Midday Mysteries Book Group

• The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
• Green River Running Red by Ann Rule
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver
• Love Lies Bleeding by Susan Wittig Albert
• The Litigators by John Grisham

2019

• Duck the Halls by Donna Andrews
• Crime Scene by Jonathan & Jesse Kellerman
• Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
• The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
• Slipping into Darkness by Peter Blauner
• Close Your Eyes by Iris Johansen
• Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
• Dark of the Moon by John Sandford
• The Lying Gameby Ruth Ware
• Sworn to Silenceby Linda Castillo
• The Chocolate Cupid Killings by JoAnna Carl
• Plum Island by Nelson DeMille

2018

• Last Ragged Breath by Julia Keller
• Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
• Land of Careful Shadows by Suzanne Chazin
• Gun Street Girl by Adrian McKinty
• The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
• The Killing Lessons by Saul Black
• Descent by Tim Johnston
• This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
• The Suspect by Michael Robotham
• Buttercream Bump Off by Jenn McKinlay
• The Day She Died by Catriona McPherson

2017

• The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
• Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton
• The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
• The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day
• Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman
• The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens
• Invisible City by Julia Dahl
• The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
• The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer
• Killing Cupid by Laura Levine
• The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer

2016

• Deck the Halls by Mary Higgins Clark
• The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
• The Cove by Ron Rash
• The Kill Artist by Daniel Silva
• American Assassin by Vince Flynn
• The Girl with Braided Hair by Margaret Coel
• In the Woods by Tana French
• The Tale of Holly How by Susan Wittig Albert
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
• Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris
• Chocolate Covered Murder by Leslie Meier
• The Cat Who Went Into the Closet by Lilian Jackson Braun

2015

• The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries by Otto Penzler
• Ghost Hero by S.J. Rozan
• Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
• The Other Woman by Hank Ryan
• Spider Woman’s Daughter by Anne Hillerman
• The Last Policeman by Ben Winters
• The Expats by Chris Pavone
• Wicked Girls by Alex Marwood
• Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
• The Valentine’s Day Murder by Lee Harris
• Cover of Snow by Jenny Milchman
• Bent Road by Lori Roy

2014

• The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries by Otto Penzler
• The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin
• Privileged Information by Stephen White
• Operator by David Vinjamuri
• Not a Girl Detective by Susan Kandel
• If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
• Death’s Domain by Alex Matthews
• Spy Killer by L. Ron Hubbard
• Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
• Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters

2013

• Plum Pudding Murder by Joanne Fluke
• Harvest of Murder by Ann Ripley
• Dear Life by Alice Munro
• Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
• The Cove by Catherine Coulter
• Doc by Mary Doria Russell
• The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker
• I’d Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
• Death of a Valentine by M.C. Beaton
• The Devil’s Punch Bowl by Greg Iles

2012

• Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop by Otto Penzler
• Strangers at the Feast by Jennifer Vanderbes  
• Red Cell by John Kalkowski
• The Hearse You Came In On by Tim Cockey
• The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow
• The Ice House by Minette Walters
• Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
• Still Life by Louise Penny
• Deadly Valentine by Carolyn Hart
• The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard    

2011

• We Wish You a Merry Murder by Valerie Wolzien
• If I’d Killed Him When I Met Him by Sharyn McCrumb
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
• The Codicil by Tom Topor
• The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
• Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
• Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
• Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews
• Monkeewrench by P.J. Tracy
• Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen
• In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming

2010

• A Christmas Journey by Anne Perry
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
• The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
• The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen
• Odds Against by Dick Francis
• Down River by John Hart
• Undercurrents by Ridley Pearson
• Envy by Sandra Brown
• Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
• Catered Valentine’s Day by Isis Crawford
• Point Deception by Marcia Muller

2009

• All Through the Night by Mary Higgins Clark
• A Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane
• The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
• Eye of the Storm by Jack Higgins
• The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner
• Goodnight Irene by Jan Burke
• Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter
• Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
• The Trouble With Valentine’s Day by Rachel Gibson
• Contents Under Pressure by Edna Buchanan

2008

• Candy Cane Murder by Joanna Fluke
• Dead Irish by John Lescroart
• A Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
• Family Honor by Robert B. Parker
• Cimarron Rose by James Lee Burke
• Murder in the White House by Margaret Truman
• Night Sins by Tami Hoag
• When the Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kellerman
• The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
• A for Alibi by Sue Grafton

2007

• Rest You Merry by Charlotte MacLeod
• Degree of Guilt by Richard North Patterson
• The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
• First to Die by James Patterson
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
• Blue Hour by T. Jefferson Parker
• Booked to Die by John Dunning
• Everywhere That Mary Went by Lisa Scottoline
• Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky
• Prelude to Terror by Helen MacInnes

2006

• The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
• Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
• Last Man Standing by David Baldacci
• Desert Heat by J.A. Jance
• Rules of Prey by John Sandford
• One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
• Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
• One False Move by Alex Kava
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• Better Off Wed by Laura Durham
• The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

2005

• Aunt Dimity’s Christmas by Nancy Atherton
• The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie King
• Deal Breaker by Harlan Coben
• Cop Hater by Ed McBain
• Nightmare in Pink by John McDonald
• Long After Midnight by Iris Johansen
• The Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais
• Southampton Row by Anne Perry
• Open Season by C.J. Box
• The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré
• Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak
• Killing Floor by Lee Child