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This site now includes 345 authors, 64 countries and multi-country regions, 45 U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia.

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Read and Recommended
For a few months, I had time to note specific books that I read and recommended. I had to stop for lack of time. If time is available, this section will resume.
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2008: Jul-Dec

Mystery Writers: Cities


Note: This list only includes selected cities represented by two or more authors. For cities and towns not listed here, check the alphabetical "Places" links to the left.
AMSTERDAM: A. C. Baantjer - Nicolas Freeling - Janwillem van de Wetering
BANGKOK: John Burdett - Christopher G. Moore
BARCELONA: Alicia Gimenez Bartlett - Manuel Vazquez Montalban
BOSTON: Linda Barnes - Rick Boyer - Jeremiah Healy - Charles Kenney - Robert B. Parker - William G. Tapply
CHICAGO: Robert Goldsborough - Michael Harvey - Stuart M. Kaminsky - Kris Nelscott - Sara Paretsky - Marcus Sakey
DUBLIN: Conor Brady - John Brady - Bartholomew Gill - Gene Kerrigan
EDINBURGH: Quintin Jardine - Ian Rankin
FT. LAUDERDALE: Tom Corcoran - John D. MacDonald
GOTHENBURG: Ake Edwardson - Helene Tursten
LONDON: Rennie Airth - Mark Billingham - Arthur Conan Doyle - Paul Eddy - Mick Herron - Simon Kernick - Lynda La Plante - John Lawton - Barry Maitland - Simon Tolkien - Laura Wilson
LOS ANGELES: Michael Connelly - Miles Corwin - Robert Crais - Robert Ellis - Charlotte Justice - Walter Mosley - Lisa See - John Shannon - Paula L. Woods
MANHATTAN: Kenneth Abel - Henry Chang - Peter De Jonge - Robert Goldsborough - Ed Lin - Ed McBain - Carol O Connell - S. J. Rozan - Sarah Schulman - Rex Stout - Andrew Vachss
MELBOURNE: Garry Disher - Peter Temple
MEMPHIS: Kris Nelscott - James Sallis
MEXICO CITY: Rolo Diez - Paco Ignacio Taibo
MIAMI: Jose Latour - Les Standiford
MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL: Larry Millett - John Sandford - P. J. Tracy
MOSCOW: Stuart M. Kaminsky - Martin Cruz Smith
NEW ORLEANS: Kenneth Abel - Ace Atkins - James Lee Burke - David Fulmer - James Sallis
OSLO: K. O. Dahl - Anne Holt - Jo Nesbo
PARIS: Cara Black - Max Byrd - Didier Daeninckx - Claude Izner - Georges Simenon - Fred Vargas
ROME: Conor Fitzgerald - David Hewson - Iain Pears
SAN FRANCISCO: David Corbett - Joe Gores - Stephen Greenleaf - Dashiell Hammett - Laurie R. King - John Lescroart - Kelli Stanley
SANTA FE: Michael McGarrity - Walter Satterthwait
SEATTLE: Earl Emerson - J. A. Jance - Ridley Pearson
SHANGHAI: Xiao Bao - David Rotenberg - Qiu Xiaolong - Qiu Xiaolong
ST. LOUIS: Michael Kahn - Qiu Xiaolong
TORONTO: Rosemary Aubert - Howard Engel - Ian Hamilton - John McFetridge
VENICE: Donna Leon - Edward Sklepowich