American journalist, Carl Hiaasen (pronounced “hiya-sun”) became a novelist by the late 1970s, writing novels in his spare time. He writes books for adults but also for young-adult readers. Most of Carl Hiaasen’s novels–the ones for adults–are crime thrillers set in Florida featuring eccentric characters and (most of the time) talking about environmentalism and political…
Written by English/Australian author Colin Cotterill, this mystery series takes us back to the 1970s in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The story resolves around seventy-two-year-old Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover. He is untrained for the job but has been drafted to be a national…
Charles Todd is a pen name used by the American authors Caroline and Charles Todd, a mother-and-son writing team. They published together more than 40 books, all of them set in rural England just after World War I, and received the Mary Higgins Clark, Agatha, and Barry awards. Charles and Caroline Todd traveled every year…
Written by English author and historian Paul C. Doherty, this murder mystery series is set during the 13th-century reign of Edward I of England. Launched in 1986 with the novel Satan in St Mary’s, this series tells the story of Hugh Corbett, the chancellor of England’s faithful clerk, as he investigates threats to the King…
Coming from Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner’s officer Susanna Gregory (the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys), this series is about Matthew Bartholomew who investigates murders in medieval times. Matthew Bartholomew is an unorthodox physician living in fourteenth-century Cambridge. He is a master at the College of Michaelhouse at the University of Cambridge, where he…
Written by American author Will Thomas, this hard-boiled mystery series is about 19th-century British private detective Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn. Set in the 1880s and often featuring historical events and people, the series follows Private Enquiry Agent Cyrus Barker and Llewelyn in London as they investigate dark and violent murder mysteries (they even…
Born in 1977, Ruth Ware is the pseudonym for Ruth Warburton, a British psychological crime thriller author. She grew up in Lewes and studied English at Manchester University. Before becoming a writer, Ruth Ware worked as a waitress, a bookseller, a publicist, and an English teacher in Paris. She published her first books under the…
Suspense thriller series written by American author Iris Johansen (author of the Eve Duncan series), the investigations of Kendra Michaels are taking place in the same universe as the Eve Duncan series. But the two women are definitely not the same. Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life and honed…
New York Times bestselling author from Texas, Deanna Raybourn used to teach high school English and history before becoming a full-time writer, starting in 2006 with her first novel, Silent in the Grave. It was the launch of the successful Lady Julia Grey Series, a Victorian-era mystery series. Deanna Raybourn established herself in the historical…
Written by Robert Westbrook, The Howard Moon Deer mystery series follows the adventures of Howard Moon Deer, a private investigator based in San Geronimo Peak, New Mexico, who described himself as “seeing eye Indian to a blind detective” as he is a Lakota Sioux, graduate student studying culinary psycho-sociology, who is working with Jack Wilder,…
Written by Stuart Palmer (1905 – 1968), The Hildegarde Withers book series is about an amateur sleuth and schoolteacher named Hildegarde Withers, a sharp-witted and unconventional woman who possesses a keen intellect and a knack for solving crimes in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. Despite her unassuming appearance and occupation as an elementary school…
Written by Catherine Lloyd (aka Kate Pearce), The Kurland St. Mary Book series is a historical mystery series set in early 19th century England, specifically in the fictional village of Kurland St. Mary. Reverend Robert “Kurland” and his close friend, the widowed heiress Lucy Harrington find themselves entangled in various murder mysteries and crimes that…
