lets talk about murder

i love a good mystery. I like to be kept at the edge of my seat and chew my finger nails and wait for the crime to be commited again. I love smart leads, who don't do stupid things when they are chasing a murderer. I like traps and tricks and good writing.

I also have a thing for good series. I love finding new authors (and by new, i mean new to me) who have a good bunch of books under their belts. i can dive in and read until i'm caught up to the latest or until i get to the end of the series. I blame my parents for this, because they got me in to the Laurence Saunders Archie McNally books. I remeber seeing my dad with various books in the series, and then they discovered audio books for road trips. And then i was hooked. I have sucessfully passed my adoration for those books on to my husband. And that meant that we could listen to the audio books on our long roadtrips. Which worked awesomely going across the country twice.


anyways now that i'm done fangirling over Archie Mcnally let me fan girl over some other crime solvers.

Nevada Barr writes the Anna Pidgeon series, each book is set in a different national park in the states, as Anna Pidgeon is a Law Enforcement Officer with in the parks system. Each book is well written and full of love of the land where the mysteries are un-furling. I found my way into her series thanks to a mis-shelving. I though it was a romance novel in a national park. It was a delightful surpise when people started dying. There are 15 books in the series, and while it is great to read them in order, they can also be read out of series and still make fantastic sense.

Victoria Laurie writes two amazing series, both with a touch of the paranormal. The Pyschic Eye books follow the adventures of Abby Cooper a professional pyschic. There are 7 books in the series so far. Then theres the ghost hunters series, so far with 3 great books.

Diane Mott Davidson writes a absolutely fantastic series of food books, wrapped around the life of Goldy Schulz, caterer of awesome. The series is 15 books long now, and each book comes with a bunch of fantastic recipies, all for food that Goldy creates in the book. These books make my so hungry, and the recipies are all fantastic and work.

Donna Andrews writes the Meg Langslow Mystery books. Meg is a black smith with a horrible talent for solving crimes. The running theme of the books are the birds that pop up in each different mystery. The books are also really funny. I may have woken up the husband giggling my way through one of them more than once. There are currently 11 books in the series.

Jd Robb, wirtes the In Death books. Following the cases of Lt. Eve Dallas in New york, circa the mid 21st century. Lt Dallas is dark and smart as a whip. Not a people person, but as the series goes along she is slowly surrounded by an excellent group of friends and co-workers. There are 30 books in the series, plus 7 novellas. JD Robb is better known as Nora Roberts, underwhich name she writes romance novels.