A Supper Sleuth List.

The weather in New England during the winter months make us long for sunny, sandy beaches and cool, fruity tropical drinks. Than again, the pace of our busy lives may make us long for those locations at any point in the year. This list contains authors and titles that reflect beach locations—some that only see boogie boards in the summer months and others that have the virtue of beach weather all year round.

Thank you, once again, to Beebe Reference Librarian Beth Radcliffe for her thorough research on this list.

Whenever possible, if a series, the titles are in order of publication date. Series characters are after the author’s name. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and please let us know if you feel that a title should be here. Please read one or more titles, and come prepared to discuss your impressions of them with the group.

Margot Arnold
Penny Spring & Toby Glendower
Cape Cod Caper (1982)
Cape Cod Conundrum (1992)

Nevada Barr
Anna Pigeon
Endangered Species (1997)
(Cumberland Island, GA)

Cynthia Baxter
Jessica Popper: Reining Cats & Dogs Mystery
Putting on the Dog (2004)
(Long Island, NY)

Carole Berry
Nightmare Point (1993)
(Cape Cod)

Nero Blanc
Rosco Polycrates & Belle Graham
Two Down (2000)
(Nantucket, MA)

J.S. Borthwick
Sarah Deane
Down East Murders (1985)
Bodies of Water (1990)
Bridled Groom (1994)
Murder in the Rough (2002)
Intensive Scare Unit (2004)
Foiled again (2007)
(Maine)

Rick Boyer
Doc Adams
Billingsgate Shoal: #1 (1982)
Whale’s footprints: #5 (1988)
Yellow Bird: #7 (1991)
(Cape Cod)

Mark Brown
Ben McMillen
Game Face (1992)
Puna Kahuna Not in NOBLE. (1993)
(Hawaii)

Wanda Canada
Carroll Davenport
Island Murders (2001)
(NC)

Carol Higgins Clark
Regan Reilly
Burned (2006)
(Hawaii)

Mary Jane Clark
Diane Mayfield
Dancing in the Dark (2005)
(NJ)

Jennifer Colt
McAffee Twins
Mangler of Malibu Canyon (2006)
(CA)

John Connolly
Bad Men (2004)
(ME)

Rose Conners
Marty Nickerson
Absolute Certainty (2002)
Temporary Sanity (2003)
Maximum Security (2004)
False Testimony (2005)
(Cape Cod)

Steven Cooper
With You in Spirit (2003)
(Martha’s Vineyard)

Caroline Cousins
Margaret Ann Matthews
Fiddle Dee Death (2003)
Marsh Madness (2005)
(SC)

Philip Craig
Jefferson Jackson
Massachusetts Mysteries
(Martha’s Vineyard)

Lynda Curnyn
Killer Summer (1995)
(Fire Island)

David Daniel
Alex Rasmussen
Goofy Foot (2004)
(Cape Cod)

Brendan DuBois
Lewis Cole
Investigative Reporters
(NH)

Terence Faherty
Owen Keane
Live to Regret (1992)
(NJ)

William Campbell Gault
Broch Callahan
Dead Seed (1984)
Chicano Wars (1986)
Cat and Mouse (1988)
(CA)

Jacqueline Girdner
Kate Jasper
Most Likely to Die (1996)
Cry for Self-help (1997)
Death Hits the Fan (1998)
Murder on the Astral Plane (1999)
Murder, My Deer (2000)
Sensitive Kind of Murder (2002)
(CA)

Chris Grabenstein
John Ceepak
Tilt a Whirl (2005)
Mad Mouse (2006)
Whack a Mole (2007)
Hell Hole (2008)
Mind Scrambler (2009)
(NJ Shore)

Sally Gunning
Peter Bartholomew
Massachusetts Mysteries
(MA Island)

Carolyn J. Hart
Annie & Max Darling
Husband & Wife Detectives
(SC)
Henri O.
Dead Man’s Island (1993)
(SC)
Death in Paradise (1998)
(Hawaii)

Vicki Hunnings
William Shark Morgan
Bride Wore Blood (2002)
Death on a Cellular Level (2003)
(SC)

Stuart Kaminsky
Lew Fonseca
Vengeance (1999)
Retribution (2001)
Midnight Pass (2003)
Denial (2005)
Always Say Goodbye (2006)
Bright Futures (2009)
(FL)

Paul Kemprecos
Aristotle “Soc” Socarides
Massachusetts Mysteries
(Cape Cod)

Susan Kenney
Roz Howard
One Fell Sloop (1990)
(ME)

Douglas Kiker
Investigative Reporters
(Cape Cod)

Charles Knief
John Caine
Where Done It? Mystery list.
(Hawaii)

Jane Langton
Homer Kelly
Dark Nantucket Noon (1981)

Susan LaTour & Pierre LaTour, Jr.
Dead Reckoning (1996)
(Cape Cod)

Barbara Lee
Eve Elliot
Death in Still Waters (1995)
Final Closing (1997)
Dead Man’s Fingers (1999)
(MD)

Margaret Logan
Deathampton Summer (1988)

John D. MacDonald
Travis McGee
Deep Blue Good-by (1964)
Nightmare in Pink (1964)
Purple Place for Dying (1964)
Quick Red Fox (1964)
Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)
Bright Orange for the Shroud (1965)
Darker Than Amber (1966)
One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966)
Pale Gray for Guilt (1968)
Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (1968)
Dress Her in Indigo (1969)
Long Lavender Look (1970)
Tan and Sandy Silence (1972)
Scarlet Ruse (1973)
Turquoise Lament (1973)
Dreadful Lemon Sky (1975)
Empty Copper Sea (1978)
Green Ripper (1979)
Free Fall in Crimson (1981)
Cinnamon Skin (1982)
Lonely Silver Rain (1984)
(FL)

Charlotte MacLeod
Sara Kelling & Max Bittersohn
Balloon Man (1998)
(MA)

Larry Maness
Jake Eaton
Nantucket Revenge (1995)
Once Perfect Place (1996)
Strangler (1998)
(Cape Cod)

David Manuel
Brother Bartholomew
Ecclesiastical Mysteries.
(Cape Cod)

Seth Jacob Margolis
Joe DiGregorio
False Faces (1991)
(Fire Island, NY)

Margaret Maron
Deborah Knott
Shooting at Loons (1994)
(NC)

Francine Mathews
Merry Folger
Death in the Off Season (1994)
Death in Rough Water (1995)
Death in Mood Indigo (1997)
Death in Cold Hard Light (1998)
(Nantucket, MA)

G.A. McKevitt
Savannah Reid
Culinary Mysteries.
(CA)

Leslie Meier
Lucy Stone
Cozy Mysteries.
(ME)

Marcia Muller
Point Deception (2001)
(CA)

Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Joe Grey
Human & Animal Teams.
(CA)

Barbara Neely
Blanche White
Blanche Among the Talented Tenth (1994)
(ME)

Susan Oleksiw
Joe Silva
Massachusetts Mysteries
(MA)

Toby Olson
At Sea (1993)
(Provincetown, MA)

David Osborn
Murder at Martha’s Vineyard (1989)

Katherine Hall Page
Faith Fairchild
Body in the Kelp (1991)
Body in the Basement (1994)
Body in the Lighthouse (2003)
(ME)

Preston Pairo
Dallas Henry
Beach Money (1991)
One Dead Judge (1993)
(MD)

Robert B. Parker
Spenser
Promised Land (1976)
(Cape Cod)

Randall Peffer
Killing Neptune’s Daughter (2004)
(Cape Cod)

Marissa Peisman
Nina Fischman
Close Quarters (1994)
(Fire Island)

W. R. Philbrick
J.D. Hawkins
Walk on the Water (1991)
(Nantucket MA)

Nancy Pickard
Eugenia Potter
Secret Ingredient Murders (2001)
(RI)

Virginia Rich
Eugenia Potter
Baked Bean Supper Murders (1983)
(ME)
Nantucket Diet Murders Murders (1983)
(MA)

Cynthia Riggs
Victoria Trumbull
Senior Sleuths
(MA)

Walter Satterthwait
Lizzie Borden
Miss Lizzie (2001)
(MA)

Norma Seely
Secrets of Harbor House (2000)
(OR)

Jeff Shelby
Noah Braddock
Killer Swell (2005)
Wicked Break (2006)
(CA)

Beth Sherman
Anne Hardaway
Where Done It? Mystery list.
(NJ)

Seymour Shubin
Witness to Myself (2006)
(MA)

Sheila Simonson
Lark Dailey
Mudlark(1993)
(WA)

Edith Skom
Beth Austin
George Eliot Murders (1995)
(Hawaii)

Mary Ann Tirone Smith
Poppy Rice
She’s Not There (2003)
(MA)

John Smolens
Angel’s Head (1994)
(MA)

Jessica Speart
Rachel Porter
Coastal Disturbance (2003)
(GA)
Restless Waters (2005)
(Hawaii)

David Stukas
Robert, Michael & Monette
Someone Killed His Boyfriend (1991)
(MA)

Rob Swigart
Chazz Koenig & Cobb Takamura
Vector (1986)
Toxin (1989)
(Hawaii)

William Tapply
Brady Coyne
Past Tense (2001)
(MA)

Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Asey Mayo
Massachusetts Mysteries
(MA)

Lee Tyler
Teed-Off Ghost (2002)
(Hawaii)

Kathryn L. Wall
Bay Tanner
Perdition House (2003)
Judas Island (2004)
Resurrection Road (2005)
Bishop’s Reach (2006)
(SC)

Randy Wayne White
Doc Ford
Where Done It? Mystery list.
(FL)

Collin Wilcox
Alan Bernardt
Except for the Bones (1991)
(MA)

M.K. Wren
Conan Flagg
Curiosity Didn’t Kill the Cat (1973)
Multitude of Sins (1975)
Oh, bury me not (1976)
Nothing’s Certain But Death (1978)
Seasons of Death (1981)
Wake Up, Darlin’ Corey (1990)
Dead Matter (1993) Not in NOBLE.
King of the Mountain (1994) Not in NOBLE.
(Pacific NW)

Dorian Yeager
Elizabeth Will
Murder Will Out (1994)
Summer Will End (1996)

Sharon Zukowski
Blaine Stewart
Hour of the Knife (1991)
(Carolina)
Prelude to Death (1996)
(Key West, FL)

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