Authors L-Q

All the books featured so far, in alphabetical order  by author, L-Q
Lanchester, John Capital

Lane, Carla  TV Writer and Landlady


Lane, Harriet  Alys, Always  Alys, Always 2


Lane, Harriet  Her Her 2


Lang, Maria A Wreath for the Bride

Larkin, Philip An Arundel Tomb

Larsen, Nella  Passing


Lathen, Emma When in Greece


Lathen, Emma By Hook or By Crook


Lathen, Emma Ashes to Ashes


Lathen, Emma Death Shall Overcome

Latimer, Rupert Murder After Christmas


Laurain, Antoine The President's Hat

Laurence, Janet  Deadly Inheritance



Lawrence, Hilda  Blood Upon the Snow

Lawrence, Hilda A Time to Die

Lawrence, Hilda Death of a Doll


Lawrence, Hilda  Duet of Death & The Pavilion


Lawson, Twiggy  Twiggy in Black and White



Lawton, John  Unholy Joy


Lawton, John Friends and Traitors


Le Carre, John   Our Kind of Traitor



Le Carre, John Our Game


Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird


Lee, Harper  Go Set a Watchman - blog tour Go Set a Watchman - blog tour 2

Lee, Laurie Cider with Rosie


Lees-Milne, James Fourteen Friends: Vita Sackville-West


Lehane, Dennis Gone, Baby, Gone

Lehane, Dennis  Moonlight Mile


Lehane, Dennis The Given Day

Lehmann, Rosamond The Echoing Grove 1 The Echoing Grove 2

Lehmann, Rosamond The Ballad and the Source The Ballad and the Source 2

Lelic, Simon   Rupture

Lennon, J Robert  Familiar

Lennon, J Robert  Happyland

Lennon, J Robert Broken River

Leon, Donna  The Jewels of Paradise

Leonard, SV The Islanders

Levin, Ira A Kiss Before Dying

Levy, Deborah Swimming Home

Lewis, Michael  The Undoing Project



 
Lewis, Lange The Birthday Murder

Lewis, Lange Murder Among Friends

Lewis, Lange Juliet Dies Twice

Littell Robert  Legends

Little, Constance & Gwenyth   Black Headed Pins


Little, Iris - see Robert James


Lockridge, Richard & Frances  Death of an Angel

Norah Lofts - see Peter Curtis

Lombard, Nap Murder's a Swine (see also Pamela Hansford Johnson)


Lorac, ECR Bats in the Belfry

Lorac, ECR  Two-Way Murder


Lorac, ECR Crook O' Lune

Lovell, Mary   The Mitford Girls


Lovesey, Peter The Secret Hangman





MacDonald, Betty  Nancy and Plum




MacDonald, Ian Revolution in the Head


MacDonald, Janice Another Margaret


MacDonald, Ross The Goodbye Look

MacDonald, Ross The Wycherley Woman


MacDonald, Ross the Drowning Pool


Macdonell, AG The Shakespeare Murders


MacLean, Alistair The Golden Rendezvous


MacLeod, Alistair  No Great Mischief


MacLeod Charlotte Murder Goes Mumming [aka Alisa

 Craig]


MacNeice, Louis Les Sylphides (poem)


Mainwaring, Marion Murder at Midyears


Maitland, Barry  The Raven's Eye


Mandel, Emily St John  Station Eleven




Manning, Sarra House of Secrets

Manning, Sarra  The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Hilary Mantel RIP - tribute in i newspaper


Mantel, HilaryWolf Hall  Wolf Hall 2 Wolf Hall 3


Bodies 2  Bring Up the Bodies 3  Bring Up the Bodies 4 Bring Up the Bodies 5 Bring Up the Bodies 6


Mantel, Hilary The Mirror and the Light The Mirror and the 

Light 2




Mantel, Hilary Top Ten list of the best of Wolf Hall The Wolf 

Hall trilogy 



List of Books about the Tudors


Wolves in Books and Book Titles


Mantel, Hilary & Poulton, Mike  Wolf Hall & Bring up

the Bodies playscript


Mantel, Hilary  A Memoir of my Former Self

March, William The Bad Seed
                                               
Marias, Javier  All Souls  All Souls 2


Marie Louise, Princess My Memories of Six Reigns


Mark, David  Dark Winter


Markovits, Benjamin The Other Side of Winter


Marnell, Cat How to Murder Your Life

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Love in the Time of Cholera


Marsh, Ngaio Singing in the Shrouds


Marsh, Ngaio  Scales of Justice

Marsh, Ngaio Death in Ecstasy 

Marsh, Ngaio Enter a Murderer

Marsh, Ngaio Colour Scheme

Marsh, Ngaio  A Man Lay Dead

Marsh, Ngaio The Nursing Home Murder

Marsh, Ngaio Death in a White Tie Death in a White Tie 2

Marsh, Ngaio  Artists in Crime (Tuesday Night Club 1)

Marsh, Ngaio Surfeit of Lampreys (Tuesday Night Club 2) 


Marsh, Ngaio  Hand in Glove (Tuesday Night Club 3)

Marsh, Ngaio Tied up in Tinsel (Tuesday Night 4)

Marsh, Ngaio Death at the Dolphin (Tuesday Night 5)

Marsh, Ngaio  Tuesday Night Club Links Week 5

Marsh, Ngaio Final Curtain 

Marsh, Ngaio Died in the Wool

Marsh, Ngaio Swing, Brother, Swing

Marsh, Ngaio Overture to Death

Marsh, Ngaio Death and The Dancing Footman

Marsh, Ngaio Opening Night


Marsh, Ngaio Spinsters in Jeopardy

Marsh, Ngaio Off With His Head

Marsh, Ngaio False Scent


Marshall, Sybil Nest of Magpies  Nest of Magpies 2

Martin, Darragh Future Popes of Ireland


Martin, Shane Twelve Girls in the Garden
Martinac, Paula   Out of Time

Masefield, John  Good Friday (dramatic poem)

Masterman, JC   The Case of the Four Friends


Maugham, W Somerset  Up at the Villa
Maugham, W Somerset  The Painted Veil The Painted Veil 2

Maugham, W Somerset Theatre (Being Julia)  Theatre (Being Julia) 2    Theatre (Being Julia) 3

Maugham, W Somerset  Ashenden

Maugham, W Somerset Cakes and Ale


Maupin, Armistead  Tales of the City  Tales of the City 2

Maupin, Armistead   The Days of Anna Madrigal

Maupin, Armistead Mona of the Manor


Mauriac, Francois Therese Desqueyroux Therese Desqueyroux 2 



Maurois, Andre   Ariel


May, Sarah Becky




Mazzola, Anna  The Story Keeper


McCabe, Eugene Death and Nightingales


McCarthy, Mary  The Group  The Group 2  The Group 3

McCauley, Stephen  Insignificant Others

McCleen, Grace The Professor of Poetry

McCloy, Helen   Through a Glass Darkly


McCloy, Helen Two-Thirds of a Ghost


McCloy, Helen Dance of Death


McCloy, Helen Goblin Market


McCloy, Helen Alias Basil Willing

McCloy, Helen The Slayer and the Slain


McCloy, Helen He Never Came Back

McCloy, Helen The Deadly Truth


McDermid, Val Report for Murder

McEwan, Ian  The Child in Time

McEwan, Ian  Sweet Tooth  Sweet Tooth 2


Mc Ewan, Ian The Children Act

McEwen, Todd Cary Grant's Suit

McEwen, Todd  How Not to Be American


McGowan, Claire  The Fall


McGown, Jill The Murders of Mrs Austin and Mrs Beale


[See also: Chaplin, Elizabeth  Hostage to Fortune]


McGraw, Eloise Jarvis  Greensleeves

McIntyre, Hope   How to Marry a Ghost

McKay, Hilary  Indigo's Star

McKay, Hilary The Skylarks' War

McKay, Hilary The Swallows' Flight

McLain, Paula  The Paris Wife


Oh my God, What a Complete Aisling by Emer

 McLysaght & Sarah Breen


McMullen, Mary Stranglehold

McPherson, Catriona Dandy Gilver and a Bothersome 




McPherson, Catriona   The Day She Died


McPherson, Catriona Dandy Gilver and a Most 

Misleading Habit

Messud, Claire  The Woman Upstairs



Metcalfe, Jean  Sunnylea

Mew, Charlotte The Quiet House (poem) 


Meyers, Annette Tender Death


Milford-Cottam, Daniel Guest Post on Corsetry


Milford-Cottam, Daniel Edwardian Fashion Edwardian Fashion 2 - harem trousers

Miller, Andrew  Pure


Miller, Madeleine The Song of Achilles


Miller, Madeleine Circe


Milne, AA Four Days' Wonder
Minett, GJ  The Hidden Legacy


Mishima, Yukio  Forbidden Colours


Miske, Karim  Arab Jazz


Miss Read - see under R



Mitchell, Gladys   Laurels are Poison


Mitchell, Gladys Death at the Opera


Mitchell, Gladys  Watson's Choice - and again here

Mitchell, Gladys A Hearse on May-Day


Mitchell, Gladys Groaning Spinney

Mitchell, Gladys Spotted Hemlock

Mitchell, Gladys The Man Who Grew Tomatoes

Mitchell, Gladys The Worsted Viper

Mitchell, Gladys  Sunset Over Soho

Mitchell, Gladys The Echoing Strangers

Mitchell, Gladys The Longer Bodies

Mitchell, Gladys Tom Brown's Body

Mitchell, Gladys When Last I Died

Mitchell,  Gladys The Devil at Saxon Wall

Mitchell, Gladys The Rising of the Moon

Mitchell, Gladys The Saltmarsh Murders

Mitchell, Gladys Here Comes a Chopper

Mitchell, Gladys Pageant of Murder

Mitchell, Gladys  St Peter's Finger

Mitchell, Gladys Death and the Maiden


Mitford, Nancy Christmas Pudding

Moggach, Lottie Kiss Me First


Moggach, Lottie Under the Sun


Montgomery, LM  Anne of Green Gables  Anne of 

Green Gables 2

 
Montgomery, LM Anne of Windy Poplars Anne of 


Windy Poplars 2


Montgomery, LM The Blue Castle


Moore, Doris Langley  All Done by Kindness


Moore, Doris Langley Not at Home


Moran, Caitlin How to Build a Girl



Moran, Caitlin How to be Famous


Morgan, Charles     The Judge's Story


Moriarty, Laura   The Chaperone The Chaperone 2
Moriarty, Liane The Husband's Secret


Moriarty, Liane Little Lies


Moriarty, Liane Truly, Madly Guilty

Moriarty, Liane Nine Perfect Strangers


Moriarty, Nicola The Fifth Letter


Morrissey  Autobiography


Morrissey, JP  Weekend at Blenheim



Mortmain, James  Enigmatism

****but note the date, and see also Dodie Smith**** 


Mortmain, James Jacob Wrestling


**** but note the date, and see also Dodie Smith****


Morton, Brian A Window Across the River


Morton, Brian Starting Out in the Evening


Mosley, Diana    (Mitford)   The Duchess of Windsor



Mosley, Diana (Mitford) Loved Ones: Lytton Strachey

and Carrington  Violet Hammersley


Mosley, Diana (Mitford) - see biographical entry


-- more biography in:
 Thompson, Laura Take Six Girls: The Mitford Sisters


Mosley, Nicholas Impossible Object 


Impossible Object 2



Mount, Ferdinand Heads You Win

Moyes, Patricia  Murder a la Mode  Murder a la Mode 2


Moyes, Patricia Death on the Agenda


Moyes, Patricia Dead Men Don't Ski


Moyes, Patricia Johnny Under Ground


Moyes, Patricia Entry on Henry and Emmy Tibbett


Moyes, Patricia  A Six-Letter Word For Death


Mukherjee, Abir A Rising Man


Munro, Alice  The Beggar Maid


Murakami, Haruki Norwegian Wood

Murdoch, Iris  The Nice and the Good  The Nice and the 


Good 2


Murray, Max  The King and the Corpse

Murray, Max  The Voice of the Corpse


Murray, Max The Queen and the Corpse 

Murray, Max The Sunshine Corpse

Musso, Guillaume  The Girl on Paper



Myers, Justin The Last Romeo

Myers, Justin The Magnificent Sons


Nabb, Magdalen  The Marshal and the Madwoman


Nabokov, Vladimir Ada or Ardor

Nabokov, Vladimir Speak, Memory

Naipaul, VS  The Mystic Masseur

Neely, Barbara Blanche on the Lam

Neely, Barbara Blanche Among the Talented Tenth

Neely, Barbara  Blanche Passes Go  Blanche Passes 

Go 2

Neil, Barbara The Possession of Delia Sutherland

Nesbit, E    Five Children and It   Five Children and It 2



Nesbit, E  The Railway Children The Railway Children 2


Nesbit, E  The Enchanted Castle


Nesbit, E  The House of Arden,  The House of Arden 2


Nesbit, E Harding's Luck


Neville, Stuart Juror 8 (short story)

New Yorker  Fierce Pajamas: Anthology of Humor Writing


Newby, Eric Something Wholesale Something Wholesale 2


Newby, PH  Something to Answer For



Noll, Ingrid Hell Hath No Fury


Norton, Mary  The Borrowers   The Borrowers 2

Noy, Jim The Red Death Murders

Oates, Joyce Carol Jack of Spades


O’Brien, Edna  The Country Girls

O'Brien, Kate   The Last of Summer


O’Brien, Meg    Salmon in the Soup


O'Donnell, Paraic The House on Vesper Sands

O'Farrell, Maggie   Instructions for a Heatwave


O'Farrell, Maggie Hamnet

O'Flynn, Catherine  What Was Lost


O'Leary, Sara  This is Sadie
Oliphant, Mrs (Margaret) The Perpetual Curate
Oliver, Jane and Stafford, Ann  Business as Usual


Olivier, Edith  The Love Child

Oman, Carola Nothing to Report

Ondaatje, Michael Coming Through Slaughter

Oppenheim, E Philips   The Great Impersonation 

Orringer, Julie  The Invisible Bridge

Osborne, Charles  The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie

Osman, Richard  The Thursday Murder Club

Osman, Richard The Man Who Died Twice

Osman, Richard The Bullet That Missed

Osman, Richard The Last Devil to Die

Ouida Under Two Flags

Owen, Lauren The Quick  The Quick 2

Owens, Lisa Not Working

OxCrimes Anthology 2014 Part 1  Part 2



Packer, Vin  The Girl on the Best Seller List


Packham, Simon  The Opposite Bastard

Palgrave, Francis Turner  A Crusader's Tomb (poem)

Palliser, Charles  Rustication


Palliser, Charles Betrayals

Papazoglou, Orania  Charisma

Paris, BA  Behind Closed Doors



Parker, Dorothy   The Satin Dress (poem)

Patrick, Q  Murder at Cambridge


Pavone, Chris The Expats

Peace, David  Red or Dead

Peace, David The Damned Utd


Pearce, Philippa  Tom's Midnight Garden Tom's


Peck, Richard Ghosts I Have Been

Peck, Winifred  Bewildering Cares


Peck, Winifred Arrest the Bishop? 


Penn, John   Mortal Term


Penny, Rupert Sweet Poison


Otto Penzler and the Mysterious Book Shop

Perrotta, Tom   Election  Election 2 Election 3


Perry, Sarah After Me Comes the Flood


Perry, Sarah The Essex Serpent


Perry, Sarah Melmoth

Pessl, Marisha   Night Film   Night Film 2



Peters, Elizabeth Trojan Gold


Peters, Ellis Funeral of Figaro



Potts, Jean The Diehard

Poulson, Christine   Murder is Academic 


Poulson, Christine Stage Fright


Poulson, Christine  Footfall

Poulson, Christine Invisible

Poulson, Christine Deep Water

Poulson, Christine Cold Cold Heart

Author Interview: Christine Poulson

Poulson, Christine An Air That Kills An Air That Kills 2

Poulton, Mike  - see Hilary Mantel, above

Pound, Ezra The River-Merchant's Wife


Powell, Anthony   A Buyer’s Market   A Buyer's Market 2

Powell, Violet  The Constant Novelist

Pratchett, Terry   Men at Arms

Pratchett, Terry  Maskerade


Pratchett, Terry   Monstrous Regiment

Pratchett, Terry The Fifth Elephant


see also  Terry Pratchett RIP


Preston, John A Very English Scandal

Price, Angharad  The Life of Rebecca Jones


Price, Evadne  Jane the Fourth


Priest, Christopher  The Prestige


Priestley, JB  Angel Pavement Angel Pavement 2

Priestley, JB Blackout in Gretley


Pronzini, Bill & Willcox, Collin Two Spot


Proust, Marcel  Swann’s Way


Pryce, Malcolm   Aberystwyth Mon Amour
Pryor, Mark  The Bookseller


Pullein-Thompson, Josephine Gin and Murder


Pullein-Thompson, Josephine  Murder Strikes Pink


Punshon, ER  The Bath Mysteries

Punshon, ER  Six Were Present


Pushkin, Alexander  Queen of Spades



Pushkin, Alexander  Eugene Onegin Eugene Onegin 2


Pryor, Mark  The Bookseller


Pryor, Mark The Button Man


Pym, Barbara  Excellent Women


Pym, Barbara Less Than Angels 


Queen, Ellery  A Fine and Private Place





Queen, Ellery Cop Out (Tuesday Night 1)


Queen,  Ellery Lamp of God and The Scarlet 

Letters (Tuesday Night 2) 


Queen, Ellery New Adventures of Ellery Queen (Tuesday Night 3) 

Queen, Ellery  The Last Woman in His Life (Tuesday Night 4) 

Queen, Ellery Face to Face


Queen, Ellery The Dauphin's Doll 





Queen, Ellery The Door Between

Queen, Ellery Double Double


Quennell, Peter  The Marble Foot The Marble 

Foot 2  The Marble Foot 3



Quick, Matthew  The Silver Linings Playbook

Quinn, Anthony  Curtain Call Curtain Call 2


Quinn, Anthony  Eureka

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