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Great Historical and Genealogical Fiction Reads

We've been asked to list what's on our reading list.  Being a librarian my list is way too long and is always changing.  But I can make some good recomendations in my favorite genre-genealogy fiction.  I have a web site at:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~christinesbooklist/

that has this same list plus book reviews.  It's a non-comercial site sponsored by rootsweb.  If you like history you'll like many of these books.  Most of these are mysteries.  Here's my list, but please stop over and read some of the reviews.  And yes I do spend my winters reading seed catoluges and homesteading books.  I've been reading cookbooks recently.   

THE LIST 

Adams, Deborah. All the Crazy Winters. 1992

Bauer, Joan. Backwater. 1999

Belmond, C.A. A Rather Lovely Ineritance.   2007

Bell, William. Zack. 1999

Berry, Linda. Death and the Family Tree (Out in May 2007)

Biggle, Lloyd, Jr. Where Dead Soldiers Walk. 1994

Black, David. An Impossible Life: a Bobeh Myseh. 1998

Brown, Rita Mae. Murder at Monticello. 1995

Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. 1979

Cooper, J. California. Family. 1991

Davis, Abigil L. Hanging Katherine Garret. Novel Based on the 1737 Trial of a Pequot Woman. 2003

DeLoach, Nora. Mama stalks the past. 1997

Dorner, Marjorie. Blood Kin. 1994 

Fox, Jimmy.
1. Deadly Pedigree. 2001
2. Lineages and Lies. 2002
3. Jackpot Blood. 2004

George, Anne. Murder Runs in the Family. 1997

Grace, Katherine. Random Descent. 1979

Grimes, Martha. The Horse You Came in On. 1994

Hanson, Rick. Splitting Heirs. 1997

Harrington, Jonathan Harrington. The Death of Cousin Rose. 2000.

Hess, Joan.
1. Death By the Light of the Moon. 1992
2. A Holly, Jolly Murder. 1997

James, P.D. Innocent Blood. 2001

Knight, Alanna.
1. Blood Line. 1989
2. Killing Cousins: an Isnpector Faro Mystery. 1992

Kunz, Kathleen. Murder Once Removed. 1993

Landrum, Graham.
1. The Famous DAR Murder Mystery. 1992
2. The Famous Historical Society Murder Mystery. 1996

Martin, Lee.
1. Inherited Murder.
2. 1994 Genealogy of Murder. 1996

MacPherson, Rett
1. Family Skeletons. 1996
2. A Veiled Antiquity. 1998
3. A Comedy of Heirs. 1999
4. A Misty Mourning. 2000.
5. Killing Cousins. 2002.
6. Blood relations. 2003.
7. In Sheep's Clothing. 2004
8. Dead Man Running. 2006
9. Died in the Wool. 2007

Morris, Dorothy. Secret Sins of the Mothers. 1999

Miller, Alex. The Ancestor Game. 1992

Muller, Marcia. Listen to the Silence. 2001

Stratton, Gene. Killing Cousins. 1989

Patterson, Freda Carley. Over My Dead Body. 1997

Palliser, Charles. The Quincunx. 1990

Sears, Richard. Genealogy of Murder. 2002

Westfall, Patricia T. Mother of the Bride. 1998

Wright, Lauriai. Mother Love: a Karl Alberg Mystery. 1995

What a list!

12:16, 2008-Jan-9 .. Posted by Pattisea

I see some authors I like in there...Rita Mae Brown, PD James, Martha Grimes...

Do you ever read Elizabeth Peters? I enjoy her writing.

Patti