If you enjoy reading archeological mysteries, Elly Griffiths with her Ruth Galloway archaeological mystery series is an author to start reading. Her series has often been compared to that of Amelia Peabody by Elizabeth Peters and Gideon Oliver series by Aaron Elkins. Besides the popular Ruth Galloway books, Elly Griffiths has also written a second, […]
Caroline Mitchell
Caroline Mitchell is a relatively new Irish thriller author with three main series published to date: DC Knight, Detective Ruby Preston, and Detective Amy Winter, along with several standalone books including her debut novel that chronicles her family’s encounter with the paranormal. As a formal police officer, Caroline has plenty of experience that she infused […]
Lisa Wingate
Lisa Wingate is a well-known Christian fiction book author who combines crafty Southern storytelling with lyrical elements, history, and mystery. Readers of Nicholas Sparks and Mary Alice Monroe will enjoy her writing. Here are the Lisa Wingate books in order for her numerous series. She has also written so far one standalone novel, Before We Were […]
James Grippando
James Grippando is an American legal mystery and thriller author, best known for his Jack Swyteck series, featuring the Miami attorney fighting for the underdog. Besides his series, he also wrote several standalone novels, most of which are either legal thrillers or have lawyers entering the scene (for example, in Cash Landing, Jack Swyteck appears […]
Kate Ellis
Kate Ellis is a popular historical mystery author with over 30 books under her belt written in three series. Wesley Peterson is the author’s first series which currently includes 22 books. It is also the first one I’ve started reading many years ago, back when I was also reading Elizabeth Peters’s Amelia Peabody archeological historical […]
Steve Cavanagh
Steve Cavanagh is an Irish thriller author whom I first heard about through his work with Mark Dawson on one of their Group Fifteen novellas (namely Scorpion), published 2017. The short story was quite good, so I figured I’d check out the author’s other standalone works as well. This is when I came across the Eddie […]
Darynda Jones
Darynda Jones is the author of the bestselling Charley Davidson paranormal romantic thriller series, and her Darklight young-adult urban fantasy trilogy. When I first started reading the Charley Davidson series, it sort of partially reminded me of the Ghost Whisperer TV show (with Melinda Gordon who sees dead people and is her job to push […]
Leigh Bardugo
Leigh Bardugo is a bestselling author of several young-adult fantasy series, including the Grisha trilogy, Six of Crowns duology, and her newer Nikolai and Alex Stern series. Her debut novel, Shadow and Bone, was picked up by Macmillan Publishing and was turned into a trilogy ordered by the publisher. Her initial trilogy based on the […]
Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare is the acclaimed author of the bestselling urban fantasy series The Mortal Instruments. This was the very series that got me hooked on the author’s writing in the first place. The series is part of a much bigger franchise titled The Shadowhunter Chronicles, that includes several book series, short stories, graphic novels, companion […]
Holly Black
Holly Black is a bestselling young-adult contemporary fantasy book author, who has written series such as Modern Fantasy Tales, Magisterium, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Curse Workers, to name just a few. While I am personally not such a big fan of children’s’ books, her Modern Faerie trilogy won me over, and since then, I have been […]
