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The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency is a series of mystery novels by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith. The series is set in Botswana and the main protagonist is Mma Precious Ramotswe. The series covers a lot of issues, including women in traditional and non-traditional occupations, rural life, religion, depression and AIDS. It has been […]
Alexander McCall Smith is a Scottish author (though born in Rhodesia) of crime fiction and children’s books. He is the author of several series, including the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Professor Dr. Von Igelfeld Entertainment, Isabel Dalhousie, 44 Scotland Street and more. Aside from being a novelist, he also writes medical law and bioethics […]
Adam Dalgleish is a fictional character appearing in a series of mystery novels by British author P.D. James. He works at New Scotland Yard in London, starting out as a Detective Chief Inspector and rising through the ranks as the series progresses. Dalgliesh is a gentleman detective, a staple of British detective fiction.
P.D. James was the pen name of Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park. P.D. James was an English novelist of crime fiction, thrillers and dystopian fiction. She was best known for her detective fiction novels featuring Adam Dalgliesh, a policeman and poet. She has also written a couple of novels featuring Cordelia Gray […]
Dennis Lehane is an American author of crime fiction and mystery novels. His series is the Kenzie/Gennaro series, but he is perhaps best known for having written the novels Mystic River and Shutter Island, which were made into motion pictures by Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorsese respectively. In addition to his work as a novelist, […]
Bernard Cornwell is an English author of historical fiction. He is best known for his Sharpe series featuring Richard Sharpe – a rifleman during the Napoleonic Wars, which has been adapted into a series of TV movies. Besides that, he has several other historical series, including The Starbuck Chronicles, The Warlord Chronicles, The Grail Quest, […]
Lindsay Chamberlain is a fictional character who is the title character in a series of mystery novels by American author Beverly Connor. Lindsay is an archaeologist from the South who is very knowledgeable about Native American cultures and very adept at solving age-old crimes.
Beverly Connor is an American novelist and the author of the Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation Series as well as the Lindsay Chamberlain Archaeology Series. She also loves mysteries, so she intertwines her interest in murder into those series.
Christopher Moore is an American author of humourous fantasy novels. His books feature regular people who are transposed into extraordinary circumstances, such as the paranormal. Moore’s inspirations include John Steinbeck and Kurt Vonnegut.
Tres Navarre is a crime fiction series by American author Rick Riordan. It is the only one of Riordan’s series targeted at adults. Tres has spent a decade in the Bay Area and is now returning home to San Antonio to solve the murder of his father, who was the Bexar County sheriff. Tres is […]