Category: mystery
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Bloodhound
By Tamora Pierce Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Random House, 2009 Genres: Fantasy, mystery, paranormal Series: Beka Cooper trilogy; 2 ISBN: 9780375814693 Intended audience: Young adult Number of pages: 551 (includes Glossary, Cast of Characters, and Notes about the Provost’s Guard) Setting: Corus and Port Caynn, Tortall Time period: 247 H.E. (medieval) Plot summary:…
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No Dominion
By Charlie Huston Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Del Rey, 2006 Genres: Mystery, suspense, paranormal, vampire Series: Joe Pitt Casebook; 2 ISBN: 9780345478252 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 251 Setting: Manhattan, NYC Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When vampyre detective Joe Pitt discovers that there is a new drug in his neighborhood designed…
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Storm Front
By Jim Butcher Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Roc, 2000 Genres: Fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, mystery, paranormal Series: The Dresden Files; 1 ISBN: 9780451457813 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 322 Setting: Chicago, IL and outskirts (Chicagoland) Time period: 2000 Plot summary: Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is “the only openly practicing…
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Club Dead
By Charlaine Harris Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ace Books, 2003 Genres: Mystery, fantasy, dark fantasy, contemporary fantasy, paranormal, romance, paranormal romance, vampire Series: Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse); 3 ISBN: 9780441010516 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 292 Setting: Bon Temps, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When Bill tells…
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Living Dead in Dallas
By Charlaine Harris, narrated by Johanna Parker Place: Publisher & Year: Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books ; [Boulder, Colo. : Made available electronically by] NetLibrary, 2008 Genres: Mystery, fantasy, dark fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal, romance, paranormal romance, vampire, thriller Format: Audiobook Series: Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse); 2 ISBN: 9781435643444 (electronic audio book)…
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Dead Until Dark
By Charlaine Harris Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ace Books, 2008, 2001 Genres: Mystery, fantasy, dark fantasy, contemporary fantasy, paranormal, romance, paranormal romance, horror, vampire Series: Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse); 1 ISBN: 9780441015979 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 312 Setting: Bon Temps, Louisiana Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When the vampire Bill…
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Blood Work
By Michael Connelly Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Warner Books, 1998 Genre: Mystery, suspense Series: Terry McCaleb mysteries; 1 ISBN: 9780446690447 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 469 Setting: Los Angeles, CA Time period: contemporary (late nineties) Plot summary: Former FBI agent Terry McCaleb has a new lease on life, which comes from his…
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The Spellman Files
By Lisa Lutz Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007 Genre: Mystery Series: Izzy Spellman mysteries; 1 ISBN: 9781416532392 Intended audience: adult Number of pages: 358 Settings: Mainly San Francisco, CA but also Marin county and Reno, NV Time period: contemporary Plot summary: 28 year old Izzy Spellman comes from a family…
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The Girl who Played with Fire
By Stieg Larsson (Translated from Swedish by Reg Keeland) Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009 Genres: Thriller, mystery, suspense Series: Millennium trilogy; 2 ISBN: 9780307269980 Intended audience: adult Number of pages: 503 Settings: Stockholm, Sweden and Grenada Time period: around 2004 – 2005 Plot summary: Lisbeth Salander is an extremely introverted…
