Written by American author Jennifer L. Armentrout, The Lux Universe is a young-adult paranormal fantasy franchise comprised of three series (Lux, Arum, and Origin) and three companion books. The story begins with Katy Swartz, a young woman who moves from Florida to West Virginia right before her senior year and discovers a new hot but…
Written by retired medical researcher and professor Patrick Taylor, this historical series chronicles the lives of the doctors of Ballybucklebo, a fictional village in rural Northern Ireland. The Irish Country series follows novice doctor Barry Laverty as he begins his assistantship at the practice of Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly. The books explore the present and…
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,…
All Creatures Great and Small is a book series by James Alfred Wight under the pen name James Herriot focusing on his adventures as a veterinary surgeon in the Yorkshire Dales, in the fictional town of Darrowby, based on a combination of Thirsk, Richmond, Leyburn and Middleham. Herriot works with fellow veterinary surgeons Siegfried and…
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…
Gabriel Allon is the main protagonist in this series written by former journalist and award-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva. It’s a spy thriller focusing on an ex-Israeli intelligence operative who now lives under the cover of an Italian art restorer, Mario Delvecchio, in Cornwall, while working for a London-based art dealer….
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…
Joseph Edward Abercrombie is a British fantasy writer born in Lancaster. He studied psychology and worked at a television company making tea before taking up a career as a freelance film editor. It was during that time that Joe Abercrombie thought again about writing — he tried while at University but it didn’t go well….
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…
Alice Oseman is an award-winning English author known for her work in the young adult fiction genre. Her debut novel Solitaire was published by HarperCollins in 2014, when she was only 17 years old. Since then, Oseman wrote multiple novels and novellas but also wrote and illustrated the webcomic Heartstopper (later collected as graphic novels)….
