Books I've Read

Inspector Rostnikov takes a trip on the railroad, Karpov visit a skinhead bar.

Chicago policeman Abe Lieberman eventually catches up with an unfortunate thief, deals with a bar-mitzvah.

Lew Fonesca agrees to find the sister of a mentally-impaired neighbor. And Adele has run off, possibly with all the unpublished manuscripts of a famous reclusive author she met. Plus, people are getting killed. It's all rather depressing... I've decided that Kaminsky's books are peopled by charactors who have had some tragedy in their life, and are often searching for some kind of redemption.

Abe Lieberman threatened by Kim, also there is a little matter of a kidnapped teen boy who is the son of a Mafia snitch.

Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov trys to stop the Russian Mafias from killing each off while fellow officer Sasha investigates a dog fighting ring.

Biographer Cece Caruso investigates a murder in the Nancy Drew fan community. Lots of trivia.

Matthew's family dies in a cholera plague in 1839 New York. Living on the streets, he manages to get a job assisting Dr. Cornwall, a phrenologist. Dr. ABC wants a strong helper. Matthew soon finds out why. Great story

An ex-lawyer now chef/restaurant owner in Santa Cruz (California) finds a dead person, a person that she knows. Well, actually, her dog does. So she investigates. Recipes at end of book.

Detective Sargeant Jack Stallworthy wants to give his precious wife Lily the island paradise she craves, but things keep getting in the way. 279 p.

Nancy Drew helps out an inventor who has been swindled of his patents. How come Nancy needs the diary translated when she has been speaking to the person who wrote it? Read this entirely on the potty at work!

Autobiography of a cowboy and big game hunter. Interesting, but too much detail unless you REALLY like hunting and guns.

Nina Halligan is a former prosecuter, now a P.I., and a black woman, who has magic x-ray/infrared/telescopic sunglasses. An interesting switch from the mostly "white" stories I usually read. Lots of ethnic awareness, but only average story. I think the magic glasses was a jarring note. 304 p.

Trashy rich people in Wyoming get investigated by Lilly Bennet. Lilly gets her Marshal badge in this, the first book of the series.

Lilly Bennet wants to know who killed the old cowboy star at a charity dinner, goes to Las Vegas, meets Wayne Newton. Book was kinda stupid, Wayne was good.

Lilly Bennet doesn't let murder, shootings and bodies being exhumed interfere with her wedding.

Lilly Bennet, Marshal and solver-of-crimes in Wyoming, seems overly concerned with her makeup.

Almost-twelve-years-old Calpurnia learns about the natural sciences under the tutelage of her grandfather in 1899 rural Texas.

I'm still not sure what the title means. I wasn't captivated by the book, but I did find myself looking up a lot of things on the 'net.

Harrison is an emigrant teen from Ghana who investigates the murder of a boy in the neighborhood. I didn't care for the story. The British lower-class slang was grating on my ears. And the ending was a bummer. Read the Advance Reading Copy.

The life of a dog named Merle. Very excellent, and very weepy at the end.