Written by English thriller writer Christopher Fowler, The Bryant & May mysteries is about the adventures of two Golden Age detectives in modern-day London. The stories take place in various years between World War II and the present and revolve around friends and colleagues John May and Arthur Bryant as they work for the Peculiar…
Born in 1940, Jeffrey Archer was a politician before becoming an author. A former Member of Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, he was imprisoned for three years for perjury and perverting the course of justice, ending his elected political career. He began writing his first book in 1974, Not a Penny More,…
Written by Edith Mary Pargeter, using the pseudonym Ellis Peters, this classic series is about a Monk who aids the law in solving murders during the Anarchy in England. Set in the 12th century, the novels focus on a Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey in western England. Even if Brother Cadfael spends much…
Written by British screenwriter and novelist Matthew Hall (also credited as M. R. Hall), the creator of BBC One’s Keeping Faith, The Coroner is a crime series that has been adapted for television by CBC. The story centers on recently divorced Jenny Cooper who was appointed Severn Vale District Coroner when the series began. She…
Mostly known today for its TV adaptation starring Angie Harmon as Jane Rizzoli and Sasha Alexander as Maura Isles, Rizzoli and Isles is a crime series written by American novelist and retired general physician Tess Gerritsen. The series is about the investigations led by Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli and her friend and colleague Forensic Pathologist…
American writer Tana French is the First Lady of Irish Crime, it’s strange when you say it like this, but the author of the Dublin Murder Squad lives in Dublin. And so, she writes about the police detectives on the murder squad in Dublin, Ireland. Each book has a different primary character, but except for…
Need some scrapbooking tips and recipes, with a side of cozy mysteries? Written by Laura Childs (author of The Tea Shop Mysteries and Cackleberry Club Mysteries), this series is exactly what you are searching for! The story takes place in New Orleans where Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine, a scrapbooking shop in the French…
Created by American crime writer Jeffery Deaver, the Lincoln Rhyme series started in 1997 and rapidly became famous with the help of Hollywood-with an adaptation of The Bone Collector with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, and recently with a TV Show. Lincoln Rhyme was NYPD Homicide Detective until after an accident that left him completely…
Created by author Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas is a twenty-year-old short-order cook working at the Pico Mundo grill. He is not like everybody else because he can see the lingering dead and uses it to try and bring peace to the ghosts he encounters so that they can move on to the next life. His…
Set in the world of famous literary detective Sherlock Holmes, this mystery series written by American author Laurie R. King introduces us to Mary Russell, the new protégé of the British detective. Mostly set between 1915 and the late 1920s, those memoirs written and compiled apparently by an aged Mary Russell began with the meeting…
The main character in a crime/adventure series written by Clive Cussler/Justin Scott branded books, Isaac Bell is a detective at the beginning of the 20th century. More precisely, Isaac Bell is an investigator working for the VanDorn Detective Agency (loosely based on the famous Pinkertons). Of course, he also seeks the truth and stops criminals….
Also known as The Enola Holmes Mysteries, this creation of American author Nancy Springer is about Sherlock Holmes‘s sister, Enola. Everything began with her mother’s disappearance and her brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft, doing nothing. Enola makes a discovery that puts her on the road to becoming herself a detective, even if Mycroft insists that she…
