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Bibliomysteries - You can pick from this list or pick your own
If you have a chance, also read one of the mysteries from the Daryl Wood Gerber series. She will by
Skyping in during our book discussion so it would be nice if you had some questions for her.
Gerber, Daryl Wood – “Cookbook Nook” Mystery Series – Jenna Hart, a former advertising executive
from San Francisco, gets a fresh start in her hometown on the coast of California.
1. Final Sentence (2013)
2. Inherit the Word (2014)
3. Stirring the Plot (2014)
4. Fudging the Books (2015)
5. Grilling the Subject (2016)
6. Pressing the Issue (2018)
7. Wreath Between the Lines (2018)
8. Sifting Through Clues (2019)
Abbott, Victoria – Jordan Bingham, the research assistant for Vera Van Alst, a book collector and most
hated woman in Harrison Falls, New York. References to other mystery writers in each book.
1. The Christie Curse (2013)
2. The Sayers Swindle (2013)
3. The Wolfe Widow (2014)
4. The Marsh Madness (2015)
5. The Hammett Hex (2016)
Adams, Ellery – “Book Retreat Mystery” – A resort in Virginia for book lovers.
1. Murder in the Mystery Suite (2014)
2. Murder in the Paperback Parlor (2015)
3. Murder in the Secret Garden (2016)
4. Murder in the Locked Library (2018)
5. Murder in the Reading Room (2019)
Block, Lawrence – Bernie Rhodenbarr is a thief who buys a bookstore in the third book in the series.
1. Burglars Can’t be Choosers (1977)
2. The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
3. The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979)
4. The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980)
5. The Burglar Who Painted like Mondrian (1983)
6. The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994)
7. The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995)
8. The Burglar in the Library (1997)
9. The Burglar in the Rye (1999)
10. The Burglar on the Prowl (2004)
11. The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons (2013) & 12. The Burglar in Short Order (2020)
1Brandon, Ali - Darla Pettistone & Hamlet, Bookshop Owner & Her Cat, New York
1. Double Booked for Death (2011)
2. A Novel Way to Die (2012)
3. Words with Fiends (2013)
4. Literally Murder (2014)
5. Plot Boiler (2015)
6. Twice Told Tail (2016)
Brown, Eric - Langham & Dupré Mysteries Book Series – Features the thriller writer Donald Langham and
his sidekick literary agent Marie Dupré solving murders in the 1950s literary crowd.
1. Murder by the Book (2014)
2. Murder at the Chase: A Locked Room Mystery Set in 1950s England (2015)
3. Murder at the Loch: A Traditional Mystery Set in 1950s Scotland (2016)
4. Murder Take Three: A British Country House Mystery (2017)
5. Murder Takes a Turn: A British Country House Mystery (2018)
6. Murder Served Cold
Cahoon, Lynn – “Tourist Trap” mysteries – series about a bookstore coffee shop combo in California.
(eBooks in system)
1. Guidebook to Murder (2014)
2. Mission to Murder (2014)
3. If the Shoe Kills (2014)
4. Dressed To Kill (2015)
4.5. Rockets' Dead Glare (2018)
5. Killer Run (2015)
5.5. Santa Puppy (2018)
5.25. A Deadly Brew (2018)
6. Murder on Wheels (2016)
6.5. Mother's Day Mayhem (2019)
6.25. Corned Beef and Casualties (2019)
7. Tea Cups and Carnage (2016)
8. Hospitality and Homicide (2017)
9. Killer Party (2017)
10. Memories and Murder (2019)
11. A Very Mummy Holiday (2019)
Calkins, Susanna – Lucy Campion, a chambermaid-turned-printer’s apprentice living in 17-century
plague-ridden London uncovers truth in the penny press in order to ferret out murderers.
1. A Murder at Rosamund’s Gate (2013)
2. From the Charred Remains (2014)
3. The Masque of a Murderer (2015)
4. A Death Along the River Fleet (2016)
2Carlisle, Kate – “Bibliophile Mystery” – the protagonist, Brooklyn Wainwright, is a bookbinder who
restores books that are linked to a present-day homicide.
1. Homicide in Hardcover (2008)
2. If Books Could Kill (2009)
3. The Lies That Bind (2010)
4. Murder Under Cover (2011)
5. One Book in the Grave (2012)
6. Peril in Paperback (2012)
7. A Cookbook Conspiracy (2013)
8. The Book Stops Here (2014)
9. Ripped from the Pages (2015)
10. Books of a Feather (2016)
11. Once Upon a Spine (2017)
12. Buried in Books (2018)
13. The Book Supremacy (2011)
14. The Grim Reader (2020)
Dereske, Jo – Miss Helma Zukas series of 11 books
1. Miss Zukas and the Library Murders ’94
2. Miss Zukas and the Island Murders ’95
3. Miss Zukas and the Stroke of Death ’96
4. Miss Zukas and the Raven’s Dance ’96
5. Out of Circulation ’97
6. Final Notice ’98
7. Miss Zukas in Death’s Shadow ’99
8. Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence ’01
9. Bookmarked to Die ’06
10. Catalogue of Death ’07
11. Index to Murder ’08
12. Farewell, Miss Zukas ’11
Dunning, John – wrote five Cliff Janeway mysteries beginning in 1986. Janeway is a disillusioned cop who
wants to be a book seller.
1. Book to Die
2. Bookman’s Wake
3. Bookman’s Promise
4. Sign of the Book
5. Bookwoman’s Last Fling
3Fforde, Jasper - Thursday Next is a literary detective who goes inside books from her futuristic time-
travel world.
1. The Eyre Affair
2. Lost in a Good Book
3. The Well of Lost Plots
4. Something Rotten
5. First Among Sequels
6. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
7. The Woman Who Died a Lot
Hart, Carolyn – “Death on Demand” – A bookstore run by Annie Laurance is at the center of this mystery
series.
1. Death on Demand (1987)
2. Design for Murder (1988)
3. Something Wicked (1988)
4. Honeymoon with Murder (1989)
5. A Little Class on Murder (1990)
6. Deadly Valentine (1990)
7. The Christie Caper (1991)
8. Southern Ghost (1992)
9. Mint Julep Murder (1995)
10. Yankee Doodle Dead (1998)
11. White Elephant Dead (1999)
12. Sugarplum Dead (2000)
13. April Food Dead (2002)
14. Engaged to Die (2003)
15. Murder Walks the Plank (2004)
16. Death of the Party (2005)
17. Dead Days of Summer (2006)
18. Death Walked In (2008)
19. Dare to Die (2009)
20. Laughed ‘til He Died (2010)
21. Dead by Midnight (2011)
22. Death Comes Silently (2012)
23. Dead, White and Blue (2013)
24. Death at the Door (2014)
25. Don’t Go Home (2015)
26. Walking on My Grave (2017)
Hart, Elsa – “Jade Dragon Mystery” – An imperial librarian solves a mystery in China in 1708.
4James, Miranda – wrote the “Cat in the Stacks” mysteries about widowed librarian Charlie Harris and his
Maine Coon cat, Diesel.
1. Murder Past Due (2010)
2. Classified as Murder (2011)
3. File M for Murder (2 012)
4. Out of Circulation (2013)
5. The Silence of the Library (2014)
6. Arsenic and Old Books (2015)
7. No Cats Allowed (2016)
8. Twelve Angry Librarians (2017)
9. Claws for Concern (2018)
10. Six Cats a Slayin' (2018)
11. The Pawful Truth (2019)
12. Careless Whiskers (2020)
Lehane, Con – “42nd Street Library Mystery’” – Protagonist is the curator for the NYPL “fictional” crime
fiction collection
1. Murder at the 42nd Street Library (2016)
2. Murder in the Manuscript Room (2017)
3. Murder Off the Page (2019)
McKinlay, Jenn – “Library Lover’s Mystery” – Lindsay Norris, director of the Briar Creek Public Library in
Connecticut, has to use her reference skills to solve mysteries.
1. Books Can Be Deceiving (2011)
2. Due or Die (2012)
3. Book, Line and Sinker (2012)
4. Read It and Weep (2013)
5. On Borrowed Time (2014)
6. A Likely Story (2015)
7. Better Late Than Never (2016)
8. Death in the Stacks (2017)
9. Hitting the Books (2018)
10. Word to the Wise (2019)
Moran, Terrie Farley – “Read Em and Eat Mystery” – A bookstore and café on the island community of
Fort Myers Beach on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
1. Well Read, Then Dead (2014)
2. Caught Read-Handed (2015)
3. Read to Death (2016)
5Peters, Elizabeth – wrote the Jacqueline Kirby mystery series about a librarian at “one of the big Eastern
universities.”
1. Seventh Sinner
2. Murders of Richard III
3. Die for Love
4. Naked Once More
Sweazy, Larry D. – Marjorie Trumaine Mystery – A North Dakotan indexer is drawn into the first case
because the sheriff asks her to find the meaning behind an amulet found at the crime scene.
1. See Also Murder (2015)
2. See Also Deception (2016)
3. See Also Proof (2018)
Wright, Sally – University archivist Ben Reese
1. Publish and Perish (1997)
2. Pride and Predator (1997)
3. Pursuit and Persuasion (2000)
4. Out of the Ruins (2004)
5. Watches of the Night (2008)
6. Code of Silence (2008)
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz – “Shadow of the Wind” - A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War,
and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a
mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the
author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every
copy of every book Carax has written.
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