Book Clubs > Death by the Book: Mystery Book Group > British Procedurals

British Procedurals... Monday, May 9, 2005 Credit is due to Beebe Memorial Library Readers' Advisory Librarian Leane Ellis, who co-authored the Supper Sleuths Booklist with Assistant Director, Nanci Milone Hill. The following is a list of titles by author. Please let us know if you feel that a title should be included that is not. Please read one or more titles, and come prepared to discuss your impressions of them with the group.

Aird, Catherine [C.D. Sloane series] Religious Body [1966] Most Contagious Game [1967] Stately Home Murder [1969] A Late Phoenix [1970] His Burial Too [1973] Slight Mourning [1975] Parting Breath [1978] Some Die Eloquent [1979] Passing Strange [1980] Last Respects [1982] Harm's Way [1984] Dead Liberty [1987] Body Politic [1989] A Going Concern [1994] Injury Time [1995] After Effects [1996] Stiff News [1999] Little Knell [2000] Amendment of Life [2002] Ashford, Jeffrey[P.C. Ballard & Michael Keene series] Honest Betrayal [1999] Murder Will Out [2000] Bannister, Jo[Frank Shapiro series] Bleeding of Innocents [1993] Charisma [1994] Taste for Burning [1995] No Birds Sing [1996] Broken Lines [1998] Hireling's Tail [1999] Changelings [2000] Barnard, Robert[Inspector Perry Trethowen series] Death by Sheer Torture [1981] Death and the Princess [1982] The Case of the Missing Bronte [1983] Bodies [1986] The Cherry Blossom Corpse [1987] Barnard, Robert[Detective Charlie Pearce series] The Bad Samaritan [1975] Death and the Chaste Apprentice [1989] A Fatal Attachment [1992] A Hovering of Vultures [1993] No Place of Safety [1997] The Corpse at Haworth Tandoori [1998] The Bones in the Attic [2001] Booth, Stephen[Ben Cooper series] Black Dog [2000] Dancing with Virgins [2001] Blood on the Tongue [2002] Bruen, Ken[a James Roberts mystery] The McDead [2000] Burley, William J.[Charles Wycliffe series] Three-toed Pussy [1968] To Kill a Cat [1970] Guilt Guilty [1971] Death in a Salubrious Place [1973] Death in Stanley Street [1974] Wycliffe and the Pea-Green Boat [1975] Wycliffe and the School Girls [1976] Wycliffe and the Scapegoat [1978] Wycliffe in Paul's Court [1980] Wycliffe's Wild Goose Chase [1982] Wycliffe and the Beales [1982] Wycliffe and the Four Jacks [1985] Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin [1986] Wycliffe and the Windsor Blue [1987] Wycliffe and the Tangled Web [1989] Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death [1990] Wycliffe and the Dead Flautist [1991] Wycliffe and the Last Rights [1993] Wycliffe and the Dune's Mystery [1994] Wycliffe and the House of Fear [1996] Wycliffe and the Readhead [1997] Butler, Gwendoline[John Coffin series] Receipt for Murder [1956 - Out of Print] Dead in a Row [1957 - Out of Print] Dull Dead [1958] Murdering King [1958 - Out of Print] The Interloper [1959 - Out of Print] Death Lives Next Door [1960] Make Me a Murderer [1961 - Out of Print] Coffin in Oxford [1962 - Out of Print] Coffin for Baby [1963] Coffin Waiting [1964] Coffin in Malta [1964] Nameless Coffin [1966] Coffin Following [1968 - Out of Print] Cofffin's Dark Number [1969 - Out of Print] Coffin from the Past [1970 - Out of Print] Coffin for the Canary [1974 - Out of Print] Coffin on the Water [1986] Coffin in Fashion [1987] Coffin Underground [1988] Coffin in the Museum of Crime [1990] Coffin and the Paper Man [1990] Coffin on Murder Street [1992] Cracking Open a Coffin [1992] Coffin for Charlie [1994] Coffin Tree [1996] Dark Coffin [1996] Double Coffin [1998] Coffin's Game [1999] Grave Coffin [1999] Coffin's Ghost [2001] Coffin Knows the Answer [2003] Corley, Elizabeth [Detective Cheif Inspector Andrew Fenwick] Fatal Legacy [2001] Coward, Mat [Detective Kincaid & Gemma James] A Share in Death [1993] All Shall Be Well [1994] Leave the Grave Green [1995] Mourn Not Your Dead [1996] Dreaming of the Bones [1997] Kissed a Sad Goodbye [1999] A Finer End [2001] And Justice There Is None [2002] Now May You Weep [2003] Curzon, Claire [Mike Yeadings series] I Give You Five Days [1983 - Out of Print] Masks and Faces [1984 - Out of Print] The Trojan Hearse [1985 - Out of Print] The Quest for K [1986 - Out of Print] Three Core Lead [1988] Cat's Cradle [1991] Blue-Eyed Boy [1991] First Wife, Twice Removed [1992] Death Prone [1994] Nice People [1995] Past Mischief [1996] Close Quarters [1997] All Unwary [1998] Cold Hands [1999] Don't Leave Me [2002] The Body of a Woman [2003] Cutler, Judith [Detective Sgt. Kate Power] Power On Her Own [1998] Davies, Freda [Detective Inspector Keith Tyrell] A Fine and Private Place [2001] Dexter, Colin [Chief Inspector Morse] Last Bus to Woodstock [1975] Last Seen Wearing [1976] Silent World of Nicholas Quinn [1977] Service All the Dead [1979] Dead of Jericho [1981] Riddle of the Third Mile [1983] Secret of Annexe 3 [1986] The Wench Is Dead [1989] Jewel That Was Ours [1991] Way Through The Woods [1992] Daughters of Cain [1994] Death is Now My Neighbor [1997] Eccles, Marjorie [Inspector Gil Mayo] More Deaths than One [1990] Late of this Parish [1994] Death of Distinction [1995] Company She Kept [1996] Accidental Shroud [1997] A Species of Revenge [1999] Killing Me Softly [1999] Superintenden'ts Daughter [2000] Sunset's Touch [2002] Untimely Graves [2004] Ellis, Kate [Police Sgt. Wesley Peterson] Merchant's House [1999] Armada Boy [1999] An Unhallowed Grave [1999] Funeral Boat [2000] Bone Garden [2000] Graham, Caroline [Cheif Inspector Tom Barnaby] Killings at Badger Drift [1987] Death of a Hollow Man [1989] Death In Disguise [1993] Written in Blood [1995] Faithful Unto Death [1998] A Place of Safety [1999] Gregson, J.M. (James Michael) [Detective Inspector Percy Peach & Detective Srg. Lucy Blake Missing, Presumed Dead [1997 - Out of Print] To Kill a Wife [1999] An Unsuitable Death [2000] A Turbulant Priestt [2000] Lancashire Leopard [2001] Murder at the Lodge [2003] Hall, Patricia [Chief Inspector Michael Thackeray] The Poison Pool [1991] Death by Election [1994] Dying Fall [1994] Dead of Winter [1997] Perils of the Night [1997] Italian Girl [1998] Dead on Arrival [1999] Skeleton at the Feast [2002] Deep Freeze [2003] Death on Dark Waters [2004] Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia [Bill Slider series] Orchestrated Death [1991] Death Watch [1992] Death to Go [1993] Grave Music [1995] Blood Lines [1996] Killing Time [1998] Shallow Grave [1999] Blood Sinister [1999] Gone Tomorrow [2001] Hart, Roy [Douglas Roper series Seascape with Dead Figures [1987] Pretty Place for Murder [1987] Fox in the Night [1989] Remains to be Seen [1990] Robbed Blind [1990] Breach of Promise [1990] Blood Kin [1992] Final Appointment [1993] Deadly Schedule [1994] Harvey, John [Charlie Resnick series} Lonely Hearts [1989] Rough Treatment [1990] Cutting Edge [1991] Off Minor [1992] Wasted Years [1993] Cold Light [1994] Living Proof [1995] Easy Meat [1996] Still Waters [1997] Last Rites [1998] Hayder, Mo [Detective Insp. Jack Caffrey] Birdman [1999] The Treatment [2001] Hill, Reginald [Supt. Andrew Dalziel & Sgt. Peter Pascoe] A Clubbable Woman [1970] An Advancement of Learning [1971] Ruling Passion [1973] An April Shroud [1975] A Pinch of Snuff [1978] A Killing Kindness [1980] Deadheads [1983] Exit Lines [1984] Child's Play [1987] Underworld [1988] Bones and Silence [1990] Recalled to Life [1992] Lonely Hearts [1989] Pictures of Perfection [1994] The Wood Beyond [1995] Asking for the Moon [1996 - Short Stories] On Beulah Height [1998] Arms and the Women [1999] Dialogues of the Dead; or Paronomania!: a Word Game for Two Players [2001] Death's Jest Book [2003] Ison, Graham [Chief Sup. John Gaffney & Det. Chief Insp. Harry Brock Confirm or Deny [1989] The Home Secretary Will See You Now [1989] Working Girl [2002] James, Bill [Colin Harpur, DCS & Desmond Iles, DC] You'd Better Believe It [1985] The Lolita Man [1986] Halo Parade [1987] Protection [1988] Come Clean [1986] Take [1990] Club [1991] Astride a Grave [1991] Gospel [1992] Roses, Roses [1993] In Good Hands [1994] The Detective Is Dead [1995] Top Banana [1996] Panicking Ralph [1998] Lovely Mover [1998] Eton Crop [1999] Kill Me [2000] Pay Days [2001] Naked at the Window [2001] James, P.D. [Adam Daghliesh series Cover Her Face [1962] Mind to Murder [1963] Unnatural Causes [1967] Shroud for a Nightingale [1971] Black Tower [1975] Death of an Expert Witness [1977] Taste for Death [1986] Devises and Desires [1989] Original Sin [1995] A Certain Justice [1997] Death in Holy Orders [2001] Murder Room [2003] John, Katherine [Sgt. Trevor Joseph] Six Foot Under [1996] Murder of a Dead Man [1997] Keating, H.R.F. [Det Chief Insp. Harriet Martens The Hard Detective [2000] Detective In Love [2001] Detective Under Fire [2003] Kelly, Susan B. [Gregory Summers series] Lone Traveller [2000] Killing the Fatted Calf [2001] Little Girl Lost [2002] Kenyon, Michael [DCI Henry Peckover & DC Jason Twitty Elgar Variation [1981] Man at the Wheel [1982] Free-range Wife [1983] A Healthy Way to Die [1986] Peckover Holds the Baby [1988] Kill the Butler! [1991] Peckover Joins the Choir [1993] Peckover and the Bog Man [1994] Kernick, Simon [Dennis Milne] Business of Dying [2002] Longworth, Gay [Det. Insp. Jesse Driver] Dead Alone [2002] Lovesey, Peter [Cheif Supt. Peter Diamond] The Last Detective [1991] Diamond Solitaire [1992] Summons [1995] Bloodhounds [1996] Upon a Dark Night [1997] The Vault [2000] Diamond Dust [2002] House Sitter [2003] Maitland, Barry [Sgt. Kathy Kolla & DCI David Brock Marx Sisters [1994] The Malcontenta [1995] All My Enemies [1999 - Out of Print] The Chalon Heads [1999] Silvermeadow [2000] Babel [2003] Marquis, Max [DI Harry Timerlake] Undignified Death [1994] McDowell, Iain [DCI Jacobson & Det. Sgt. Kerr] A Study in Death [2000] McGown, Jill [DCI Lloyd & Officer Hill] Perfect Match [1983] Gone to Her Death [1989] Murders of Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Beale [1991] Murder at the Old Vicarage [1991] Other Woman [1992] Murder -- Now and Then [1993] Shred of Evidence [1995] Verdict Unsafe [1997] Picture of Innocence [1997] Plots and Errors [1999] Scene of the Crime [2001] Death in the Family [2003] Melville, Jennie [Det. Supt. Chairmain Daniels] Making Good Blood [1989] Witching Murder [1990] Footsteps in Blood [1993] Dead Set [1993] Whoever Has the Heart [1994] A Death in the Family [1995] Morbid Kitchen [1996] Miller, Hugh [Det. Insp. Mike Fletcher] An Echo of Justice [1990] Skin Deep [1991] Mitchell, Kay [Chief Inp. Mike Fletcher] Live Form of Death [1990] In Stony Places [1992] Roots of Evil [1993] A Portion of Foxes [1995] A Rage of Innocentss [1998] Murray, Stephen [Det. Insp. Alec Stainton] Noose of Time [1989] Neel, Janet [DCI John McLeish & Francesca Wilson] Death's Bright Angel [1988] Death on Site [1998] Death of a Partner [1991] Death Among the Dons [1993] Timely Death [1996] To Die For [1998] O Gentle Death [2001] Palmer, Frank [Det. Insp. Jacko Jackson] Testimony [1992] Unfit to Plead [1993] Bent Grasses [1993] Blood Brother [1993] Nightwatch [1994] China Hand [1994 - Out of Print] Dead Man's Handle [1995 - Out of Print] Double Exposure [1995 - Out of Print] Quinton, Ann [Michael Croft & Nick Holroyd] This Mortal Coil [1998] Put out the Light [2000] Bought with Blood [2001] Rankin, Ian [Det. Sgt. John Rebus] Knots and Crosses [1987] Hide and Seek [1991] Tooth and Nail [1992] Strip Jack [1992] A Good Hanging and Other Stories [1992] Black Boot [1993] Mortal Causes [1994] Let It Bleed [1995] Black and Blue [1997] Hanging Garden [1998] Death is Not an End [1998] Dead Souls [1999] Set in Darkness [2000] The Falls [2001] Resurrection Men [2002] Question of Blood [2003] Rendell, Ruth [Chief Insp. Reginanld Wexford] From Doon with Death [1964] New Lease of Death [1967] Sins of the Fathers [1970] Wolf to Slaughter [1967] Best Man to Die [1969] A Guilty Thing Surprised [1970] No More Dying Then [1971] Murder Being Once Done [1972] Some Lie and Some Die [1973] Shake Hands Forever [1975] Sleeping Life [1978] Death Notes [1981] Speaker of Mandarin [1983] Unkindness of Ravens [1985] Veiled One [1988] Kissing the Gunner's Daughter [1992] Simisola [1994] Road Rage [1997] Harm Done [1999] Babes in the Wood [2002] Robinson, Peter [DCI Alan Banks] A Dedicated Man [1988] A Necessary End [1989] Hanging Valley [1989] Past Reason Hated [1991] Wednesday's Child [1992] Final Account [1994] Innocent Graves [1996] Dead Right [1997 - Out of Print] Blood at the Root [1997] In a Dry Season [1999] Cold+in+the+grave [2000] Aftermath [2001] Close to Home [2001] Playing with Fire [2004] Ross, Jonathan [Det. Supr. George Rogers] Here Lies Nancy Frail [1972] Burning of Billy Toober [1974] I Know What It's Like to Die [1976] Rattling of Old Bones [1979] Dark Blue and Dangerous [1981] Death's Head [1982] Dead Eye [1983] Dropped Dead [1984] Burial Deferred [1985] Fate Accomplished [1987] Sudden Departures [1988] A Time for Dying [1989] Daphne Dead and Gone For [1990] Murder Be Hanged [1992] None the Worse for Hanging [1994] Murder! Murder! Burning Bright [1996] Scott, Jack S. [DCI Pete Parsons and Sgt. Wimbush] A Time of Fine Weather [1985] Little Darling, Dead [1986] All the Pretty People [1984] A Death in Irish Town [1985] A Knife Between the Ribs [1987] Simpson, Dorothy [Insp. Luke Thanet] Night She Died [1981] Six Feet Under [1982] Puppet for a Corpse [1983] Close Her Eyes [1984] Last Seen Alive [1985] Dead on Arrival [1986] Element of Doubt [1987] Suspicious Death [1988] Dead by Morning [1989] Doomed to Die [1991] Wake the Dead [1992] No Laughing Matter [1993] Day for Dying [1995] Once Too Often [1998] Dead and Gone [1999] Spencer, Sally [DCI Charlie Woodward] Death of a Cave Dweller [2000] Tope, Rebecca [Den Cooper] A Dirty Death [2000] Death of a Friend [2000 - Out of Print] A Death to Record [2003] Turnbull, Peter [Chief Insp. Hennessey & Sgt. Yellich] Fear of Drowning [1999] Deathtrap [2000] Perils and Dangers [2001] The Return [2001] After the Flood [2002] Dark Secrets [2003] All Roads Leadeth [2003] Wainwright, John [DCI Lyle] Brainwash [1979] Duty Elsewhere [1980] Dominoes [1980] A Very Parochial Murder [1988] Man Who Wasn't There [1989] Hangman's Lane [1992]