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Jacqueline Winspear is an English novelist who writes a mystery series of novels featuring the character Maisie Dobbs. Winspear has been nominated for several Agatha Awards for her Maisie Dobbs books and has won two of them. Winspear now resides in the United States.

Cork O’Connor is a fictional character created by American author William Kent Krueger who is featured in a series of mystery novels. Despite the very Irish name, Cork is only part-Irish; the other part being Ojibwe. The series is set in Northern Minnesota, which is an area of largely mixed heritage.

William Kent Krueger (known to his friends as “Kent”) is an American novelist of crime fiction. Kent is best known for writing novels featuring Cork O’Connor, who is half-Irish, half-Ojibwe. His novels are set in Minnesota, where Krueger himself lives. The setting of these novels is of great importance to the series.

Danielle Steel is an American novelist of romance and drama novels. She has sold over 800 million novels during her prolific career, ranking her fourth in the bestselling fiction authors of all time – behind Shakespeare, Agatha Christie and Barbara Cartland. Although Steel has been critiqued for writing “formualic fluff,” she does cover serious issues […]

Conqueror is a series of historical fiction novels by English author Conn Iggulden. The series follows historical figure Genghis Khan, Emperor of the Mongol Empire. Although the series is based on actual history, Iggulden has taken some liberties, which he notes at the end of the book.

Emperor is a series of historical fiction novels by British author Conn Iggulden. The series centers around the life of Julius Caesar. Each novel spans 5 to 14 years of Caesar’s life, starting with childhood and ending with his death. The series is based on history, although Iggulden does change some historical facts in order […]

Conn Iggulden is an English author of historical fiction and children’s books. He is best known for his Emperor and Conqueror series about Julius Caesar and Genghis Khan, respectively. The film rights to his Julius Caesar Emperor series have been optioned by Spitfire Productions.

Inspector Gamache is a series of whodunit mystery novels by Canadian author Louise Penny, featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. The series is set in Quebec and Gamache works for the Sûreté du Québec, where he heads the homicide department. The series features unconventional murders, a long list of suspects, plenty of red herrings and dramatic […]

Louise Penny is a Canadian novelist of mystery novels, featuring Inspector Armand Gamache and set in Quebec. She is a multiple time Agatha Award winner. Her novels are British-styled whodunit mysteries inspired by authors such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Before becoming a published author, Louise worked for CBC as a radio host […]

Sam Holt is a series of mystery novels written by Samuel Holt – one of the many pseudonyms used by American novelist Donald Westlake. The series consists of four novels featuring the Sam Holt character.