9 Mystery Books About Strange Disappearances

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January 9 - Anne Hillerman

Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman

Navajo Inn - Monday am police breakfast - Nellie Roanhorse
Joe Leaphorn, Navajo Police Lieutenant retired - Emma - Louisa Bourebonette (Louisa Ann Tyler, L. A. Tyler) - MD Anderson
Captain Howard Largo
Officer Harold Bigman
Officer Jim Chee - Cheeseburger - Long Thinker - Cowboy Dashee - Rocko Delbert - Notah Tsosie - Garrison Tsosie - Rose
Officer Bernadette Manuelito - Mama (M/M Darkwater)- Darleen - Charley Zah (Stoop Boy) - Leaphorn Award of Valor
Officer Brandon Wheeler
FBI Agent Jerry Cordova - Michelle Abernathy - Omega Team 
San Juan County D/S Tim Morris
Basha’s Grocery - Shopping cart lady - Gloria Benally - Jackson Benally - Leonard Nez (Lizard)
Sante Fe Christus St. Vincent Hospital - Dr. Grant Moxsley - Rev. Rodriquez
Austin Lee
Double X Ranch - Slim Jacobs (cowboy hippie lovebirds)
AIRC (American Indian Research Center)
Grove McManus Foundation collection
Dr. John Collingsworth - Marjorie Rockwell
Dr. Maxie Davis - Randall Elliot - Notah Tsosie bracelets 
Hosteen Klah
EFB Appraisal - Ellie Friedman (Eleanor Friedman-Bernal) 
Mark Yazzie
Chaco Canyon - Karen Dundee - dorky hat & long sleeves
Joe Wakara - Andrew Stephen
Una Vida
Richard Wetherell grave (s)
Shiprock
Window Rock
Gallup, NM
Ganado, AZ
Fort Defiance
Route 666 (Devil’s Highway)
Crownpoint, NM

Dine 
Dinetah
Navajo Way
chindi
Teec Nos Pos blanket
Zuni fetishes
hataaliii 
skin walkers
Blessing Way
Bluebird song

Enjoy!

Below are new books by authors the Mystery Books Group has read and discussed.They are all very good - happy reading! 

Out of Bounds by Val McDermid
The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg
Escape Clause (Virgil Flowers #9) by John Sandford
The Wrong Side of Goodby by Michael Connelly
So Say the Fallen by Stuart Neville
Presumption of Guilt by Archer Mayor
Night School by Lee Child
Beyond the Truth by Anne Holt

Monday, December 12

12:00 Nelson Main - Cold Storage, Alaska

2:00       Laxalt - In Bruges

Best mystery books and thrillers of 2016 - Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/best-mystery-books-and-thrillers-of-2016/2016/11/17/2ead1e06-9dde-11e6-9980-50913d68eacb_story.html

Cold Storage, Alaska characters

Cold Storage, Alaska (2014)

1934 - Cold Storage - Norwegian fisherman - 1) good anchorage w/protection & 2) natural hot springs

200 inches of rain

1952 - Old Country Seafoods, cannery to cold storage - thus the name

1935 - Slippery Wilson (Uncle Slip, 30)- Ellie (Wobbly) Hobbes

Annabelle - Uncle Billy

Clive “Milkman” McCahon, 35 - McNeil Island Penitentiary - Stilton Cheesewright - Taxi/Bandit - Oscar Laurentis/Samson, Big Brother - Willa Perlmutter

Jake Shoemaker, Who’s Your Daddy Now?/Stealing Candy - Miss Peel (Ann) - CCE Investigation - IPO

Ellie’s Bar - Mouse Miller’s Love Nest - Little Brother’s

Miles McCahon, Army Rangers - PA - 

Lester Frank, Thingit

Gloria Ballister

Liz & Louise

Ed - Tina

Center/Clinic, Ellen - Bob Gleason

Senior Center, Eloisa - Gary, 

Cold Storage Film Society - Movie Tuesdays

Trooper Ray Brown 

Satanist

Harold “Mouse” Miller  (Mrs. Cera) - Anthony Cera

Weasel (Julius), Boomerang Bombers - Tiger Johnson

Billy Cox, Boomerrnag Bomber - Dalai Lama - SS Universe - Bonnie Sue Mellon

Oberlin Orchestra -  Blind Donkey - Rick - Earl - Nix (Maya Kendricks)

collars - black cod heads (sable fish)

Jokes - Boil you an egg

Paper Butterfly

Paper Butterfly by Diane Wei Liang

Lotus Information Consulting
Mei Wang - Ya-ping - Yuan Yuan Chou
Ling Bai, mother - Hu Bin
Lu, sister - Li-ning, Big Boss Dong - opportunity
Gupin - Little Mountain - Dr. Ding 
  Big Sister Hui 
Twins, Officers Lao Li & Gao - Detective Zhao -  Factory 958
Bao Du King - dry baked buns
Jing Jing (little sister, Big Sister Hui), Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
Bureau of Regulation, Form 11956
Yang Chao
Guanghua Record Company
Peng Datong - Miss Pink
Kaili - Manyu  - Western Mountain burial ground - M/M Kang

Lin (Manchu) - L - Old Grandpa Wu - paper butterfly, traditional craft - Little Gansu
East Wind Lao Gai Camp- Little Soldier - Hu Wei - Little Gansu
Deputy Chen
Deputy Yao (Grasshopper)
Mr, Zhang, Lao Tielu (Old Iron Road)
Little Sister Sue - Xiao Hua - Second Root
Chen Xiaolei (Cop Chen & Fatty) - Mrs. Tang - Chen Xiao Hua (Litte Flower), 178
Old Mrs. Guo

Ministry for Public Security, of, 124 - for, 193
Discovering and Developing the West (New Silk Road)
Reform and Open Door
Smash Four Olds Movement

Spring Festival
Big Chill
June Fourth, Tiananmen Square

Blond Faith Characters

October 10

Blonde Faith (2007) by Walter Mosley

Ezekiel Porterhouse Rawlins (Easy) - Feather, 11 - Jesus/Juice, Benita Flagg, Essie - Frenchie
Bonnie Shay - Prince Joguye Cham
Saul Lynx
Easter Dawn Black, ED, 8 - Major Christmas Black - Hannibal Black
Proxy Nine - Jackson Blue - Jewelle - Morass - Jean-Paul Villard
Primo - Flower - Peter Rhone (Nola Payne) - Tina Monroe
Mrs Canfield

Lineman - Chandisse Lund
Martel “Marty” Johnson - Chevette - Porky the Pimp

Sammy Sansoam (Captain Clarence Miles) - General  Thaddeus King - Lt. Drake Bishop - Lodai
Major Bryant - Colonel Timothy Bunting (Bumbles)
Faith Morel Laneer (Blonde Faith) - Norman - Craig Laneer - Hope Neverman - Andrew - Carmen
Ginny Tooms

Sgt. Melvin Suggs - Captain Rauchford
Deputy Police Commissioner Gerald Jordan

Raymond Alexander (Mouse)- EttaMae Harris - Mama Jo - Domaque
Pericles Tarr (Perry) - Meredith Tarr - Leafa - Portman’s Department Store - Pretty Smart
LA Library - Gara Lemmon
Marvel’s Used Cars - Charles Mung - Thunder - Brad Knowles - Tourmaline Goss
Brendan’s - Hans Green - Michaels - Melinda
Ginny Wright - Cox Bar - John Van - Alva

September 12 - To Dwell in Darkness

To Dwell in Darkness (2014) by Deborah Crombie

Duncan Kincaid - Gemma James (sister Cyn)
Charlotte, 3 - Kit, 14 - Toby, 6 - Xenia
Tess, terrier - Geordie, blue roan cocker spaniel
Bryony Poole - Wesley Howard
Scotland Yard
Chief Superintendent Denis Childs - Liz Davies
Detective Inspector Jasmine Sidana
Detective Sergeant Doug Cullen
Holborn Police Station, Camden CID
Chief Superintendent Thomas Faith, borough commander
Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid
Decretive Constable George Sweeney
Case Manager Simon Pikas
South London Police Station, Brixton
Detective Superintendent Krueger
Detective Inspector Gemma James
Detective Sergeant Melody Talbot
Detective Constable Shara MacNichols
Mercy Johnson - Dillon Underwood - Izzy Lamar (mother Emily) Deja Harriott
British Transport - PC Coleen Rynski, WP grenade
SO15, Counter Terrorism - DCI Nick Callery
St. Pancras International Concert
Andy Monahan - Tam Moran
Poppy Jones - Caleb Hart - Michael - Louise
John Stacey, firefighter crew chief
Dr. Rashid Kaleem, Home Office pathologist
Mel - locksmith
SOCO- Arthur Scott - Chad Mills
Save London’s History - Crossrail project
Paul Cole - Lisa & Robert Cole -
Matthew Quinn - KCD, Inc = King’s Cross Development, Inc -
Ariel Ellis - Prof Stephen Ellis
Camilla (Cam) Chen
Iris Barker
Trish Hollingsworth
Lee Sutton
Dean Gilbert
Ryan Marsh - Ryan Marlowe - Christine Marlowe
Wren
Halal Chicken and Chips, Medhi Atias

Great New Books

Anne Holt, Dead Joker
https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Joker-Hanne-Wilhelmsen-Novel/dp/1501123262

Peter Robinson, When the Music's Over
https://www.amazon.com/When-Musics-Over-Inspector-Novels/dp/0062394789

Louise Penny, A Great Reckoning
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Reckoning-Novel-Inspector-Gamache/dp/1250022134

Edinburgh Nights

Ian Rankin & Kirsty Wark tour The Scottish Endarkenment

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p044wtvp

To Dwell in Darkness

To Dwell in Darkness (2014) by Deborah Crombie

Duncan Kincaid - Gemma James (sister Cyn)
Charlotte, 3 - Kit, 14 - Toby, 6 - Xenia
Tess, terrier - Geordie, blue roan cocker spaniel
Bryony Poole - Wesley Howard
Scotland Yard
Chief Superintendent Denis Childs - Liz Davies
Detective Inspector Jasmine Sidana
Detective Sergeant Doug Cullen
Holborn Police Station, Camden CID
Chief Superintendent Thomas Faith, borough commander
Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid
Decretive Constable George Sweeney
Case Manager Simon Pikas
South London Police Station, Brixton
Detective Superintendent Krueger
Detective Inspector Gemma James
Detective Sergeant Melody Talbot
Detective Constable Shara MacNichols
Mercy Johnson - Dillon Underwood - Izzy Lamar (mother Emily) - Deja Harriott
British Transport - PC Coleen Rynski, WP grenade
SO15, Counter Terrorism - DCI Nick Callery
St. Pancras International Concert
Andy Monahan - Tam Moran
Poppy Jones - Caleb Hart - Michael - Louise
John Stacey, firefighter crew chief
Dr. Rashid Kaleem, Home Office pathologist
Mel - locksmith
SOCO- Arthur Scott - Chad Mills
Save London’s History - Crossrail project
Paul Cole - Lisa & Robert Cole -
Matthew Quinn - KCD, Inc = King’s Cross Development, Inc -
Ariel Ellis - Prof Stephen Ellis -
Camilla (Cam) Chen
Iris Barker
Trish Hollingsworth
Lee Sutton
Dean Gilbert
Ryan Marsh - Ryan Marloe - Christine Marlowe
Wren -
Halal Chicken and Chips, Medhi Atias

Misterioso Character List

Click Here:  Misterioso Character List

A Hotel for Book Lovers

Sylvia Beach Hotel, Newport Oregon
http://www.sylviabeachhotel.com/

Write Your Own Sherlock Holmes Story

http://www.weeklylizard.com/blog/2015/10/27/write-your-own-sherlock-holmes-story/

The Art of Detection (2006) by Laurie R. King

The Art of Detection (2006) by Laurie R. King

Characters

San Francisco Police Department

Inspector Kate Martinelli - Lee Cooper, Nora

Jon Sampson & Sione Kalefu, Lalu - Reverend Roz Hall & Maj Freiling, Mina, Match

Inspector Alanzo Hawkin - Jani, Jules, Maya, Daniel

Lo-Tec, Crime Scene Inspector Lawrence Freeman

CSI Maria Warbeck

Yasmin, photographer

Point Bonita - Marin Headlands

Fort Barry - Battery - DeMaurier, Wallace, Alexander, Smith-Guthrie, O’Rourke, Mendell

Muir Woods

Ranger Dan Culpepper, Park Police Patrol

Chris Williams, Park Detective

Ranger Diana Sandstrom

Strand Diners

Philip Gilbert - Nika Kilanovitch

Corina Ferguson

Beeton’s Annual

HolmesCam (Spying Eye of Sherlock)

Maltese Falcon

Leah Garchik column

typewriter

Louisa Brancusi

Ian Nicholson - manuscripts - 1923, Conan Doyle, SF Spiritualist

Christy Bennington - Monica LaValle

Wendell Bauer

Jeannine Cartfield

Alex Climpson

Soong Li

Geraldine O’Malley

Rajendra Pandi - Diagram Research

Tom Rutland

Johnny Venkataraman - Diagram Research

Transcript - Jack Raynor Story or Tale of Billie Birdsong

Mr. Sigerson

Martin Ledbetter

Billy Birdsong

Lieutenant Jack Raynor

Emperor Norton

Mountain Charley Pankhurst

R. Minovski - Annabeth

Fort Baker - Major Morris

Fort Barry- Lieutenant Halston - velvet bag of pearls

DuM 2:00

Great new books

Charcoal Joe by Walter Mosley

https://www.amazon.com/Charcoal-Joe-Rawlins-Mysteries-Hardcover/dp/0385539207

The Highwayman by Craig Johnson

https://www.amazon.com/Highwayman-Longmire-Story-Craig-Johnson/dp/0735220891/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466775434&sr=1-1&keywords=craig+johnson

A Hero of France by Alan Furst

https://www.amazon.com/Hero-France-Novel-Alan-Furst/dp/0812996496/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466775290&sr=1-1&keywords=alan+furst

Book Marks

When a book is reviewed at least three times, those reviews are averaged into a result at Book Marks.
Note Mystery and  Crime category -
http://lithub.com/bookmarks/

To the Hilt Characters

Alexander Kinlock - Emily Jane Cox - Det. Sgt. Berrick

   Vivienne, Lady Westering 

   Ivan George Westering - Benchmark, Patsy, Surtees, Xenia

      Edna - Lois  

      Dr. Keith Robbiston - Wilfred 

      Oliver Grantchester

      Tobias Tollright

      Margaret Morden

      Desmond Finch

      Young and Ottley, Chris Young

      Jimmy Jenkins

      Connie Hall

Himself, Earl Robert Kinloch - Countess Jamie - James Kinloch -     Andrew

  Jedburgh Parlane - Flora

  Dr. Zoe Lang

Donald Cameron

Norman Quorn - Audrey Newton  

DC Thompson - DCI Reynolds

DI Vernon

Bernie - Jazzo

King Alfred Brewery - Gold - Bronze

Jockey Club

King Alfred Gold Cup (1867, Haworth Hill, Wantage, Oxfordshire

Golden Malt

Kinloch Hilt

three-card trick

beach-towel and hotel job

Henry VIII syndrome

June 13 Book

To the Hilt by Dick Francis
Remarkably, after more than 35 novels, Dick Francis is still getting better. His latest has the horsey element that Francis fans have grown to expect and love, but it also has more depth and substance, more emotion and humanity, and a more compelling story than his last few efforts.
Alexander Kinloch, product of a privileged upbringing, has opted out of the family brewing business to take up painting in Scotland. But things change when his stepfather, Sir Ivan Westering, suffers a heart attack after learning that his trusted assistant has absconded with millions of dollars in profits. Against the wishes of his advisers, Sir Ivan asks Alexander to save the brewery, which in turn presents an opportunity for Alexander to reexamine not only the family business but his own philosophy about life.
Like the trickiest jigsaw puzzle, the plot of this superbly crafted story contains many enigmatic pieces that at first seem to have no connection. But by the final page, all the pieces have not only been snugly slotted into place, they have also formed a charming and cohesive whole.  
From Booklist

Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/jan/06/gaudy-night-by-dorothy-l-sayers-a-weighty-novel-that-still-thrills

Gaudy Night Characters

  Harriet Vane 

Lord Peter Wimsey
Mervyn Bunter
Lord Gerald Saint-George
Miss Climpson
Freddie Arbuthnot
Chancellor Lord Oakapple
Dr. Noel Threep
Warden Dr Margaret Baring
Dean Letitia Martin
Sub-Warden Miss Lydgate, English
Bursar Miss Stevens, Steve
Librarian Miss Burrows
Miss Hillyard, History
Miss Gubbins, Bacon scholar
Miss Edwards, Science
Miss Barton
Miss Allison
Miss Pyke
Miss Shaw
Helen de Vine, Research Fellow
Mary Stokes Atwood
Phoebe Tucker Bancroft
Vera Mollison
Catherine Fremantle
Betty Armstrong
Dorothy Collins
Reggie Pomfret
Miss Shuster-Slatt (Sadie)
Miss Newland
Miss Flaxman
Miss Violet Cattermole - Lionel Farringdon
Head Scout Carrie
Scout Annie Wilson - Miss Lydgate’s staircase - Senior Common Room
Scout Ethel
Padgett, porter
Jukes - Mrs. Jukes
Arthur Robinson
Charlotte Ann Clarke (Annie Wilson) - Mrs. Robinson
Beatrice Maud (Beatie) & Carola - scissors kids
Shrewsbury College - Countess of Shrewsbury
Senior Common Room - Fellows and Tutors

May 9 Book

Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers

When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the Gaudy, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, burnt effigies, and poison-pen letters, including one that says, "Ask your boyfriend with the title if he likes arsenic in his soup." Some of the notes threaten murder; all are perfectly ghastly; yet in spite of their scurrilous nature, all are perfectly worded. And Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with only the tiniest shreds of clues to challenge her powers of detection, and those of her paramour, Lord Peter Wimsey.

goodreads.com

The Sniper’s Wife by Archer Mayor

Characters

Vermont Bureau of Investigation
Field Force Commander Joe Gunther
Special Agent Samantha “Sammie” Martens
Special Agent Willy Kunkle
Mary Kunkle - Diablo - Rosalie Coven, ReCoop, Seabee
Jose Rivera
Andy Liptak - Casey Ballantine
Louisa Oberon
Nathan Lee
Riley Cox
Mrs. Goldblum
Marcus
La Culebra, the Snake = Carlos Barzin -
Ron Cashman (John Smith) - Lenny Menotti - Budd & Judy Wilcox Bob
Kunkle, Junie

NYPD - Seventh Precinct
Lieutenant Miguel Torres
Detective Ward Ogden
Detective Jim Berhle
Officer Denise Williams
Detective Phil Panatela, Customs/NYPD car theft task force
CUPPI - Circumstances Undetermined Pending Police Investigation
Janet Scott, Portsmouth PD

Dead
Mary Kunkle
Nathan Lee
Ron Ashman
France Silva

Holy Grail, 223

Even the Dogs in the Wild

Surprise! John Rebus has retired - and it is not working. Fortunately, DI Siobhan Clarke asks for his help on an unusual murder case and Rebus is back in the game. And, what a game it is! We start with a dead lawyer and a cryptic threatening note. Then an old thorn, Big Ger Cafferty, gets shot at in his house, and he get the same threatening note. Another Rebus acquaintance, DI Malcolm Fox, is involved in an investigation of a major crime family that his been infiltrated by the police. Fox has serious concerns and involves Rebus in his “case”.  As we follow Clarke, Rebus, and Fox in their investigations we soon realize that much more is going on in the dog-eat-dog Rankin’s world and murder and mayhem. 

Ian Rankin again proves that he is one of the best at exposing power abuses in its many and varied manifestations.  

Highly recommend.

Characters - Prime Time Suspect

Prime Time Suspect by Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett (2000/2007)

Characters 

Barcelona Police
Chief Inspector Coronas
Inspector Petra Delicado - Amanda - Enrique
Sergeant Fermin Garzon
Inspector Moliner
Inspector Rodriquez
Inspector Sanguesa
Inspector Abascal

Ernesto Valdes - Pepita Lizarran - Juan Mallofre
Marta Merchan - Raquel - Encarnacion Bermudez
Laggy - Maria Magdalena
Lesgano - Andre Nogales - Adolfo
Toribio - Agustin Orensal - Patricia
Rosario Campos - Jorge Garcia Pacheco - Frederic Chopin

Snitches
Francesco Pazos
Señora Fuentes - wife of Higinio Fuentes

Dead
Rosario Campos
Ernesto Valdes
Higinio Fuentes
Mrs. Fuentes

Marta Merchan

NPR - The 'Girl' In The Title: More Than A Marketing Trend

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467392750/the-girl-in-the-title-more-than-a-marketing-trend

Jo Nesbo
In Midnight Sun, as he did in Blood on Snow,  Jo Nesbo has a killer (fixer) tell the story. And, what a story!  Getting away from Oslo and the violent drug lord Fisherman, Jon (Ulf) hides out above the Arctic Circle. The locals, Sami, do not know what to make of this outsider.  Waiting for the Fisherman's fixers, Jon learns much about himself and the Sami people.  What a great read - love how Nesbo is able to pull me into his stories.  Highly recommend both books.  Available at the Washoe County Library.

Michael Connelly - BOSCH Season 2

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Sara Blaedel, The Killing Forest

Another excellent book featuring Danish Detective Louise Rick

.http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4555-8154-2