In a message of , dorothy reynolds (1:202/711.3) writes:
RK>I saw your previous message about Susan Isaacs but I haven't read her.
RK>Traffic in this area can be slow.
 >   Think I figured out why messages weren't coming through. Little
 >problem with BBS in the throes of change over to Internet. Stuff coming
 >through loud and clear now.
 >       Thanks for answering my messages, and you're right, traffic has
 >been slow. What mysteries do you like to read? Do you have a favorite
 >writer? I got hooked on Ed McBain and try to read as much of him as I
 >can. Also like Sarah Paretsky. Right now I'm reading a Linda Barnes for
 >the first time. Can't make a judgement yet, but will let you know.
Sorry about replying so late.    My mystery reading is hap-hazard.   I have 
read very few of the better known writers except for Tony Hillerman.   I have 
read nearly all (28 out of 33) of Arthur Upfield's series about a 
half-European/ half-Aborigine Inspector in the Queensland police force with 
the unlikely name of Napoleon Bonaparte.   Unfortunately, I think they are 
all out of print again.   I have read several mysteries set in Ancient Rome 
by Lindsey Davis, John Maddox Roberts, and Stephen Saylor.   All three 
authors are good with Saylor being the best.
Bruce Alexander has a new series based on real historical character, Sir John 
Fielding, a blind 18th century London magistrate.   He created one of the 1st 
English police forces, the Bow Street Runners, and was brother to Henry 
Fielding, the novelist.   The 1st one is called Blind Justice.
I also really like the works of Laurie King who has two series, one about a 
lesbian detective in the SFPD, the 1st book is A Grave Talent, and two books 
about Sherlock Holmes and a bright female apprentice: The Beekeeper's 
Apprentice and A Monstrous Regiment of Women.
I have also read two mysteries about a Ranger with the federal Bureau of Land 
Management.  She is a Basque which lands her right in the middle of the 
cattle vs sheep range wars which still haven't entirely gone away.   The 
author is Kirk Mitchell, whose first books I read were SF about an alternate 
history where Rome never failed.
 
And I've read a number of others.   The very first Ruth Rendell.   A couple 
of Anne Perry books and so forth.
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