Carole

A contributing writer here, Carole is in charge of comicbooktreasury.com, our sister website dedicated to comic book reading orders. She likes reading Fantasy books, classical literature, and non-fiction about how Victorians died (but also lived), Her favorite authors are Terry Pratchett, Jane Austen, Kurt Vonnegut, and Robin Hobb.

Megan Lindholm Books in Order (Ki and Vandien, Tillu and Kerlew, Wizard of the Pigeons)

Carole
June 11, 2022May 12, 2023

All of Megan Lindholm’s Books in Order!

Who is Megan Lindholm?

Megan Lindholm is one of the pen names of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Odgen. She is maybe most famous under her other pen name, Robin Hobb, and her Realm of Elderlings series. She has also published works under M. Lindholm.

A professional writer for almost 40 years, Lindholm sold her first short story to a children’s magazine, well before selling her first short story as a fantasy writer to the 1979 Amazons! anthology.

Under the name Megan Lindholm, she published (and still continues to do so) stories exploring different types of the fantasy genre, from fantasy adventures to urban fantasy.

Delia Owens Books in Order (Where the Crawdads Sing)

Carole
June 10, 2022May 8, 2023

All of Delia Owens’s Books in Order!

Who is Delia Owens?

Delia Owens is a zoologist and author who grew up in Thomasville, in south Georgia in the 1950s. She studied biology at the University of Georgia and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in Animal Behavior from the University of California, Davis.

With her then-husband Mark Owens, she moved to Africa in 1974 and they wrote together three non-fiction books. Delia Owens has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature, The African Journal of Ecology, and many others.

In 2018, she published Where the Crawdads Sing, her first novel that topped The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2019 and The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2020. It is now adapted as a movie with Daisy Edgar-Jones in the title role.

Jeff Lindsay Books in Order (Dexter, Billy Knight, Riley Wolfe)

Carole
June 8, 2022May 17, 2023

All of Jeff Lindsay’s Books in Order!

Who is Jeff Lindsay?

Dexter Morgan is maybe now one of the most famous fictional serial killers on television. Before making a killing on Showtime, he was created by American crime novelist Jeff Lindsay. It was not Lindsay’s first book as the writer launched his writing career in 1994 and wrote several books during the next few years with his wife, Hilary Hemingway, daughter of Leicester Hemingway and niece of Ernest Hemingway. The couple has three children.

Lindsay did a lot of work, from acting to teaching, cooking to gardening, and more. He played music in the L.A. club scene in the early 1980s, and worked as a script doctor, screenwriter, and columnist. And he found success in 2004, with his first Dexter book, Darkly Dreaming Dexter; for which he won the 2005 Dilys Award and the 2007 Book to TV award. His books appear in 44 languages around the world.

Robin Cook Books in Order (Coma, Viral, Pandemic, Night Shift)

Carole
June 2, 2022May 25, 2023

All of Robin Cook’s Books!

Who is Robin Cook?

Born on May 4th, 1940, Robin Cook is an American writer of medical thrillers. He attended Wesleyan University and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons before completing his postgraduate medical study at Harvard.

Cook began to write while serving on the Polaris submarine USS Kamehameha during the Vietnam War. His first published book, The Year of The Intern, was a failure, but it didn’t discourage Cook. After that, he decided to study bestsellers to find how the reader was manipulated by the reader and used all those techniques in his book, Coma. He then found success, as his second book became one of his most famous and has been adapted twice: the first one in a movie by Michael Crichton in 1978 and a second time in a two-part miniseries in 2012.

Robin Cook’s books mix medical facts with fantasy. He explores with his stories various medical subjects such as organ donation and transplantation, fertility treatment, in vitro fertilization, genetic engineering, research funding, managed care, medical malpractice, medical tourism, and drug research.

Jenn McKinlay Books in Order (Hat Shop, Happily Ever After, Libray Lover, Royal Valentine)

Carole
June 1, 2022May 12, 2023

All of Jenn McKinlay’s Books in Order!

Who is Jenn McKinlay?

Jenn McKinlay is an American author, a New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author of several mystery and romance series. When Jennifer was a kid, she wanted to be a jockey, but she was already too tall at age nine. She thought about becoming a writer after seeing the movie Romancing the Stone, mostly inspired to be like Kathleen Turner’s character.

She studied English Literature and Library Science at the Southern Conn State University and then worked full-time as a librarian. To be able to write, she decided to move to a more affordable place, in Arizona, in order to take a part-time job and began to write romance novels. She also met her husband and had a boy.

Her first book was published in 2005, and Jenn McKinlay discovered soon that she was better at killing people than making them fall in love. After that, she wrote several mystery books, leading her, in time, to write the Cupcake Mystery series, Library Lover’s Mystery Series, and the Hat Shop Mystery Series. She recently returned to the romance genre, following her editor’s advice.

Hat Shop Mystery Series in Order: How to read Jenn McKinlay’s books?

Carole
May 31, 2022May 17, 2023

By the author of the Library Lover’s Mystery.

What is the Hat Shop Mystery Series about?

Written by American Author Jenn McKinlay, the Hat Shop Mystery Series is a cozy mystery series published since 2013. The action takes place in London and features American Scarlett Parker and her British cousin Vivian Tremont.

They are co-owners of Mim’s Whims, a ladies’ hat shop on Portobello Road in London. When the two of them are not busy making and selling hats, they don their sleuthing caps to solve murders.

Library Lover’s Mystery Series in Order: How to read Jenn McKinlay’s books?

Carole
May 30, 2022May 10, 2023

By the author of the Cupcake Bakery Mysteries.

What is Library Lover’s Mystery Series about?

Written by American writer Jenn McKinlay, Library Lover’s Mysteries is a cozy mystery series about Public Library director Lindsey Norris who solves murders in her coastal Connecticut town with the help of her crafternoon friends.

Lindsey Norris lives in Briar Creek, Connecticut where she works as the director of the Briar Creek Public Library. She lives in a small beach cottage, with her dog named Heathcliff because he’s black and hairy like Bronte’s hero, and works with her best friend Beth Barker, a children’s librarian.

And she’s an amateur sleuth, working mostly with her friend Robbie Vine and driving police chief Emma Plewicki mad in order to discover the identity of a murderer.

Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery Books in Order: How to read Robin Cook’s series?

Carole
May 26, 2022May 8, 2023

Murder and Medecine.

What is the Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery series about?

Written by American writer Robin Cook, the Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series follows two pathologists as they work to solve various medical mysteries that come across their paths.

Jack Stapleton spends much of his free time focusing on those investigations to avoid thinking about his wife and children’s death. His relationship with pathologist Laurie Montgomery will evolve throughout the series.

They are at first colleagues, but they will become more and more as the series progresses.

Kim Harrison Books in Order (Rachel Morgan/Hollows series)

Carole
May 26, 2022May 28, 2023
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All of Kim Harrison’s Books in Order!

Who is Kim Harrison?

Born in 1966, Dawn Cook is most known under her pen name Kim Harrison, the author of the New York Times #1 best-selling Hollows series. Describing herself as a “former tomboy”, Kim Harrison grew up in a family of boys in the Midwest where the possibility of becoming a writer didn’t cross her mind.

As she loved reading science-fiction and fairy tales when she was younger, Kim Harrison’s writing was influenced by a mix of genres. After years of struggling as an aspiring author, Harrison finally met her agent at a writing convention, and he introduced her to Diana Gill, her now-editor.

Her first book, Dead Witch Walking, was published in 2004. Today, she is recognized as one of the most influential creators of urban fantasy.

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