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Death Of An Old Goat

Barnard, Robert
An old professor from Oxford is killed after visiting a rural university in Australia. Good story, ending came surprisingly quickly.

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12/2001

Dying flames

Barnard, Robert
Author Graham finds a teen-age girl on his doorstep claiming to be his daughter. I really like this author's books. LATER: Checked it out again, accidentally, so I READ it again.

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8/2006

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5/2009

Fete Fatale

Barnard, Robert
The veterinarian's wife recounts the course of a murder in her village. Really good, several surprises.

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7/2000

Last Post

Barnard, Robert
Eve's mother has recently died, then a strange letter arrives hinting at a relationship her mother may had many years ago. A severe climax leaves no happy endings here.

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5/2009

No Place Of Safety

Barnard, Robert
Detective Constable Charlie Peace sorts out runaway teens.

QUOTE:

"Us wouldn't know about that. Us be drinkers, not fornicators."

TODAY'S VOCABULARY LESSON:

mendacious micturate shtoom

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6/2000

The Bad Samaritan

Barnard, Robert
Detective Constable Charlie Pearce finds out who would want to murder a piller of the church.

TODAY'S VOCABULARY LESSON:

Orotund

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6/2000

The Bones In The Attic

Barnard, Robert
Man moves into house, find bones of child in attic. Interesting story. Charlie Peace investigates.

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4/2004

The Cherry Blossom Corpse

Barnard, Robert
Inspector Perry Trethowan of Scotland Yard goes to Norway with his sister for a convention of Romance writers. Charlie Peace appears near the end. Very good story!

QUOTE:

"Patti Drewe suspected of fiddling welfare payments for her sick husband twelve years ago. Hmmm. Nothing there, surely? welfare in the States is so tiny it wouldn't keep a dog alive. More power to her elbow..."

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1/2001

The Corpse At The Haworth Jandoori

Barnard, Robert
A body turns up in the parking lot of an Indian restaurant. How did it get there? Who is it? Surprisings answers! .

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7/2000

The Graveyard Postion

Barnard, Robert
Merlyn returns after a twenty-year absence to find his relatives are even awfuller than they were. Now someone wants to kill him! Charlie Peace makes inspector.

Quote:

She's not so green as she's cabbage-looking.--(pg. 206) She's not as gullible as he looks.

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5/2009

The Habit Of Widowhood

Barnard, Robert
Short stories having to do with widowhood...and murder! Very good!!

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7/2000

The Killings On Jubilee Terrace

Barnard, Robert
Charlie Peace investigates the deaths in the cast of a soap opera. Sad conclusion.

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7/2009

Unholy Dying

Barnard, Robert
A nasty newsman is killed. Charlie Peace and Det. Odie investigate.

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4/2002

A Trouble Of Fools

Barnes, Linda
Carlotta Carlyle investigates a missing Irish taxi driver in Boston. Good read, couldn't put it down!

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8/1999

Cold Case

Barnes, Linda
Carlotta Carlyle looks for a missing girl from 24 years ago

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1/2000

Coyote

Barnes, Linda
Carlotta Carlyle trys to find who is killing illegal immigrants.

QUOTE:

"The radios Gloria's got in her old Fords can barely catch the AM top-forty stations, the ones that broadcast as twenty million kilohertz." EDITORIAL COMMENT: Huh?? That's a whole lotta hertz!!

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8/1999

Deep pockets

Barnes, Linda
A student burned to death at Harvard is not what she seems.

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9/2004

Flashpoint

Barnes, Linda
Carlotta Carlyle meets and old lady, who dies, and Carlotta's house is set on fire!

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6/2000

Hardware

Barnes, Linda
Carlotta Carlyle gets a computer and searchs for whoever is beating up taxi drivers..

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"I have an air splint," he said, "left over from a skiing sprain..." "Why didn't my doctor give me one?" I asked... "You in an HMO?" he asked. "Yeah." "Crutches are good enough for the like of you." "Thanks a heap."

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8/1999

Snapshot

Barnes, Linda
Carlotta Carlyle keeps getting pictures of a little girl in the mail. These are pretty good stories.

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8/1999
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[Abadzis - Akers, pseud.] [Akers, pseud. - Anderson] [Anderson - Ashcraft] [Asimov - Babbit] [Bacigalupi - Baldacci] [Baldacci - Barnard] [Barnard - Barnes] [Barnes - Barr] [Barr - Beanton] [Beanton - Beaton] [Beaton - Beaton] [Beaton - Birdsall] [Birney - Block] [Block - Bonham] [Bonham - Brackenbury] [Bradbury - Bryson] [Bryson - Bujold] [Bujold - Burroughs] [Buzzell - Card] [Card - Carrere] [Carroll - Charles] [Chavarria - Clancy] [Clancy - Coben] [Coben - Coleman] [Colfer - Collins] [Collins - Connelly] [Connelly - Cook] [Cook - Cornwell] [Cornwell - Crais] [Crais - Cronley] [Crumley - Cussler] [Cussler - Dashner] [Datlow - Dick] [Dickens - Doohan] [Dorsey - Drake] [Drake - Edsel] [Eggars - Emerson] [Emerson - Faherty] [Faherty - Farmer] [Farmer - Flanagan] [Flanagan - Flint] [Flint - Foster] [Foster - Francis] [Francis - Francis] [Francis - Freedman] [Freedman - Galli] [Gantos - Gibbons] [Gibson - Gores] [Gores - Granger] [Granger - Greenberg] [Greenfield - Grimes] [Grimes - Haddix] [Haddix - Hall] [Hall - Hallinan] [Hallinan - Hassman] [Haugaard - Heinlein] [Heinlein - Heller] [Heller - Hepler] [Herbert - Hess] [Hess - Hiaasen] [Hiaasen - Hobb] [Hobb - Hornung] [Hornung - Huff] [Hughes - Jemisin] [Jemisin - Jones] [Joyce - Kaminsky] [Kaminsky - Kidder] [Kienzle - Kingsolver] [Kingsolver - Konrath] [Konrath - Kurson] [Kushner - Larsson] [Lasky - Leckie] [Leckie - Leonard] [Leonard - Lewis] [Lewis - Louv] [Lovelace - Lutz] [Lutz - Magnuson] [Maguire - Marshall] [Martin - Mass] [Mass - McBain] [McBain - McCrumb] [McCrumb - McNab] [McNally - Mikaelsen] [Mikaelsen - Moon] [Moon - Mortimer] [Mortimer - Nance] [Nance - Niven] [Niven - O'Brian] [O'Brian - O'Brian] [O'Brien - Osa] [Osman - Paretsky] [Paretsky - Parker] [Parker - Parker] [Parker - Patterson] [Pattou - Pearson] [Pearson - Perry] [Peters - Pohl] [Pohl - Poyer] [Poyer - Pratchett] [Pratchett - Prineas] [Pronzini - Pullman] [Pullman - Reedy] [Reeve - Richardson] [Richardson - Robinson] [Robinson - Rowling] [Rowling - Russo] [Rust - Scalzi] [Scalzi - Schmidt] [Schmitz - Scottoline] [Scottoline - Shaffer] [Shames - Shute] [Sijie - Smith] [Smith - Spiegelman] [Spiegelman - Stark] [Stasheff - Stern] [Stewart - Stross] [Stross - Taft] [Tapply - Thompson] [Thorp - Turtledove] [Turtledove - Van Draanen] [Van Draanen - Varley] [Veglahn - Watts] [Weber - Wells] [Wells - Westlake] [Westlake - Wheeler] [Whelan - Wodehouse] [Wodehouse - Wouk] [Wrede - Zusak] 

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