Authors and books mentioned in
Dare to Die

David Alexander
- Shoot a Sitting Duck

Eric Ambler
- A Coffin for Dimitrios

Raymond Arroyo
- Mother Angelica’s Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality

Suzanne Arruda
- The Mark of the Lion

Nevada Barr
- Seeking Enlightenment Hat by Hat

Carol Carnac
- Murder as a Fine Art

Dixie Cash
- My Heart May Be Broken, But My Hair Still Looks Great

Henry Cecil
- Tell You What I’ll Do

Agatha Christie

Mary Collins
- Death Warmed Over

Sarah D’Almeida
- Death of a Musketeer

Phillip DePoy

Carola Dunn

Anthony Eglin
- The Blue Rose

Jimmie Ruth Evans
- Bring Your Own Poison

Carol Goodman
- Ghost Orchid

Sue Grafton
- A Is for Alibi

Edith Hamilton
- Witness to the Truth

Dashiell Hammett
- The Thin Man series

Charlaine Harris
- Sookie Stackhouse series

Joseph Hayes
- Don’t Go Away Mad

Georgette Heyer
- Black Sheep

Naomi Hirahara
- Summer of the Big Bachi

Dorothy Howell
- Handbags and Homicide

Alex Kava

Laura Lippman

Ed McBain
- 87th Precinct series

John P. Marquand
- Ming Yellow

Archer Mayor

Tim Myers
- A Mold for Murder

Stuart Palmer
- The Penguin School Murder

Anne Perry
- Angels in the Gloom

Elizabeth Peters
- Amelia Peabody series

Nancy Pickard

Jodi Picoult

Edgar Allan Poe

Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Twenty-Three and a Half Hour’s Leave

Ann Ripley
- Death in the Orchid Garden

Peter Robinson
- Inspector Alan Banks series

Mary Saums
- Thistle and Twig

Dorothy L. Sayers
- Lord Peter Wimsey series

Mabel Seeley
- The Listening House

Martin Cruz Smith

Sarah Stew Taylor

Charles Todd
- The Murder Stone

Elaine Viets

Heather Webber
- Trouble in Spades

Patricia Wentworth
- The Case Is Closed
- Fingerprint

Jacqueline Winspear
- Pardonable Lies

Richard Wormser
- The Takeover