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Staff Picks Archives
Staff Pick Archives 2006

November/December
Slaying is Such Sweet Sorrow by Patricia Harwin
Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
The Saturday Morning Murder: A Psychoanalytic Case by Batya Gur
Some Danger Involved by Will Thomas
Plots and Errors by Jill McGown
Lisey's Story by Stephen King
The Object-Lesson by Edward Gorey
The Last Secret by Lynn Sholes & Joe Moore
G'Day to Die by Maddy Hunter
The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore
Lost Light by Michael Connelly
A Gentleman's Game by Greg Rucka
At The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
One Fine Day In The Middle of the Night by Christopher Brookmyre
Dancing Bear by James Crumley
September/October 2006
H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales by Douglas A. Anderson, ed.
Already Dead by Charlie Huston
Dreams Underfoot by Charles De Lint
The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont
DMZ Volume 1: On The Ground by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli
The Mournful Teddy by John J. Lamb
Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book by Shel Silverstein
No Nest for the Wicket by Donna Andrews
Riptide by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Carbs & Cadavers by J.B. Stanley
Full Dark House by Christopher Fowler
Murder Room by P. D. James
Aunt Dimity and the Next of Kin by Nancy Atherton
Now May you Weep by Deborah Crombie
Arson and Old Lace by Patricia Harwin
July/August 2006
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
Decorated to Death by Dean James
Death of a Poison Pen by M. C. Beaton
Evan Can Wait by Rhys Bowen
The Conqueror Worms by Brian Keene
In the Night Room by Peter Straub
The Blue Girl by Charles De Lint
Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits by Garth Ennis and William Simpson
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman
Dying in Style by Elaine Viets
Another Word for Murder by Nero Blanc
Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick
The Dragon Stone by John Conlee
May/June 2006

Drama City by George Pelecanos
The Overnight by Ramsey Campbell
Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale
The Cobweb by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George
Smax by Alan Moore and Zander Cannon
Flamingo Fatale by Jimmie Ruth Evans
Ancient Shores by Jack McDevitt
In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Hula Done It? by Maddy Hunter
Hitty, Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
Desert Noir by Betty Webb
The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by M.C. Beaton
March/April 2006

Timeline by Michael Crichton
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Hidden Staircase by Carolyn Keene
The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin
Wishful Sinful by Tracy Dunham
The Body in the Bouillon by Katherine Hall Page
Joker Poker by Richard Helms
Cell by Stephen King
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven
The Sweet Forever by George P. Pelecanos
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
First Blood by David Morrell
Y: The Last Man; Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan
January/February 2006

Stray Bullets Volume 1 by David Lapham
Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris
Gotham Central: In the Line of Duty by Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker, and Michael Lark
The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
100% by Paul Pope
Eye of Newt by Denise Dietz
The Mistmantle Chronicles #1: Urchin of the Riding Stars by M. I. McAllister
Whiskey on the Rocks by Nina Wright
Skeleton Key by Jane Haddam
Deadlier Than the Pen by Kathy Lynn Emerson
Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
Skinny Dip by Carl Hiassen
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter
A Demon in My View by Ruth Rendell
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell



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