Some series are so long and well-established that it would be impractical to review every book in them. So sometimes an overall series review just makes sense!
Many years ago, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, James Yaffe wrote a really fun series featuring Dave as the official protagonist. Dave is a former NY policeman who moves west after his wife passes away, and takes a job working for the public defender in a small town in Colorado. But perhaps more […]
James Yaffe’s Dave and Mom series is a lot of fun and far too short Read More »
Michael Pearce’s Mamur Zapt series is one of my top five favorite mystery series. I love Pearce’s dry humor, and I’m a huge Egyptophile, so I enjoy the settings in Cairo and its environs. And Pearce, who was born in the early 1930s and raised in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, nails the historical background, complete with the
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Robert Kroese’s Mercury series features a journalist, Christine Temetri, whose job it is to report on various purported End Times. She gets very complacent, because all of the supposed End Times turn out to be fake…until one day one turns out to be the real thing. And the real one comes complete with a very
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I am a huge fan of the Daisy Gumm Majesty series by Alice Duncan. It’s a cozy series, featuring Daisy as a medium, who, even though she isn’t really connecting with the afterlife (or is she?), still somehow manages to give comfort to the rich Pasadena folks who pay her to hold séances. And, of
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The Gideon Oliver series by Aaron Elkins is one of my favorite series. The combination of forensic science (which Elkins takes quite seriously) and some ingenious plots makes for some very enjoyable reading. Oliver’s interactions with his sidekicks are a treat – especially when he states something definitively, just to reverse himself, and maybe even
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