Book Series to Read While Cruising

[GeorgiaPeach51]

This is a lists of books and series I have maintained for several years.  Periodically someone will request it or give suggestions and I post it again on CC.  It has been requested to be posted as a thread and in the Watercooler so I am doing both.  I have hesitated to post it previously for fear of not being able to maintain new suggestions, but will give it a try.

 

if you have suggestions, please use @GeorgiaPeach51 so I will receive a notification and will know to update it.  Many books and series listed are mysteries, but not all. So feel free to suggest anything you enjoy, and we will all give this a try!  This is for all of us who love to read and have great anxiety when we get to the end of a series with no idea what to read next!  🥰

 

Joanie

 

Book Series to Read

 

Georges Simenon Series 

Gideon Oliver -Aaron  Elkins  series 

Louise Penny’s Gamache series.

Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey series

Any books by Josephine Tey

Barbara Hambly - Benjamin January series, if you like historical mysteries!

JD Robb books and Robert B Parker

The Scarapetta series by Patricia Cornwell 

MC Beaton books 

Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley Series.  

Donna Leon’s Brunetti series. 

Any books by Tana French

Any books by P. D. James.  

Greg Isles, a writer from Natchez, MS.

Snowblind” by Ragnar Jonasson.  (Book 1 of 6 - DarkIceland)

Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger.  Also non-series books.

Brad Thor

JK Rowling (author of Harry Potter series), writing under the name Robert Galbraith -- the    

     Cormoran Strike series.

Andrea Camilleri -- the Inspector Montalbano series.

Helen Fields -- the Perfect series.

Karin Slaughter -- the Will Trent series, Grant Country Line series. 

Daniel Silva - Gabriel Allon series

James Crumley —should be read in order

Winston Graham—Poldark series

Janet Evanovich—Stephanie Plum series.  Fox and Hare series.

Anything by Tim Dorsey or Carl Hiassen 

Old Archie comic books and Mad Magazine. 🙂

Ian Rankin’s Rebus series

Peter Robinson’s DCI Banks series

Nevada Barr’s National Parks series

Anything by Anne Cleeves

Richard Jury series by Martha Grimes - current times

Thomas Pitt series by Anne Perry - Victorian era

 (and if you are planning a trip to Egypt check out theAmelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters)

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.  4 books.

The Longmire books by Craig Johnson.  Also suggest the fantastic series on Netflix.

David McCullough 'Path Between the Seas' (Panama Canal), and The Great Bridge

Caroline Graham Inspector Barnaby series. 

John Sandford , the Prey series and the Virgil Flowers series

Any books by Harlan Coben

Khalid Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner

Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

Andy Weir, “not science fiction but science plausibility”

Danelle Harmon Series

Caleb Carr -  The Alienist.

Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders/Susan Ryeland Series.  Also Horowitz & Hawthorne series

Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe books, later written by Robert Goldsborough

Ruth Ware

Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington series.  #61 just published.

Tess Gerritson

Lisa Scottoline.

Michael Connelly Bosch books

Lee Child Reacher series

James Lee Burke Robicheaux

Patricia Cornell Scarpetta books, Andy Brazil series

Jonathan Kellerman Delaware books

Greg Iles

Jeffrey Deaver Lincoln Rhymes series

Nelson DeMille

John Grisham

Scott Turow

Pat Conroy...more family drama than mystery

The Outlander series

Brad Meltzer

Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six (same author)

I just finished American Dirt and loved it so much I bought two more of her books.  

Iris Johansen (EveDuncan series, and others).

Colin Dexter Inspector Morse series

David Baldacci—Amos Decker, Atlee Pine and John Puller series

JA Jance

Karen Rose

Carol Goodman, The Stranger Behind You, plus multiple other books.  Contemporary suspenseful fiction.

Chris Carter -  Robert Hunter Series -   I just started #5 One by One

Jefferson Bass -  Body Farm Series -       Based on the Body Farm at UT Knoxville.    

Joe R. Lansdale -  Hap and Leonard -  probably one of the most politically incorrect novel you will ever 

 —read - two Red Necks as they take justice into their own hands.   Keeps me in stitches.

Sara Parestky -  The V.I. Warhawski Series  -  I just started "indemnity Only(1982) and is #1 of 21

Sue Grafton—the Kinsey Milhone series

Ethan Cross—-the Ackerman thrillers

Ginny Rorby—Like Dust I Rise

Jacqueline Winspear—Maisie Dobbs series

Carlos Ruiz Zafón "The Shadow of the Wind", set in Barcelona, with a walking tour at the end of the 

  book. Cemetery of Forgotten Books—4 Book series. 

Mark Kurlansky—Cod (good for a Canada/New England cruise)

John U. Bacon—The Great Halifax Explosion 

James Patterson—When the Wind Blows series

Ken Follett—Pillars of the Earth series, Century series, Eye of the Needle

Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Stan Evans.  This is non-fiction but seems interesting. 

Danger on the Atlantic (A Jane Wunderly Mystery Book 3) by Erica RuthNeubauer

Steve Higgs—Patricia Fisher series. A sleuth on luxury cruise ships.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 1, 2023 by GeorgiaPeach51
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[lprp]

@GeorgiaPeach51 I loved the Century Series by Ken Follett and was utterly bereft when I finished it. The history lesson was better than any I had at school!

 

Can I suggest:

The Clifton Chronicles series by Jeffrey Archer - several parallels with above mentioned Ken Follett series .

The Nathan McBride series by Andrew Petersen (shades of David Baldacci).

John Milton series by Mark Dawson, fairly easy read rogue/off grid MI6 agent but quite stark - there are LOADS of them, some, predictably, are better than others.

Matthew Shardlake Mysteries by CJ Sansom (historical fiction time of Henry VIII)

Marc Dane series by James Swallow 

 

LP

[GeorgiaPeach51]

@lprp thanks.  I’ve added your list and will post the updated list in a few days in case others want to add their book suggestions.

 

FYI. On CC, if you click the @ and wait a second, a list of CC names will pop up….just type in the correct one, and you will see it pop up.  If you click on it, it will show in your message as a blue blurb p, as you see for you above, and that will send s notification to the intended person that you have responded.

Edited February 1, 2023 by GeorgiaPeach51

[IrishKathy]

Joanie,

Absolutely loved your review of the TA on the Splendor.  We are taking the same cruise - Rome/Miami - this November.   Would you be willing to chat with me via email as I have many questions which I know will come up later this year?  I am kathyallitto@gmail.com

 

Loved your book list.  Made a copy of it.  One does need to fill up our Kindles before any cruise 😉

 

Kathy

[GeorgiaPeach51]

@IrishKathy  you bet!  Will email you so you have my email.  
 

J

[travlr21]

@GeorgiaPeach51 thanks for the list. Many of my favorites are there, and I look forward to checking out others from the list.

 

A couple of suggestions. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett murder mystery series, by CJ Box. Also Bruno Chief of Police series by Martin Walker (interesting plots, small town France, lots of descriptions of food and drink, somewhat like the Louise Penny series.) 

[Damaris1900]

What a great book list, GeorgiaPeach, thanks for posting that.  There were lots of old favorites, as well as some series to download before the next cruise.  

 

I'd also suggest the Falco (Roman) mystery series by Lindsey Davis, as well as her more recent series which follows Falco's daughter, Flavia Albia.

 

Kerry *****, an Australian author, the Phryne Fisher mysteries, and the Corinna Chapman mysteries

 

Edited to add:  For some reason CC is substituting asterisks for the name "*****".  NO idea why.

Did it again, I guess just Google the Phryne Fisher mysteries for the author's name.

Edited February 2, 2023 by Damaris1900
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[GeorgiaPeach51]

 

Book Series to Read

 

Georges Simenon Series 

Gideon Oliver -Aaron  Elkins  series 

Louise Penny’s Gamache series.

Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey series

Any books by Josephine Tey

Barbara Hambly - Benjamin January series, if you like historical mysteries!

JD Robb books and Robert B Parker

The Scarapetta series by Patricia Cornwell 

MC Beaton books 

Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley Series.  

Donna Leon’s Brunetti series. 

Any books by Tana French

Any books by P. D. James.  

Greg Isles, a writer from Natchez, MS.

Snowblind” by Ragnar Jonasson.  (Book 1 of 6 - DarkIceland)

Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger.  Also non-series books.

Brad Thor

JK Rowling (author of Harry Potter series), writing under the name Robert Galbraith -- the Cormoran Strike series.

Andrea Camilleri -- the Inspector Montalbano series.

Helen Fields -- the Perfect series.

Karin Slaughter -- the Will Trent series, Grant Country Line series. 

Daniel Silva - Gabriel Allon series

James Crumley —should be read in order

Winston Graham—Poldark series

Janet Evanovich—Stephanie Plum series.  Fox and Hare series.

Anything by Tim Dorsey or Carl Hiassen 

Old Archie comic books and Mad Magazine. 🙂

Ian Rankin’s Rebus series

Peter Robinson’s DCI Banks series

Nevada Barr’s National Parks series

Anything by Anne Cleeves

Richard Jury series by Martha Grimes - current times

Thomas Pitt series by Anne Perry - Victorian era

 (and if you are planning a trip to Egypt check out theAmelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters)

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.  4 books.

The Longmire books by Craig Johnson.  Also suggest the fantastic series on Netflix.

David McCullough 'Path Between the Seas' (Panama Canal), and The Great Bridge

Caroline Graham Inspector Barnaby series. 

John Sandford , the Prey series and the Virgil Flowers series

Any books by Harlan Coben

Khalid Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner

Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

Andy Weir, “not science fiction but science plausibility”

Danelle Harmon Series

Caleb Carr -  The Alienist.

Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders/Susan Ryeland Series.  Also Horowitz & Hawthorne series

Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe books, later written by Robert Goldsborough

Ruth Ware

Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington series.  #61 just published.

Tess Gerritson

Lisa Scottoline.

Michael Connelly Bosch books

Lee Child Reacher series

James Lee Burke Robicheaux

Patricia Cornell Scarpetta books, Andy Brazil series

Jonathan Kellerman Delaware books

Greg Iles

Jeffrey Deaver Lincoln Rhymes series

Nelson DeMille

John Grisham

Scott Turow

Pat Conroy...more family drama than mystery

The Outlander series

Brad Meltzer

Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six (same author)

I just finished American Dirt and loved it so much I bought two more of her books.  

Iris Johansen (EveDuncan series, and others).

Colin Dexter Inspector Morse series

David Baldacci—Amos Decker, Atlee Pine and John Puller series

JA Jance

Karen Rose

Carol Goodman, The Stranger Behind You, plus multiple other books. 

Chris Carter -  Robert Hunter Series 

Jefferson Bass -  Body Farm Series - Based on the Body Farm at UT Knoxville.    

Joe R. Lansdale -  Hap and Leonard -  probably one of the most politically incorrect novels - two Red Necks as they take justice into their own hands.   Keeps me in stitches.

Sara Parestky -  The V.I. Warhawski Series  

Sue Grafton—the Kinsey Milhone series

Ethan Cross—-the Ackerman thrillers

Ginny Rorby—Like Dust I Rise

Jacqueline Winspear—Maisie Dobbs series

Carlos Ruiz Zafón "The Shadow of the Wind", set in Barcelona, with a walking tour at the end of the book. Cemetery of Forgotten Books—4 Book series. 

Mark Kurlansky—Cod (good for a Canada/New England cruise)

John U. Bacon—The Great Halifax Explosion 

James Patterson—When the Wind Blows series

Ken Follett—Pillars of the Earth series, Century series, Eye of the Needle

Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Stan Evans.  This is non-fiction but seems interesting. 

 Danger on the Atlantic (A Jane Wunderly Mystery Book 3) by Erica RuthNeubauer

Steve Higgs—Patricia Fisher series. A sleuth on luxury cruise ships.

The Clifton Chronicles series by Jeffrey Archer - several parallels with Ken Follett series .

The Nathan McBride series by Andrew Petersen (shades of David Baldacci).

John Milton series by Mark Dawson, fairly easy read rogue/off grid MI6 agent but quite stark - there are LOADS of them, some, predictably, are better than others.

Matthew Shardlake Mysteries by CJ Sansom (historical fiction time of Henry VIII)

Marc Dane series by James Swallow 

CJ Box, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett series.

Martin Walker, small town France, Bruno, Chief of Police

Lindsey Davis, Falco series, also the recent series with Falcon’s slaughter, Flavia Albia

Kerry Green-wood,  the Phryne Fisher mysteries and the Corinna Chapman series

 

 

 

Edited February 2, 2023 by GeorgiaPeach51

[GeorgiaPeach51]

@Damaris1900 it did it to me, too….so I put a hyphen in the name to get it to show something close to the real name of the author.  Weird!  If you look up that author, take the hyphen out of Green-wood!  🧐🙄

[2012_Alaska_bound]

13 hours ago, GeorgiaPeach51 said:

Karin Slaughter -- the Will Trent series, Grant Country Line series. 

 

I think they are doing a really good job on the T.V. series of the Will Trent books. If you haven't see it, check it out.

[vegasdriven]

Fantastic, Georgia Peach- just when I needed to download something to my Kindle. I was going to ask for recs, and now I don’t have to. I’ll never be able to understand non-readers😳

[GeorgiaPeach51]

Latest Update. 
 

 

Book Series to Read

 

Georges Simenon Series 

Gideon Oliver -Aaron  Elkins  series 

Louise Penny’s Gamache series.

Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey series

Any books by Josephine Tey

Barbara Hambly - Benjamin January series, if you like historical mysteries!

JD Robb books and Robert B Parker

The Scarapetta series by Patricia Cornwell 

MC Beaton books 

Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley Series.  

Donna Leon’s Brunetti series. 

Any books by Tana French

Any books by P. D. James.  

Greg Isles, a writer from Natchez, MS.

Snowblind” by Ragnar Jonasson.  (Book 1 of 6 - DarkIceland)

Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger.  Also non-series books.

Brad Thor

JK Rowling (author of Harry Potter series), writing under the name Robert Galbraith -- the Cormoran Strike series.

Andrea Camilleri -- the Inspector Montalbano series.

Helen Fields -- the Perfect series.

Karin Slaughter -- the Will Trent series, Grant Country Line series. 

Daniel Silva - Gabriel Allon series

James Crumley —should be read in order

Winston Graham—Poldark series

Janet Evanovich—Stephanie Plum series.  Fox and Hare series.

Anything by Tim Dorsey or Carl Hiassen 

Old Archie comic books and Mad Magazine. 🙂

Ian Rankin’s Rebus series

Peter Robinson’s DCI Banks series

Nevada Barr’s National Parks series

Anything by Anne Cleeves

Richard Jury series by Martha Grimes - current times

Thomas Pitt series by Anne Perry - Victorian era

 (if you are planning a trip to Egypt check out theAmelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters)

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.  4 books.

The Longmire books by Craig Johnson.  Also suggest the fantastic series on Netflix.

David McCullough 'Path Between the Seas' (Panama Canal), and The Great Bridge

Caroline Graham Inspector Barnaby series. 

John Sandford , the Prey series and the Virgil Flowers series

Any books by Harlan Coben

Khalid Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner

Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

Andy Weir, “not science fiction but science plausibility”

Danelle Harmon Series

Caleb Carr -  The Alienist.

Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders/Susan Ryeland Series.  Also Horowitz & Hawthorne series

Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe books, later written by Robert Goldsborough

Ruth Ware

Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington series.  #61 just published.

Tess Gerritson

Lisa Scottoline.

Michael Connelly Bosch books

Lee Child Reacher series

James Lee Burke Robicheaux

Patricia Cornell Scarpetta books, Andy Brazil series

Jonathan Kellerman Delaware books

Greg Iles

Jeffrey Deaver Lincoln Rhymes series

Nelson DeMille

John Grisham

Scott Turow

Pat Conroy...more family drama than mystery

The Outlander series

Brad Meltzer

Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six (same author)

I just finished American Dirt and loved it so much I bought two more of her books.  

Iris Johansen (EveDuncan series, and others).

Colin Dexter Inspector Morse series

David Baldacci—Amos Decker, Atlee Pine and John Puller series

JA Jance

Karen Rose

Carol Goodman, The Stranger Behind You, plus multiple other books.  Contemporary suspenseful fiction.

Chris Carter -  Robert Hunter Series -   I just started #5 One by One

Jefferson Bass -  Body Farm Series - Based on the Body Farm at UT Knoxville.    

Joe R. Lansdale -  Hap and Leonard -  probably one of the most politically incorrect novels you will ever read - two Red Necks as they take justice into their own hands.   Keeps me in stitches.

Sara Parestky - The V.I. Warhawski Series-just started "indemnity Only(1982) and is #1 of 21

Sue Grafton—the Kinsey Milhone series

Ethan Cross—-the Ackerman thrillers

Ginny Rorby—Like Dust I Rise

Jacqueline Winspear—Maisie Dobbs series

Carlos Ruiz Zafón "The Shadow of the Wind", set in Barcelona, with a walking tour at the end of the book. Cemetery of Forgotten Books—4 Book series. 

Mark Kurlansky—Cod (good for a Canada/New England cruise)

John U. Bacon—The Great Halifax Explosion 

James Patterson—When the Wind Blows series

Ken Follett—Pillars of the Earth series, Century series, Eye of the Needle

Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Stan Evans.  This is non-fiction but seems interesting. 

 Danger on the Atlantic (A Jane Wunderly Mystery Book 3) by Erica RuthNeubauer

Steve Higgs—Patricia Fisher series. A sleuth on luxury cruise ships.

The Clifton Chronicles series by Jeffrey Archer - several parallels with Ken Follett series .

The Nathan McBride series by Andrew Petersen (shades of David Baldacci).

John Milton series by Mark Dawson, fairly easy read rogue/off grid MI6 agent but quite stark - there are LOADS of them, some, predictably, are better than others.

Matthew Shardlake Mysteries by CJ Sansom (historical fiction time of Henry VIII)

Marc Dane series by James Swallow 

CJ Box, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett series.

Martin Walker, small town France, Bruno, Chief of Police

Lindsey Davis, Falco series, also the recent series with Falcon’s slaughter, Flavia Albia

Kerry *****, the Phryne Fisher mysteries and the Corinna Chapman series

James Clavell, Tai-pan and Shogun 

Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

Herman Wouk, Winds of War, War and Remembrance 

 

 

 

 

[portnoys complainer]

Currently reading a book about Napoleon, cleverly titled "Napoleon, A Life."

 

I'm not recommending it, only because I haven't finished it. But a few hundred pages ago, I recall that Napoleon, in preparing for his invasions of Malta and Egypt, carried over one hundred books with him, and a lot of wine. I think the last book on the list was Julius Caesar - although I don't know if it meant Bill Shakespeare's or some other work.

 

Anyway, the point is that, as avid readers, we all are in good company!

 

I should also note, I suppose, that the intrusion into Egypt was a failed one, but these things happen. Overall, I think Napoleon's batting average was a sparkling .863.

[portnoys complainer]

Addendum: The itinerary for Napoleon's Mediterranean cruise was: Toulon, Valletta, Chania and Alexandria.

[loriva]

On 2/2/2023 at 8:37 PM, GeorgiaPeach51 said:

JK Rowling (author of Harry Potter series), writing under the name Robert Galbraith -- the

Cormoran Strike series.

 

Thanks for the list, @GeorgiaPeach51.  As others have noted, some old favorites and some I will need to seek out.  I laughed out loud to see Tim Dorsey's name on the list--he's an acquired taste and it helps if you know something about life in Florida.  But if you like series about crazy, genius serial killers and drug-addict sidekicks, the series is hysterical.  Dorsey comes out with a new one every year with the latest due this month.  You are correct to link him with Carl Hiaasen as "Florida Man" fiction as well! 

 

I just finished the Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott series.  You'll need LOTS of sea days to finish the six-book series--I think the books average about 1,000 pages.  Cinemax has made a show based on the series, but i have not seen it.

 

Take care and happy reading,

 

[mtnestr2011]

Love it, thanks @GeorgiaPeach51 for compiling this list! A couple more I would add are Steve Berry and the Cotton Malone series (obscure history woven into modern day thrillers), and anything written by Kristin Hannah (The Nightingale, especially).

[2SailingNomads]

On 2/1/2023 at 12:02 PM, lprp said:

@GeorgiaPeach51 I loved the Century Series by Ken Follett and was utterly bereft when I finished it. The history lesson was better than any I had at school!

 

Can I suggest:

The Clifton Chronicles series by Jeffrey Archer - several parallels with above mentioned Ken Follett series .

The Nathan McBride series by Andrew Petersen (shades of David Baldacci).

John Milton series by Mark Dawson, fairly easy read rogue/off grid MI6 agent but quite stark - there are LOADS of them, some, predictably, are better than others.

Matthew Shardlake Mysteries by CJ Sansom (historical fiction time of Henry VIII)

Marc Dane series by James Swallow 

 

LP

ANYTHING by Jeffery Archer.  Going back to Not a Penny More Not a Penny less, the Prision dairies, (Incredibly interesting) short stories, never a bad book by him.  The man knows how to write to capture the reader.  Totally agree about the Clifton  Chronicles.  

[2SailingNomads]

May have missed it, so excuse me if I did, but Vince Flynn is one of my favorite authors the ultimate get the bad guy with his own baggage Mitch Rapp.

[GeorgiaPeach51]

UPDATE

BOOKS AND SERIES TO READ

 

Georges Simenon Series 

Gideon Oliver -Aaron  Elkins series 

Louise Penny’s Gamache series.

Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey series

Any books by Josephine Tey

Barbara Hambly - Benjamin January series, if you like historical mysteries!

JD Robb books and Robert B Parker

The Scarapetta series by Patricia Cornwell 

MC Beaton books 

Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley Series.  

Donna Leon’s Brunetti series. 

Any books by Tana French

Any books by P. D. James.  

Greg Isles, a writer from Natchez, MS.

Snowblind” by Ragnar Jonasson.  (Book 1 of 6 - DarkIceland)

Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger.  Also non-series books.

Brad Thor.

JK Rowling (author of Harry Potter series), writing under the name Robert Galbraith -- the Cormoran Strike series.

Andrea Camilleri -- the Inspector Montalbano series.

Helen Fields -- the Perfect series.

Karin Slaughter -- the Will Trent series, Grant Country Line series. 

Daniel Silva - Gabriel Allon series

James Crumley —should be read in order

Winston Graham—Poldark series

Janet Evanovich—Stephanie Plum series.  Fox and Hare series.

Anything by Tim Dorsey or Carl Hiassen 

Old Archie comic books and Mad Magazine. 🙂

Ian Rankin’s Rebus series

Peter Robinson’s DCI Banks series

Nevada Barr’s National Parks series

Anything by Anne Cleeves

Richard Jury series by Martha Grimes - current times

Thomas Pitt series by Anne Perry - Victorian era(if you are planning a trip to Egypt check out theAmelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters)

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.  4 books.

The Longmire books by Craig Johnson.  Also suggest the fantastic series on Netflix.

David McCullough 'Path Between the Seas' (Panama Canal), and The Great Bridge

Caroline Graham Inspector Barnaby series. 

John Sandford , the Prey series and the Virgil Flowers series

Any books by Harlan Coben

Khalid Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner

Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

Andy Weir, “not science fiction but science plausibility”

Danelle Harmon Series

Caleb Carr -  The Alienist.

Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders/Susan Ryeland Series.  Also Horowitz & Hawthorne series

Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe books, later written by Robert Goldsborough

Ruth Ware

Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington series.  #61 just published.

Tess Gerritson

Lisa Scottoline.

Michael Connelly. Bosch books

Lee Child Reacher series

James Lee Burke Robicheaux

Patricia Cornell Scarpetta books, Andy Brazil series

Jonathan Kellerman Delaware books

Greg Iles

Jeffrey Deaver Lincoln Rhymes series

Nelson DeMille

John Grisham

Scott Turow

Pat Conroy...more family drama than mystery

The Outlander series

Brad Meltzer

Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six (same author)

I just finished American Dirt and loved it so much I bought two more of her books.  

Iris Johansen (EveDuncan series, and others).

Colin Dexter Inspector Morse series

David Baldacci—Amos Decker, Atlee Pine and John Puller series

JA Jance

Karen Rose

Carol Goodman, The Stranger Behind You, plus multiple other books.  Contemporary suspenseful fiction.

Chris Carter -  Robert Hunter Series -   I just started #5 One by One

Jefferson Bass -  Body Farm Series - Based on the Body Farm at UT Knoxville.    

Joe R. Lansdale -  Hap and Leonard -  probably one of the most politically incorrect novels you will ever read - two Red Necks as they take justice into their own hands.   Keeps me in stitches.

Sara Parestky - The V.I. Warhawski Series-just started "indemnity Only(1982) and is #1 of 21

Sue Grafton—the Kinsey Milhone series

Ethan Cross—-the Ackerman thrillers

Ginny Rorby—Like Dust I Rise

Jacqueline Winspear—Maisie Dobbs series

Carlos Ruiz Zafón "The Shadow of the Wind", set in Barcelona, with a walking tour at the end of the book. Cemetery of Forgotten Books—4 Book series. 

Mark Kurlansky—Cod (good for a Canada/New England cruise)

John U. Bacon—The Great Halifax Explosion 

James Patterson—When the Wind Blows series

Ken Follett—Pillars of the Earth series, Century series, Eye of the Needle

Stan Evans.  Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them.  Non-Fiction.

Danger on the Atlantic (A Jane Wunderly Mystery Book 3) by Erica RuthNeubauer

Steve Higgs—Patricia Fisher series. A sleuth on luxury cruise ships.

The Clifton Chronicles series by Jeffrey Archer - several parallels with Ken Follett series .

The Nathan McBride series by Andrew Petersen (shades of David Baldacci).

John Milton series by Mark Dawson, fairly easy read rogue/off grid MI6 agent but quite stark - there are LOADS of them, some, predictably, are better than others.

Matthew Shardlake Mysteries by CJ Sansom (historical fiction time of Henry VIII)

Marc Dane series by James Swallow 

CJ Box, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett series.

Martin Walker, small town France, Bruno, Chief of Police

Lindsey Davis, Falco series, also the recent series with Falcon’s slaughter, Flavia Albia

Kerry *****, the Phryne Fisher mysteries and the Corinna Chapman series

James Clavell, Tai-pan and Shogun 

Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

Herman Wouk, Winds of War, War and Remembrance 

Elly Griffith

Steve Burrows

Randy Wayne Wright

Vince Flynn.  Mitch Rapp series

Jeffrey Archer.

Kristin Hannah. Especially “The Nightingale”

Steve Berry.  The Cotton Malone series.

 

 

 

                       

                         

             

 

 

 

 

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BOOKS AND SERIES TO READ

 

Georges Simenon Series 

Gideon Oliver -Aaron  Elkins series 

Louise Penny’s Gamache series.

Dorothy L. Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey series

Any books by Josephine Tey

Barbara Hambly - Benjamin January series, if you like historical mysteries!

JD Robb books and Robert B Parker

The Scarapetta series by Patricia Cornwell 

MC Beaton books 

Elizabeth George’s Inspector Lynley Series.  

Donna Leon’s Brunetti series. 

Any books by Tana French

Any books by P. D. James.  

Greg Isles, a writer from Natchez, MS.

Snowblind” by Ragnar Jonasson.  (Book 1 of 6 - DarkIceland)

Cork O’Connor series by William Kent Krueger.  Also non-series books.

Brad Thor.

JK Rowling (author of Harry Potter series), writing under the name Robert Galbraith -- the Cormoran Strike series.

Andrea Camilleri -- the Inspector Montalbano series.

Helen Fields -- the Perfect series.

Karin Slaughter -- the Will Trent series, Grant Country Line series. 

Daniel Silva - Gabriel Allon series

James Crumley —should be read in order

Winston Graham—Poldark series

Janet Evanovich—Stephanie Plum series.  Fox and Hare series.

Anything by Tim Dorsey or Carl Hiassen 

Old Archie comic books and Mad Magazine. 🙂

Ian Rankin’s Rebus series

Peter Robinson’s DCI Banks series

Nevada Barr’s National Parks series

Anything by Anne Cleeves

Richard Jury series by Martha Grimes - current times

Thomas Pitt series by Anne Perry - Victorian era(if you are planning a trip to Egypt check out theAmelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters)

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.  4 books.

The Longmire books by Craig Johnson.  Also suggest the fantastic series on Netflix.

David McCullough 'Path Between the Seas' (Panama Canal), and The Great Bridge

Caroline Graham Inspector Barnaby series. 

John Sandford , the Prey series and the Virgil Flowers series

Any books by Harlan Coben

Khalid Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Kite Runner

Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake

Andy Weir, “not science fiction but science plausibility”

Danelle Harmon Series

Caleb Carr -  The Alienist.

Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders/Susan Ryeland Series.  Also Horowitz & Hawthorne series

Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe books, later written by Robert Goldsborough

Ruth Ware

Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington series.  #61 just published.

Tess Gerritson

Lisa Scottoline.

Michael Connelly. Bosch books

Lee Child Reacher series

James Lee Burke Robicheaux

Patricia Cornell Scarpetta books, Andy Brazil series

Jonathan Kellerman Delaware books

Greg Iles

Jeffrey Deaver Lincoln Rhymes series

Nelson DeMille

John Grisham

Scott Turow

Pat Conroy...more family drama than mystery

The Outlander series

Brad Meltzer

Jonathan Maberry’s Joe Ledger series

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six (same author)

I just finished American Dirt and loved it so much I bought two more of her books.  

Iris Johansen (EveDuncan series, and others).

Colin Dexter Inspector Morse series

David Baldacci—Amos Decker, Atlee Pine and John Puller series

JA Jance

Karen Rose

Carol Goodman, The Stranger Behind You, plus multiple other books.  Contemporary suspenseful fiction.

Chris Carter -  Robert Hunter Series -   I just started #5 One by One

Jefferson Bass -  Body Farm Series - Based on the Body Farm at UT Knoxville.    

Joe R. Lansdale -  Hap and Leonard -  probably one of the most politically incorrect novels you will ever read - two Red Necks as they take justice into their own hands.   Keeps me in stitches.

Sara Parestky - The V.I. Warhawski Series-just started "indemnity Only(1982) and is #1 of 21

Sue Grafton—the Kinsey Milhone series

Ethan Cross—-the Ackerman thrillers

Ginny Rorby—Like Dust I Rise

Jacqueline Winspear—Maisie Dobbs series

Carlos Ruiz Zafón "The Shadow of the Wind", set in Barcelona, with a walking tour at the end of the book. Cemetery of Forgotten Books—4 Book series. 

Mark Kurlansky—Cod (good for a Canada/New England cruise)

John U. Bacon—The Great Halifax Explosion 

James Patterson—When the Wind Blows series

Ken Follett—Pillars of the Earth series, Century series, Eye of the Needle

Stan Evans.  Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them.  Non-Fiction.

Danger on the Atlantic (A Jane Wunderly Mystery Book 3) by Erica RuthNeubauer

Steve Higgs—Patricia Fisher series. A sleuth on luxury cruise ships.

The Clifton Chronicles series by Jeffrey Archer - several parallels with Ken Follett series .

The Nathan McBride series by Andrew Petersen (shades of David Baldacci).

John Milton series by Mark Dawson, fairly easy read rogue/off grid MI6 agent but quite stark - there are LOADS of them, some, predictably, are better than others.

Matthew Shardlake Mysteries by CJ Sansom (historical fiction time of Henry VIII)

Marc Dane series by James Swallow 

CJ Box, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett series.

Martin Walker, small town France, Bruno, Chief of Police

Lindsey Davis, Falco series, also the recent series with Falcon’s slaughter, Flavia Albia

Kerry Green-wood, the Phryne Fisher mysteries and the Corinna Chapman series

James Clavell, Tai-pan and Shogun 

Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

Herman Wouk, Winds of War, War and Remembrance 

Elly Griffith

Steve Burrows

Randy Wayne Wright

Vince Flynn.  Mitch Rapp series

Jeffrey Archer.

Kristin Hannah. Especially “The Nightingale”

Steve Berry.  The Cotton Malone series.

Lisa Ballantyne.