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| Mysteries featuring specific themes have proven to be very popular in recent years. One recurring theme which has been a fan favorite is mysteries featuring a genealogical theme...either with a genealogist as the sleuth, or with the mystery story focusing on a tale involving genealogy, heirs and/or family history. The following list of titles is made up of mysteries featuring either a setting or plot with a genealogy theme, or a genealogist as the primary protagonist.
All books owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department. | |||
| Robert Barnard | At Death's Door [1988] Graveyard Position [2004] |
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| Rita Mae Brown | Murder at Montecello, or, Old Sins [1994] Riding Shotgun [1996] |
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| Jan Burke | Bloodlines [2005] | |||
| Jill Churchill | From Here to Paternity [1995] | |||
| Mary Daheim | Major Vices [1995] The Apline Escape [1995] |
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| Sandra Dallas | New Mercies [2005] | |||
| Jo Dereske | Miss Zukas and the Raven's Dance [1996] | |||
| K.J. Erickson | Dead Survivors [2002] | |||
| Anne George | Murder Runs in the Family [1997] | |||
| Martha Grimes | The Horse You Came In On [1993] | |||
| Parnell Hall | Last Puzzle and Testment [2000] | |||
| Janis Harrison | Murder Sets Seed [2000] | |||
| Carolyn G. Hart | Southern Ghost [1992] | |||
| Joan Hess | Death By the Light of the Moon [1992] Holly Jolly Murder [1997] |
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| Jane Aiken Hodge | A Death in Two Parts [2000] | |||
| P.D. James | Innocent Blood [2001] | |||
| Brenda Joyce | The Third Heiress [1999] | |||
| Alanna Knight | Blood Line [1989] | |||
| Kathleen Kunz | Murder Once Removed [1993] | |||
| Graham Landrum | The Famous DAR Murder Mystery [1992] The Historical Society Murder Mystery [1996] |
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| E.L. Larkin | Hear My Cry [1997] Die and Die [1998] Hear Me Die [1998] Dead Men Die [1998] |
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| Chris Larsgaard | The Heir Hunter [2005] | |||
| Elizabeth Lowell | Always Time to Die [2005] | |||
| Rett MacPherson | Family Skeletons [1997] A Veiled Antiquity [1998] A Comedy of Heirs [1999] A Misty Mourning [2000] Killing Cousins [2002] Blood Relations [2003] In Sheep's Clothing [2004] Thicker Than Water [2005] Dead Man Running [2006] Died in the Wool [2007] The Blood Ballad [2008] |
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| Lee Martin | Inherited Murder [1994] Genealogy of Murder [1996] |
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| Sharyn McCrumb | Sick of Shadows [1984] Highland Laddie Gone [1986] Paying the Piper [1988] The Windsor Knot [1990] Missing Susan [1991] MacPherson's Lament [1992] If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him [1995] The PMS Outlaws [2000] |
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| Ralph McInerny | Heirs and Parents [2000] Blood Ties [2005] |
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| Fiona Mountain | Pale as the Dead [2002] Bloodline [2006] |
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| Elisabeth Ogilvie | The Silent Ones [1981] | |||
| Charles Palliser | The Quincunx [1989] | |||
| Deanna Raybourn | Silent in the Grave [2007] | |||
| Jose Saramago | All the Names [2000] | |||
| Dorothy Sayers | Unnatural Death (a.k.a. The Dawson Pedigree) [1955] | |||
| Patricia Sprinkle | Death on the Family Tree [2005] | |||
| Sarah Stewart Taylor | O' Artful Death [2003] Mansions of the Dead [2004] Judgment of the Grave [2006] |
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| Josephine Tey | Brat Farrar [1950] | |||
| Charles Todd | The Murder Stone [2003] | |||
| Judith Van Gieson | The Stolen Blue [2000] | |||
| Dan Waddell | The Blood Detective [2007] | |||
| Patricia Tichenor Westfall | Mother of the Bride [1998] | |||
| Eric Wright | Death on the Rocks [1999] | |||
| Laurali Wright | Mother Love [1995] | |||
