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Dec
17
2008
My wife likes mystery novels, any suggested authors?
She likes mysteries where the main characters are women, and female authors, like JD Rob, Sue Graften… any more along that line?
Answer #2
Patricia Cornwell is awesome as is Linda Fairstein, I personally own almost all of both author's books they're that good!
Answer #3
I very much intended to suggest Iris Johansen but see that I’ve been beat :) I really enjoyed the "Face of Perception" series!
Answer #4
Tamar Myers has 2 series her Pensylvania Dutch novels featuring Magdalena Yoder(a Mennonite woman with a Bed and Breakfast) and the Den of Antiquity series featuring her Southern cousin who deals with murders while running an antique shop and keeping up with old South society.
Lillian Jackson Braun who has a large number of"The Cat Who.." books featuring newspaper writer/philanthropist James Qwillerian whose 2 Siamese cats, Koko and Yum-Yum who send clues to Qwill.
Goldie Schultz is the catering crime-solver in Diane Mott Davidson’s series of culinary inspired murdder novels
These series’ I can NOT resist at the bookstore and wait for the library to lend them to me. They’re not gory and filled with trash talk of a reality cop shop on HBO, they do not need to be, as they are clever, humorous, intellegent and have great characters and plots. Some of the novels even have their own recipes pertaining to the plot written up in full and I must add they are usually terrific!
Oops, I nearly forgot one other fav–JoAnne Fluke with Hannah Swensen from my neck of the woods up North in a Minnesota bakery. I could go on and on about the 2 terric authoresses named Carolyn Hart, or Selma Eichler but..
If grit is more your taste, there is Jonathon Kellermann and his forensic psychiatrist, Alex Delaware,as well as his real life wife, author, Faye Kellermann and her Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus pairing of a grity, hardened cop and his new wife, an Orthodox Jewish woman and her children.
Kathy Reichs is where we get the TV series "Bones" as she is a forensic anthropologist in real-life,and there is great reading from Tess Gerritson, and..oh!
I must stop here or I never will
Answer #5
Wow, thank you all! I’ve got this printed out and I’m headed to the bookstore!
Thanks again,
Scoot!
Answer #6
You might also suggest Lisa Scottoline and Perri O’Shaughnessy – both are excellent!
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Answer #1
Have her try Iris Johanson. I think she will like her. If she is willing to try male authors, David Baldacci is fantastic.