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The Novels of the FBI series is a series of crime thriller novels by American author Paul Lindsay. The series follow various FBI agents as they work on various cases. Author Paul Lindsay worked for the FBI for 20 years and has an inside knowledge of the Bureau and combines it with a healthy dose […]
Paul Lindsay (1943-2011) was an American author of crime fiction and thriller novels. He wrote the Novels of the FBI series and also wrote the Steve Vail series as Noah Boyd. Lindsay graduated from MacMurray College in 1968 and went on to serve in the Marines for a tour of duty in Vietnam. He then […]
Inspector George Gently is the protagonist in a series of crime fiction by British novelist Alan Hunter. George Gently starts out as an inspector with the police in East Anglia, UK. The series has been adapted to a BBC TV series starring Martin Shaw, although the character in the books is more calculating and more […]
Alan Hunter (1922-2005) was an English author of crime fiction. After leaving school at 14, he worked on his family farm and enjoyed writing natural history notes for the newspaper as well as poetry. All of his novels are part of his Inspector George Gently series, for which he wrote one novel almost every year […]
Bruno, Chief of Police is a series of crime fiction novels by British author Martin Walker. The titular character, Bruno Courreges, is the chief of police in his hometown of St. Denis. He also enjoys cooking and hunting, grows his own food and has built his own house himself. In his job as chief of […]
D.I. Peter Shaw is the main protagonist in a series of crime fiction novels by British author Jim Kelly. Detective Inspector Peter Shaw is joined by Detective Sergeant George Valentine in the county of Norfolk, England. The series is sometimes referred to as simply the D.I. Peter Shaw series and other times using both of […]
Philip Dryden is the protagonist in a series of crime fiction novels by British novelist Jim Kelly. The Philip Dryden character is a journalist who is based out of Ely, Cambridgeshire.
Jim Kelly is an English novelist of crime fiction novels. He writes the Philip Dryden and D.I. Peter Shaw & D.S. George Valentine series. He has won the CWA Dagger in the Library award and the New Angle Prize for Literature. In addition to being a novelist, Kelly is also a journalist and education correspondent […]
Peter Diamond is the main character in a series of crime fiction/mystery novels by British author Peter Lovesey. Peter Diamond is based out of Bath, Somerset, England. Unlike Lovesey’s Sergeant Cribb historical mystery series, the series is set during contemporary times.
Sergeant Cribb is the protagonist in a series of crime fiction/historical mystery novels by British author Peter Lovesey. The novels are set in Victorian London. The series (known as “Cribb” in the UK and “Sergeant Cribb” in North America) was adapted into two series of a total of 14 television episodes that aired on ITV […]