Written by Harry Kemelman, the Rabbi Small book series revolves around Rabbi David Small, who serves as the spiritual leader of a Conservative Jewish congregation in the fictional town of Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts. A thoughtful and insightful man, Rabbi Small often finds himself embroiled in mysteries that occur within his community. He is a religious…
Dexter is the creation of American crime novelist Jeff Lindsay, made famous thanks to the Showtime television series of the same name, where he is portrayed by Michael C. Hall. Dexter Morgan is a forensic blood-spatter analyst for the Miami-Dade Police Department by day and a serial killer by night. Convinced the legal system failed…
Bell Elkins is the main protagonist in the crime series written by American writer and former Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller. More precisely, at the beginning of the series, Bell Elkins is the prosecuting attorney for Raythune County, West Virginia, a region scarred by poverty and prescription drug abuse. She works with her closest friend,…
Written by Stuart Woods, the man behind the Will Lee series and the Stone Barrington series, Ed Eagle is a talented six-foot-seven lawyer from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he represents difficult and often vindictive clients. But his take-no-prisoners approach has earned him more than a few enemies, many of whom return for vengeance. If…
Written by American writer Ward Larsen, David Slaton is a thriller book series published since 2006. The story centers on David Slaton, a native-born Israeli who has been trained by Mossad to be the perfect assassin. When the series began, Slaton became a target of his former employers and used his skills to survive and…
Even if I weirdly thought it was the case, Mary Higgins Clark (Alvirah and Willy) didn’t write a lot of series, but this is one of hers – co-written with Alafair Burke. Launched in 2014, the Under Suspicion series focuses on Laurie Moran. She is a producer on the television series ‘Under Suspicion’, a documentary…
English author from Berkshire, TM Logan was a newspaper journalist, working for the Nottingham Evening Post and then the Daily Mail, before he went to work for the University of Nottingham as a press officer. It was during that time that he started writing novels. In January 2017, his first thriller Lies was published. It…
Thomas Pitt is a police inspector in Victorian London, married to Charlotte, a woman from an upper-class family who uses her connections to the landed gentry and aristocracy to help her husband solve murder investigations. They are both the heroes of one of Anne Perry’s series, the Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries. Now, their son…
Written by G.S. Denning, The Warlock Holmes book series is a comedic fantasy twist on the classic Sherlock Holmes tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The series follows the adventures of Warlock Holmes, a brilliant detective with extraordinary powers and abilities, but with a significant twist: he’s not particularly good at deducing things. Instead, he…
Written by Wilkie Martin, The Inspector Hobbes series–aka the Unhuman series–is a collection of humorous fantasy mystery novels. The series is set in the fictional English town of Sorenchester and follows the adventures of Inspector Hobbes, a highly intelligent and enigmatic detective, and his assistant, Andy Caplet. Together, they investigate a variety of bizarre and…
A mystery series written by Andrew Cartmel, The Vinyl Detective book series revolves around a freelance vinyl record collector and amateur detective, known simply as the Vinyl Detective, who uses his expertise in rare records and his keen observational skills to solve mysteries and crimes that often involve navigating the seedy underbelly of the music…
Former Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Alexander McCall Smith is a best-selling British writer who started by publishing academic texts and children’s books. In fact, before becoming known as a successful fiction writer, he was a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served…
