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Oct 14, 2013 - 2:10 PM
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joan hue
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Do you have a favorite book series? More than one series? I’m thinking of a book series like the Bond novels or the Jack Reacher novels. Share your series and if you want, tell us a bit about the series.
My favorite series is James Lee Burke’s David Robicheaux novels. David is a sheriff in a Parrish near
New Orleans. Burke’s mysteries and characters are rich in details, and his writing is deep, insightful and stunning!! I think he is one of our best living American writers.
Other series I gobble up.
-Robert Parker’s Spenser and Jesse Stone novels. (Ouch, Parker died.) Easy, fun reads with moral centers in each novel.
-Michael Connelly’s Hieronymus Bosch novels. He is a tough cop, and the stories are always excellent.
-John Sanford’s Prey series featuring detective Lucas Davenport. His Virgil Flowers series is also very good.
-John Connolly’s Charlie Parker series. Great sidekicks, characters and killers not always of this world.
-J.D. Robb’s many novels featuring Detective Eve Dallas. Set 60 years in the future, she is one tough
Detective. Good characters, mysteries, and they are rather erotic in places.
-Carol O’Conner’s Mallory series. Tough almost unlikeable detective but always stories that amaze.
-Karen Slaughter’s novels follow a doctor, sheriff, and an agent. Not for the faint-hearted.
-Sara Blaedel has four books out all set in Denmark. Her lead detective works in sex crimes with stories about sex trafficking, honor killings, etc.
-Ace Atkins has a series out about a war veteran who returns to the South to act as sheriff.
-I’m revisiting John MacDonald’s Travis McGee novels. Wonderful to relive the 60’s and early 70’s where McGee solves mysteries without the Internet or cell phones.
-British authors that write excellent novels or series: Alison Bruce, S.J Bolton, Mark Billingham who does the Thorne novels, Elizabeth George novels with Detective Lynley are for those who like long reads,
Susan Hill’s Simon Serrailler novels about a flawed detective in a British town, Jane Casey’s DCI Kerrigan novels, Leigh Russell DCI series, Mo Hayder’s Jack Caffrey novels, Val Mc Dermid’s Tony Hill books; Peter James and Peter Robinson have wonderful British detective novels; Anne Cleeves has a detective on the Shetland Islands.
-Scandinavian novelist who have series novels out are: Anne Holt, Ake Edwardson, Thomas Enger, Camilla Lackberg, Arnaldur Indriason from Iceland, Lars Kepler, James Thompson who is American but lives in Finland and writes about a Finnish detective. (And many more.)
-Christopher Farnsworth has a vampire series, yep a vampire, who has guarded our U.S. President since after the civil war.
I have more, but time to quit for now. Forgive my run on sentences or lists. Share your favorite series.
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Oct 14, 2013 - 3:29 PM
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Tall Guy
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Do you have a favorite book series? More than one series? I’m thinking of a book series like the Bond novels or the Jack Reacher novels. Share your series and if you want, tell us a bit about the series.
I've always enjoyed series of books, from an early age when I was introduced to the Narnia, and Alan Garner's Weirdstone books.
Later on I picked up on the Bond series and Alistair McLean's generally unrelated but very similar stories. That morphed into the Quiller books, which are like a first person Bond, where the joy lies in the hero's thought-process. The Len Deighton spy novels, originally the nameless spy who became Harry Palmer and subsequently the nine books (plus prequel Winter) featuring Bernie Sampson which I still think are a superb read.
I also like the Jack Reacher books, most of which I've read one way or another without actually owning more than one of them. Great page turners and unashamedly pulpish, spoiled a little for me by attracting the self-obsessed attention of one T Cruise, esq.
However, the greatest series of books for me are the Patrick O'Brian seafaring series of 20 or so books, and Haruki Murakami's novels, again not truly a series (although Dance Dance Dance follows on from A Wild Sheep Chase, and 1Q84 is three books in two volumes) but both O'Brian and Murakami have produced miraculous work in my opinion and I can't imagine being without them.
Chris
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- C.S. Lewis' Narnia series.
- I have been a mystery/detective novel buff as well. My favorite of the contemporary private eyes is Bill Pronzini's Nameless Detective series which has been continuing for over 40 years. I should note that this series "jumped the shark" for me about 10 years ago - but I can easily recommend the "Nameless"novels of the 1970s-1990s.
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My early childhood was misspent reading Encyclopedia Brown's detective tales....
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