennon, J. Robert, “Broken River” (2017)

Leonard, Elmore, “La Brava” (1983), “Raylan” (2012)

Lindsay, Jeff, “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” (2004)

Osborne, Lawrence, “The Glass Kingdom” (2020)

Piccirilli, Tom, “The Last Kind Words” (2012)

Price, Richard, “Lush Life” (2008)

Quirk, Matthew, “The 500” (2012)

Van Rooy, Michael, “A Criminal to Remember” (2010)

Wilson, Robert, “Capital Punishment” (2013)

Baldacci, David, “Zero Day” (2011)

Berenson, Alex, “A Faithful Spy” (2006)

Carpenter, Lea, “Red White Blue” (2018)

Christy, Bryan, “In the Company of Killers” (2021)

DeMille, Nelson, “The General’s Daughter” (1992)

Furst, Alan, “Blood of Victory” (2002)

Gabbay, Tom, “The Teheran Conviction” (2009)

Gordon, Neil, “The Gunrunner’s Daughter” (1998)

Harris, Robert, “An Officer and a Spy” (2013)

Hiller, Micha, “Shake Off” (2011)

Hougan, Carolyn, “The Romeo Flag” (1989)

Hunter, Stephen, “Point of Impact” (1993), “Black Light” (1996)

Jay, Gerald, “The Paris Directive” (2012)

Jurjevics, Juris, “Play the Red Queen” (2020)

Kanon, Joseph, “The Good German” (2001)

Lawton, John, “Black Out” (1995)

Le Carré, John, “The Little Drummer Girl” (1983), “The Constant Gardener” (2000), “A Legacy of Spies” (2017)

Littell, Robert, “Agent in Place” (1991), “The Company” (2002)

McCarry, Charles, “Old Boys” (2004)

Porter, Henry, “Remembrance Day” (1999), “Firefly” (2018)

Steinhauer, Olen, “The Tourist” (2009), “All the Old Knives” (2015)

Thomson, Keith, “Once a Spy” (2010)

Anderson, Kent, “Green Sun” (2018)

Andrews, Robert, “A Murder of Honor” (2001), “A Murder of Promise” (2002)

Box, C. J., “Open Season” (2001), “Savage Run” (2002), “Blue Heaven” (2008)

Burke, James Lee, “Black Cherry Blues” (1989), “Purple Cane Road” (2000)

Connelly, Michael, “Black Echo” (1992), “Blood Work” (1998), “Lost Light” (2003), “The Brass Verdict” (2008), “The Gods of Guilt” (2013)

Connolly, John, “The Dark Hollow” (2001)

Cook, Thomas H., “Evidence of Blood” (1991), “Breakheart Hill” (1995), “Master of the Delta” (2008), “Sandrine’s Case” (2013)

Erickson, K. J., “Third Person Singular” (2001)

Fields, Tricia, “The Territory” (2011)

Flanagan, Joe, “Lesser Evils” (2016)

Franklin, Tom, “Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter” (2010)

Friedman, Daniel, “Running Out of Road” (2020)

Gruber, Michael, “Tropic of Night” (2003)

Harrison, Jamie, “An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence” (1998)

Hogan, Chuck, “Prince of Thieves” (2004)

Johnson, Craig — “A Serpent’s Tooth” (2013), “The Western Star” (2017)

Landay, William, “Mission Flats” (2003)

Malone, Michael, the Cuddy Morgan/Justin Seville series, including “Uncivil Seasons,” “Time’s Witness,” and “First Lady” (1983, 1989, 2001)

Newton, Charlie, “Calumet City” (2008)

Parker, T. Jefferson, “Silent Joe” (2001), “Cold Pursuit” (2003), “Iron River” (2010), “The Jaguar” (2012)

Thornton, Chris Harding, “Pickard County Atlas” (2021)

Zigal, Thomas, “Into Thin Air” (1995)

King, Laurie R., “The Game” (2004)

Atkins, Ace, “The Ranger” (2011)

Berney, Lou, “The Long and Faraway Gone” (2016)

Billheimer, John, “Contrary Blues” (1998), “Highway Robbery” (2000)

Block, Lawrence, “Out on the Cutting Edge” (1989), “The Sins of the Father” (1976), “Drop of the Hard Stuff” (2011), “Hit Me” (2013)

Bruen, Ken, “Once Were Cops” (2008)

Bruen, Ken & Reed Farrel Coleman, “Tower” (2009)

Campbell, Robert, “In a Pig’s Eye” (1991)

Chercover, Sean, “Big City, Bad Blood” (2007), “Trigger City” (2008)

Child, Lee, “Echo Burning” (2001), “A Wanted Man” (2012)

Coleman, Reed Farrel, “What You Break” (2017)

Coleman, Reed Farrel & Ken Bruen, “Tower” (2009)

Crais, Robert, “L.A. Requiem” (1999), “Chasing Darkness” (2008), “The Sentry” (2011), “Taken” (2012)

DeSilva, Bruce, “Rogue Island” (2010)

Estleman, Loren, “Whiskey River” (1990)

Faherty, Terence, “Die Dreaming” (1994), “Prove the Nameless” (1996)

Freeman, Brian, “The Deep, Deep Snow” (2020)

Fusilli, Jim, “A Well-Known Secret” (2002)

Galbraith, Robert, “Cuckoo’s Calling” (2013), “The Silkworm” (2014)

Hamilton, Steve, “The Lock Artist” (2010), “Misery Bay” (2011)

Harvey, Michael, “The Chicago Way” (2007)

Hawley, Noah, “Before the Fall” (2016)

Ide, Joe, “IQ” (2016), “Hi Five” (2020), “Smoke”’ (2021)

Koryta, Michael, “Tonight I Said Goodbye” (2004), “Envy the Night” (2008)

Krueger, William Kent, “Purgatory Ridge” (2001),“Ordinary Grace” (2013)

Lansdale, Joe R., “The Bottoms” (2000), “Sunset and Sawdust” (2004)

Lehane, Dennis, “A Drink Before the War” (1994), “Darkness, Take My Hand” (1996), “Gone, Baby, Gone” (1998), “Mystic River” (2001)

McCafferty, Keith, “The Royal Wulff Murders” (2012)

Osborne, Lawrence, “Only to Sleep” (2018) (a story using Raymond Chandler's creation, Philip Marlowe)

Pelecanos, George, “Shame the Devil” (2000), “Hard Revolution” (2004), “The Turnaround” (2008), “The Way Home” (2009)

Perry, Thomas, “The Face Changers” (1998), “Death Benefits” (2001), “Strip” (2010)

Petrie, Nicholas, “The Drifter” (2016)

Pierce, David M., “Down in the Valley” (1989)

Pobi, Robert, “City of Windows” (2019)

Rosenfelt, David, “Play Dead” (2007), “Leader of the Pack” (2012) (see also, A Reasonable Doubt)

Sakey, Marcus, “At the City’s Edge” (2008)

Sallis, James, “The Long-Legged Fly” (1992), “What You Have Left: The Turner Trilogy” (2008), “Willnot” (2016), “Sarah Jane” (2019)

Sturges, P.G., “Tribulations of a Shortcut Man” (2012)

Swain, James, “Grift Sense” (2001)

Verdon, John, “White River Burning” (2018)

White, Stephen, “Remote Control” (1997)

Winslow, Don, “Cool Breeze on the Underground” (1991), “California Fire and Life” (1999), “The Dawn Patrol” (2008), “The Gentlemen’s Hour” (2009), “Savages” (2010), “Kings of Cool” (2012)

Atkinson, Kate, “When Will There Be Good News” (2008), “Started Early, Took My Dog” (2010), “Transcription” (2018), “Big Sky” (2019)

Bazell, Josh, “Beat the Reaper” (2009)

Bryers, Paul, “Used Women’s Book Club” (2003)

Cash, Wiley, “A Land More Kind Than Home” (2012), “This Dark Road to Mercy” (2014)

Chabon, Michael, “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” (2006)

Crossman, David A., “A Show of Hands” (1997)

Curtis, Rye, “Kingdomtide” (2020)

Darnielle, John, “Wolf in White Van” (2014)

Doughty, Louise, “Black Water” (2017)

Fowler, Karen Joy, “Wit’s End” (2009)

Fyfield, Frances, “A Question of Guilt” (1988), “Undercurrents” (2000)

Gold, Glen David, “Carter Beats the Devil” (2001)

Goodman, Carol, “Lake of Dead Languages” (2002)

Groff, Lauren, “The Monsters of Templeton” (2008)

Haddon, Mark, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” (2003)

Hoffman, Alice, “Turtle Moon” (1992)

Jackson, Shirley, “The Haunting of Hill House” (1959)

Johnson, Adam, “The Orphan Master’s Son” (2012)

Kidd, Jess, “Himself” (2016, US Ed. 2017)

Korelitz, Jean Hanff, “The Plot” (2021)

Mitchell, David, “Cloud Atlas” (2012)

Novak, Karen, “Innocence” (2003)

Nunn, Kem, “Tijuana Straits” (2004)

Ondaatje, Michael, “Anil’s Ghost” (2000)

Owens, Lauren Doyle, “The Other Side of Everything” (2018)

Patchett, Ann, “Bel Canto” (2001)

Racculia, Kate, “Bellweather Rhapsody” (2014)

Sebold, Alice, “The Lovely Bones” (2002)

Taylor, Timothy, “Stanley Park” (2001)

Tinti, Hannah, “The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley” (2017)

Vine, Barbara, “Grasshopper” (2000)

Walters, Minette, “Disordered Minds” (2003)

Aaronovitch, Ben, “Whispers From the Underground” (2011)

Chiang, Ted, “Exhalation” (2019)

Cline, Ernest, “Ready Player One” (2011)

Crouch, Blake, “Recursion” (2019)

Fenn, J. Lincoln, “Dead Souls” (2016)

Hecht, Daniel, “City of Masks” (2000)

Holm, Chris, “Dead Harvest” (2012)

King, Stephen, “End of Watch” (2016)

Levien, David, “City of the Sun” (2008)

Mandel, Emily St. John, “Station Eleven” (2014)

Mathews, Adrian, “Vienna Blood” (1999)

Newman, Emma, “After Atlas” (2016)

Stephenson, Neal, “Cryptonomicon” (1999)

Weir, Andy, “Project Hail Mary” (2021)

Wells, Martha, “All Systems Red” (2017)

Wilson, Daniel H., “Robopocalypse” (2011)

Winters, Ben H., “The Last Policeman” (2012), “Underground Airlines” (2016)

Hiassen, Carl, “Double Whammy” (1987), “Sick Puppy” (2000)

Schickler, David, “Sweet and Vicious” (2004)

Wiprud, Brian M., “Pipsqueak” (2004)

Beck, K. K., “A Hopeless Case” (1992)

Cain, Chelsea, “Heartsick” (2007), “The Night Season” (2011), “Kill You Twice” (2012)

Cameron, Bill, “County Line” (2011)

DeWitt, Patrick, “The Sisters Brothers” (2011)

Doogan, Mike, “Skeleton Lake” (2008)

Ford, G. M., “Cast in Stone” (1996)

Gardner, Lily, “A Bitch Called Hope” (2013)

Haynes, Dana, “Breaking Point” (2011)

Jance, J.A., “Betrayal of Trust” (2011)

Lake, Lori L., “A Very Public Eye” (2012)

Littlewood, Ann, “Endangered” (2012)

Margolin, Phillip, “Heartstone” (1978)

Oliver, Steve, “Moody Gets the Blues” (1996)

Rucka, Greg, “Shooting at Midnight” (2000), “Critical Space” (2001)

Shaw, Johnny, “Dove Season” (2011), “Plaster City” (2014)

Slosser, Nick, “The Cipher” (2016)

Straley, John, “The Music of What Happens” (1996)

Walter, Jess, “Over Tumbled Graves” (2001)

Wilhelm, Kate, “For the Defense” (1996) (aka “Malice Prepense”)

Wright, L. R., “Chill Rain in January” (1990)

Airth, Rennie, “River of Darkness” (1999), “The Reckoning” (2014)

Akunin, Boris, “The Winter Queen” (1998, US Ed. 2003)

Alexander, Bruce, “Murder in Grub Street” (1995)

Bradley, Alan, “The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag” (2010)

Brody, Frances, “Dying in the Wool” (2009)

Davis, Lindsey, “Shadows in Bronze” (1990)

Dietrich, William, “The Emerald Storm” (2012)

Finch, Charles, “The Fleet Street Murders” (2009)

Hart, Elsa, “City of Ink” (2018), “The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne” (2020)

Knecht, Rosalie, “Who Is Vera Kelly?” (2018)

Lawrence, Margaret, “Hearts and Bones” (1996)

Massey, Sujata, “The Widows of Malabar Hill” (2018)

Phillips, Arthur, “The King at the Edge of the World” (2020)

Raybourn, Deanna, “Silent on the Moor” (2009)

Roe, Carolyn, “Poultice for a Healer” (2003)

Sansom, C.J., “Lamentation” (2014)

Stewart, Amy, “Girl Waits With Gun” (2015)

Turton, Stuart, “The Devil and the Dark Water” (2020)

Burke, Alafair, “The Ex” (2017)

Kerr, Baine, “Wrongful Death” (2001)

Klempner, Joseph T., “Flat Lake in Winter” (1999)

Levine, Paul, “To Speak for the Dead” (1990)

Rosenfelt, David, “Open and Shut” (2002) (see also, Hard-Boiled)

Santora, Nick, “Slip and Fall” (2007)

Stone, Nick, “The Verdict” (2016)

Tanenbaum, Robert K., “Enemy Within” (2001)

Turow, Scott, “Presumed Innocent” (1987), “Burden of Proof” (1990), “Reversible Errors” (2002)

Adler-Olsen, Jussi, “The Keeper of Lost Causes” (2007, US Ed. 2011) (aka “Mercy”)

Anappara, Deepa, "Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line” (2020)

Bowen, Peter, “Thunder Horse” (1998)

Brady, John, “Kaddish in Dublin” (1990)

Braithwaite, Oyinkan, “My Sister, the Serial Killer” (2018)

Burdett, John, “Bangkok 8” (2002)

Chan, Ho-kei, “The Borrowed” (2017)

Cleverly, Barbara, “The Last Kashmiri Rose” (2001)

Cotterill, Colin, “Love Songs From a Shallow Grave” (2010), “Killed at the Whim of a Hat” (2011), “Grandad, There’s a Head on the Beach” (2012), “Six and a Half Deadly Sins” (2015), “The Rat Catchers’ Olympics” (2017)

Ebersohn, Wessel, “October Killings” (2009)

Freeling, Nicolas, “King of the Rainy Country” (1966)

Forbes, Leslie, “Fish, Blood and Bone” (2000)

Giolito, Malin Persson, “Quicksand” (2017)

Harper, Jane, “Force of Nature” (2018), “The Lost Man” (2019)

Indridason, Arnaldur, “Hypothermia” (2007, US Ed. 2009)

Kepler, Lars, “The Hypnotist” (2009, US Ed. 2011)

Kerr, Philip, “Metropolis” (2019)

Kerrigan, Gene, “The Rage” (2011)

Lackberg, Camilla, “The Ice Princess” (2002, US Ed. 2008)

Larsson, Asa, “The Black Path” (2006, US Ed. 2008)

Larsson, Stieg, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” (2005, US Ed. 2008), “The Girl Who Played With Fire” (2006, US Ed. 2009)

Limón, Martin, “Mr. Kill” (2011), “The Iron Sickle” (2014), “Ping Pong Heart” (2016), “G.I. Confidential” (2019)

Lin, Ed, “Ghost Month” (2014)

Marklund, Liza, “Red Wolf” (2003, US Ed. 2010)

McClure, James, “The Artful Egg” (1984, reissued 2013)

McInerney, Lisa, “The Glorious Heresies” (2016)

McKinty, Adrian, “Rain Dogs” (2017)

Miller, Derek, “Norwegian by Night” (2012), “American by Day” (2018)

Mina, Denise, “Deception” (2002, US Ed. 2004) (aka “Sanctum”), “The Long Drop” (2017), “Conviction” (2019)

Mitchell, Kirk, “Cry Dance” (1999)

Nesbo, Jo, “The Redbreast” (2000, US Ed. 2006), “The Phantom” (2011, US Ed. 2012)

Neville, Stuart, “Ratlines” (2013), “The Final Silence” (2014)

Pattison, Eliot, “The Skull Mantra” (1999)

Pawel, Rebecca, “Death of a Nationalist” (2003)

Penny, Louise, “Bury Your Dead” (2010), “Trick of the Light” (2011), “How the Light Gets In” (2013), “The Long Way Home” (2014)

Philips, Julia, “Disappearing Earth” (2019)

Rankin, Ian, “Standing in Another Man’s Grave” (2012)

Smith, Alexander McCall, “Kalahari Typing School for Men” (2002)

Smith, Martin Cruz, “Gorky Park” (1981), “Polar Star” (1989)

Thompson, James, “Snow Angels” (2010)

Tokarczuk, Olga, “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead” (2009, US Ed. 2018)

White, Robin A., “The Ice Curtain” (2002)

Wilson, Robert, “A Small Death in Lisbon” (1999)

Wolfe, Inger Ash, “The Calling” (2008)

Andrews, Donna, “Murder With Peacocks” (1999)

Benison, C.C., “Twelve Drummers Drumming” (2011)

Bennett, S.J., “The Windsor Knot” (2021)

Flanders, Judith, “A Murder of Magpies” (2014) (aka “Writers’ Block”)

Gallison, Kate, “Unholy Angels” (1996)

Gunning, Sally, “Ice Water” (1993)

Horowitz, Anthony, “Magpie Murders” (2017)

MacLeod, Charlotte, “The Wrong Rite” (1992)

Mathes, Charles, “The Girl With the Phony Name” (1992)

McCrumb, Sharyn, “If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O” (1990), “MIssing Susan” (1991)

Moseley, Margaret, “Bonita Faye” (1996)

Osman, Richard, “The Thursday Murder Club” (2020)

Peters, Ellis, “Flight of a Witch” (1964, with a US release in the 1990s)

Saums, Mary, “Thistle and Twigg” (2007)

Shaber, Sarah R., “Simon Said” (1997)

Shaffer, Mary Ann & Annie Barrows, “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society” (2008)

Smith, Evelyn, “Miss Melville’s Revenge” (1989)

Sprague, Gretchen, “Death in Good Company” (1997)

Larson, Eric, “The Devil in the White City” (2003)

Wambaugh, Joseph, “The Fire Lover” (2002)

Abbott, Megan, “The Song Is You” (2007)

Craig, Peter, “Hot Plastic” (2004)

Crumley, James, “The Last Good Kiss” (1978)

Goffard, Christopher, “Snitch Jacket” (2007)

Goodis, David, “David Goodis: Five Novels of the 1940s and 50s” (2012)

Green, Norman, “Way Past Legal” (2004),“The Last Gig” (2009)

Harwood, Seth, “Jack Wakes Up” (2008)

Highsmith, Patricia, “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (1955)

Koenig, Joseph, “False Negative” (2012)

Pollock, Donald Ray, “The Heavenly Table” (2016)

Evanovich, Janet, “Two for the Dough” (1996)

Henderson, Lauren, “Freeze My Margarita” (1998)

Kozak, Harley Jane, “Dating Dead Men” (2004)

Sacks, Jen, “Nice” (1998)

Bannister, Jo, “A Taste for Burning” (1995)

Bingham, Harry, “Talking to the Dead” (2012), “Love Story, With Murders” (2013)

Bolton, S.J., “Dead Scared” (2012)

Casey, Jane, “The Burning” (2010)

Cleeves, Ann, “Red Bones” (2009), “The Long Call” (2019)

Fowler, Christopher, “Bryant & May: Oranges and Lemons” (2021)

French, Tana, “In the Woods” (2007), “The Likeness” (2008), “Faithful Place” (2010), “Broken Harbor” (2012), “The Secret Place” (2014), “The Trespasser” (2016), “The Witch Elm” (2018)

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia, “Orchestrated Death” (1991)

Hill, Reginald, “Bones and Silence” (1990), “The Wood Beyond” (1995), “On Beulah Heights” (1998), “Dialogues of the Dead” (2002), “Death Comes for the Fatman” (2007)

Maitland, Barry, “The Marx Sisters” (1994)

Marchetta, Melina, “Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil” (2016)

McCrery, Nigel, “Still Waters” (2008)

McDermid, Val, “A Place of Execution” (2000)

Reah, Danuta, “Listen to the Shadows” (2000, US Ed 2001) (aka “Silent Playgrounds”)

Robotham, Michael, “The Night Ferry” (2007), “Shatter” (2008), “The Wreckage” (2011)

Shaw, William, "A Song for the Brokenhearted” (2015, US Ed. 2016) (aka “A Book of Scars”)

Tudor, C.J., “The Chalk Man” (2018)

Bellairs, John, “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” (1966)

Connor, Leslie, “The Truth As Told by Mason Buttle” (2018)

Erickson, John R., “The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog” (1983)

Hill, Eric, “Where’s Spot?” (1980)

Raskin, Ellen, “The Westing Game” (1979)

Stewart, Trenton Lee, “The Mysterious Benedict Society” (2008)