A trained actress, Lynda La Plante started her professional life on the stage and soon appeared on TV in popular series, but she also wrote screenplays. After the success the Widows series, she became a popular crime writer. She didn’t stop working for television as she created Prime Suspect in 1991, a series that became…
Coming from American novelist Peter V. Brett, The Demon Cycle is a bestselling Heroic Fantasy series – a quintet completed with novellas. Mankind has ceded the night to the corelings, demons that rise up out of the ground each day at dusk, killing and destroying at will until dawn, when the sun banishes them back…
Written by American writer Elizabeth George, this mystery series set in Great Britain follows the investigations by Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Lynley is not your typical Scotland Yard detective. He is the 8th Earl of Asherton, and was privately educated–he went to Eton College and Oxford University. Not like his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers,…
Written by American writer James Dashner, The Maze Runner is a young-adult dystopian science-fiction series, comprised of the main trilogy, two prequels, a sequel (launched in 2022), and a companion book. The story begins with Thomas, who is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased. Soon, he learns they’re all trapped…
Contemporaine young adult fantasy series written by American author Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children is about children, monsters, and photographs. Originally intended to be a picture book featuring photographs Riggs had collected, this series follows Jacob Magellan Portman as he discovers the truth about Peculiar Children living in a secret home guarded by “a…
Written by American author Scott Westerfeld, Uglies is a young adult science-fiction series set in a future post-scarcity dystopian world in which everyone is considered an “Ugly,” but then turned “Pretty” by extreme cosmetic surgery when they reach the age of 16. The story follows Tally Youngblood, a woman who rebels against society’s enforced conformity…
Vampire Academy is a series of young adult paranormal romance novels by American author Richelle Mead. There are two races of vampires: One, the Moroi, are alive and wield elemental magical. The other, the Strigoi, are undead and evil-feeding on the innocent to survive. The story follows Rose Hathaway–a half-vampire with poor impulse control–who is…
Coming from Phillip Margolin (author of the Amanda Jaffe series), the Robin Lockwood series is a legal procedural thriller series full of twisty cases. The story is about Robin Lockwood. She’s a former MMA fighter and, at the beginning of the series, is a young lawyer who has just left a clerkship at the Oregon…
This is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card? Everything started with the novelette “Ender’s Game,” which was later expanded into the novel of the same title to use the Ender character in another novel. Now the Enderverse is composed of the Ender Series, the Shadow Saga, and the Formic Wars series….
In a famous galaxy… What Star Wars: The High Republic is about? Launched in January 2021, Star Wars: The High Republic is an ongoing multimedia project with the mission to tell a cohesive story taking place during the High Republic. Charles Soule, Justina Ireland, Cavan Scott, Daniel José Older, and Claudia Gray are the principal…
As I was saying, this series was written by Bernard Cornwell. It chronicles the life of Richard Sharpe in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe was born in poverty. He joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of…
Written by American author Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Lux Universe is a young-adult paranormal fantasy franchise comprised of three series (Lux, Arum, and Origin) and three companion books. The story begins with Katy Swartz, a young woman who moves from Florida to West Virginia right before her senior year and discovers a new hot but…
