James, P.D. Peters, Elizabeth Adam Dalgliesh, a critically acclaimed poet Amelia Peabody, a Victorian feminist and Scotland Yard commander, in London, Egyptologist from Kent, England England The Painted Queen Series The Lighthouse The Ape Who Guards the Balance The Private Patient Peters, Ellis Johansen, Iris Brother Cadfael, a 12th century monk and Mysteries Eve Duncan, forensic sculptor herbalist in Shrewsbury, England Shattered Mirror The Holy Thief Shadow Play The Hermit of Eyton Forest Lansdale, Joe R. Stabenow, Dana Hap Collins, straight and white, and Leonard Kate Shugak, a native Alaskan ex-DA Pine, gay and black, in East Texas investigator, who lives on a 160-acre home- Devil Red stead in a generic national Park in Alaska with Vanilla Ride her half-wolf, half-husky dog named Mutt Less than a Treason McCall Smith, Alexander A Night Too Dark Mma Precious Ramotswe, owner of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, and her assistant, Walker, Martin Mma Grace Makutsi, in Botswana Benoit “Bruno” Courréges, Chief of Police, in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency St. Denis in the Périgord region of southwest- The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection ern France The Dark Vineyard Paretsky, Sara The Templars’ Last Secret V.I. Warshawski, an attorney turned private eye, in Chicago, Illinois Woods, Stuart Fallout Stone Barrington, an ex-cop and attorney, in At the Mount Vernon Killing Orders New York City Shoot First: (think later) City Library Perry, Anne The Short Forever Thomas and Charlotte Pitt, a police inspector and wife in Victorian London, England Midnight at Marble Arch Murder on the Serpentine 315 Snoqualmie St, Mount Vernon, WA 98273 www.mountvernonwa.gov 360.336.6209 10/18/in This is a list of mystery authors who feature Connelly, Michael Fossum, Karin the same characters through a series. Series Mickey Haller, a Los Angeles based defense Inspector Sejer, a police inspector in Oslo, mysteries allow us to follow a character attorney Norway through the years and learn how the author’s The Lincoln Lawyer When the Devil Holds the Candle view of the character grows. Titles are exam- The Gods of Guilt The Drowned Boy ples; more will be found in the Library catalog. Cornwell, Patricia Fowler, Earlene Albert, Susan Wittig Dr. Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner in Albenia “Benni” Harper, an ex-rancher and China Bayles, an herbalist and former Richmond, Virginia folk art museum curator, in San Celina, attorney, in Pecan Springs, Texas All that Remains California Thyme of Death Chaos Sunshine and Shadow Queen Anne’s Lace Spider Web Coulter, Catherine Barr, Nevada Nicholas Drummond, American-born Chief In- Gardner, Lisa Anna Pigeon, a park ranger at various national spector with Scotland Yard -- who later joins D.D. Warren, a police detective, and Bobby parks in the USA the FBI Dodge, a state police sniper, in Boston, Massa- Boar Island The Final Cut chusetts Destroyer Angel The Sixth Day Look for Me Fear Nothing Beaton, M.C. Deaver, Jeffery Agatha Raisin, a frustrated, yet endearing, Gilman, Dorothy Kathryn Dance, a California Bureau of Investi- middle-aged public-relations agent turned Mrs. Pollifax, a grandmother and CIA agent gation interrogator and body language expert detective in England from New Jersey The Sleeping Doll The Dead Ringer: an Agatha Raisin mystery A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax Solitude Creek Dishing the Dirt: an Agatha Raisin mystery Mrs. Pollifax Pursued Block, Lawrence Dunlap, Susan Graves, Sarah Bernie Rhodenbarr, a New York City based Darcy Lott, a movie stuntwoman and Zen prac- Jacobia Tiptree, a onetime financial advisor to thief addicted to the thrill of lock picking and titioner, in northern California the Mob, now living in Eastport, Maine, in the breaking and entering. A Single Eye Home Repair Is Homicide mysteries The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons Out of Nowhere Crawlspace The Burglar Who Painted like Mondrian The Book of Old Houses Elkins, Aaron Burke, James Lee Gideon Oliver, anthropology professor in Port Hillerman, Tony Dave Robicheaux, a deputy sheriff in New Angeles, Washington Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Navajo Iberia, Louisiana Switcheroo tribal police officers in the southwest USA Light of the World Little Tiny Teeth Coyote Way The Tin Roof Blowdown Cave of Bones .