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Past & Present Mysteries
Mysteries set in the present, but involving unfinished situations in the past. Includes "cold case" mysteries.
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Authors & Titles
- Allyn, Doug: The Burning of Rachel Hayes
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- Bayer, William: The Dream of the Broken Horses
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- Benoit, Charles: Relative Danger
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- Blauner, Peter: Slipping Into Darkness
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- Buchanan, Edna: A Dark and Lonely Place
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- Cail, Carol: The Seeds of Time
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- Cameron, Dana: Emma Fielding series
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- Site Unseen
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- Grave Consequences
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- Past Malice
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- A Fugitive Truth
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- More Bitter Than Death
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- Ashes and Bones
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- Carver, Caroline: Blood Junction
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- Cohen, Gabriel: Red Hook
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(NOTE: This title is part of the Jack Leightner series, listed under Regional Mysteries: New York City)
- Davies, Freda: A Fine and Private Place
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- DeCure, John: Reef Dance
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(NOTE: This title is part of DeCure's J. Shepard series, listed under Regional Mysteries: California)
- Diehl, Stanford: Angel in the Front Room, Devil Out Back
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- Eccles, Marjorie: The Shape of Sand
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- Ellis, Kate: Wesley Peterson series
- The Merchant House
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- The Armada Boy
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- An Unhallowed Grave
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- The Funeral Boat
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- The Bone Garden
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- Ethridge, Mark: Grievances
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- Evans, Mary Anna: Faye Longchamp series
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- Artifacts
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- Relics
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- Effigies
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- Findings
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- Floodgates
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- Strangers
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- Flynn, Gillian: Dark Places
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- Ford, Michael Thomas: What We Remember
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- Fuentes, Leonardo Padura: Adios, Hemingway
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- Gear, Kathleen O'Neal & W. Michael: Anasazi series
- The Visitant
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- The Summoning God
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- Bone Walker
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- Goddard, Robert: Name to a Face
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- Goodman, Carol: The Ghost Orchid
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- Guy, Carol & Zimmer, Linda: Vengeance Can Wait
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- Harvey, John: Frank Elder series
- Flesh and Blood
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- Ash and Bone
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- Darkness and Light
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- Hirahara, Naomi: Mas Arai series
- Summer of the Big Bachi
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- The Gasa-Gasa Girl
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- Snakeskin Shamisen
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- Blood Hina
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- Karp, Larry: First, Do No Harm
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- Kelly, Jim: Philip Dryden series
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- The Water Clock
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- The Fire Baby
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- The Moon Tunnel
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- The Coldest Blood
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- The Skeleton Man
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- Lakeman, Thomas: Chillwater Cove
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(NOTE: This title is part of the Mike Yeager series, listed under Psychological Suspense)
- Lane, Vicki: Elizabeth Goodweather series
- Signs in the Blood
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- Art's Blood
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- Lehane, Dennis: Mystic River
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- Lippman, Laura: Life Sentences
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- Maron, Margaret: Last Lessons of Summer
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- Massey, Sujata: Rei Shimura series
- The Salaryman's Wife
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- Zen Attitude
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- The Flower Master
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- The Floating Girl
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- The Bride's Kimono
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- The Samurai's Daughter
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- The Pearl Diver
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- The Typhoon Lover
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- Girl in a Box
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- Shimura Trouble
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- Mathes, Charles: Girl series (note: Not a conventional series with continuing characters; each book "is a stand-alone in which a different female heroine must uncover a dark secret about her family's past.")
- The Girl with the Phony Name
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- The Girl Who Remembered Snow
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- The Girl at the End of the Line
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- The Girl in the Face of the Clock
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- May, Peter: Enzo Macleod series
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- Extraordinary People
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- The Critic
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- Blacklight Blue
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- Freeze Frame
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- McCrumb, Sharyn: Spencer Arrowood series (aka Ballad series)
- If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
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- The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
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- She Walks These Hills
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- The Rosewood Casket
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- The Ballad of Frankie Silver
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- The Songcatcher
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- Ghost Riders
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- The Devil Amongst the Lawyers
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- McDermid, Val: A Darker Domain
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- Mehl, Nancy: Graven Images
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- Nelson, Rick: Bound by Blood
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- O'Flynn, Catherine: What Was Lost
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- Olsen, Gregg: A Wicked Snow
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- Parshall, Sandra: Disturbing the Dead
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- Pelecanos, George: The Night Gardener
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- Pickard, Nancy: The Scent of Rain and Lightning
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- Ramsay, Frederick: Impulse
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- Rice, Robert: The Nature of Midnight
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- Rickards, John: Winter's End
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- Robb, B.D.: River Ghosts
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- Roberts, Nora: Remember When
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- Robinson, Peter: Cold is the Grave
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- Schulman, David: Gritz Goldberg series
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- The Past is Never Dead
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- Schwandt, Stephen: Siren Song
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- Shuman, Malcolm: Alan Graham series
- Burial Ground
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- The Meriwether Murder
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- Assassin's Blood
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- Past Dying
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- Sidor, Steven: The Mirror's Edge
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- Sidor, Steven: Skin River
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(NOTE: This title is part of the Booth City series, listed under Regional Mysteries: US Midwest)
- Siegel, James: Epitaph
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- Straka, Andy: Record of Wrongs
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- Strong, Tony: The Death Pit
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- Taylor, Sarah Stweart: Sweeney St. George series
- O'Artful Death
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- Mansions of the Dead
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- Judgment of the Grave
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- Unsworth, Cathi: The Singer
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- Vine, Barbara: The Blood Doctor
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- Yorke, Margaret: The Price of Guilt
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updated: Friday, November 04, 2011
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