Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Kenzie-Gennaro mysteries

by Dennis Lehane

1. A Drink Before the War*
2. Darkness, Take My Hand*
3. Sacred*
4. Gone, Baby, Gone*
5. Prayers for Rain*

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Mathew Bartholomew Mysteries

by Susanna Gregory

1. A Plague on Both Your Houses
2. An Unholy Alliance
3. A Bone of Contention
4. A Deadly Brew
5. A Wicked Deed

Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery

by C. S. Harris

1. What Angels Fear
2. When Gods Die
3. Why Mermaids Sing
4. Where Serpents Sleep

Monday, August 3, 2009

Tending Roses series

by Lisa Wingate

1. Tending Roses
2. Good Hope Road
3. The Language of the Sycamores
4. Drenched in Light
5. A Thousand Voices

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Molly Murphy

by Rhys Bowen

1. Murphy's Law*
2. Death of Riley*  (mooched 9/22/09)
3. For the Love of Mike  (ordered 9/22/09)
4. In Like Flynn*  (ordered 9/22/09)
5. Oh Danny Boy*  (ordered 9/22/09)
6. In Dublin's Fair City
7. Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
8. In a Gilded Cage

Her Royal Spyness

by Rhys Bowen

1. Her Royal Spyness
2. A Royal Pain
3. Royal Flush


http://www.rhysbowen.com/spyness.html

Thursday, July 16, 2009

The Sharpe Books

by Bernard Cornwell

Sharpe's Story is the author's telling of how the Sharpe series began and how it has evolved over nearly 30 years. It also helps explain some of the murkier wellsprings from which Sharpe emerged.
1. Sharpe's Tiger
2. Sharpe's Triumph
3. Sharpe's Fortress
4. Sharpe's Trafalgar
5. Sharpe's Prey*
6. Sharpe's Rifles
7. Sharpe's Havoc
8. Sharpe's Eagles
9. Sharpe's Gold
10. Sharpe's Escape

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Mony Collins mysteries

by Anne Emery

1. Sign of the Cross*
2. Obit*
3. Barrington Street Blues*
4. Cecilian Vespers

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Jane Rizzoli Forensic Detective series

by Tess Gerritsen

1. The Surgeon
2. The Apprentice
3. The Sinner
4. Body Double
5. Vanish
6. The Mephisto Club
7. The Keepsake

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Women's Murder Club

by James Patterson

1. 1st to Die
2. 2nd Chance
3. 3rd Degree
4. 4th of July
5. The 5th Horseman
6. The 6th Target
7. 7th Heaven

Monday, March 2, 2009

Kate Holly

by Charlotte Hughes

1. What Looks Like Crazy
2. Nutcase

Friday, February 13, 2009

Irene Kelly Mystery Series

by Jan Burke

1. Goodnight, Irene*
2. Sweet Dreams, Irene*
3. Dear Irene*
4. Remember Me, Irene*
5. Hocus*
6. Liar*
7. Bone
8. Flight
9. Nine
10. Eighteen
11. Bloodlines
12. Kidnapped

Jan Burke's website.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

China Bayles Mystery Series

by Susan Wittig Albert

1. Thyme of Death
2. Witches' Bane*
3. Hangman's Root
4. Rosemary Remembered
5. Rueful Death
6. Love Lies Bleeding
7. Chile Death
8. Lavender Lies

There are 17 books in the series. The complete list is HERE.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series

by Jaqueline Winspear

1. Maisie Dobbs
2. Birds of a Feather
3. Pardonable Lies
4. Messenger of Truth*
5. An Incomplete Revenge*
6. Among the Mad
7. The Mapping of Love and Death
8. A Lesson in Secrets
9. Elegy for Eddie


Jaqueline Winspear's website is HERE.

Oliver Stone and the Camel Club

by David Baldacci

1. Camel Club
2. The Collectors
3. Stone Cold
4. Divine Justice

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery Series

by Kathy Lynn Emerson

1. Face Down in the Marrow Bone Pie
2. Face Down Upon an Herbal
3. Face Down Among the Winchester Geese
4. Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross
5. Face Down Under the Wych Elm
6. Face Down Before Rebel Hooves
7. Face Down Across the Western Sea
8. Face Down Below the Banqueting House
9. Face Down Beside St. Anne's Well
10. Face Down Over the Border

Kathy Lynn Emerson's website - HERE.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell

by David Baldacci

1. Split Second
2. Hour Game
3. Simple Genius *(audio)
4. First Family

Amelia Peabody Mystery Series

by Elizabeth Peters

1. Crocodile on the Sandbank
2. The Curse of the Pharaohs
3. The Mummy Case
4. Lion in the Valley
5. The Deeds of the Disturber
6. The Last Camel Died at Noon
7. The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
8. The Hippopotamus Pool
9. Seeing a Large Cat
10. The Ape Who Guards the Balance

The rest of the list, which is 18 books long, can be seen HERE.

Inspector Armand Gamache

by Louise Penny

1. Still Life*
2. A Fatal Grace* - Dead Cold (UK)
3. The Cruelest Month*
4. A Rule Against Murder* - The Murder Stone (UK)
5. The Brutal Retelling*
6. Bury Your Dead
7. A Trick of the Light

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The Looking Glass War Trilogy

by Frank Beddor

1. The Looking Glass Wars
2. Seeing Red

Monday, February 2, 2009

The Gardella Vampire Series

by Colleen Gleason

1. The Rest Falls Away
2. Rises the Night
3. The Bleeding Dusk
4. When Twilight Burns

Colleen's blog.

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Septimus Heap

by Angie Sage (fantasy)

1. Magyk*
2. Flyte*
3. Physik*
4.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Sarah Booth Delaney

by Carolyn Haines

1. *Them Bones (1999) Ordered 10-10
2. *Buried Bones
3. Splintered Bones
4. *Crossed Bones
5. *Hallowed Bones
6. Bones to Pick
7. Ham Bones
8. Wishbones

Author's website
with a list of all her books. It's hard to tell which are part of the series and what their order is.

Set in Mississippi.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Goose Girl Trilogy

by Shannon Hale

1. The Goose Girl
2. Enna Burning
3. River Secrets

Shannon Hales blog.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Inkheart Trilogy

by Cornelia Funke

1. Inkheart
2. Inkspell
3. Inkdeath

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Tiffany Aching Series

by Terry Patchett

Books 2-5 of this YA series are also part of The Witches 'group' in the Discworld series.

1. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
2. The Wee Free Men
3. A Hatful of Sky
4. Wintersmith
5.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Mary Russell Mystery Series

by Laurie King

1. The Beekeeper's Aprrentice
2. A Monstrous Regiment of Women
3. A Letter of Mary
4. The Moor
5. O Jerusalem
6. Justice Hall
7. The Game
8. Locked Rooms
9. Language of Bees

Laurie King's website.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Rosato & Associates

by Lisa Scottoline

1. Everywhere That Mary Went* (not officially part of the series but it features a main figure in the series, Mary DiNunzio)
2. Legal Tender*
3. Rough Justice*
4. Mistaken Identity
5. Moment of Truth
6. The Vendetta Defense*
7. Courting Trouble
8. Dead Ringer
9. Killer Smile
10. Lady Killer
11. Think Twice

*books I own

World War I Series

by Anne Perry

1. No Graves As Yet
2. Shoulder the Sky
3. Angels in the Gloom
4. At Some Disputed Barricade
5. We Shall Not Sleep

Anne Perry's website.

Oregon/California - Maria Cahill

by Lisa Jackson

1. If She Only Knew
2. Deep Freeze
3. Fatal Burn
4. Almost Dead

New Orleans - Eve Renner

by Lisa Jackson

1. Hot Blooded
2. Cold Blooded
3. The Night Before
4. Shiver
5. Absolute Fear
6. Lost Souls
7. Malice

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Blossom Street Series (or the Knitting Books Series)

by Debbie Macomber

1. The Shop on Blossom Street
2. A Good Yarn*
3. Back On Blossom Street

Website for this series.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Benjamin Weaver Series

by David Liss

1. A Conspiracy of Paper (Edgar Award 2001)
2. A Spectacle of Corruption*
3. The Devil's Company


David Liss' webpage.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Koontz's Frankenstein Series

by Dean Koontz

1. Frankenstein One: Prodigal Son
2. Frankenstein Two: City of Night
3. Frankenstein Three:

Dean Koontz's website.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

William Monk/Hester Latterly Mystery Series

by Anne Perry

1. The Face of a Stranger
2. A Dangerous Mourning
3. Defend and Betray
4. A Sudden Fearful Death
5. The Sins of the Wolf
6. Cain His Brother
7. Weighed in the Balance
8. The Silent Crime
9. White Sepulchres (A Breach of Promise)
10. The Twisted Root
11. Slaves and Obsession
12. A Funeral in Blue
13. Death of a Stranger
14. The Shifting Tide
15. Dark Assassin

The list and a brief synopsis of each book can be found HERE.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Thursday Next Series

by Jasper Fforde

1. The Eyre Affair
2. Lost in a Good Book
3. The Well of Lost Plots
4. Something Rotten
5. First Among Sequels*

Jasper Fforde's really wacky website.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Discworld Series

by Terry Pratchett

There are different 'groups' within the Discworld series. The 'groups' are written inside the parenthesis. Some books are part of more than one group. The titles highligted in red are indicate the starter book for group.

1. The Color of Magic (Rincewind)
2. The Light Fantastic (Rincewind)
3. Equal Rites (The Witches)
4. Mort (Death)
5. Sourcery (Rincewind)
6. Wyrd Sisters (The Witches)
7. Pyramids (Gods)
8. Guards! Guards! (The City Watch)
9. Eric (Rincewind)
10. Moving Pictures (The Wizards)
11. Reaper Man (Death, The Wizards)
12. Witches Abroad (The Witches)
13. Lords and Ladies (The Witches, The Wizards)
14. Small Gods (The History Monks, Gods)
15. Men at Arms (The City Watch)
16. Soul Music (Death, Susan, The Wizards)
17. Interesting Times (Rincewind, The Silver Horde)
18. Maskerade (The Witches)
21. Feet of Clay (The City Watch)
22. The Hogfather (Death, Susan, The Wizards, Gods)
23. Jingo (The City Watch)
25. The Last Continent (Rincewind, The Wizards)
26. Carpe Jugulum (The Witches, Uberwald)
27. The Fifth Elephant (The City Watch)
28. The Truth (William de Worde, The City Watch)
29. The Thief of Time (Death, Susan, The History Monks)
30. The Last Hero (Rincewind, The Silver Horde)
31. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
32. Night Watch (The City Watch)
33. Monstrous Regiment (William de Worde, The City Watch)
34. Going Postal (Moist von Lipwig)
35. Thud! (The City Watch)
36. Making Money (Moist von Lipwig)
37. Where's My Cow (The City Watch)

Click HERE to see Wikipedia's list of books, published date and motifs.

For Discworld Reading Order Guides (really cool concept maps) go to L-Space. Be sure to check out the Graphic and the Excel. Very nice!

Terry Pratchett's website.

Friday, January 2, 2009

The Southern Sisters Mystery Series

by Anne George

1. Murder on a Girl's Night Out
2. Murder on a Bad Hair Day
3. Murder Runs In the Family*
4. Murder Makes Waves*
5. Murder Gets a Life
6. Murder Shoots the Bull
7. Murder Carries a Torch
8. Murder Dirty Boogies With Elvis

Anne George's website.

Ursula Blanchard

by Fiona Buckley

1. To Shield the Queen
2. Doublet Affair
3. Queen's Ransom
4. To Ruin a Queen

The rest of the books in this series can be found HERE.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Anne of Green Gables Series

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

List in order of Anne Shirley's age - not according to publication date.

1. Anne of Green Gables
2. Anne of Avonlea*
3. Anne of the Island*
4. Anne of Windy Poplars (or Anne of Windy Willows)
5. Anne's House of Dreams
6. Anne of Ingleside
7. Rainbow Valley
8. Rilla of Ingleside

Medieval Mystery

by Lisa Jackson (written as susan Lynn Crose)

1. Impostress
2. Temptress
3. Sorceress

A list of all Jackson's books and series can be found HERE.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Alex Cross

by James Patterson

1. Along Came A Spider
2. Kiss the Girls
3. Jack & Jill
4. Cat and Mouse
5. Pop Goes the Weasel
6. Roses Are Red
7. Violets Are Bllue
8. Four Blind Mice
9. The Big Bad Wolf
10. London Bridges
11. Mary, Mary
12. Cross
13. Double Cross
14. Cross Country (set in Africa)

John Cardinal

by Giles Blunt

1. Forty Words for Sorrow (Macallan Silver Dagger Award)
2. The Delicate Storm
3. Black Fly Season
4. By the Time You Read This

Tea Shop Mysteries

by Laura Childs

1. Death by Darjeeling
2. Gunpowder Green
3. Shades of Earl Grey
4. English Breakfast Mystery
5. The Jasmine Moon Murder

The rest of the list can be found HERE.

Rachel O'Connor and Rain Country Landscaping

by Mary Freeman (Mary Rosenblum)

1. Devil's Trumpet
2. Deadly Nightshade
3. Bleeding Heart
4. Garden View

Beatrix Potter

by Susan Wittig Albert

1. The Tale of Hill Top Farm  (Framed)
2. The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood  (Framed)
3. The Tale of Holly How   (Framed)
4. The Tale of Hawthorn House*
5. The Tale of Briar Bank

Sir Charles and Kate Sheridan

by Robin Paige (Bill and Susan Albert)

1. Death at Bishop's Keep
2. Death at Gallows Green
3. Death at Daisy's Folly
4. Death at Devil's Bridge
5. Death at Rottingdean
6. Death at Whitechapel
7. Death at Epsom Downs
8. Death at Dartmoor
9. Death at Glamis Castle
10. Death in Hyde Park
11. Death at Blenheim Palace
12. Death on the Lizard

George Felse

by Ellis Peters

1. Fallen into the Pit
2. Death and the Joyful Woman
3. Flight of a Witch
4. A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
5. The Piper on the Mountain
6. Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart
7. The Grass Widow's Tale
8. The House of Green Turf

The complete list can be found HERE.

Joanna Blalock Medical Thrillers

by Leonard Goldberg

1. Deadly Medicine
2. A Deadly Practice
3. Deadly Care
4. Deadly Harvest
5. Deadly Exposure
6. Lethal Measures
7. Fatal Care
8. Brainwaves
9. Fever Cell

J.P. Beaumont

by J.A. Jance

1. Justice Denied
2. Long Time Gone
3. Partner in Crime
4. Birds of a Prey