Fiction Notes



Albert, Susan Wittig
  • Thyme of Death (1992)


Berg, Elizabeth
  • Durable Goods (1993)

Block, Lawrence
  • Hit Man (1998)
  • Hit List (1998)

Boyle, T. Coraghessan
  • The Tortilla Curtain (1995)

Buchanan, Edna
  • Margin of Error (1997)
  • Pulse (1998)

Burke, James Lee
  • Heaven's Prisoners (1988)

Burke, Jan
  • Goodnight, Irene (1993)


Carlon, Patricia
  • Crime of Silence (1965)
  • The Running Woman (1966)

Carter, Stephen L.
  • The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002)

Caudwell, Sarah
  • Thus Was Adonis Murdered (1981)

Chiaverini, Jennifer
  • The Runaway Quilt (2002)

Clarke, Breena
  • River, Cross My Heart (1999)

  • An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England (2007)


Connelly, Michael
  • The Black Echo (1992)
  • The Black Ice (1993)
  • The Concrete Blonde (1994)
  • The Poet (1996)
  • Blood Work (1998)
  • Angels Flight (1999)

Conroy, Pat
  • Beach Music (1995) {*** Spoiler Alert ***}

Cornwell, Patricia
  • From Potter's Field (1995)
  • Cause of Death (1996)
  • Hornet's Nest (1996)
  • Unnatural Exposure (1997)
  • Point of Origin (1998)

Crowell, Jenn
  • Necessary Madness (1997)

Crumley, James
  • The Last Good Kiss (1978)

Dallas, Sandra
  • The Persian Pickle Club (1995)
  • The Diary of Mattie Spenser (1997)
  • Alice's Tulips (2000)

Davidson, Diane Mott
  • Dying for Chocolate (1992)
  • The Grilling Season (1997)
  • Prime Cut (1998)

Deaver, Jeffery
  • A Maiden's Grave (1995)
  • The Bone Collector (1997)

Dobyns, Stephen
  • Saratoga Headhunter (1985)
  • Saratoga Snapper (1986)
  • Saratoga Bestiary (1988)
  • Saratoga Backtalk (1994)
  • Saratoga Fleshpot (1995)
  • The Church of Dead Girls (1997)
  • Saratoga Strongbox (1998)
  • Boy in the Water (1999)

Doyle, Roddy
  • The Woman Who Walked into Doors (1996)

Dunlap, Susan
  • Cop Out (1997)

du Maurier, Daphne
  • Jamaica Inn (1936)

Ellroy, James
  • L.A. Confidential (1990)
  • L.A. Noir (1998)

Emerson, Earl
  • The Rainy City (1985)
  • Black Hearts and Slow Dancing (1988)

Evans, Nicholas
  • The Horse Whisperer (1995) {*** Spoiler Alert ***}

Fairstein, Linda
  • Final Jeopardy (1996)

Finney, Jack
  • Time and Again (1970) 
  • From Time to Time (1995)

Flagg, Fannie
  • Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! (1998)


Frazier, Charles
  • Cold Mountain (1997)  

Friedman, Kinky
  • The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover (1996)

Furutani, Dale
  • The Toyotomi Blades (1997)

Garber, Joseph
  • Vertical Run (1995)

Gibbons, Kaye
  • Sights Unseen (1995)

Gordimer, Nadine
  • My Son's Story (1990)

  • "J" is for Judgment (1993)
  • "K" is for Killer (1994)
  • "L" is for Lawless (1995)
  • "M" is for Malice (1996) 
  • "N" is for Noose (1998)
  • “O” is for Outlaw (1999)
  • "P" Is for Peril (2001) 
  • "Q" Is for Quarry (2002)

  • About Sue Grafton
    • "G" is for Grafton: The World of Kinsey Millhone (1997)
       by Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Carol McGinnis Kay

Grant, Linda
  • A Woman's Place (1994)

Grisham, John
  • The Street Lawyer (1998)

Hamill, Pete
  • Snow in August (1997)

Hamilton, Jane
  • The Book of Ruth (1988)

Haruf, Kent
  • Plainsong (1999)

Healy, Jeremiah
  • The Stalking of Sheilah Quinn (1998)

Hornby, Nick
  • About a Boy (1998)

Hustvedt, Siri
  • The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996)

  • Broken for You (2004)

Karon, Jan
  • At Home in Mitford (1994)

Katz, Jon
  • Sign Off (1991)
  • Death by Station Wagon (1993)


Koestler, Arthur
  • Darkness at Noon (1941)

Koontz, Dean
  • The Door to December (1985)
  • Lightning (1988)
  • Dark Rivers of the Heart (1994)
  • Intensity (1995)

Lamb, Wally
  • She's Come Undone (1992)

Lanchester, John
  • The Debt to Pleasure (1996)

Langton, Jane
  • The Shortest Day (1995)


Lehane, Dennis
  • A Drink before the War (1994)
  • Gone, Baby, Gone (1998)
  • Mystic River (2001)

Lippman, Laura
  • Every Secret Thing (2003)

Lodge, David
  • Therapy (1995)

McCabe, Patrick
  • The Butcher Boy (1992)

McCafferty, Jane
  • Thank You for the Music (2004)

McCorkle, Jill
  • Carolina Moon (1996)

McDermid, Val
  • Crack Down (1994)
  • A Place of Execution (1999)

McMillan, Ann
  • Dead March: A Civil Way Mystery (1998)

McMillan, Terry
  • How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1996)

McMurtry, Larry
  • Dead Man's Walk (1995)

Mina, Denise
  • Garnethill (1998)

Mitchard, Jacquelyn
  • The Deep End of the Ocean (1996)

Moriarty, Laura
  • The Center of Everything (2003)

Moseley, Margaret
  • Bonita Faye (1996)
  • The Fourth Steven (1998)
  • Grinning in His Mashed Potatoes (1999)

O'Connell, Carol
  • Mallory's Oracle (1994)
  • The Man Who Cast Two Shadows (1995)
  • Killing Critics (1996)
  • Stone Angel (1997)
  • Judas Child (1998)
  • Shell Game (1999)


Palliser, Charles
  • The Unburied (1999)

Paretsky, Sara
  • Windy City Blues (1995)
  • Ghost Country (1998)
  • Hard Time (1999)

Patterson, Richard North
  • The Final Judgment (1995)

Pearson, Ridley
  • Chain of Evidence (1995)
  • Beyond Recognition (1997)

Quindlen, Anna
  • Black and Blue (1998)

Radish, Kris
  • The Elegant Gathering of White Snows (2002)

Randisi, Robert J.
  • First Cases: First Appearances of Classic Private Eyes (1996)
  • Blood on the Arch (2001)

Reed, Barry
  • The Deception (1997)

Reichs, Kathy
  • Déjà Dead (1997)
  • Death du Jour (1999)

Remarque, Erich Maria
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1928)

Roberts, Gillian
  • Caught Dead in Philadelphia (1987)

Ross, Ann B.
  • Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind (1999)
  • Miss Julia Takes Over (2001) 

Rowling, J.K.
  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997)

Sandford, John
  • Rules of Prey (1989)
  • Shadow Prey (1990)
  • Eyes of Prey (1991)
  • Silent Prey (1992)
  • Winter Prey (1993)
  • Night Prey (1994)
  • Mind Prey (1995)
  • Sudden Prey (1996)
  • The Night Crew (1997)
  • Secret Prey (1998)
  • Certain Prey (1999)


Scoppettone, Sandra
  • Everything You Have Is Mine (1991)


Smith, Scott
  • A Simple Plan (1993) 

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

Stansberry, Domenic
  • The Last Days of Il Duce (1998)

Stark, Richard
  • The Hunter (1962)

Toole, John Kennedy
  • A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)

Tyler, Anne
  • Back When We Were Grownups (2001)

Walker, Mary Willis
  • Zero at the Bone (1991)
  • The Red Scream (1994)
  • Under the Beetle's Cellar (1995) 
  • All the Dead Lie Down (1998)

Walters, Minette
  • The Ice House (1992)
  • The Sculptress (1993)
  • The Scold's Bridle (1994)
  • The Dark Room (1996)
  • The Echo (1997)

Watson, Larry
  • In a Dark Time (1980)
  • Montana 1948 (1993)
  • Justice (1995)

Wells, Rebecca
  • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996)

Westlake, Donald E.
  • The Hot Rock (1970)
  • Trust Me on This (1988)
  • Baby, Would I Lie? (1994)
  • Smoke (1995) 
  • The Ax (1997)

White, Stephen
  • Privileged Information (1991)
  • Private Practices (1993)
  • Higher Authority (1994)
  • Harm's Way (1996)
  • Remote Control (1997)
  • Critical Conditions (1998)
  • Manner of Death (1999)
  • Cold Case (2000)

Wingate, Lisa
  • Tending Roses (2001)

Wolzien, Valerie
  • A Star-Spangled Murder (1993)

Woods, Stuart
  • Chiefs (1981)
  • Run Before the Wind (1983)
  • Under the Lake (1987) 
  • Palindrome (1991)
  • New York Dead (1991)
  • Santa Fe Rules (1992)
  • Choke (1995)
  • Dirt (1996)
  • Dead in the Water (1997)
  • Swimming to Catalina (1998)
  • Orchid Beach (1998)
  • Worst Fears Realized (1999)
  • The Run (2000)

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