Turning a new page: December 2025

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Home Fries and Alibis

An All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery, book 8 by Lena Gregory.

Monday, December 8, 2025

Saturday, December 6, 2025

By Reginald Hill. 1972 (as by Patrick Ruell). A cross between James Bond and Bel Canto. The action took place over Christmas at an older hotel in the English countryside. A reenactment of a Dickensian Christmas with merry travelers and a diplomatic envoy incognito collide in a bloodbath. Part thriller, part espionage, and part mystery, a little dated with Russian spies delivering the drama.

Reading List

Guilt by Degrees by Marcia Clark
Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths
The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark
Another City, Not My Own by Dominick Dunne
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O. J. Simpson Got Away With Murder by Vincent Bugliosi
Cruel as the Grave By Cynthia Harris Eagles
Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
The Late Scholar by Jill Paton Walsh
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Is This Anything? By Jerry Seinfeld
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Night She Died by Dorothy Simpson
2021
Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing Twenty-Seven by Janet Evanovich
Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
The Freedom of Contentment by Patricia Kelly
Rage by Bob Woodward
Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Reader's Advisory Service in the Public Library Third Edition by Joyce Saricks
Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Beach Read by Emily Henry
The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
Another One Goes Tonight by Peter Lovesey
The Giver of Stars by JoJo Moyes
Death on Tuckernuck by Francine Mathews
Death on Nantucket by Francine Mathews
Death in a Cold Hard Light by Francine Mathews
Death in a Mood Indigo by Francine Mathews
The Intrigue at Highbury: a Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mystery by Carrie Bebris
Death in Rough Water by Francine Mathews
Death in the Off-Season by Francine Mathews
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C Foster
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
My Own Cape Cod By Gladys Taber
Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Pride and Prescience: a Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mystery by Carrie Bebris
"P" is for Peril by Sue Grafton
Gap Creek: the Story of a Marriage by Robert Morgan
Set Sail for Murder by Carolyn Hart
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
A Fine Place For Death by Ann Granger
Lady Clementine by Marie Benedict
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
The Crown: the Official Companion Volume 1 1947-1955 by Robert Lacey
I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
Shakespeare Saved My Life by Laura Bates
Chances Are... by Richard Russo
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
Cover Her Face by P.D. James
The Alibi Club by Francine Mathews
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
A Fatal Grace By Louise Penny
2020
The Crown: The Official Companion Volume 2 (1956-1977) by Robert Lacey
An Unsuitable Job For a Woman by P. D. James
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg
The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
Killing Trail: a Timber Creek K-9 Mystery by Margaret Mizushima
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton
Last Scene Alive by Charlaine Harris
The Last Place You Look by Kristen Lepionka
Jack 1939 by Francine Mathews
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
N is for Noose by Sue Grafton
Dare to Die by Carolyn Hart
Sister Mother Husband Dog etc. By Delia Ephron
August Snow by Stephen Mack Jones
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede
The Bookish Life Of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
"L" is for Lawless by Sue Grafton
The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
The Reckoning by John Grisham
Pagan Spring by G. M. Malliet
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer
Deep Harbor by Fern Michaels
Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica
To Die But Once: a Maisie Dobbs novel by Jacqueline Winspear
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl
On Grief and Grieving by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne
Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
Headlong: a Detective Inspector Slider mystery by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The American Agent: a Maisie Dobbs mystery by Jacqueline Winspear
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
A Fool and His Honey by Charlaine Harris
Leave a Message for Willie by Marcia Muller
Poppy Done to Death by Charlaine Harris
Games to Keep the Dark Away by Marcia Muller
The Cheshire Cat's Eye by Marcia Muller
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
Joni and Ken: An Untold Love Story by Ken and Joni Eareckson Tada with Larry Libby
They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie
M is for Malice by Sue Grafton
K is for Killer by Sue Grafton
Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy Sayers
Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers
Jump Back, Paul: The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Sally Derby
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps by Ted Kooser
Shadow Play by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
Art Journal Art Journey by Nicole Rae
I Can't Complain by Elinor Lipman
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
2019
A Fatal Winter by G. M. Malliet
Transcription by Kate Atkinson
Midnight in Europe by Alan Furst
Glare Ice by Mary Logue
Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig
Anything Goes by Jill Churchill
Wicked Autumn by G. M. Malliet
Everyman by Philip Roth
When We Found Home by Susan Mallery
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Town in a Blueberry Jam by B. B. Haywood
The Complete Peanuts: 1965 to 1967 by Charles M. Schulz
The Complete Peanuts: 1957 to 1958 by Charles M. Schulz
Walking On My Grave By Carolyn Hart
The Complete Peanuts: 1955 to 1956 by Charles M. Schulz
The Other Woman by Daniel Silva
Separate Beds by Elizabeth Buchan
Venetian Affair by Helen MacInnes
A Good Dog: the story of Orson, who changed my life by Jon Katz
Dewey The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter
Calypso by David Sedais
Boys in the Trees by Carly Simon
The Dark Angel by Elly Griffiths
The Tin Man by Sarah WInman
Love and Ruin by Paula McLain
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
Still Me by Jojo Moyes
Can You Keep a Secret? By Sophie Kinsella
The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
Tangerine by Christine Mangan
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Death Of a Cozy Writer by G. M. Malliet
Need to Know by Karen Cleveland
High Profile by Robert B. Parker
My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella
All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming
That Way Murder Lies by Ann Granger
In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
The Julius House by Charlaine Harris
The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters
Jane Austen Book club by Karen Joy Fowler
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Death of an Avid Reader by Frances Brody
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Three Bedrooms One Corpse by Charlaine Harris
2018
Dead Over Heels by Charlaine Harris
Elusive Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
Restless Evil by Ann Granger
Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
Shades of Murder: A Mitchell and Markby Mystery by Ann Granger
"J" is for Judgement by Sue Grafton
Sleep Like a Baby by Charlaine Harris
October Sky aka Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam
"I" is for Innocent by Sue Grafton
Beach House for Rent by Mary Alice Monroe
The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter
"A" is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
"Y" is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton
The Tale of Hill Top Farm By Susan Wittig Albert
Beneath These Stones by Ann Granger
Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz
Call the Dead Again by Ann Granger
The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths
Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris
The Destruction of Hillary Clinton by Susan Bordo
An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
The Love-Charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel
Old Bones by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
Apollo 8 by Jeffrey Kluger
A Word After Dying by Ann Granger
Dead Water by Ann Cleeves
Don't Go Home by Carolyn Hart
A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War by William Stevenson
A Touch of Mortality by Ann Granger
Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
Onions in the Stew by Betty MacDonald
Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
Textbook: Not exactly a Memoir by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy
Journey to Munich by Jacqueline Winspear
Twisted Threads by Lea Wait
Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck
Candle for a Corpse by Ann Granger
The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
Diamond Dust by Peter Lovesey
Flowers for His Funeral by Ann Granger
Family Honor by Robert B. Parker
Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
A Fine Place for Death by Ann Granger
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Where Old Bones Lie by Ann Granger
Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart
Surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher
Delusions of Grandma by Carrie Fisher
The Third Man by Graham Greene
Now and Then by Robert B. Parker
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
The Fairy Tale Girl by Susan Branch
Murder Among Us by Ann Granger
The Girl From Venice by Martin Cruz Smith
Cold in the earth by Ann Granger
There's Something in a Sunday by Marcia Muller
Some Writer! The story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet
Season for Murder by Ann Granger
Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne
James Herriot's Yorkshire by James Herriot
Every Living Thing by James Herriot
Martha's Vineyard: Isle of Dreams by Susan Branch
One Under: a Bill Slider mystery by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Say it with Poison by Ann Granger
Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen
Cozy Christmas by Valerie Hansen
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
All the Little Liars by Charlaine Harris
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Julie and Romeo get Lucky by Jeanne Ray
The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
Hillary: The Other Woman by Dolly Kyle
A Hero of France by Alan Furst
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
The Old Wine Shades: A Richard Jury Mystery by Martha Grimes
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Book That Matters Most by Ann Hood
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists by Martha Hailey DuBose
The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay
No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
Death of a Liar by M.C. Beaton
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
Come, Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie
Benediction by Kent Haruf
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Faithful unto Death by Caroline Graham
A Room. Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths
The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths
Yes Please Amy Poehler
A Man Without Breath: A Bernie Gunther Novel by Philip. Kerr
Bossypants by Tina Fey
The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths
How's Your Faith: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey by David Gregory
At Risk by Stella Rimington
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Stuart Little by E.B.White
Perfect Touch by Elizabeth Lowell
Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
No One Left To Lie To by Christopher Hitchens
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
A Week in WInter by Maeve Binchy
Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
Too Bad To Die by Francine Mathews, 2015
April Fool Dead by Carolyn Hart
The Lord God made Them All by James Herriot
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
A New Kind of Country by Dorothy Gilman
Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron
Delicious by Ruth Reichl
All Things Wise and Wonderful by James Herriot
Not Becoming My Mother: And other things she taught me along the way by Ruth Reichl
Cream Puff Murder by Joanne Fluke
Choosing Gratitude: Your Journey to Joy by Nancy Leigh DeMoss
All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
All Wound Up: the yarn harlot writes for a spin by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
The Paris Correspondent by Alan S. Cowell
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Christie Caper by Carolyn Hart
The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery by Sophie Hannah
Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
"X" by Sue Grafton
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
Love, Lies, and Liquor by M.C. Beaton
Marley and Me by John Grogan
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight by Jay Barbree
Maigret and the Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon
Hugger Mugger by Robert B. Parker
Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin
Magician's Assistant, The by Ann Patchett
Star Fall by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Saved! The True Story of the Andrea Doria---the worst sea disaster since the Titanic by William Hoffer
The Life-changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
City of Women by David R. Gillham
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating
Early Autumn by Robert B. Parker
Still Life by Louise Penny
West of Sunset by Stewart O'Nan
The Old Fox Deceiv'd by Martha Grimes
The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel
Vertigo 42 by Martha Grimes
The Winds of Change by Martha Grimes
The Chill by Ross Macdonald
The Stargazey by Martha Grimes
Deadly Valentine by Carolyn Hart
Death at the Door by Carolyn Hart
Kinsey and Me by Sue Grafton
H is for Homicide by Sue Grafton
Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks
"A" is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
A Secret Rage by Charlaine Harris
The Jewel That Was Ours by Colin Dexter
A Little Class on Murder by Carolyn Hart
Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories by Colin Dexter
So We Read on: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why it Endures by Maureen Corrigan
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lost Moon The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell
The Riddle of the Third Mile by Colin Dexter
A Fine Romance: Falling in Love with the English Countryside by Susan Branch
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading by Maureen Corrigan
Change Your Brain Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen, M.D
Dead by Midnight by Carolyn Hart
I Married You For Happiness by Lily Tuck
The Reckoning by Rennie Airth
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
Battleground Berlin: Diaries 1945-1948 by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
Murder at Hazelmoor by Agatha Christie
The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You die by John Izzo
Berlin Underground by Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
The Soul of Victor Tronko by David Quammen
"C" is for Corspe by Sue Grafton
1st to Die by James Patterson
20 Hrs., 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship by Amelia Earhart
700 Sundays by Billy Crystal
A Bone to Pick by Charlaine Harris
A Dying Fall by Elly Griffiths
A Fool and His Honey by Charlaine Harris
A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
A Man in Uniform by Kate Taylor
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
A Place of Safety by Caroline Graham
A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths
A Room of One's own by Virginia Woolf
A Rumpole Christmas by John Mortimer
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
A Share in Death by Deborah Crombie
A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George
A Train in Winter: an Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead
Agatha Raison and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming
All Shall Be Well by Deborah Crombie
All the Brave Promises; Memories of Aircraft Woman Second Class 2146391 by Mary Lee Settle
Alys, Always by Harriet Lane
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Amish Grace by Donald Kraybill et.all
An Available Man by Hilma Wolitzer
An English Murder by Cyril Hare
An Eye for Gold by Sarah Andrews
And Furthermore by Judi Dench
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Ape House by Sara Gruen
April in Paris by Michael Wallner
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
Ask the Cards a Question by Marcia Muller
"B" is for Burglar by Sue Grafton
Backstage with Julia by Nancy Verde Barr
Barn Burner by Debra Gaskill
Beach Road by James Patterson and Peter deJonge
Because He Loves Me by Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
Bel Canto by Ann Patchette
Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich
Black Coffee by Agatha Christie
Blood County by Mary Logue
Blood Lines by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Blood Never Dies by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Blood Sinister by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Bloom's Bio-Crtiques: Virginia Woolf, edited by Harold Bloom
Body Line by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, martyr, prophet, spy: a righteous gentile vs the Third Reich by Eric Metaxas
Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding
Briget Jones and the Boy by Helen Fielding
Broken: A Love Story by Lisa Jones
Busy Body by M.C. Beaton
By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Caravan by Dorothy Gilman
Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler
Cherries in Winter by Suzan Colón
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanna Fluke
Christietown by Susan Kandel
City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton
Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Cop to Corpse by Peter Lovesey
Counterlife by Philip Roth
Country Plot by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Crazy by William Peter Blatty
Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
"D" is for Deadbeat by Sue Grafton
Daphne by Justine Picardie
Dare to Die by Carolyn Hart
Dark Coulee by Mary Logue
Dark Star by Alan Furst
Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky
Day After Night by Anita Diamant
Dead Days of Summer by Carolyn Hart
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Dead over Heels by Charlaine Harris
Dead, White, and Blue by Carolyn Hart
Deadlock by Sara Paretsky
Dear Departed by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
Death Overdue by Mary Lou Kirwin
Death Walked In by Carolyn Hart
Death Watch by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Death in Disguise by Caroline Graham
Death in Paradise by Robert B. Parker
Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
Death is Now my Neighbor by Colin Dexter
Death of a Snob by M.C.Beaton
Death of a Witch by M.C. Beaton
Death on Demand by Carolyn Hart
Death to Go by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Deception on His Mind by Elizabeth George
Design for Murder by Carolyn Hart
Diamond Solitaire by Peter Lovesey
Don't Say I Didn't Warn You by Anita Renfroe
Dr. Mary's Monkey by Edward Haslam
Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
"E" is for Evidence by Sue Grafton
Edwin of the Iron Shoes by Marcia Muller
Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie
Emma by Jane Austen
Epicure's Lament by Kate Christensen
Every Secret Thing by Ann Tatlock
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Eye of the Storm by Marcia Muller
Fair Game by Valerie Plame Wilson
"F" is for Fugitive by Sue Grafton
Fair Stood the Wind for France by H.E. Bates
Faith Under Fire: an Army Chaplin's Memior by Roger Benimoff
Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis
Firstlight: Early Inspirational Writings by Sue Monk Kidd
Follow Me by David Platt
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
For the Sake of Elena by Elizabeth George
Foreign Tongue: a Novel of Life and Love in Paris by Vanina Marsot
Forward From Here: Leaving Middle Age by Reeve Lindbergh
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
French Milk by Lucy Knisley
Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
Funerals are Fatal by Agatha Christie
Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
Game Over by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
"G" is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton
Garden Spell by Sarah Addison Allen
Gardens of Water by Alan Drew
Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
Garner by Kirstin Allio
Gellhorn: a Twentieth-Century Life by Caroline Moorehead
Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner
Gertrude Bell by Bodley, R.V.C., and L Hearst
Ghost at Work by Carolyn Hart
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Grave Music by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
Habitat by Skye Kathleen Moody
Hanging Up by Delia Ephron
Hard Going by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Harte's Desire by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver
Highland Christmas by M. C. Beaton
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle
How We Got the Bible by Neil R. Lightfoot
How to Knit a Love Song by Rachael Herron
How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
If it was easy, they'd call the whole damn thing a honeymoon by Jenna McCarthy
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner by Elizabeth Geroge
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
In the Same Boat: 55 Laugh Breaks for Frazzled Moms by Mary Beth Weisenburger
In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George
Indemnity Ony by Sara Paretsky
Indian Summer by Alex Von Tunzelman
Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson
Izzy and Lenore by Jon Katz
Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes
Journey Among Warriors by Eve Curie
Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler
Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray
Kate's Progress by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Keeping the House by Ellen Baker
Key West by Stella Cameron
Kill My Darling by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Killer Librarian by Mary Lou Kirwin
Killing Patton by Bill O'Reilly
Killing Time by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
Last Scene Alive by Charlaine Harris
Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
Leading With My Chin by Jay Leno
Leave the Grave Green by Deborah Crombie
Let's explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
Life in Stitches by Rachel Herron
Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Living Well is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins
Lost in Shangri-la: a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of WWII by Mitchell Zuckoff
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings by Alison Weir
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Missing Joseph by Elizabeth George
Mission to Paris by Alan Furst
Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper
Modern Novelist: Virginia Woolf by Edward Bishop
Moon Shell Beach by Nancy Thayer
Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron
Mourn Not Your Dead by Deborah Crombie
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Hemingway by Naomi Wood
Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
Mrs. Pollifax Innocent Tourist by Dorothy Gilman
Mr. Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt
Murder at Longbourn by Tracy Kiely
Murder at Madingley Grange by Caroline Graham
Murder in Greenwich by Mark Fuhrman
Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie
Murder of a Gossip by M.C Beaton
Murder on the links by Agatha Christie
My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'Homme
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor
My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock
Naked by David Sedaris
Night Passage by Robert B. Parker
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich
Now and Then by Jacqueline Sheehan
O Jerusalem by Laurie R. King
One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp
One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Only Flesh and Bones by Sarah Andrews
Orchestrated Death by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Over Salad and Hot Bread by Mary Jenson
Paris-Underground by Etta Shiber
Passage to India by E. M Forster
Payment in Blood by Elizabeth George
Peace Breaks Out by John Knowles
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Plague of Doves by Louise Edrich
Playing for the Ashes by Elizabeth George
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
Poppy Done to Death by Charlaine Harris
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prescience by Carrie Bebris
Protecting Marie by Kevin Henkes
Radical by David Platt
Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan
River of Darkness by Rennie Airth
Robert B Parkers's Killing the Blues by Michael Brandman
Rosie by Anne Lamott
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
Run Silent Run Deep by Edward L. Beach
Run by Ann Patchett
Sail by James Patterson
Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn edited by Caroline Moorhead
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Joanna Trollope
Service of All the Dead by Colin Dexter
Shallow Grave by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Silent in the Grave by Deanna Raybourn
Sister Mother Husband Dog, etc. by Delia Ephron
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Something Wicked by Carolyn Hart
Southern Cross by Jim De Brosse
Spies of the Balkans by Alan Furst
Spirit Lost by Nancy Thayer
Split Image by Robert B. Parker
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Still Foolin' Em by Billy Crystal
Straight Man by Richard Russo
Stranger in Paradise by Robert B. Parker
Summer Reading by Hilma Wolitzer
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Tapestry of Fortunes by Elizabeth Berg
Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
Terra incognita : Travels in Antarctica / Sara Wheeler.
Terrorist Hunter by Anonymous
Thale's Folly by Dorothy Gilman
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
The Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
The Bood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
The Colonel's Daughter by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife True-Life Spy Story by Robert and Dayna Baer
The Crossing Places: a Ruth Galloway Mystery by Elly Griffiths
The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter
The Dead of Winter by Rennie Airth
The Dead of the House by Hannah Green
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes
The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell
The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11by Dinesh D'Souza
The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn
The Finishing School by Muriel Spark
The Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Gemini Contenders by Robert Ludlum
The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer by Robert Harris
The Ghost in the Machine by Caroline Graham
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Steig Larsson
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery
The Grace of Silence : A Memoir by Michelle Norris
The Gravity of Birds by Tracy Guzeman
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Headhunters by Peter Lovesey
The Healing by Jonathan Odell
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Honorable Schoolboy by John leCarre
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
The House at Sea's End by Elly Griffiths
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Informationist by Taylor Stevens
The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries by Emily Brightwell
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British spy ring in wartime Washington by Jennet Conant
The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop and Cafe by Mary Simes
The Janus Stone: a Ruth Galloway Mystery by Elly Griffiths
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Julius House by Charlaine Harris
The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham
The Land of Mango Sunsets by Dorothea Benson Frank
The Last Detective by Peter Lovesey
The Loneliest Continent; the story of Antarctic discovery, by Walker Chapman.
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
The Love of My Youth by Mary Gardon
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett
The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots by Carolly Erickson
The Memory of Running by Ron McLarty
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, And The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel with Bret Witter
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The One That I Want by Allison Scotch
The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Postcard Killers by James Patterson and Liza Marklund
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin
The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn by Colin Dexter
The Summer We Read Gatsby by Danielle Ganek
The Tenth Man by Graham Greene
The Traveler's Gift by Andy Andrews
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle
The View Fron Penthouse B by Elinor Lipman
The Wives of Los Alamos by Tarashea Nesbit
The World at Night by Alan Furst
The Years by Virginia Woolf
The last days of Marilyn Monroe by Donald H. Wolfe
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
There Goes the Bride by M.C. Beaton
There was an Old Woman by Hallie Ephron
Things I've been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
This Matter of Marriage by Debbie Macomber
This is My Life by Meg Wolitzer
This is Where I Leave You / Jonathan Tropper.
This is Your Life by Meg Wolitzer
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Three Bedrooms and a Corpse by Charlaine Harris
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John leCarre
To Darkness and to Death by Julia Spencer-Fleming
To The Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing by Simon Garfield
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Too Strong for Fantasy by Marci Davenport
Tooth and Nails by Ian Rankin
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime by John Dunning
"U" is for Undertow by Sue Grafton
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Uncertain Voyage by Dorothy Gilman
Until Proven Guilty by J.A. Jance
"V" is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton
"W" is for Wasted by Sue Grafton
Wednesday Sisters by Meg Clayton
Weight of Water by Anita Shreve
Well-Schooled in Murder by Elizabeth George
When Did We Lose Harriet? by Patricia Sprinkle
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
When You are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
Where Lilacs Still Bloom by Jane Kirkpatrick
Why Do I Love These People? Honest and Amazing Stories of Real Families by Po Bronson
Why Shoot the Magistrate? by Patricia Sprinkle
With My Heart in my Mouth by Duncan Norton-Taylor
Wives Behaving Badly by Elizabeth Buchan
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Presumption of Death by Jill Paton Walsh
Written in Blood by Caroline Graham
You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas by Augusten Burroughs

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