Written by American author and literary critic Charles Finch, the Charles Lenox series is a series of mystery novels set in Victorian-era England. Charles Lenox is an independently wealthy gentleman and a detective. From the streets of Victorian London to Parliament and even at Oxford, his alma mater, Lenox investigates murder mysteries as his career…
A creation of Joe R. Lansdale, the Hap and Leonard series is filled with fun, violence, great dialogues, and characters. The story takes place in the ’80s, in the fictional town of LaBorde, East Texas. We follow Hap Collins, a white working-class laborer who spent time in federal prison for refusing to fight in the…
The writer behind the Alex Delaware series and husband of Faye Kellerman, Jonathan Kellerman is an American psychologist and Edgar Award-winning author published since 1985. He used to be a practicing psychologist but he quits his private practice in 1990 to write full-time. Since then, he produced more than 50 novels, most of them are…
Written by American psychologist and author Jonathan Kellerman, the Alex Delaware series is about a child psychologist who works as a consultant to the Los Angeles Police Department. Delaware is often called upon to help solve complex and challenging cases, and his expertise and insights often prove invaluable in helping to solve crimes and bring…
Ragnar Jonasson is the award-winning Icelandic author of the bestselling Dark Iceland series, the Hulda Trilogy, and standalone crime fiction. Ragnar is a lawyer who works as an investment banker and teaches copyright law at the University of Reykjavik who started in the crime fiction genre by translating 14 Agatha Christie novels into Icelandic. How…
Stuart Woods was a prolific author who was best known for his first novel Chiefs and his series of novels focus on Stone Barrington, a former NYPD detective turned lawyer. He died on July 22, 2022, at the age of 84. After having moved to London, still working in advertising, at the end of the…
Created by Irish writer Ken Bruen, the private investigator Jack Taylor is a disgraced former police officer, an alcoholic, and a drug abuser. Jack Taylor is a brilliant detective and could probably be one of the best in Ireland if his addiction problem was not as big. He tried to stop, he even left Galway,…
Elly Griffiths is the pen name of Domenica de Rosa, born on 17 August 1963, in London, a British crime novelist. Before, she worked in a library, for a magazine, and then as a publicity assistant and Editorial Director for children’s books at HarperCollins. She began writing about Italy, families, and identity, before being inspired…
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…
Written by Linda Castillo who was previously known for her romantic novels, the Kate Burkholder series is about a young Amish girl from Painters Mill, a small town in Ohio, who survived being attacked by a serial killer but realized that she no longer belonged to her community. Years later, Kate has been asked to…
J.R. Ellis is a British author who lived in Yorkshire for most of his life, and after he retired from a teaching career, he started writing murder mysteries set in the varied landscapes and communities of the county. More precisely, The Yorkshire Murder Mysteries follows the murder investigations led by DCI Jim Oldroyd and his…
Lucas Davenport is the protagonist of the ‘Prey’ series written by John Sandford, a former American journalist and – obviously – author. Davenport worked as a detective with the Minneapolis Police Department in the first novels, then moved around changing assignments while tracking criminals of course. He is wealthy, streetwise, has a wide network of contacts among all levels…
