Great Getaways
Fiction for a Wandering Mind

North America

Alaska
Correcting the Landscape by Marjorie Kowalski Cole
Deadfall: An Alaska Mystery by Sue Henry
Summer of the Midnight Sun by Tracie Peterson
Due North by Mitchell Smith

Arizona
Event by David Lynn Golemon
Skeleton Canyon: A Joanna Brady Mystery by Judith A. Jance
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
Midnight Cactus by Bella Pollen

California
Jubilee Trail by Gwen Bristow
Fool's Puzzle by Earlene Fowler
California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker
Trigger Episode by Tom Straw

Colorado
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
Showdown by Ted Dekker
Stone Butterfly by James D. Doss
When the Wind Blows by Zachary Alan Fox

Florida
When Bobbie Sang the Blues: A Cozy Mystery by Peggy Darty
Heartstopper by Joy Fielding
First drop  by Zoё Sharp
Pirates of Pensacola by Keith Thomson

Hawaii
Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport
Freefall by Kristen Heitzman
The George Eliot Murders by Edith Skom
A Little Too Much is Enough by Kathleen Tyau

Maine
Incubus by Ann Arensberg
Intensive Scare Unit by J. S. Borthwick
Colony by Anne Rivers Siddons
Preacher’s Lake by Lisa Vice

Michigan
A Woman’s Place by Lynn N. Austin
Good Family by Terry Gamble
A Stolen Season by Steve Hamilton
The River Sorrow by Craig Holden

Minnesota
The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler
Pretty Girl Gone by David Housewright
Your Oasis on Flame Lake by Lorna Landvik
Monkeewrench by P. J. Tracy

Montana
Nails by Peter Bowen
This Calder Range by Janet Dailey
Bucking the Sun by Ivan Doig
Lone Creek by Neil McMahon

New Mexico
The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook
A Discount for Death by Steven Havill
The Wilder Sisters by Jo-Ann Mapson
The Belen Hitch: A Sasha Solomon Mystery by Pari Noskin Taichert

Washington
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Scent to Her Grave: A Bath and Body Mystery by India Ink
16 Lighthouse Road by Debbie Macomber
Saving Cascadia by John J. Nance

Wisconsin
The Company Car by C. J. Hribal
Blood Country: A Claire Watkins Mystery  by Mary Logue
Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages by Sara Rath
Dead Center by David Rosenfelt

Canada
All That Matters by Wayson Choy
The Suicide Murders by Howard Engel
Crimes of War by Peter Hogg
Cape Random by Bernice Morgan
Shadowed Secrets by Lois Richer
All Hat by B. J. Smith
Death of a Hired Man by Eric Wright

Mexico
When Rich Men Die by Harold Adams
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr
The Years with Laura Diáz by Carlos Fuentes
The Nemesis Mission by Dean Ing
The Cleansing by George Rabasa
The Uncomfortable Dead: (What’s Missing is Missing): A Novel by Four Hands by Paco Ignacio Taibo
Four Days to Veracruz by Owen West

Caribbean

Hotel Paradise by Bridget Anderson (Jamaica)
Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks (Jamaica)
The Flamboyant by Lori M. Carlson (Puerto Rico)
Carnal Hours by Max Allan Collins (Bahamas)
Rude Boys by Gaylord Dold (Jamaica)
Island by Thomas Perry (Caribbean area)
Precipice by Tom Savage (St. Thomas)
Precinct Puerto Rico: Book One by Steven Torres (Puerto Rico)
                Where Evil Sleeps by Valerie Wilson Wesley (Jamaica)

Central America

The Weight of All Things by Sandra Benitez (El Salvador)
The Queen Jade by Yxta Maya Murray (Guatemala)
Beneath a Panamanian Moon by David Terrenoire (Panama)
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux (Honduras)

South America

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral and Amorous Tale by Jorge Amado  (Brazil)
Cellophane by Marie Arana (Peru)
Sanctuary by Sharon K. Garner (Brazil)
Two to Tango by Peter Guttridge (Columbia)
Our Lives are the Rivers by Jaime Manrique (various countries)
The Lady, The Chef, and The Courtesan by Marisol (Venezuela)
The Tango Singer by Tomás Eloy Martinez
Killing Ché by Chuck Pfarrer (Bolivia)

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Updated 6/07 mcs