Authors A-D

All the books featured so far, in alphabetical order by author

see also: authors E-K , L-Q, R-Z

and note: Second Birthday Highlights Jan 2014

Best Books of 2013

Best Detective Fiction of 2013

First Birthday Highlights Jan 2013

Best of the Blog 2012
Best of Detective Fiction 2012

Aaronovitch, Ben Rivers of London

Abbott, Megan You Will Know Me

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Americanah

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi Purple Hibiscus

Adler-Olsen, Jussi Mercy

Adrian, Chris The Great Night

Aird, Catherine The Religious Body The Religious Body 2

Aird, Catherine The Complete Steel/The Stately Home Murder

Aird, Catherine His Burial Too

Aird, Catherine Slight Mourning

Aitmatov, Chingiz Jamilia

Alain-Fournier Le Grand Meaulnes Le Grand Meaulnes 2

Alarcon, Daniel At Night We Walk in Circles

Albertine, Viv Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys 2

Alcott, Louisa M Little Women  Little Women 2 Little Women 3 Little Women 4

Alcott, Louisa M Eight Cousins Eight Cousins 2
Eight Cousins 3

Alderton, Dolly Everything I Know About Love

Ali, Monica Untold Story

Allan, Mabel Esther Death Goes Dancing

Allingham, Margery    TheTiger in the Smoke The Tiger in the Smoke 2
Allingham, Margery The Beckoning Lady The Beckoning Lady 2 (challenge results)

Allingham, Margery Death of a Ghost

Allingham, Margery The Fashion in Shrouds The Fashion in Shrouds 2

Allingham, Margery No Love Lost

Allingham, Margery Flowers for the Judge

Allingham, Margery The Snapdragon and the CID

**See also Mike Ripley's Mr Campion's Farewell **

Alliott, Catherine About Last Night...

Ames, Delano Murder Maestro Please

Ames, Delano Murder Begins at Home

Ames, Delano Corpse Diplomatique

Ames, Delano She Shall Have Murder

Amis, Kingsley The Old Devils

Amis, Kingsley Lucky Jim Lucky Jim 2

Amis, Kingsley The James Bond Dossier

Amis, Kingsley The Folks That Live On the Hill The

Folks That Live On the Hill 2

de Angelis, Augusto The Mystery of the Three Orchids

Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Anshaw, Carol Aquamarine

Anshaw, Carol Lucky in the Corner

Anthony, Michael David The Becket Factor

Anthony, Michael David Midnight Come Midnight Come 2

Arditti, Michael Easter

Arlen, Michael The Green Hat The Green Hat 2 The Green Hat 3

Arlen, Michael The Romantic Lady

Arlen, Michael Hell! Said the Duchess

Armstrong, Charlotte A Little Less Than Kind

Armstrong, Charlotte The Dream Walker

Arnold, Gaynor After Such Kindness   After Such Kindness 2 After Such Kindness 3

Arnow, Harriette The Dollmaker

Assis, Machado de A Chapter of Hats

Assis, Machado de Admiral’s Night

Assis, Machado de Those cousins from Sapucaia!

Atkinson, Alex Exit Charlie

Atkinson, Kate Life After Life

Atwood, Margaret The Year of the Flood

Austen, Jane Northanger Abbey  Northanger Abbey 2

Ayres, Ruby M Ribbons and Laces

Baer, Anne Down the Common

Bagnold, Enid National Velvet National Velvet 2

Bagnold, Enid The Loved and Envied

Bannister, Jo Deadly Virtues

Banville, John The Newton Letter

Banville, John The Blue Guitar

Barnard, Robert Death of an Old Goat

****(see also this entry)

Barnard, Robert A Scandal in Belgravia

Barnard, Robert The Skeleton in the Grass

Barne, Kitty She Shall Have Music

Barne, Kitty While the Music Lasted While the Music Lasted 2

Barne, Kitty Barbie

Barrows, Annie Ivy + Bean

Barton, Fiona The Widow

Bassani, Giorgio The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 2

Baum, Vicki Mortgage on Life

Bawden, Nina The Odd Flamingo

Bax, Roger Blueprint for Murder
(see also Andrew Garve)

Beaton, Cecil The Glass of Fashion

Beauman, Ned The Teleportation Accident

Beauman, Sally Destiny

Bedford, Sybille A Legacy A Legacy 2

Beeding, Francis The Norwich Victims

Beeding, Francis Death Walks in Eastrepps Death Walks in Eastrepps 2

Bell, Josephine The Summer School Mystery

Bell, Josephine A Question of Inheritance

Bell, Josephine Death at Half Term

Bell, Josephine   Death in Clairvoyance

Benjamin, Chloe The Immortalists

Bennett, Arnold The Old Wives’ Tale Old Wives’   Tale 2 Old Wives’ Tale 3 Old Wives' Tale 4

Benson, Clara The Murder at Sissingham Hall

Benson, EF Trouble for Lucia

Benson, EF Miss Mapp

Benson, EF The Babe BA

Berkeley, Anthony The Poisoned Chocolates Case

Berney, Lou The Long and Faraway Gone The Long and Faraway Gone 2

Betjeman, John Christmas Poem

Bierce, Ambrose The Crimson Candle

Biggers, Earl Derr   The Agony Column

Bingham, John My Name is Michael Sibley

Bissell, Richard Seven and a Half Cents (Pajama Game)

Bissell, Richard Say, Darling
Black, Shirley Temple Child Star

Blake, Nicholas There's Trouble Brewing There's Trouble Brewing 2

Blake, Nicholas End of Chapter

Blake, Nicholas The Morning After Death

Blake, Nicholas Thou Shell of Death

Blake, Nicholas Entry on Nigel Strangeways

Blake, William Cradle Song (poem)

Blakemore, Michael Next Season

Block, Lawrence Out on The Cutting Edge

Block, Lawrence Hitman

Block, Lawrence Keller's Fedora

Blume, Judy Are You There God? It's Me Margaret

Blyton, Enid The Secret Island

Bonett, John & Emery No Grave for a Lady No Grave for a Lady 2

Bonett, John & Emery Dead Lion

Boston, Lucy M The Children of Green Knowe (and see also Young Women Called Linnet, and One Old One  ) The Children of Green Knowe 2

Bourland, Barbara I'll Eat When I'm Dead

Boutell, Anita Death Has a Past

Boutell, Anita Tell Death to Wait

Bowen, Gail The Last Good Day

Boyd, William Restless

Bracken, Peg The I Hate to Cook Book

Brame, Charlotte M Dora Thorne, Dora Thorne 2 Branch, Pamela The Wooden Overcoat The Wooden Overcoat 2

Brand, Christianna LondonParticular

Brand, Christianna Green for Danger

Brand, Christianna Death in High Heels

Brand, Christianna The Rose in Darkness

Brand, Christianna Suddenly at His Residence (aka The Crooked Wreath)

Brand, Christianna Tour de Force

Brand, Christianna Death of Jezebel

Brand, Christianna Off With His Head

Brett, Simon Dead Side of the Mike

Bridge, Ann Illyrian Spring  (and see also Young Women Called Linnet, and One Old One  )

Bronte, Anne: see  Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the  Art of Life by Samantha Ellis

Bronte, Anne Agnes Grey

Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre

Brook, Timothy Vermeer's Hat Vermeer's Hat 2

Brookner, Anita   Hotel du Lac

Brooks, Geraldine The Secret Chord The Secret Chord 2

Brown, Craig Hello Goodbye Hello

Brown, Joe David Paper Moon/ Addie Pray

Brown, Pamela The Swish of the Curtain The Swish of the Curtain 2

Brown Pamela Golden Pavements Golden Pavements 2

Bruce, Alison The Siren

Bruce, Leo Dead Man's Shoes

Brunt, Carol Rifka Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Buckeridge, Anthony Jennings and Darbishire

Buckley, Christopher The White House Mess
The White House Mess 2

Buist, Anne & Graeme Simsion Two Steps Forward

Bull, Angela Up the Attic Stairs Up the Attic Stairs 2

Bullen, Mike Trust

Burgess, Anthony Earthly Powers

Burgess, Trevor The Mystery of the Missing Book

Burke, Alafair The Ex

Burnett, Frances H A Little Princess

Burnett, Frances H The Secret Garden

Burnett, Frances H The Making of a Marchioness (Making of a Lady) The Making of a Marchioness 2

Burnett, Frances H The Shuttle The Shuttle 2 The Shuttle 3

Burnett, Frances H The Lost Prince

Burns, KSR Rules for the Perpetual Diet

Bush, Christopher The Case of the Tudor Queen

Bush, Christopher Dancing Death

Bushnell, Candace Sex and the City

Bushnell, Candace Killing Monica

Bussi, Michel After the Crash

Butterworth, Michael Flowers for a Dead Witch

Butterworth, Michael The Black Look

Byatt, AS Possession Possession 2

Byron, Lord She Walks in Beauty Like the Night (poem)
Byron, Lord Beppo (poem) Beppo 2

Cain, James M Serenade

Camilleri, Andrea The Treasure Hunt

Cammuso & Seely New Yorker:  Fierce Pajamas: Anthology of Humor Writing

Canning, Victor The Mask of Memory

Canning, Victor The Rainbird Pattern

Canning, Victor Birdcage

Canning, Victor The Whip Hand

Cannon, Joanna The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

Canter, Jon Worth

Capote, Truman Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Carr, John Dickson And so to Murder

Carr, John Dickson He Wouldn't Kill Patience

Carr, John Dickson He Who Whispers

Carr, John Dickson The Reader is Warned

Carr, John Dickson The Witch of the Low Tide

Carr, John Dickson Night at the Mocking Widow

Carr, John Dickson Dead Man's Knock

Carr, John Dickson The Judas Window

Carr, John Dickson She Died A Lady

Carr, John Dickson The Mad Hatter Mystery

Carr, John Dickson The Waxworks Murder (TNC Week 1)

Carr, John Dickson The Case of the Constant Suicides (TNC Week 2)

Carr, John Dickson Till Death us Do Part, + list (TNC Week 3)

Carr John Dickson Short Stories and Fashion (TNC Week 4)

Carr, John Dickson The Emperor's Snuff Box (TNC week 5)

Carr, John Dickson Poison in Jest

Carr, John Dickson Black Spectacles/Problem of the Green Capsule

Carr, John Dickson The Seat of the Scornful

Carr, John Dickson Blind Man's Hood

Carr, John Dickson Hag's Nook

Carr, John Dickson The Problem of the Wire Cage

Carr, John Dickson Murder in the Atlantic

Carter, Angela Nights at the Circus Nights at the Circus 2

Carter, Angela The Bloody Chamber

Carter, Angela Wise Children Wise Children 2 Wise Children 3

Cash, Wiley This Dark Road to Mercy

Cather, Willa Shadows on the Rock Shadows on the Rock 2

Caudwell, Sarah Thus was Adonis Murdered

Caudwell, Sarah The Sirens Sang of Murder

Caudwell, Sarah The Sibyl in Her Grave

Cavafy, CP Ithaka

Chabon, Michael Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Chabon, Michael See also this entry

Chabon, Michael Telegraph Avenue Telegraph Avenue 2

Chabon Michael, Wonder Boys Wonder Boys 2

Chabon, Michael Moonglow

Chandler, Raymond The Big Sleep The Big Sleep 2

Chandler, Raymond Farewell, My Lovely

Chaplin, Elizabeth Hostage to Fortune

[see also Jill McGown]

Charles, Kate False Tongues

Chbosky, Stephen The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Chekhov, Anton Three Sisters

Chesterton, GK The Wisdom of Fr Brown

Chesterton, GK The Innocence of Fr Brown

Chevalier, Tracy At the Edge of the Orchard

Child, Lee The Visitor

Christiansen, Rupert Prima Donnas  Prima Donnas 2

Christie, Agatha   Christie on the Wrong Kind of Love

Christie, Agatha Christie's Women and Love

Christie, Agatha List of Top Five Favourite Books + Follow Up Post

Christie, Agatha A List of Highs and Lows (Tuesday night 1)

Christie, Agatha A List of Christie Tropes (Tuesday night 3)

Christie, Agatha Clothes in Christie (Tuesday night 4)

Christie, Agatha entry on Miss Marple vs Miss Silver

Christie, Agatha The Body in the Library

Christie, Agatha A Caribbean Mystery (and repeated here)

Christie, Agatha And then there were none… And then there were none 2

Christie, Agatha ThePale Horse

Christie, Agatha Mrs McGinty’s Dead

Christie, Agatha Halloween Party

Christie, Agatha Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Christie, Agatha Death on the Nile (& see also Young Women Called Linnet, and One Old One  )

Christie, Agatha The Sittaford Mystery

Christie, Agatha N or M? N or M? 2

Christie, Agatha Sad Cypress

Christie, Agatha Five Little Pigs Five Little Pigs 2

Christie, Agatha Dead Man's Folly

Christie, Agatha The Labours of Hercules  The Labours of Hercules 2

Christie, Agatha Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Christie, Agatha   Crooked House

Christie, Agatha Sparkling Cyanide

Christie, Agatha The Secret of Chimneys

Christie, Agatha The Moving Finger

Christie, Agatha The Mystery of the Blue Train Mystery of the Blue Train 2

Christie, Agatha Murder is Easy

Christie, Agatha The Secret Adversary

Christie, Agatha By the Pricking of My Thumbs

Christie, Agatha Death in the Clouds

Christie, Agatha Taken at the Flood

Christie, Agatha The Hollow

Christie, Agatha Murder at the Vicarage

Christie, Agatha The Man In The Brown Suit and see also Anne Beddingfeld entry

Christie, Agatha Death Comes as the End

Christie, Agatha A Murder is Announced

Christie, Agatha Cat Among the Pigeons

Christie, Agatha Dumb Witness, Dumb Witness 2

Christie, Agatha The Seven Dials Mystery

Christie, Agatha Appointment with

Death Appointment with Death 2

Christie, Agatha They Came to Baghdad

Christie, Agatha Murder in Mesopotamia

Christie, Agatha The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

Christie, Agatha Nemesis

Christie, Agatha Sleeping Murder

Christie, Agatha The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Christie, Agatha The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Christie, Agatha The Murder on the Links

Christie, Agatha Miss Marple stories: Herb of Death

Christie, Agatha Miss Marple stories: Greenshaw's Folly

Christie, Agatha Miss Marple stories: The Idol House of Astarte

Christie, Agatha Parker Pyne Investigates: The Case of the Rich Woman The House at Shiraz The Case of the City Clerk

Christie, Agatha Short Stories: Jane in Search of a Job

Christie, Agatha Short Story: Hercule Poirot and The Greenshore Folly

Christie, Agatha Short Story Within a Wall

Christie, Agatha Short Story A Christmas Tragedy

Christie, Agatha Short Story The Bloodstained Pavement

Post on holidays and trips in Agatha Christie books

Christie, Agatha An Autobiography  An Autobiography 2

Christie, Agatha Come, Tell Me How You Live (Tuesday Night 3)  Come Tell Me How You Live 2

Christie Firsts: Best Introductory Books

(as Mary Westmacott) Absent in the Spring
(as Mary Westmacott) Giant’s Bread

Claymore, Tod Appointment in New Orleans Appointment in New Orleans 2

Cleeves, Ann The Spinster (short story)

Clevely, Hugh Public Enemy

Clive, Mary Christmas with the Savages Christmas with the Savages 2

Cocteau, Jean Paris Album 1900-1914 Album 1900-1914

Coe, Jonathan The Rain Before it Falls

Coe, Jonathan Number 11

Coggin, Joan The Mystery at Orchard House

Cohen, Ellen Laboring

Colegate, Isabel Statues in a Garden

Colette Claudine in Paris

Collins, Norman London Belongs to Me     London Belongs to Me 2  London Belongs to Me 3 London Belongs to Me 4

Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne Catching Fire (Hunger Games 2)

Collins, Suzanne Mockingjay (Hunger Games 3)

Collins, Wilkie The Woman in White   The Woman in White 2

Collins, Wilkie No Name No Name 2 No Name 3 No Name 4

Collins, Wilkie Haunted Hotel

Comyns, Barbara Sisters by the River Sisters by the River 2

Cook, Thomas H The Quest for Anna Klein

Cooke, Rachel Her Brilliant Career: 10 Extraordinary Women of the 50s
Coolidge, Susan What Katy Did At School

Coolidge, Susan What Katy Did

Coolidge, Susan The Katy books and Jacqueline Wilson

Coren, Victoria For Richer For Poorer
Cornford, John (Poem) To Margot Heinemann

Cornwell, Bernard Fools and Mortals

Corry, Jane My Husband's Wife

Courcy, Anne de Diana Mosley

Craig, Amanda A Vicious Circle

Craig, Amanda The Lie of the Land

Crane, Frances Thirteen White Tulips Thirteen White Tulips 2

Crane, Frances The Applegreen Cat

Craven, Margaret I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Crider, Bill A Romantic Way to Die + tribute

Crispin, Edmund Holy Disorders

Crispin, Edmund Swan Song

Crispin, Edmund The Long Divorce

Crispin, Edmund Love Lies Bleeding

Crispin, Edmund Glimpses of the Moon

Crombie, Deborah In a Dark House

Crofts, Freeman Wills Antidote to Venom

Crowe, Julia My First Guitar

Crowe, Sara Campari for Breakfast

Cuddihy, Mikey A Conversation About Happiness

Cusk, Rachel In the Fold

Daly, Elizabeth The Book of the Dead

Daly, Paula The Trophy Child

Dane, Clemence & Simpson, Helen Enter Sir John

Dane, Clemence Broome Stages

Darwin, Charles Voyage of the Beagle  Voyage of the Beagle 2
Davenport-Hines, Richard An English Affair

Davidson, James The Greeks and Greek Love

Day, Elizabeth The Party

Day, Marele The Last Tango of Dolores Delgado

Day Lewis, Cecil - see Nicholas Blake above

Day Lewis, Cecil The Christmas Tree (poem)

de Courcy, Anne Diana Mosley

Deaver, Jeffrey The Vanished Man

Deighton, Len The Ipcress File The Ipcress File 2

Deighton, Len Berlin Game

Deighton, Len Mexico Set

Deighton, Len London Match

Deighton, Len Spy Hook

Deighton, Len Spy Line

Deighton, Len Spy Sinker

Deighton, Len Faith

Deighton, Len Hope

Deighton, Len Charity

Deighton, Len Funeral in Berlin

Delafield, EM Diary of a Provincial Lady  Diary of a Provincial Lady 2   Diary of a Provincial Lady 3
Diary of a Provincial Lady 4   Diary of a Provincial Lady 5

Delany, Vicki In the Shadow of the Glacier

DeMille, Nelson The Book Case

Dennis, Patrick Auntie Mame Auntie Mame 2 Auntie Mame 3

Dennys, Joyce Henrietta's War (and see also Young Women Called Linnet, and One Old One )

Dennys, Joyce Henrietta Sees It Through

Dickens, Charles Nicholas Nickleby Nicholas Nickleby 2

Dickens, CharlesDavid Copperfield

Dickens, Charles The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Dickens, Monica One Pair of Hands One Pair of Hands 2

Dickens, Monica The House at World's End

Dickens, Monica The Happy Prisoner

Dicker, Joel The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair

Dickson, Carter see Carr, John Dickson - above

Dickinson, Peter Death of a Unicorn

Dickinson, Peter Some Deaths Before Dying

Dickinson, Peter King and Joker

Dickinson, Peter Skeleton-in-Waiting

Disraeli, Benjamin Sybil, or The Two Nations

Donne, John A Nocturnal Upon St Lucy's Day

Donoghue, Emma The Wonder

Donovan, Anne Being Emily

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves Gone are the Leaves 2

Douglas, O Penny Plain Penny Plain 2

Doyle, Arthur Conan A Scandal in Bohemia

Drabble, Margaret A Summer Bird-Cage

Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie

Duffy, Maureen The Orpheus Trail

Duffy, Stella Face Value (short story)

Dumas Fils, Alexandre La Dame Aux Camelias

Du Maurier, Daphne Don’t Look Now

Du Maurier, Daphne The Scapegoat

Du Maurier, Daphne Jamaica Inn Jamaica Inn 2

Du Maurier, Daphne A Borderline Case, from Don't Look Now & Other Stories

Du Maurier, Daphne The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte

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