So Many Mysteries, So Little Time…
Have You Tried These Four Star* Series?

The China Bayles series by Susan Wittig Albert
Spanish Dagger

The Alexandra Blake thriller series by Lori B. Andrews
The Silent Assassin

The Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton
Aunt Dimity Goes West

The Brodie Farrell mysteries by Jo Bannister.
Flawed

Rhys Bowen’s Molly Murphy series
In Dublin’s Fair City

The Joe Pickett series by C. J. Box
Free Fire

The “Cat Who” series featuring feline sleuths Koko and Yum Yum  by Lilian Jackson Braun
The Cat Who Had Sixty Whiskers

John Burdett’s series featuring Thai policeman Sonchai Jitpleecheep.
Bangkok Haunts

The Dave Robicheaux series by James Lee Burke
The Tin Roof Blowdown

The Elm Creek Quilts series by Jennifer Chiaverini
The New Year’s Quilt

Laura Childs’ Tea Shop Mystery series
Dragonwell Dead

Barbara Cleverly’s series featuring detective Joe Sandilands
Tug of War

Susan Conant’s series featuring dog trainer Holly Winter
All Shots: A Dog Lover’s Mystery

Carola Dunn’s series set in the 1920s featuring Daisy Dalrymple.
The Bloody Tower

The Amos Walker mysteries by Loren D. Estleman
American Detective

The Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next in First Among Sequels

Earlene Fowler’s series featuring Benni Harper
Tumbling Blocks

A Home Repair is Homicide series by Sarah Graves
Trap Door

Reginald Hill’s series featuring Yorkshire policemen Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe.
Death Comes for the Fat Man

Alison Reynolds mysteries by J. A. Jance
Web of Evil: A Novel of Suspense

Jonathan King’s Max Freeman series
Acts of Nature

William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor series
Thunder Bay

The Commissario Guido Brunetti series by Donna Leon
Suffer the Little Children

The Abe Glitsky & Dismas Hardy series by John Lescroart
Betrayal

The Judge Deborah Knott series by Margaret Maron
Hard Row

Bill Pronzini’s Nameless Detective series
Savages

Gillian Roberts’ series featuring Amanda Pepper
All's Well That Ends

David Rosenfelt’s Andy Carpenter series
Play Dead

Sarah Strohmeyer’s series featuring wise-cracking reporter Bubbles Yablonsky.
Bubbles All the Way

The Brady Coyne series by William G. Tapply
One-Way Ticket

The Inspector Ian Rutledge series by Charles Todd
A False Mirror

The Capital Crimes series by Margaret Truman
Murder on K Street

Andrew H. Vachss’ hardboiled series featuring private investigator Burke.
Terminal

The Bailey Weggins series by Kate White
Lethally Blond

Randy Wayne White’s Doc Ford series
Hunter’s Moon

*Each of these titles, published in 2007, earned a four star rating on NoveList, a subscription database offering fiction reading suggestions. Free access to NoveList is available to St. Charles Public Library cardholders.

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