Crime/Detective Novels for Sophia

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The City & The City - China Miéville
Hard Case Crime
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.
The Thin Man
Maltese Falcon
Presumed Innocent
Red Harvest
Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Kenzie-Gennaro novels
A Drink Before the War (1994). ISBN 015100093X
Darkness, Take My Hand (1996). ISBN 0688143806
Sacred (1997). ISBN 0688143814
Gone, Baby, Gone (1998). ISBN 0688153321
Prayers for Rain (1999). ISBN 068815333X
Moonlight Mile (2010). ISBN 0061836923