Mystery Past Readings

2023

Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night
Antti Tuomainen, The Man Who Died
Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Michael Dibden, Ratking
William Kent Kreuger, Ordinary Grace
Charles Todd, Watchers of Time
Tana French, The Likeness
Sulari Gentill, Woman in the Library
Stuart Kaminski, Rostnikov’s Corpse/Death of a Dissident
Arnaldur Indrithason, Jar City
Anne Perry, A Christmas Beginning

2022

Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man
Ross MacDonald, The Galton Case
Jane Harper, The Dry
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Ian Rankin, Black and Blue
Nicolas Freeling, Love In Amsterdam
Anne Perry, Christmas Garland

2020

Peter May, The Man with No Face
Susan Hill, The Various Haunts of Men

2019

P.D. James, The Mistletoe Murder
Edmund Crispin, Buried For Pleasure
Joe Ide, IQ
P. D. James, Cover Her Face
Ian Fleming, From Russia With Love
Becky Masterman, A Twist of the Knife
Erle Stanley Gardner, The D.A. Calls it Murder
Clayton Rawson, Death from a Top Hat
David Downing, Jack of Spies
Philip Kerr, March Violets
Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake
S.J. Rozan, China Trade
Denise Mina, The Long Drop

2018

Jess Kidd, Himself
Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty
Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile
Ray Bradbury, Death is a Lonely Business
Kaite Welsh, The Wages of Sin
Gavin Lyall, The Most Dangerous Game
Bill Pronzini, Bones
Amanda Cross, In the Last Analysis
Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time
Colin Cotterill, The Coroner’s Lunch
Tom Rosenstiel, Shining City
P.D. James, The Mistletoe Murder

2017

Noah Charney, The Art Thief
Charles Todd, A Test of Wills
Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?
Cara Black, Murder on the Quai
Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance
Peter Lovesey, Another One Goes Tonight
Dorothy Bowers, Shadows Before
Anne Perry, The Face of a Stranger
John McAleer, Coign of Vantage
Lawrence Block, Burglars Can’t Be Choosers
Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine
John D. MacDonald, Deep Blue Good-by
Tony Hillerman, A Thief of Time

2016

Reginald Hill, A Clubbable Woman
Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace
Maurizio De Giovanni, I Will Have Vengeance
Patricia Highsmith, Strangers On A Train
Ross MacDonald, The Instant Enemy
Donna Leon, By Its Cover
Muriel Spark, Robinson
Ellery Queen, The Player On The Other Side
Tara French, In The Woods
Sarah Waters, Affinity
John D. Carr, The Three Coffins/The Hollow Man
Noah Charney, The Art Thief

2015

Anne Perry, A Christmas Guest (novella
Anne Perry, A Christmas Visitor (a novella)
Dorothy Sayers and Jill P. Walsh, Thrones, Dominations
Anne Cleeland, Murder In Thrall
Michael Connelly, Blood Work
R. Austin Freeman, The Eye of Osiris
Hillary Waugh, Last Seen Wearing
Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Murder
Steven Saylor, Roman Blood
Fred Vargas (Frederique Audouin-Rouzeau), The Three Evangelists
P.D. James, An Unsuitable Job For A Woman
Ed McBain, Ghosts
Philip MacDonald, The Rasp

2014

Elly Griffiths, Crossing Places
Maureen Jennings, Except the Dying
Peter May, The Blackhouse
Anne Perry, No Graves As Yet
Cyril Hare, Tenant for Death
Ngaio Marsh, Death in a White Tie
Georges Simenon, The Yellow Dog
Elspeth Huxley, Murder at Government House
Cornell Woolrich (a.k.a. William Irish), Phantom Lady
A.E.W. Mason, The House of the Arrow
Adrian McKinty, The Cold, Cold Ground
Anne Perry, A Christmas Visitor (a novella)

2013

Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
G. M. Malliet, Wicked Autumn: A Max Tudor Novel
Stefanie Pintoff, In the Shadow of Gotham
Victoria Jenkins, Unattended Death
Kate Summerscale, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Charles Todd, Proof of Guilt
M.L. Longworth, Death at the Chateau Bremont
Max Allan Collins, Bye, Bye, Baby
C.P. Snow, A Coat of Varnish
Dennis Lehane, Live By Night
Anne Perry, A Christmas Journey (a novella)

2011–2012

Tess Gerritsen, Body Double
John Grisham, The Firm
Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club
Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, Blood Sinister
Michael Giuttari, A Florentine Death
Ann Perry, The Face of a Stranger
Zoe Ferraris, Finding Nouf
Barbara Hambly, A Free Man of Color
Rebecca Pawel, Death of a Nationalist
Thomas Perry, The Butcher’s Boy
Nancy Pickard, The Scent of Rain and Lightening

2010

G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who was Thursday
Louise Ure, Fault Tree
Sean Desmond, Adams Fall
Patricia Moyes, A Six Letter Word for Death
Michael Innes, Death at the President’s Lodging
Michael C. White, A Brother’s Blood: A Novel
Nicola Upson, An Expert in Murder
Jill McGown, A Perfect Match
Stieg Larson, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Don Winslow, California Fire and Life
Josephine Tey, The Franchise Affair
Mark Arsenault, Loot the Moon

2009

Morag Joss, Half Broken Things
A. A. Milne, The Red House Mystery
AndrewMartin, Necropolis Railway
Michael Walters, Shadow Walker
Noah Charney, Art Thief
Edmund Crispin, The Case of the Gilded Fly