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Written by Dan Malone I must confess that I swore off reading any more John Grisham novels. Grisham was one of my favourite authors for the longest time – and the first book I ever read after kids/teen fiction was The Client. I quickly read all other Grisham books he had written, then was an […]

The Lord John Grey series is a spin-off of the Outlander series by American novelist Diana Gabaldon. After making appearances in Dragonfly in Amber, the Lord John Grey character appeared in subsequent Outlander novels Voyager, Drums of Autumn, A Breath of Snow and Ashes and An Echo in the Bone.

The Outlander series is a series of novels by American author Diana Gabaldon. The featured characters in Outlander are Claire Randall and James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser. In it, Claire is a British Army nurse from World War II who happens to touch a stone that sends her all the way back to the 18th […]

Diana Gabaldon is an American author of a wide variety of genres, including romance, historical fiction, mystery, adventure and sci-fi. She is best known for her Outlander series. She has also written several books in the Lord John series, short stories, novellas, graphic novels and collaborative novels.

Travis McGee is a creation of prolific American novelist John D. MacDonald. McGee is not a cop or a private investigator, but rather a professional salvage consultant who finds other people’s property when he runs low on spare cash. He considers himself a beach bum and lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale.

John D. MacDonald (1916-1986) was an American author who was best known for crime and suspense novels, including the popular Travis McGee novels. MacDonald is very highly regarded by his fellow authors, including Dean Koontz and Stephen King.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish author best known for his Sherlock Holmes stories (a landmark of detective fiction). However, he is also wrote The Lost World, non-fiction historical books, romance, science fiction, plays and more. Much like the assistant and biographer of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Conan Doyle was a physician.

Sherlock Holmes is a legendary fictional character created by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes is well-known for solving even the most impossible mysteries and is a master of disguise. Some of Holmes’ characteristics include having cat-like personal hygiene, use of cocaine and smokes a pipe.

M*A*S*H may have been one of the most popular television shows of the ’70s (or of all-time, for that matter), but it wouldn’t have been nothing if it wasn’t for the 1970 movie MASH. In turn, MASH wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for Richard Hooker’s 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. […]

The Presidential Agent series is W.E.B. Griffin‘s first new series in more than a decade. Unlike many of his series, the Presidential Agent series is set in present-day and it focuses it on contemporary counterterrorism (post-9/11). As of The Outlaws, the series is being co-authored with Griffin’s son William E. Butterworth IV.