Written by English author Jacquie Walton under the pen name Faith Martin (author of the Ryder and Loveday series), this is a crime series about a British detective. Set in Oxfordshire, this series follows DI Hillary Greene, a member of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) who works out of Thames Valley Police headquarters in Kidlington….
Written by Sophie Hannah, The Culver Valley Crime series has several names. It’s also called the Spilling CID series, The Zailer and Waterhouse Mystery series, or yet the Simon & Charlie series. Whatever the name you prefer, these psychological crime novels follow Simon Waterhouse, a detective constable, and Charlie (Charlotte) Zailer, a detective sergeant, in…
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…
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,…
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…
A detective series with a twist, The Mrs. Murphy Mysteries is written by American writer Rita Mae Brown with the help of “Sneaky Pie Brown,” her cat. The story takes us to Crozet, Virginia, where Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen is the thirty-something post-mistress. She catches killers with the help of her irrepressible crime-solving tiger cat,…
Coming from a former British national newspaper journalist, Rory Clements (author of the Tom Wilde series), the John Shakespeare thrillers are historical crime novels. Set during the Elizabethan era, the series follows John Shakespeare who is described as an “intrepid private detective and brother to a rising young playwright”. As he investigates murder mysteries, John…
In the vein of Edgar Allan Poe’s detective C. Auguste Dupin (from 1841 short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is an exceptional detective who can be can be dispassionate and cold, but always willing to face a new challenging mystery, ready to use his extremely logical mind,…
Created by mystery novelist Harlan Coben in his first novel, Deal Breaker, published in 1995, Myron Bolitar is an ex-basketball player working as a sports agent, who’s also the owner of MB SportReps, an agency representing sports stars and celebrities. Myron Bolitar is a good agent, and that’s why he ended up becoming an accidental…
Stone Barrington is a creation of Stuart Woods. He is a former detective forced out of the NYPD because he too often disagreed with his superiors. Now, he is a lawyer who is ‘of counsel’ to Woodman & Weld, a prestigious Manhattan law firm. He handles cases with which the firm does not wish to…
Victoria Iphigenia Warshawski, called “Vic” by her friends, is a private investigator in Chicago and the main protagonist of the hard-boiled crime series written by Sara Paretsky. Sarcastic with a bad temper, Vic mostly works against the wealthier and powerful of Chicago. She goes after crooked businesspeople and corrupt politicians, and she often loses, but…
Coming from the American writers Caroline and Charles Todd (the author of the Bess Crawford series), the Ian Rutledge series is a mystery/historical one, taking us back to a period of time after the Great War. Beginning in 1919, the series follows Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge after he returned from the war front. Suffering…
