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  Mysteries with a Strong Sense of New England

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June 2003
Compiled by Eugenia Bryant, updated by Jon Kadus, of Morton Grove (IL) Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)

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Allen, Irene. Quaker Witness; Quaker Testimony, Quaker Silence [set in Cambridge, Mass.]

Barnes, Linda. [series featuring Boston cab driver and private eye Carlotta Carlyle]

Begiebing, Robert J. The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin [set in Puritan-era New Hamsphire; literary]>

Blake, Michelle. [series of Lily Connor mysteries set in Boston]

Blanc, Nero. [Crossword puzzle mysteries in Massachusetts with Roscoe Polycrates and Belle Graham]

Borthwick, J.S. [Academic-themed murder series set in Maine, featuring Sarah Deane and Alex McKenzie]

Conant, Susan. [a Dog Lover's mystery series set in Cambridge, Mass.]

Craig, Philip. [Martha's Vineyard series]

DuBois, Brendan. [series with retired agency man and occasional journalist Lewis Cole; [set in New Hampshire]

Graves, Sarah. [Home Repair Is Homicide series set in Maine]

Hall, Parnell. [Cora Felton mysteries. Another for crossword puzzle lovers.]

Handler, David. Cold Blue Blood; Hot Pink Farmhouse [new series featuring Mitch Berger and Desiree Mitry]

Kelly, Susan. [former English professor writer Liz Connors mystery series, set in Cambridge, Mass.]

Knight, Kathryn Lasky [mystery series with Cambridge, Mass., children's book illustrator Calista Jacobs]

Langton, Jane. [Homer Kelly series, set in Cambridge, Mass.]

Lawrence, Margaret. Hearts and Bones; Blood Red Roses; The Burning Bride; The Iceweaver [set in post-Revolutionary-War Maine]

LeHane, Dennis. [series with Boston private investigator Patrick Kenzie]

Leitz, David. [Vermont-based series featuring fly-fisherman Max Addams.]

Lewis, Stephen. The Dumb Shall Sing; The Blind in Darkness; The Sea Hath Spoken [set in a strict Puritan community in the 17th century with a midwife heroine]

MacLeod, Charlotte. [the Peter Shandy mystery series; the Sarah Kelling mystery series; probably many more :-)]

Matthews, Francine. [mysteries featuring Meredith Folger]

Mayor, Archie. [police detective/chief Joe Gunther series set in Brattleboro, Vermont]

Meier, Leslie. [Holiday murder series featuring Maine Private Investigator Lucy Stone.]

Miles, Margaret. [mystery series set in colonial Massachusetts]

Minichino, Camille. [PERIODIC TABLE mysteries featuring retired professor Gloria Lamerino.]

Page, Katherine Hall. [Faith Fairchild mystery series set in Massachusetts - minister's wife and caterer]

Rich, Virginia. Baked Beans Supper Murders; Nantucket Diet Murders [Eugenia Potter cooking mystery series]

Riggs, Cynthia. Deadly Nightshade; Cranefly Orchid Murders [Martha's Vineyard mysteries]

Taylor, Phoebe Atwood. [Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery series]

Wright, Nancy Means. [Rural Vermont mystery series]

 
 
      
   
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