Jonathan “Jack” West Junior is the main character in the book series by Australian author Matthew Reilly. Also nicknamed “Huntsman”, Jack was once considered one of the best soldiers in the world but disliked being a soldier himself. He is now a historian with a knack for solving ancient puzzles and traps. A calm and…
American journalist, Carl Hiaasen (pronounced “hiya-sun”) became a novelist by the late 1970s, writing novels in his spare time. He writes books for adults but also for young-adult readers. Most of Carl Hiaasen’s novels–the ones for adults–are crime thrillers set in Florida featuring eccentric characters and (most of the time) talking about environmentalism and political…
Written by English/Australian author Colin Cotterill, this mystery series takes us back to the 1970s in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The story resolves around seventy-two-year-old Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover. He is untrained for the job but has been drafted to be a national…
Simon Beaufort is the joint pen name of married couple Susanna Gregory and Beau Riffenburgh. Susanna Gregory is also a pseudonym for Elizabeth Cruwys, who was for a short time a police officer in Yorkshire before earning her PhD at the University of Cambridge and becoming a Research Fellow at the Scott Polar Research Institute….
Charles Todd is a pen name used by the American authors Caroline and Charles Todd, a mother-and-son writing team. They published together more than 40 books, all of them set in rural England just after World War I, and received the Mary Higgins Clark, Agatha, and Barry awards. Charles and Caroline Todd traveled every year…
Written by English author and historian Paul C. Doherty, this murder mystery series is set during the 13th-century reign of Edward I of England. Launched in 1986 with the novel Satan in St Mary’s, this series tells the story of Hugh Corbett, the chancellor of England’s faithful clerk, as he investigates threats to the King…
Coming from Cambridge academic who was previously a coroner’s officer Susanna Gregory (the pseudonym of Elizabeth Cruwys), this series is about Matthew Bartholomew who investigates murders in medieval times. Matthew Bartholomew is an unorthodox physician living in fourteenth-century Cambridge. He is a master at the College of Michaelhouse at the University of Cambridge, where he…
Written by English novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, the Cazalet Chronicles is a saga about the life of a large privileged family from the 1930s to the ‘1950s. Beginning in 1937, the Cazalets Chronicles explores the affairs, passions, and ambitions of the Cazalet family of Home Place, Sussex. From pre-war through to the Fifties, the three…
Written by American author Will Thomas, this hard-boiled mystery series is about 19th-century British private detective Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn. Set in the 1880s and often featuring historical events and people, the series follows Private Enquiry Agent Cyrus Barker and Llewelyn in London as they investigate dark and violent murder mysteries (they even…
Born in 1977, Ruth Ware is the pseudonym for Ruth Warburton, a British psychological crime thriller author. She grew up in Lewes and studied English at Manchester University. Before becoming a writer, Ruth Ware worked as a waitress, a bookseller, a publicist, and an English teacher in Paris. She published her first books under the…
Suspense thriller series written by American author Iris Johansen (author of the Eve Duncan series), the investigations of Kendra Michaels are taking place in the same universe as the Eve Duncan series. But the two women are definitely not the same. Kendra Michaels was blind for the first twenty years of her life and honed…
New York Times bestselling author from Texas, Deanna Raybourn used to teach high school English and history before becoming a full-time writer, starting in 2006 with her first novel, Silent in the Grave. It was the launch of the successful Lady Julia Grey Series, a Victorian-era mystery series. Deanna Raybourn established herself in the historical…
