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ARLIS colleagues-- In response to many requests, I'm forwarding a list of mysteries and/or art-related fiction that ARLIS members have enjoyed recently. These books and authors were mentioned at our Houston mystery-readers' dinner last Monday. What follows is just the first round-robin of recommendations. To compile a list of ALL books discussed over the course of the evening would be too daunting a task to undertake! I hope these titles will keep you pleasantly occupied until you can join us in Banff for more suggestions. Nick Kilmer started the round of recommendations with suggestions of art-related fiction-- What's Bred in the Bone (by Robertson Davies) To the Lighthouse (by Virginia Woolf) Red Headed Girl (short story in Penelope Fitzgerald's collection, "The Means of Escape") Shannon Van Kirk recommended Nicholas Kilmer's five (#6 forthcoming this Fall) art-related mysteries, starting with: Harmony in Flesh and Black Amy Ciccone has written as article on architecture mysteries for the Mystery Readers' Journal http://www.mysteryreaders.org/Issues/Art1.html other author/title/series recommendations include: James Bradberry (The Seventh Sacrament) Sarah Graves (The Dead Cat Bounce, home repair mystery series) Edward Marston (Christopher Redmayne series-- regarding an architect after the 1666 Fire of London) Sharan Newman (medieval series) Nancy Atherton (Aunt Dimity series) Joanne Fluke (Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder) Robert Crais (The Forgotten Man) Linda Barnes (Snapshot) Jane Urquhart (The Underpainter--not a mystery) Iain Pears (An Instance of the Fingerpost) Robert B. Parker (Boston setting) Leslie Meier (Valentine Murder) Richard & Frances Lockridge (Pam & Jerry North series) Diane Mott Davidson (food-related mystery series) Susan Wittig Albert (herbalist series) Tony Hillerman (Navajo mystery series) Michael McGarrity (Santa Fe setting) Kathleen O'Neal Gear (The Visitant) Sarah Andrews (Earth Colors) Donna Andrews (Murder with Peacocks) Vera Caspary (Laura) Dana Stebanow (Alaska mystery series) Michael Frayn (Headlong) not a mystery John Dickson Carr Lindsey Davis (Roman mystery series) Steven Saylor (Roman mystery series) John Maddox Roberts (Roman mystery series) Michael Dibdin (mysteries set in Italy) Andrea Camilleri (mysteries set in Italy) Arturo Perez-Reverte (The Fencing Master; The Flanders Panel) Donna Leon (mysteries set in Venice) Margaret Truman (Murder at the Library of Congress) Robert L. Snow (Looking for Carroll Beckwith: the true story of a detective's search for his past life) Sara Hoskinson Frommer (Murder in C Major) Jane Langton (Murder at the Gardner) And I'll add a note to also check out the work of Dean James (librarian, mystery bookshop owner, author of mysteries and mystery bibliographies--and speaker with Nick Kilmer at our Houston ARLIS conference). For example (with Jean Swanson): By a woman's hand: a guide to mystery fiction by women Also, thanks again to Jill Cogen for her pre-conference regional mystery bibliography. **************************************** --Linda Duychak Kohler Art Library University of Wisconsin-Madison P.S. to attendees--apologies if I missed or misconstrued any of your comments; and note that I omitted some (very few) recommendations if I could not confirm my notes via OCLC. List addenda are welcomed. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]