The theme for National Library Week this year is “There’s More
to the Story.” With that in mind, we asked staff to tell us the names of some
of their favorite series. Today we hear from Selena who works in the Children’s Department.
I love love Karin Slaughter! She is such a good writer. Her books are so suspenseful. I started with the Grant County series which is set in Georgia. Sara Linton is the pediatrician and medical examiner in a small town. Her ex-husband is the chief of police. The first book in the series is Blindsighted. The other titles are:
Kisscut
A Faint
Cold Fear
Indelible
Faithless
Beyond
Reach
Undone
She also writes the connected Will
Trent series, which is set in Atlanta.
Trent is an agent with Georgia Bureau of Investigation, along with his
partner, Faith Mitchell. The first book
in that series is Triptych. In
the third book in this series, Undone, Sara Linton shows up. The books
are:
Triptych
Fractured
Undone
Broken
Fallen
Criminal
Unseen
The Kept
Woman
The Last
Widow
The Silent Wife
I’m looking forward to the next one in the series. The title is After That Night and it’s due out in August this year. I’m already on reserve for it!
In case you didn’t know, there’s
a TV show based on the series, “Will Trent.”
Another author I love is Lisa Gardner, and she also has two series I really, really like. The FBI Profiler series starts with The Perfect Husband. Pierce Quincy is the profiler, and these books will have you on the edge of your seat. The others in the series are:
The Third
Victim
The Next
Accident
The
Killing Hour
Gone
Say
Goodbye
Right
Behind You
The other series stars D.D.
Warren, a tough Boston cop. She is such a good character. The books in this series are:
Alone
Hide
The
Neighbor
Live to
Tell
Love You
More
Catch Me
Fear
Nothing
Find Her
Look for
Me
Never
Tell
When You
See Me
The C.B. Strike series by
Robert Galbraith is another one I like.
Cormoran Strike is a British private detective with a complex
backstory. He’s ex-Royal Military Police, he lost part of his leg in Afghanistan, and he’s the illegitimate son
of a rock star. He has a secretary,
Robin Ellacott, who is supposed to only be a temp but ends up staying. The
books are good mysteries but sometimes I worry that I am just hanging in there
for the “will they or won’t they?” It is driving me crazy!
The books in the series are:
The
Cuckoo’s Calling
The
Silkworm
Career of
Evil
Lethal
White
Troubled
Blood
The Ink
Black Heart
I am reading my way through
Lousie Penny’s Armand
Gamache books
right now. They are set
in Canada, many in a small village called Three Pines. I love the characters and the way Penny
writes. They’re good mysteries but it’s the characters that bring me back. I’m
on #11 now, The Nature of the Beast. These books have won a ton of awards. The
books are:
Still Life
A Fatal Grace
The Cruelest Month
A Rule Against Murder
The Brutal Telling
Bury Your Dead
A Trick of the Light
The Beautiful Mystery
How the Light Gets In
The Long Way Home
The Nature of the Beast
A Great Reckoning
Glass Houses
Kingdom of the Blind
A Better Man
All the Devils Are Here
The Madness of Crowds
A World of Curiosities
I have a ton more but those are
my top picks. Until I think –“Wait a minute what about ....?”
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