Bibliomysteries by various authors

If you haven't discovered these short stories by notable authors published by The Mysterious Bookshop, I highly recommend you search them out. I found them at one of my local independent bookstores, Murder by the Book in Houston. As of now there are 26 books in the series, a couple of which I've already blogged about:

1. The Book of Virtue by Ken Bruen
2. The Book of Ghosts by Reed Farrel Coleman
3. The Scroll by Anne Perry
4. The Book Case by Nelson DeMille
5. Pronghorns of the Third Reich by C.J. Box
6. Death Leaves a Bookmark by William Link
7. An Acceptable Sacrifice by Jeffrey Deaver
8. Book Club by Loren D. Estleman
9. The Book Thing by Laura Lippman
10. The Long Sonata of the Dead by Andrew Taylor
11. The Final Testament by Peter Blauner
12. The Caxton Lending Library & Book Depository by John Connolly
13. Rides a Stranger by David Bell
14. What's in a Name? by Thomas H. Cook
15. It's in the Book by Mickey Spillane & Max Allen Collins
16. Remaindered by Peter Lovesey
17. The Compendium of Srem by F. Paul Wilson
18. The Gospel of Sheba by Lyndsay Faye
19. The Nature of My Inheritance by Bradford Morrow
20. The Sequel by R.L. Stine
21. Mystery, Inc. by Joyce Carol Oates
22. The Book of The Lion by Thomas Perry
23. The Mysterious Disappearance of the Reluctant Book Fairy by Elizabeth George
24. From the Queen by Carolyn Hart
25. The Little Men by Megan Abbott
26. Citadel by Stephen Hunter

Some of these are only tangentially related to books - the victim is a bookseller, maybe - but a few plotlines focus completely on books of some sort. Some stretch the "mystery" part of the series, too, but I feel the point is that for $5 to $10 you get a tasting menu of some of the most popular authors writing today. You get a feel for their style and use of language and if something connects, then you my friend have discovered a new favorite author with a sizable library to explore.

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