Older Reviews

Peter Ackroyd
English Music  DNF 

Catherine Aird
Past Tense   3 1/2 stars
The Religious Body  4 stars 

Boris Akunin
The Winter Queen  3 1/2 stars

Mitch Albom
for one more day  4 stars

Dante Alighieri (trans Dorothy L Sayers)
The Divine Comedy 1: Hell   Review Part II  4 stars
The Divine Comedy II: Purgatory 3 1/2 stars
The Divine Comedy III: Paradise  3 3/4 stars

Isabel Allende

Margery Allingham
Dancers in Mourning  4 stars
The Fashion in Shrouds   3 stars
Pearls Before Swine 3 1/2 stars
Police at the Funeral  4 stars  

Eric Ambler
A Coffin for Dimitrios   2 1/2 stars 


Kingsley Amis
The Green Man  1 star

Cleveland Amory
The Cat Who Came for Christmas 3 stars 

J. R. L. Anderson
A Sprig of Sea Lavender 3 stars

James Anderson
The Affair of the 39 Cufflinks  3 stars

Poul Anderson
The High Crusade  3 stars

Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings  4 1/2 stars


Anonymous (trans by Herbert Mason)
Gilgamesh   4 1/2 stars

Charlotte Armstrong
The Chocolate Cobweb  2 stars
A Dram of Poison Unrated
Lay On, Mac Duff!  3 1/2 stars

Isaac Asimov
Fantastic Voyage  3 1/2 stars

Jane Austen
Emma  2 stars
Northanger Abbey  4 stars
Sense & Sensibility 3 stars
 
A. C. Baantjer
DeKok & Murder on Blood Mountain  4 stars
DeKok & Murder on the Menu 3 1/2 stars 

David Bainbridge

Josephine Baker (intro by)
Classical Women Poets  3 1/2 stars

Muriel Barbery

Robert Barnard
Death and the Princess   3 1/2 stars 
The Habit of Widowhood  3 1/2 stars

Jonathan Barnes
The Somnambulist 3 stars 

Julian Barnes
Flaubert's Parrot  3 stars
The Porcupine  3 1/2 stars

Stephanie Barron

L. Frank Baum
The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus  3 stars  

Louis Bayard
The School of Night by 2 1/2 stars   
M. C. Beaton
Death of a Charming Man  3 stars
Death of a Chimney Sweep  3 stars

Sally Beauman
Rebecca's Tale  3 stars

K. K. Beck
Electric City  3 stars

Josephine Bell
Death in Clairvoyance  3 stars

John McGrew Bennet
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary  3 stars

(Charity) Lee Blackstock
The Woman in the Woods  3 stars

Nicholas Blake
The Morning After Death 4 stars
A Question of Proof  3 1/2 stars

E. F. Bleiler (ed)
Three Victorian Novels  3 1/2 stars

Lawrence Block
Random Walk  3 3/4 stars

Richard L. Boyer
The Giant Rat of Sumatra  3 stars

Ray Bradbury
Ahmed & the Oblivion Machines 3 stars 
A Chapbook for Burnt-Out Priests, Rabbis, and Ministers  3 stars 
Death Is a Lonely Business  4 stars
I Sing the Body Electric  4 1/2 stars
Let's All Kill Constance  2 stars (sortof)
Something Wicked This Way Comes  4 stars

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Audley's Secret  4 stars

Dennis Bradford
A Dark Time 2 3/4 stars

Gyles Brandreth
Oscar Wilde & the Vampire Murders  4 stars

Lillian Jackson Braun
The Cat Who Saw Red 3 stars

Emily Brightwell
Mrs. Jeffries Stands Corrected 3 stars

Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre   4 stars

Carl Brookins
The Case of the Deceiving Don  4 stars

Marie-Therese Browne
Olga: A Daughter's Tale  4 stars

John Buchan
The 39 Steps 3 1/2 stars 

Stephen Burt & David Mikics
The Art of the Sonnet  3 1/2 stars

Lewis Buzbee

Olivia deBelle Byrd
Miss Hildreth Wore Brown: Anecdotes of a Southern Belle  4 1/2 stars

Kenneth Cameron
The Bohemian Girl  4 stars

Orson Scott Card (ed)
Dragons of Light  3 1/2 stars
Future on Ice 3 1/2 stars 

Carol K. Carr
India Black: A Madam of Espionage Mystery  4 1/2 stars
ndia Black & the Rajah's Ruby 4 stars  
India Black & the Widow of Windsor  4 1/2 stars

John Dickson Carr
The Case of the Blind Barber 2 stars
The Crooked Hinge    3 1/2 stars
The Lost Gallows  3 1/2 stars
The Problem of the Green Capsule 4 stars

Jean-Claude Carriere & Peter Brook
(bassed on the poem by Farid Uddi Attar)
The Conference of the Birds  1 star

Gail Carriger
Soulless   3 stars

Changeless  3 1/2 stars

Blameless  4 stars
Heartless  3 stars
Timeless 3 stars 

Vera Caspary
Evvie  4 stars
The Murder in the Stork Club 4 stars

Willa Cather
The Professor's House  3 stars

Sarah Caudwell
The Shortest Way to Hades  4 stars

Michael Chabon
The Final Solution  3 stars

Leslie Charteris
Marion Chesney
Lady Fortescue Steps Out  3 1/2 stars

Miss Tonks Turns to Crime    2 stars

G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown 3 stars 
The Man Who Was Thursday  3 stars

Agatha Christie
Cat Among the Pigeons  4 stars
Hallowe'en Party    3 1/2 stars
Murder on the Links   4 stars
Third Girl  3 stars

V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
No Case for the Police  3 1/2 stars

Joan Coggin
Dancing with Death by 3 1/2 stars 

Paula Marantz Cohen
What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper   5 stars

Manning Coles
The Fifth Man 4 stars  
Mary Collins
Dead Center  2 stars

Max Allan Collins
The War of the Worlds Murder 3 stars 

Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White  2 1/2 stars

Michael Cox (ed)
Michael Crichton
The Andromeda Strain  4 stars

Edmund Crispin
Beware of Trains  4 stars
Swan Song 4 stars 

Deborah Crombie
Dreaming of the Bones   3 1/2 stars
A Finer End by Deborah Crombie  3 1/2 stars
Kissed a Sad Goodbye   3 stars

Roald Dahl
The Magic Finger   unrated

Elizabeth Daly
Nothing Can Rescue Me by Elizabeth Daly 3 1/2 stars

Mike Dash
Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century 3 stars  


Martin Davies
Mrs. Hudson & the Malabar Rose  3 stars

Lydia Davis
Break It Down    DNF

Lillian de la Torre
The Detections of Dr. Sam: Johnson  3 1/2 stars

S. F. X. Dean
Nantucket Soap Opera Unrated

Kathie Deviney
Death in the Memorial Garden 3 1/2 stars

Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings  4 stars
A Tale of Two Cities 4 stars 

Peter Dickinson
The Yellow Room Conspiracy  3 1/2 stars

Carter Dickson
Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Seven Gothic Tales  3 stars
Carlos María Domínguez
The House of Paper  3 stars

General Abner Doubleday
Chancellorsville & Gettysburg 2 stars  
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles 5 stars
Sir Nigel   4 stars
The White Company  3 stars
Ann Dukthas
The Prince Lost to Time  3 stars
Daphne du Maurier
The House on the Strand  3 1/2 stars

Castle Dor (w/Arthur Quiller-Couch)  3 1/2 stars
Rebecca    4 stars

Mignon G. Eberhart
Five Passengers from Lisbon 3 stars

Jason T Eberl & Kevin S Decker, eds
Star Trek & Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant 4 stars

Ruth Dudley Edwards
Publish & Be Murdered  3 1/2 stars

George Eliot
Middlemarch  4 stars

Harlan Ellison
Shatterday  5 stars


Loren D. Estleman
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Holmes  3 1/2 stars 

Geraldine Evans
Deadly Reunion   1 1/2 stars

A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner)

William Faulkner
Intruder in the Dust  4 stars

Noah Feldman
Scorpions: The Battles & Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices  3 1/2 stars

Charles Finch
The Fleet Street Murders 3 stars 

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby 3 stars

Ian Fleming
Casino Royale 3 1/2 stars  

Joanna Fluke
Plum Pudding Murder 2 stars 

Andrew Forrester
The Female Detective 3 stars   

John Fowles
The French Lieutenant's Woman  2 stars

Dick Francis
Flying Finish  3 stars 

Antonia Fraser
Mary Queen of Scots  DNF

Emile Gaboriau
File No. 113 3 3/4 stars 

Erle Stanley Gardner
The Case of the Grinning Gorilla 3 1/2 stars 

Randall Garrett
Murder & Magic 3 1/2 stars








Elizabeth Gaskell

North & South 3 stars
 

Anthony Gilbert
The Innocent Bottle  2 1/2 stars

Carol Goodman
The Sonnet Lover    2 stars

Charles Goodrum
A Slip of the Tong 2 stars 

Robert Goolrick
A Reliable Wife    3 stars

Edward Gorey
The Haunted Tea Cosy  4 1/2 stars

Jaimy Gordon
Lord of Misrule  3 3/4 stars

Paula Gosling
Monkey Puzzle  4 1/2 stars

Barry Grant
The Strange Return of Sherlock Holmes  2 stars

Anna Katherine Green

Martin H Greenberg and Edward D Hoch
Great British Detectives  3 1/2 stars

Graham Greene
Travels with My Aunt    4 stars

Kerry Greenwood 
Dead Man's Chest  4 stars

Death by Water  4 stars

Martha Grimes
Foul Matter  Review Part II    3 stars
Jerusalem Inn  3 1/2 stars 

Batya Gur
Murder Duet    DNF

Edward O. Guthman & Jeffrey Shulman (eds)
Robert F. Kennedy: In His Own Words  3 stars

H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines 3 1/2 stars

Peter Haining (ed)
The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 3 stars
London After Midnight   3 stars

Michéle Halberstadt
The Pianist in the Dark  3 1/2 stars

Brett Halliday
Dividend on Death  3 3/4 stars
She Woke to Darkness 3 1/2 stars

Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon 4 stars  

Edward B Hanna
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Whitechapel Horrors  3 stars 
Michael S. Harper
Use Trouble   unrated

Lee Harris
The Thanksgiving Day Murder  3 stars

Erin Hart
Haunted Ground  3 3/4 stars
Lake of Sorrows 3 stars

Robin Hathaway
The Doctor Dines in Prague 2 1/2 stars

Pete Hautman
The Prop  3 1/2 stars

Sheridan Hay
The Secret of Lost Things  3 stars

S. T. Haymon
Death of a God 3 stars 

Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah   3 stars

Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom
The Jesus Incident 1 star

Georgette Heyer
Behold, Here's Poison  2 1/2 stars
Black Sheep  3 stars
A Blunt Instrument    4 stars

Death in the Stocks  4 stars
Detection Unlimited  4 stars
Duplicate Death  3 1/2 stars  

Envious Casca  3 stars

Footsteps in the Dark  3 1/2 stars
No Wind of Blame  4 stars
Penhallow  3 stars
They Found Him Dead   4 stars  
The Unfinished Clue  3 stars  
Venetia by Georgette Heyer  4 stars  
Why Shoot a Butler?  4 stars

Patricia Highsmith
Slowly, Slowly in the Wind 4 stars 

Susan Hill

John Buxton Hilton
Target of Suspicion  2 stars

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Best of Mystery  3 stars

Sheri Holman
The Dress Lodger  1/2 star

Hazel Holt
Mrs. Malory & Death in Practice  3 stars

Susan Holtzer
Something to Kill For 4 stars  

Anthony Hope

L. Ron Hubbard
The Trail of the Red Diamonds  2 stars

Dorothy B Hughes
The So Blue Marble 4 stars

Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown's Schooldays  3 stars

Helen Humphreys

Shaun David Hutchinson
The Deathday Letter  4 stars

Alan Hynd
Prescription for Murder

Michael Innes
The Bloody Wood  2 stars
A Comedy of Terrors
Hare Sitting Up by Michael Innes  3 1/2 stars

Elizabeth Ironside
Death in the Garden  4 1/2 stars
A Good Death 4 stars 

Jane Isenberg
Hot & Bothered  3 1/2 stars

Shirley Jackson

Michael Jahn
Murder on Theatre Row  3 stars

P. D. James
Time to Be in Earnest: a fragment of autobiography  4 1/2 stars

Mike Johnson
Star Trek Vol 1 3 stars

D J H Jones
Murder at the MLA 3 stars 

Gareth P. Jones

Lucille Kallen
C. B. Greenfield: A Little Madness  2 stars

Carolyn Keene
The Clue in the Old Album 3 stars 


Eric Keith



Nine Man's Murder 4 1/2 stars  

Susan Kelly
The Gemini Man 3 stars 
 

Carol Kendall

The Black Seven 3 stars
 
Susan Kenney
Garden of Malice 2 1/2 stars  


Philip Kerr
March Violets  3 1/2 stars

Laurie R. King

11/22/63 by Stephen King  2 stars

Michael Kurland (ed)

Deryn Lake
Death in Hellfire

M. D. Lake

Hilda Lawrence
Blood Upon the Snow  2 1/2 stars

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

Marie Lee
The Curious Cape Cod Skull 3 stars

Y. S. Lee
The Agency: The Body at the Tower 
The Agency: A Spy in the House

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Madam Crowl's Ghost & Other Stories 

Ursula K. LeGuin
The Lathe of Heaven  2 1/2 stars

Elizabeth Lemarchand
Death of an Old Girl 3 1/2 stars  

Elmore Leonard
The Big Bounce

Gaston Leroux
The Mystery of the Yellow Room 3 stars
C. S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet  4 1/2 stars
Perelandra  2 1/2 stars
Surprised by Joy 3 stars  
That Hideous Strength  3 stars

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gift from the Sea 4 stars 

Elinor Lipman
The Inn at Lake Devine 4 stars
Laura Lippmann

Frances & Richard Lockridge
Accent on Murder 3 & 12 stars
Catch as Catch Can 4 stars
Dead as a Dinosaur 4 stars 
John D. MacDonald
Dress Her in Indigo

Sarah MacLean
Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake 

Charlotte MacLeod
Mistletoe Mysteries
Christmas Stalkings
Vane Pursuit  3 1/2 stars

Henning Mankell
One Step Behind 
The Return of the Dancing Master

Cynthia Manson & Charles Ardai, eds
Future Crime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come 3 stars

J. J. Marric
Gideon's Month 2 stars 
Gideon's Power

Ngaio Marsh
Colour Scheme  2 stars
Killer Dolphin  4 stars

Andrew Martin
The Necropolis Railway 2 1/2 stars

Steve Martin
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Valerie Martin
Mary Reilly

Helen McCloy
A Question of Time 3 stars

Adam McComber
The White Forest 4 1/2 stars  

Zubin Mehta
Nancy Milford
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay  4 stars

Margaret Millar
Beast in View 4 stars
A Stranger in My Grave 3 1/2 stars
Mark Mills
The Savage Garden  3 1/2 stars

Roger Mitchell
The Word for Everything  3 stars

L. M. Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables 3 stars 
 
Michael Moorcock
Behold the Man  

Alan Moore
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2 stars

Christopher Morley
The Arrow  2 1/2 stars
Kathleen  5 stars
Parnassus on Wheels  4 stars

Magdalen Nabb
Death of an Englishman  3 stars

Jack Newfield
Robert F. Kennedy: A Memoir

Meredith Nicholas
The House of a Thousand Candles 3 stars

Harry Nicholson
Tom Fleck: A Novel of Cleveland & Flodden  4 stars

Robert C. O'Brien
Z for Zachariah 3 1/2 stars 

Maggie O'Farrell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox  4 1/2 stars

Anthony Oliver
Cover-Up 3 stars  
The Elberg Collection  3 stars

Bernadette Pajer
Fatal Induction 4 stars
A Spark of Death 4 stars

Caro Peacock
A Foreign Affair

Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The Club Dumas  3 3/4 stars

Anne Perry
A Christmas Grace
A Christmas Guest  3 stars

Bernard Peterson
The Caravaggio Books  2 stars

The Strange World of Mr. Mum 3 stars 

Nancy Pickard
No Body  3 stars

Rajendra Pillai
Mysterious Incidents at Lone Rock 3 stars 


Sheila Pim


Maggie Pouncey
The Perfect Reader  DNF

Terry Pratchett
Unseen Academicals 3 stars

Jutta Profijt
Morgue Drawer Four 3 stars

Bill Pronzini (ed)
The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America 4 stars  

Ellery Queen
The Chinese Orange Mystery   4 1/2 stars
Cop Out 
The Devil to Pay 3 stars
Murder With a Past 2 stars
The New Adventures of Ellery Queen  4 stars

Anna Quindlen
Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City 4 stars

Tom Rachman
The Imperfectionists  3 stars

Ellen Raskin
The Westing Game 3 stars

Deanna Raybourn
Dark Road to Darjeeling

Helen Reilly
Compartment K 2 1/2 stars 
Mary Renault
The Praise Singer  2 stars

Ruth Rendell
Not in the Flesh 3 stars
A Sleeping Life
3 1/2 stars   

Jean Rhys

Wide Sargasso Sea  

Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire  unrated

Rainer Maria Rilke
The Rose Window & Other Verse from New Poems 3 1/2 stars  

Mary Roberts Rinehart
The After House  3 1/2 stars
The Bat 4 stars
The Confession & Sight Unseen 2 1/2 stars
The Man in Lower Ten 3 1/2 stars
The Red Lamp 2 1/2 stars
The Yellow Room 4 stars 

Terry Lee Rioux
From Sawdust to Stardust: The Biography of DeForest Kelley, Star Trek's Dr. McCoy 5 stars

David Roberts
The Quality of Mercy  3 1/2 stars

Lillian S. Robinson
Murder Most Puzzling 2 1/2 stars  

H. W. Roden
Wake for a Lady 1 1/2 stars

Sax Rohmer
The Golden Scorpion 3 stars 
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu 3 stars


Elliott Roosevelt 


A First Class Murder 3 stars 

David Rose (ed) 
They Call Me Naughty Lola

Jonathan Ross 
Burial Deferred  3 1/2 stars

Philip Roth
Portnoy's Complaint

Jed Rubenfeld
The Interpretation of Murder

Susan Runholt
The Mystery of the Third Lucretia  3 stars

Dorothy L Sayers
Busman's Honeymoon  5 stars  
Clouds of Witness  4 stars 
Five Red Herrings   4 stars 
Gaudy Night  5 stars   
Hangman's Holiday  3 stars 
Have His Carcase  4 stars 
In the Teeth of the Evidence  3 stars   
Lord Peter Views the Body  4 stars  
Murder Must Advertise  4 stars  
The Nine Tailors   4 stars 
Strong Poison 
Strong Poison  5 stars 
Unnatural Death  4 stars 
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club  4 stars  
Whose Body?  5 stars 

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
The Lady in the Loch 2 1/2 stars

Diane Schoemperlen
Our Lady of the Lost & Found 

Anya Seton
Katherine

Diane Setterfield
The Thirteenth Tale   4 1/2 stars
Anne Sexton
Live or Die  4 stars

William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew 3 stars 

James Sherburne
Death's Pale Horse 1 star 

 
Robert Silverberg
The Masks of Time 2 stars 
 

Cynthia Smith
Silver & Guilt 3 stars

Joan Smith (Britain; 1953- )

Joan Smith (Canada; aka Jennie Gallant)
Behold, A Mystery!

Sarah Smith

Jonathan Stagge

Mark Alan Stamaty
Who Needs Donuts?  4 1/2 stars

Daniel Stashower
The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man 3 stars

Seth Steinzor
To Join the Lost  2 1/2 stars

Fred Stemme
The Lieutenant's Whistle 3 1/2 stars 

Autumn Stephens (ed)
Loose Cannons: Devastating Dish from the World's Wildest Women  4 stars


Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy  unrated

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae  2 1/2 stars 
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson  (encore)

Bram Stoker
Dracula 4 stars
Lair of the White Worm  2 1/2 stars
Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead  1 star (maybe less)
Rex Stout
And Four to Go  4 stars 
Black Orchids  4 stars
Champagne for One 4 stars
Cordially Invited to Meet Death  4 1/2 stars
Death of a Doxy  4 stars
Death of a Dude
A Family Affair  4 stars

Margaret Sutton
The Name on the Bracelet  3 stars

Julian Symons
Bland Beginning 2 1/2 stars 

Hake Talbot
Rim of the Pit   3 stars 

Andrew Taylor
The Anatomy of Ghosts 2 stars 

Sarah Stewart Taylor
O' Artful Death 3 stars 
 
Kathleen Tessaro
Elegance  2 1/2 stars

Lee Thayer
5 Bullets  3 stars


Frank Thomas
Sherlock Holmes & the Treasure Train 2 stars

Will Thomas
Some Danger Involved 5 stars  
  
Alice Tilton (Phoebe Atwood Taylor)

Simon Tolkien
The Inheritance 

Anthony Trollope
The Eustace Diamonds  3 1/2 stars

Margaret Truman
Murder at the Library of Congress 3 stars

L. C. Tyler
The Herring in the Library  4 stars 
Ten Little Herrings  4 1/2 stars 


Walter Tyrer
Such Friends Are Dangerous 4 stars 

David L. Ulin

Arthur W. Upfield

Nicola Upson
Angel With Two Faces

S. S. Van Dine
The Casino Murder Case 

Robert Van Gulik
The Chinese Bell Murders  2 1/2 stars

Fred Vargas
The Three Evangelists 4 stars  

Artie Van Why
That Day in September  5 stars 

Various
More Holmes for the Holidays  3 stars  


Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 3 1/2 stars 

Luigi Veronelle
The Foods of North Italy 1 star   

Stephen Vizinczey
In Praise of Older Women 

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


Dan Waddell
Blood Atonement  4 stars 
Blood Detective  3 3/4 stars

Henry Wade
New Graves at Great Norne 3 3/4 stars 

Linda Wagner-Martin

Jill Paton Walsh
Manly W. & Wade Wellman

H. G. Wells
The First Men in the Moon 2 stars
The Invisible Man 4 stars
The Island of Dr. Moreau  4 stars

Patricia Wentworth
The Key 4 stars 

Claire Nicholas White (ed)
Standford White: Letters to His Family 2 stars

Oscar Wilde

Jacqueline Winspear
An Incomplete Revenge  3 stars

P. G. Wodehouse
Full Moon 3 stars
The Girl in Blue  3 stars
Heavy Weather   4 stars
Leave It to Psmith  4 stars
Something New (aka Something Fresh)  4 stars

Maryanne Wolf
Proust & the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain 3 stars

Elsie N. Wright
Strange Murders at Greystones unrated  

Ye Xin
A Pair of Jade Frogs  2 1/2 stars

Joyce Yarrow
The Last Matryoshka  3 stars

Felicity Young
The Anatomy of Death 3 stars

Charles Yu
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe  unrated

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Angel's Game  2 stars


Roger Zelazny
The Last Defender of Camelot  4 1/2 stars
My Name Is Legion 3 1/2 stars

M. J. Zellnick
Murder at the Portland Variety 3 stars  

Markus Zusak
The Book Thief  4 1/2 stars