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What are the best mystery / romance books?

I read a book of mystery with romance in it. A series would be great.

Try almost anything by Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels (they're the same woman). Elizabeth Peters has a wonderful series on a very progressive Victorian lady named Amelia Peabody. Start with "The crocodile on the sandbank." She has a short series about a modern heroine named Vicki Bliss are also excellent. Happy reading!

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Videodrome (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] $23.97 A TV executive discovers an underground show where people are killed on camera, and is slowly drawn into a hallucinogenic world of living TV sets and programmable people. Dazzling blend of sci-fi suspense and erotic terror from David Cronenberg stars James Woods, Sonja Smits and Deborah Harry. 89 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH)….

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Rooms: A novel $14.90 It was just a letter. Cryptic, yes. Absurd? Absolutely. But Seattle software tycoon Micah Taylor can’t get it out of his mind — this claim that a home was built for him, by a great uncle he never knew, on the Oregon coast. In Cannon Beach. The one place he loves. The one place he never wants to see again. Micah goes to Cannon Beach intending to sell the house and keep his past buried, bu…

Case Histories : A Novel $5.20 Set in Cambridge, England, it introduces Jackson Brodie, a former police inspector turned Private Investigator as he encounters three seemingly unconnected family tragedies – the disappearance of a three-year-old girl; the brutal murder of a husband; and the apparently motiveless murder of a solicitor’s daughter….

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Women of Mystery $6.99 In this remarkable book, Martha Hailey DuBose has given those multitudes of readers who love the mystery novel an indispensable addition to their libraries. Unlike other works on the subject, Women of Mystery is not merely a directory of the novelists and their publications with a few biographical details. DuBose combines extensive research into the lives of significant women mystery writers from Anna Katherine Green and Mary Roberts Rinehart with critical essays on their work, anecdotes, contemporary reviews and opinions and some of the women’s own comments. She takes us through the Golden Age of the British women mystery writers, Christie, Sayers, Marsh, Allingham and Tey, to the leading crime novelists of today, focused on the women who have become legends of the genre. And though she laments, “so many mysteries, so little time,” she makes a good effort a mentioning “some of the best of the rest.” When DuBose writes of the lives of her principal players, she relates them to their times, their families, their personal situations and above all to their books. She subtly points out that Sayers, whose experience with the men in her life was inevitably disastrous, created in Lord Peter the ideal lover — one who is all that a woman desires and needs. DuBose gives us the curriculum vitae that Dorothy Sayers created to help her bring Peter Wimsey to a virtual actuality. Ngaio Marsh would give up an active presence in the theatrical world she loved, but she recreated it for herself as well as her readers in many of her novels. The biographies of these woman are as engrossing as the stories they wrote, and Martha DuBose has shined a different, intimate and intriguing light on them, their works, and the lives that informed those works. This book is so full of treasure it’s hard to see how any mystery enthusiast will be able to do without it. And what a gift it would make for anyone on your list who has been heard to announce “I love a mystery.” Some of the treats inside: In the Beginning: The Mothers of Detection Anna Katherine Green Mary Roberts Rinehart A Golden Era: The Genteel Puzzlers agatha christie Dorothy L. Sayers Ngaio Marsh Margery Allingham Josephine Tey Modern Motives: Mysteries of the Murderous Mind Patricia Highsmith P.D. James Ruth Rendell Mary Higgins Clark Sue Grafton and more!!

100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery authors $65 Who doesn’t love a good mystery novel? Mystery titles frequently top best-seller lists and appeal to a wide range of readers. For enthusiastic fans of this genre, the backgrounds of the authors of today’s best mystery and crime books can be just as engrossing as the stories they tell.

The Essential Mystery Lists $9.99 The book is divided into three parts: Introduction (pp. 1-16); Mystery Awards (pp. 17-281); Classic or Best Lists (pp. 283-453); and Index (pp. 455-573). The Introduction has six sections or parts that deal with collecting mysteries, the process of creating these lists, how to use this resource, and a list of sources.The Mystery Awards has both the winners and nominees. There are other books available (in the past) that list winners, but none that list the nominees.The Classic or Best Lists have fifty lists for you to consider. Some of these are well known but sometimes hard to locate when you need to refer to them. Other lists have not been available in some years. Then I have some lists that were created just for this resource. Especially I want to share the Anthony Boucher lists from his annual review of the best books of the year in his column as reviewer for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times from 1942 through Boucher's death in 1968. The Index section is divided into several sections: name of authors, short story titles, name of titles of books. Collectors will find this resource as an aid in their task. Others might want to read with a certain award field or best list in mind. Librarians might want to created lists for readers, offer display of books, etc. On the buttons to the left, you will find specific information about the book. Please, if you find areas in the text that we can improve on, correct, add further information, please go to the fifth button on the left and offer your suggestions. I am adding the 2008 nominees and then winners as the various groups and organizations make the information known. You can cut and paste that information for your use. Also, some information about a new column that I now write for Mystery News on "Real to Reel." Talking about a book and then the film adapted from the original source.

Mystery $9.99 BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Jonathan Kellerman’s Victims. The closing of the grand old Fauborg Hotel in Beverly Hills is a sad occasion for longtime patrons Alex Delaware and Robin Castagna, who go there one last time for cocktails. But even more poignant—and curious—is a striking young woman in elegant attire and dark glasses, alone there and waiting in vain. Two days later, police detective Milo Sturgis comes seeking his psychologist comrade’s insights about a grisly homicide. To Alex’s shock, the brutalized victim is the same beautiful woman whose lonely hours sipping champagne at the Fauborg may have been her last. But when a sordid revelation finally cracks the case open, the secrets that spill out could make Alex and Milo’s best efforts to close this crime not just impossible but fatal.

Books $10.99 Now in paperback, Larry McMurtry’s fascinating and surprisingly intimate memoir of his lifelong passion of buying, selling, and collecting rare antiquarian books: “a necessary and marvelous gift” (San Antonio Express-News). • Acclaimed author: Spanning a lifetime of literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded at a wide variety of genres, from coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show, to essays like In a Narrow Grave, to the reinvention of the “Western” on a grand scale like the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove. Here at last is the private McMurtry writing about himself: as a boy growing up in a largely “bookless” world, as a young man devouring the world of literature, as a fledgling writer and family man, and above all as one of America’s most prominent “bookmen.” • A work of charm, grace, and good humor: reading books is like reading the best kind of diary—full of wonderful anecdotes, amazing characters, spicy gossip, and shrewd observations. Like its author, Books is erudite, full of life, and full of great stories. Yet the most curious tale of all is the amazing transformation of a reluctant young cowboy into a world-class literary figure who has spent his life not only writing books, but rounding them up the way he once rounded up cattle. At once chatty, revealing, and deeply satisfying, Books is Larry McMurtry at his best.