Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks is a policeman in Yorkshire (England) and the protagonist in a series of novels by English-Canadian crime writer Peter Robinson. Set in the fictional English town of Eastvale in the Yorkshire Dales, the series follows Banks, a former member of the London Metropolitan Police, who left the capital for a…
Described as a series for anyone who loves Downton Abbey and the British-set mysteries of Elizabeth George, the Bess Crawford series written by Charles Todd is about a nurse solving mysteries during the Great War. Bess Crawford is not the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. Independent-minded, she grew up in India where she learned the importance…
Historical crime series written by the South African novelist Rennie Airth, the John Madden series takes us back to the first half of the last century for some murder mysteries. More precisely, the series is set in England between 1921 and 1949 and revolves around John Madden, a detective formerly of Scotland Yard, as he…
Lesley Pearse is a best-seller British novelist who started writing more than a decade before being published for the first time. Her books always center around women with troubles. She published more than thirty books, not always in the same genres, from romance to crime, traditional sagas, historical, and contemporary. He is known for Belle,…
Created by bestseller author David Baldacci, the Amos Decker/Memory Man series is a crime novel book series about a detective with special abilities. Amos Decker is a former professional football player who was violently hit on his first play, resulting in severe injuries and changes to his brain. This was the end of his football…
Written by English author Anne Perry, the author of the William Monk and Daniel Pitt series, this historical detective series is about Thomas Pitt, a police inspector in Victorian London. Pitt is from a working-class background and faces various challenges and obstacles in his career as a police officer due to his social status and…
Åsa Larsson was a tax lawyer but is now a bestselling/award-winning Swedish crime-fiction writer. Larsson is mostly known for her Rebecka Martinson series, about a lawyer who returns to her hometown in Kiruna and gets involved in the search for a killer. Her book Sun Storm (aka The Savage Altar) was adapted as a movie,…
American writer from Kansas City, Julie Garwood is known for her romance novels in both the historical and suspense subgenres – more than 20 of them being New York Times Bestsellers. Encouraged by a professor, Julie started to write and published her first historical novel, Gentle Warrior, in 1985. The next one quickly followed. She…
Coming from American author Anna Lee Huber (Lady Darby Mysteries), The Verity Kent series is about a former British Secret Service Agent using her skills to investigate complex murder mysteries. The series is set during peacetime, after the First World War in 1919, and revolves around Verity Kent who used to work for the Secret…
Adapted for television by the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel (with Jewel and Colin Ferguson), the Fixer Upper Mysteries is a cozy mystery series written by Kate Carlisle (Bibliophile Mysteries). The story takes us to the small resort town of Lighthouse Cove in California. There, everyone knows that the best man for the job is…
Andrea Penrose is an American author of historical mysteries set in Regency England. She began writing at age five, specifically, Western stories illustrated with drawings of horses and cowboys. She moved on to the Regency period after reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. She has been fascinated by this time since then. She majored in…
Janet Evanovich is famous for the Stephanie Plum series, but she also writes other series, like this one with the help of Lee Goldberg. It’s about FBI special agent Kate O’Hare who has devoted her career to taking down one of the FBI’s most wanted con men, the master thief known as Nick Fox. For…
