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Most of the Nevada Barr books in order belong to her award-winning Anna Pigeon mystery series. The novels follow a National Park Service law-enforcement ranger as she investigates murders in national parks, monuments, seashores, recreation areas, and other wild places across the United States.
Nevada Barr worked as a park ranger before writing full time, and that experience gives the …
The Donna Andrews books in order are best known for funny, fast-moving cozy mysteries, especially the Meg Langslow series. Meg is a blacksmith, amateur sleuth, and professional-level wrangler of eccentric relatives who keeps stumbling into murder cases that are much less relaxing than they should be.
Andrews also wrote the Turing Hopper mysteries, edited Chesapeake Crimes anthologies, and contributed short …
The Miss Julia books in order are cozy, low stakes mysteries that unfold around the titular character. This series by Ann B. Ross is complete with 23 full-length novels and one short story, which makes it a great series to pick up and enjoy.
Julia Springer is an elderly widow whose axis shifts when her late husband’s mistress and his …
If you’re looking for JD Kirk books in order, I’d start with the DCI Logan books and then branch into the wider Logan universe. Kirk’s crime novels overlap more than a typical detective series, with Robert Hoon, Heather Filson, and Tyler Neish all moving in and out of the same world.
The books do include enough reminders to help …
Karen McManus wrote her debut novel with the 1980s classic movie The Breakfast Club in mind, except with a criminal twist. The result is a bestselling and award-winning novel that has inspired a TV adaptation, so it’s no wonder you’re looking for more books like One of Us Is Lying after racing to the conclusion.
The sequel to One …
The Angela Marsons books in order are led by the D.I. Kim Stone crime thrillers, which follow a determined Black Country detective investigating brutal murders while confronting the trauma in her own past. Marsons also writes standalone women’s fiction and has contributed short fiction to multi-author anthologies.
Kim Stone’s cases combine police procedural investigations with continuing character arcs involving Kim …
If you’re looking for Linda Castillo books in order, her bibliography begins with romantic suspense and later expands into the Kate Burkholder Amish-country mystery series. She has also contributed to shared-world romance series and published standalone thrillers, short fiction, collections, and a screen adaptation.
Most readers discover Castillo through Kate Burkholder, but her earlier novels show the romantic-suspense roots of …
If you’re trying to read the Paul Doiron books in order, start with the Mike Bowditch novels. Publication order is the cleanest path because Mike’s personal arc builds as the cases go, starting with The Poacher’s Son.
The short stories and collections are optional, but they’re worth reading if you want more of Mike, Charley Stevens, and the Maine …
The Miss Marple books in order comprise 12 novels and 20 short stories written by Agatha Christie. Miss Marple made her first appearance in the 1927 short story “The Tuesday Night Club,” three years before her first full-length novel, The Murder at the Vicarage.
Miss Jane Marple lives in the English village of St Mary Mead. A lifetime of …
Tony Hillerman is best known for the Leaphorn and Chee mysteries, a Southwestern mystery series built around Navajo Tribal Police investigations, Navajo Nation settings, murder cases, family history, and the tension between tradition and modern life. If you’re trying to read the Tony Hillerman books in order, the main series is the best place to start.
After the main …