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	Name: Michael W. Sherer
	State: Washington
	Vocation / Avocation: Author
	Website: www.emersonwardmysteries.com

Why I'm a Habitual Reader:

Voracious reader and writer of mysteries. Reading is how I fall asleep each night.

My List of Ten: Mysteries That Make You Think

1. The Fallen
Author: T. Jefferson Parker
Fascinating character whose synesthesia is both a blessing and a curse.

2. Motherless Brooklyn
Author: Jonathan Lethem
How Lethem gets inside the mind of a person with Tourette's Syndrome is beyond me, but it's a tour de force.

3. California Girl
Author: T. Jefferson Parker
Again, Parker's characters took up residence in my head and hung out long after I finished the last sentence.

4. Two For The Lions
Author: Lindsey Davis
All of the books in this excellent series raise questions in my mind about life in Rome circa 70 A.D.

5. The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Author: Laurie King
Again, an excellent series, and one in which the author's imagination and prose continue to amaze.

6. The Lonely Silver Rain
Author: John D. MacDonald
The last Travis McGee novel, while not the best in the series, makes me wonder what might have come next had John D. lived a bit longer.

7. One For The Money
Author: Janet Evanovich
Makes me realize how difficult it is to write humor and sustain a series over time.

8. Get Shorty
Author: Elmore Leonard
Quintessential Leonard--tight, spare dialogue, intriguing characters. Where does Leonard meet these people? They're too real to be fictional.

9. Sick Puppy
Author: Carl Hiaasen
All of Hiaasen's books make me wonder when we're going to stop killing the planet with our greed.

10. The Lincoln Lawyer
Author: Michael Connelly
Always entertaining, Connelly's writing makes me wonder why I can't win an Edgar, too.

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