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For those of you who do not have the inside track like I do, I recommend joining the DorothyL email loop, named after Dorothy L Sayers. You can sign up at http://www.dorothyl.com/ . Lots of mystery authors, readers, librarians, reviewers, etc. belong to the list and post their recommendations.
Also, look for the winners of the various awards in the mystery field (usually posted to the loop, too), like the Edgars, Agathas, Leftys, etc.




4MA (4 Mystery Addicts) is the larger with over 1000 members. At the end of each month, many members list their reads for that month. It is an international group, so we hear about new authors from Australia, Scandinavia and the UK, before they're released in the US.
Murder and Mayhem, in addition to discussing mysteries and thrillers also discuss horror works.
Below are links to the sites.
Dave
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/4_Myste...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/murdera...

Lillian


lists books of all types, but you can do an easy search on Mystery or Thriller by letter of the alphabet to narrow the list.

If you haven't come across Rue Morgue, they publish/re-issue books that are out of print with the bigger publishere. Frequently cosies, some British, some American. A few that were published in England but not in the State. Their print catalog includes some of their titles, but also a select list from other publishers. I found one of my recent favorite authors, Colin Cotterill through their catalog.

If one of my favorite authors do not have their own website, I'll get on an email mailing list for the publisher. That's been pretty sucessful, too.

Cheryl

I also subscribe to the New York Times Book Update (http://nytimes.com/); and to Shelf Awareness, which is a book trade newsletter, available here: www.shelf-awareness.com/. I then go to my local library website to put the newest things on hold. I often am in the top 10 or 20 for the newest books this way.
I will even troll a bookstore and copy down titles that interest me and try to get them at the library - the joys of low disposable income! Anyway, what do you all use?