HIGH CRIMES MYSTERY BOOK BACKLIST The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks White Jazz by James Ellroy Queenpin, by Megan Abbott Black Water Transit, by Carsten Stroud An Accidental American, by Alex Carr Black Maps, by Peter Spiegelman Beautiful Lies, by Lisa Unger The Power of the Dog, by Don Winslow Deception, by Denise Mina The Havana Room, by Colin Harrison The Contortionist's Handbook, by Craig Clevenger Out, by Natsuo Kirino Before and After, by Rosellen Brown Queen of Winter, by Boris Akunin Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke Mystic River, Dennis Lehane Homicide—a Year on the Killing Streets, David Simon The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson Bringing Out the Dead, Joe Connelly The 25th Hour, David Benioff The Ice Harvest, Scott Phillips The Death of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell The Distance, Eddie Muller The Guards, Ken Bruen Dead I May Well Be, Adrian McKinty The Long Firm, Jake Arnott In a True Light, John Harvey Dirty Tricks, Michael Dibdin The Company of Strangers, Robert Wilson The World at Night, Alan Furst Night Dogs, Kent Anderson Flash House, Aimee Liu The Hamilton Case, Michelle de Krelser The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant Murder in the Marais, Cara Black Lie in the Dark, Dan Fesperman Bangkok 8, John Burdett Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden Bag Men, Mark Costello The Cutting Room, Louise Welsh Garnethill, Denise Mina Black and Blue, Ian Rankin A Place of Execution, Val McDermid Pick-Up, Charles Willeford The Real Cool Killers, Chester Himes Nightmare Alley, William Lindsay Graham They Shoot Horses Don't They, Horace McCoy In the Cut, Susanna Moore Case Histories, Kate Atkinson The Jasmine Trade, Denise Hamilton