Clear your schedule (who even has better plans anyway?) and bingeCollateral: a four-part series centering on the murder of a pizza delivery driver in London. Mulligan is Kip Glaspie, an Olympic pole vaulter-turned-detective (yep, you read that right) who is desperate to get to the truth...
Judges’ comments: Harry Hole, Nesbø’s series detective, dominates an impressively twisty plot which ranges from his own career to Norway’s past. Johan Theorin, Echoes from the Dead, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy, Doubleday 2008 [2008] ...
Thursday Next works for the Literary Detective Division of Special Operations in England. She tracks down the theft of a first-edition Charles Dickens book, a case that leads her to discover a much larger series of mysteries. The Eyre Affaircombines the hard-boiled detective genre with all the...
but I’ve loved detective novels ever since. Most of the authors on this list have written multiple detective novels, but I tried to limit most of them to one or two entries, usually the first book in a series unless there’s a particularly good or well-known...
6) His Hand In the Storm: Gray James Detective Murder Mystery and Suspense (Chief Inspector Gray James Detective Murder Mystery Series Book 1)byRitu Sethi BOOK SUMMARY:From the prize-winning author comes a psychological, page-turning mystery with all the elements one needs on a rainy night: ...
If you’ve seen Nancy Drew’s name making the rounds lately, it’s probably because the famous girl detective got a somewhat… questionable birthday gift. In a new comic young adult book series rolled out to celebrate the 90th anniversary of her super-franchise, Nancy was killed — and the...
Strikeonly recently had its fifth season premiere on BBC One, and it is clear that the show is setting the standard for modern London detective dramas. Based on the book series written by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, it stars Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger as the ...
20) A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan Among FBI thriller recommendations, this book is definitely lighter fare. However, look no further than the legion of five-star reader reviews to make its case on this list. Farrah Higgins started high school with one thing on her mind: ditching th...
The book is long, and it’s for readers who enjoy living daily life with the two main protagonists, Strike and Robin, as they go out about running their detective agency, rather than a pacy thriller you rush through at speed to find out whodunnit. As we’ve noted previously, this is ...
In the latest installment of the "Beverly Hills Cop" series, Eddie Murphy reprises his role as detective Axel Foley, returning to the franchise after over 20 years. Foley is drawn back into the glitz and glamour of Beverly Hills when his daughter's safety is threatened by unknown assailants...