Still Reading Unusual Suspects

In The Duh Vice  by Michael Armstrong, an environment police officer has to solve a mystery involving stolen energy in a future world of much depleted resources.   On the day after Christmas, a very old and very tired man must solve the murder of one of his elf friends in Weight of the World by John Straley.  Then, in Laura Anne Gilman's Illumination, a "talent" named Bonnie faces her father's disappearance.   Another disappearance is the subject of speculation in House by Laurie R. King.  And a serial killer is running rampant in the Nightside of London, the location of Simon R. Green's Appetite for Murder.