Supper Sleuths
Supper SleuthsThis compilation of mystery novels includes mysteries that take place surrounding all the holidays and seasons except Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, and New Year’s. (See Holiday Mysteries for that group of books).
On this list there are mysteries about April Fool’s Day, Easter, Passover, the Fourth of July, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Patriot’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Yom Kippur, and, of course, Valentine’s Day. There are also a few mysteries that are about winter and summer. Most of these books are cozies, but a few have a “harder” edge to them.
Thank you, once again, to Beebe Reference Librarian Beth Radcliffe for her thorough research on this list.
The following is a list of titles by holiday or season and then by author. Whenever possible, if a series, the titles are in order of publication date. Series characters are in parenthesis 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.
| HOLIDAY | AUTHOR | TITLE |
| April Fool's Day | Lee Harris (Chrstine Bennett) |
April Fool's Day Murder (2001) |
| Carolyn Hart (Annie & Max Darling) |
April Fool Dead (2002) | |
| Summer |
Jamie Katz (Don Kardon) |
Summer for Dying. (2000) |
|
Gillian Roberts (Amanda Pepper) |
In the Dead of the Summer. (1995) | |
| Easter | Linda Berry | Death and the Easter Bunny (1998) |
|
Mary Daheim (Bed & Breakfast) |
Holy Terrors (1992) | |
| Jane Haddam |
Precious Blood (Gregor Demarkian) (1991) |
|
|
Lee Harris (Christine Bennett) |
Good Friday Murder (1992) | |
|
Mari Ulmer (Taos Festival) |
Midnight at the Camposanto (2000) | |
| Fourth of July |
Laurien Berenson (Melanie Travis) |
Hair of the Dog. (1997) |
|
Bill Crider (Dan Rhodes) |
Red, White and Blue (2003) | |
|
Carolyn Hart (Annie & Max Darling) |
Yankee Doodle Dead (2004) | |
|
Leslie Meier (Lucy Stone) |
Star-Spangled Murder (2004) | |
|
Sharon Short (Toadfern) |
Death By Deep Dish Pie (2004) | |
|
Valerie Wolzien (Susan Henshaw) |
Star-Spangled Murder (1993) | |
| Father's Day | Lee Harris (Christine Bennett) | Father's Day Murder (1992) |
|
Leslie Meier (Lucy Stone) |
Father's Day Murder (2004) | |
| Mother's Day | Lee Harris (Christine Bennett) | Mother's Day Murder (2000) |
| Passover | Lee Harris (Christine Bennett) | Passover Murder (1996) |
| Patriot's Day | Katherine Hall Page (Faith Fairchild) | Body in the Bog (1996) |
| St. Patrick's Day | Jonathan Harrington (Danny O'Flaherty) | |
| Lee Harris (Christine Bennett) | St. Patrick's Day Murder (2000) | |
|
Jane Haddam (Gregor Demarkian) |
Great Day for the Deadly (1992) | |
| dan Mahoney (NYPD) | Once In, Never Out (1998) | |
| Valentine's Day | Ruth Dudley Edwards (Robert Amiss) | Saint Valentine's Day Murders (2000) |
| Carolyn Hart (Annie & Max Darling) | Deadly Valentine (1990) | |
|
Jane Haddam (Gregor Demarkian) |
Bleeding Hearts (1994) | |
| Tom Savage | Valentine (1996) | |
| Denise Swanson | Murder of a Pink Elephant (2004) | |
| Yom Kippur | Lee Harris (Christine Bennett) | Yom Kippur (1992) |
| Winter | Alan Dunn | Payback (2003) |
| Combined Holidays | Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe) |
And Four to Go (1992)
Contains: "Christmas Party," "Easter Parade," "Fourth of July Picnic," and "Murder is No Joke." |
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