CRIME NOVELS and MYSTERY FICTION
The Carolyn Wheat essay, 'Sixteen Differences between Mystery and Suspense' might be of interest
to some readers.
See also Cozies.
- If You Like Amateur Sleuths - Female (Hennepin County Library, MN)
- Author, title, publication year, summary, webcatlink for about 15 books featuring female amateur sleuths.
- If You Like Amateur Sleuths - Male (Hennepin County Library, MN)
- Author, title, publication year, summary, webcatlink for about 15 books featuring male amateur sleuths.
- Amateur Sleuths (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mysteries featuring detectives who are not professionals.'
Author, title, and Amazon link for about 275 titles, from
Donna Andrews' You've Got Murder to Eric Wright's Lucy Trimble Brenner series. Updated 2007.
- Mysteries Featuring Bumbling Detectives (Karen Kleckner and Frances Miller, Fiction-L)
- (Not necessarily amateur detectives, just detectives acting amateurishly.) Author
and titles or series name for about 20 titles/series featuring bumbling detectives, from M.C. Beaton's Agatha Raisin series
to Ayelet Waldman's Juliet Applebaum series. Compiled April 2002.
- Mystery Readers International
- Not much online here, but if you have a strong interest in the topic, you might want to backorder a copy of
the Mystery Readers International journal on Animal Mysteries (Volume 14, No. 4), from Winter 1998-99. Lots
of articles, essays, and lists.
- Cats and Dogs (Des Plaines Public Library, IL)
- Lists almost 20 cat mysteries, with author and summary of each. From Lydia Adamson's A Cat With No Regrets
to Willard Scott's Murder Under Blue Skies; and
almost 25 cat and dog mysteries, from Stable Cat by Garrison Allen
to Howling Bloody Murder to Sue Owens Wright.
- Mysteries with Pets (Forks Branch Library, Wash.)
- Features several mystery authors with pets as characters in their books.
- Mysterious Pets (Omaha Public Library, NE)
- Lists author and name of pet (and breed, for dogs) involved in series; 9 cat
series, 14 dogs series, and 3 horse series.
DOGS
- Dog Lover Mysteries (Terry Frey Weingart, Suite 101.Com)
- Excellent narrative list and description of mysteries featuring dogs, with detailed
info on three series, a reading list with more authors and titles, a couple of
collections, and some website suggestions. (Skip past ads!). 2001.
- Taking a Bite Out of Crime: Barking Good Mysteries (Lynne M. Kennedy, Sachem Public Library, Holbrook, NY)
- Author, titles, publication info, and summary for each of 7 series and one lone mystery featuring dogs.
Also list of short stories. Updated Dec. 2006.
- A Nose for Crime (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- Lists 9 authors and their dog mystery titles, with short summary of dog and/or sleuth.
CATS
- Cat Fancy (Mesa Library, AZ)
- Author, title/series name, and summary for about 20 titles or mystery series about cats. Updated Aug. 2005.
- Simply Pu-u-u-u-rfect Mysteries (Lynne M. Kennedy, Sachem Public Library, Holbrook, NY)
- Author, titles, publication info, and summary for each of 12 series featuring cats. Also list of short stories. Updated Dec. 2006
- Purrfect Crimestoppers (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- Lists 9 authors and their cat mystery titles, with short summary of cat and/or sleuth.
- Meow Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mysteries dealing with cats, or in which cats are companions of the detective.' Author, title,
and Amazon link for about 145 titles, from Lydia Adamson's Alice Nesleton series to
A Treasury of Cat Mysteries, edited by Martin H. Greenberg. Updated Jan. 2007.
- Cat Mysteries (Plymouth District Libraries, MI)
- Author, title, webcat link for almost 30 mysteries featuring cats, from
A Cat Called Amnesia by E.W. Hildick to
Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters. Updated June 2002.
- Fiction About Cats (Novi Public Library, MI)
- Author, title, and genre (if applicable) for about 25 series, many in series, most of them mysteries (two are sci-fi).
Updated Jan. 2007.
- Art, Artists and the Art World (Madison Public Library, WI)
- Author, title, publication year, and summary of 15 mystery titles featuring art.
- Nazi Art Thefts: Crime NovelsAuthor, title, publication year and summary for about 60 crime novels. Also a short list of non-fiction on the same topic.
- The Poisoned Palette (Johnson County Library, KS)
- Mysteries about art or artists. About 45 titles listed by author, with webcatalog links,
from Neal Barrett's Bad Eye Blues to Dorian Yeager's Murder Will Out.
- Death at the Theater: Mysteries with Drama (Waterboro Public Library)
- Titles, publication years, and summaries for books by about 100 authors of mysteries, suspense
novels, thrillers, and crime novels involving plays, playwriting, acting, actors
and actresses, opera, theatrical drama, and other elements relating to the
theater. Authors from Lydia Adamson to Ursula Zilinsky.
- Mystery Is An Art (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Author and title only for 23 mysteries featuring art. Compiled July 1999.
- Murder Among the Artifacts (AART, Rolling Meadows Library, IL)
- Author, title, publication year, and page count, for 12 mysteries featuring
archaeology, from Agatha Christie's Murder In Mesopotamia to
M. K. Shuman's The Maya Stone Murders.
- Mystery, Music, Murder, Mayhem (Lincoln City Libraries, NE)
- Author, title, and webcat link for about 80 musically themed mystery novels and short
story collections, from Ace Atkins' Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers mystery
to Janice Weber's Hot Ticket. Compiled Aug. 2003.
- Musical Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- Mysteries involving music or musicians. Author, title, and Amazon link for about 55 titles,
from Paul Adam's The Rainaldi Quartet to Karen Sturges' Phoebe Mullins series. Created 2000;
updated Nov. 2006.
- Music in English Detective Fiction (Phillip Scowcroft, MusicWeb)
- Narrative discussion of music in English detective novels, from about 1900 to 1985. Fun reading if this is your thing.
- Slightly Off-Key: Mysteries in A Musical Mode (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Author and title only for about 25 mysteries, from Steel Guitar
by Linda Barnes to Baby, Would I Lie? by Donald Westlake.
Compiled July 1999.
- Theatre Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- Author, title, and Amazon link for about 15 titles, including
Shelley Freydont's Lindy Haggerty series and Susan Sussman/Sarajane Avidon's Morgan Taylor series.
- Mysteries Involving Libraries and Librarians (Simmons College - Boston, MA)
- Extensive list of library-related mysteries with their publication info and one-line
synopsis of plot. Excellent. Look also at their Wishlist
of similar books. Updated July 2003.
- Academic Mysteries (Terry Frey Weingart, Suite 101.Com)
- Excellent narrative list and description of academic mysteries, focusing on English professors,
continued on her Academic Mysteries 2 page,
featuring non-English professors and school teachers. (Scroll past ads.)
- Death Among the Books: Bibliomysteries for Booklovers (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- Over 25 bibliomystery titles/series listed and summarised, plus another dozen simply listed. Updated Oct. 2006.
- Academic Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mysteries set in and about Colleges, Universities, and the academic world in general.'
Author, title, and Amazon link for about 120 titles, from
Lou Allin's A Little Learning is a Murderous Thing to Sally Wright's Ben Reese series. Compiled Dec. 2000, updated Dec. 2006.
- Book and Book Publishing Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mysteries set in and around the worlds of publishing, book selling & collecting, and libraries.'
Author, title, and Amazon link for about 90 titles, from Isaac Asimov's Murder at the ABA
to Kate White's Bailey Weggins series. Compiled Dec. 2000, updated Dec. 2006.
- Mysterious Librarians (Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, MO)
- Authors, titles, and publication dates only for mystery series and titles (mostly series) about
librarians written by 12 authors. Updated April 2005.
- Librarian and Other Bookish People (Lake County Public Library, Merrillville, IN)
- Books featuring librarians and libraries. Author, titles, type of librarian or library (usually
with setting) for 13 mystery series, 5 stand-alone mysteries, 3 sci-fi/fantasy books/series, and
about 20 fiction titles. Updated March 2007.
- Academic Mysteries (Clues Unlimited Mystery Bookstore, Tucson, AZ)
- Concise but illuminating listing of about 25 authors with titles or series revolving around
an academic setting.
- A Bit of Whimsey: Mysteries and Academia: A-H (Eden Kuhlenschmidt - Western Kentucky University)
- Most books set on college or university campuses; academic fields provided if known. Listed in
a chart by alphabetical order by author's last name, includes titles, main characters, publication info, location/academic institutions.
Continues with Authors I-Z on this page.
- Academic Mysteries Bibliography
- Brief summary of about two dozen mystery authors or single mystery titles involving academics.
- Mysteries Are Academic (Johnson County Library, KS)
- Mysteries featuring academic characters and settings. About 20 titles listed by author, with
webcatalog links and summaries, from JS Borthwick's Intensive Scare Unit to
Lea Wait's Shadows on the Ivy: An Antique Print Mystery.
- Library and Book World Mystery Series (Oxford County Library, Ontario, Canada)
- List of 10 mystery series featuring books, with author's name and series sleuth only,
from Jo Dereske's Librarian Miss Zukas to Elizabeth Peters' Author/Librarian Jacqueline Kirby.
Cozies contain generally a minimum of violence and graphic unpleasantness (blunt instruments
and poisons are popular weapons), and they often take place in a house, village,
small town, academic setting, or other benign, familiar and conventional social
setting, with characters who are usually civilised and mannerly. The mystery is usually
solved by an amateur detective who understands human nature and is gifted in observation and
deduction. "Cozy" is pretty much the opposite of "hard-boiled."
- COZIES: A SELECTIVE LIST (Helene Androski, University of Wisconsin)
- "Each of the following authors wrote (or write) mysteries that contain most of the elements of a cozy: a minimum of violence, sex, and social
relevance; the solution is arrived at by ratiocination or intuition rather than forensics and police procedure (or beating a confession
out of someone); the murderer is indeed exposed and order restored at the end; the hero/ine is honorable and the other characters
(often including the murderer) are well mannered and well-bred (except, of course, the servants); the setting is a closed community
of some sort, such as a village, university, stately home." Lists 60 authors, described their books generally. Not a list of titles.
- Cozy Mystery Authors (Madison Public Library, WI)
- List of about 100 writers of cozies, along with series character name, profession,
and hometown.
- Cozy Mysteries (Marin County Free Library, CA)
- Two-page PDF file. Lists about 25 mystery books and series, with author, title,
publication year, and summary, from Catherine Aird's Little Knell to
Michelle Spring's In the Midnight Hour. Compiled Jan. 2003.
- Cozy Mystery Authors (Madison Public Library, WI)
- Lists author, series sharacters, character's profession, and character's hometown, for
about 100 authors. Based on a list created by Helene Androski, Reference Librarian at UW-Madison Memorial Library.
- A Selection of Cozy Mystery Authors & Their Sleuths (Windsor Locks Public Library, CT)
- Lists author and sleuth, and sometimes other info, for 45 cozy series, from Catherine Aird's Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan series to
Dorothy Simpson's series featuring Luke Thanet (he's actually a detective inspector and the only one on
the list, I believe, who's not an amateur!). Updated March 2005.
- Cozy Mysteries (Mesa Library, AZ)
- Author, title, series name, and summary for 20 titles/series, from
Peter Abresch's Painted Lady (James P. Dandy Elderhostel Mystery Series)
to Jill Paton Walsh's A Presumption of Death (continuing the Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Series). Updated Aug. 2005.
- Gentle Reads: Crime (State Library of Tasmania)
- Author and title (most with brief summaries) for about 50 gentle mystery series/books.
- Cozies (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mysteries with a minimum of direct action and little blood, solved by genteel detectives in comfortable surroundings.'
Author, title, and Amazon link for about 35 series and a handful of other titles, from Peter E. Abresch's James P. Dandy series
to Sally Wright's Ben Reese series. Compiled Dec. 1999, updated March 2007.
- Cozy Mystery Authors (Harris County Public Library, Houston, TX)
- Author, brief description of sleuth, and webcat link
for first titles in about 45 cozy series,
from Catherine Aird's series featuring C.D. Sloan, CID Department
Head in West Calleshire, England to Patricia Wentworth's series
with Miss Maud Silver, spinster private eye in London.
- Genteel British Crime Novels (Winfield Public Library, IL)
- "When You've Read All of Agatha Christie..." Author, title, summary, and
webcat link for about a dozen mysteries, by timeframe (before WWI, Golden Age, and WWII and After). Includes
authors such as Bentley, Carr, Marsh, Allingham, Atherton, Innes, etc.
- Cozy Life (and Death) in a Village (Diane Brunson, Bay County Library System, MI)
- Newspaper column with a paragraph each on about a half dozen village cozies, including those
by Agatha Christie, M.C. Beaton, and Rhys Bowen.
- Mysteries on the Mild Side (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Authors and about 50 series titles listed (no summaries or individual titles).
From Catherine Aird's C.D. Sloan series to Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma series. Compiled Nov. 1999, updated May 2004.
- Cozies (Anderson Bookshop, Illinois)
- Lists over 30 authors of cozies, their sleuth(s), and a quick description of the
series, from Susan Wittig Albert's China Bayles series to Deborah Woodworth's Rose Callahan series.
- Murder By Reservation: Bed & Breakfast Mysteries (Linda Bova, Sachem Public Library, Holbrook, NY)
- Author, titles, publication info, and summary for each of nine B&B mystery series. Updated Dec. 2006.
- Mysteries with a Domestic Twist (Forks Branch Library, Wash.)
- Narrative article that features several mystery authors with descriptions of their books, focusing on domesticity. July 1999.
- Village Cozies: Books Set in and about Village Life (Addison Public Library, IL)
- Title, author, summary, and webcatalog link for 13 series, of which 8 are mysteries. Compiled Oct. 2000.
- Killer Crafts (Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, MA)
- Brief description of the topic, accompanied by a table listing about 95 mystery book titles with publication years and webcat links,
authors, and the craft involved.
- Mystery Books with Quilts (QuiltWeb)
- Author, summary, and Amazon link for each of about 25 quilting mysteries by Earlene Fowler,
Jennifer Chiaverini, Susan Wittig Albert (?), Sandra Dallas, Monica Ferris, and one by Emelie Richards.
- Wedding and Honeymoon Mysteries (Terry Frey Weingart, Suite 101)
- Descriptions of 9 wedding and 4 honeymoon mystery novels. (Scroll past ads.) Compiled June 2001.
- Culinary Mysteries Reading List (Marin County Free Library, CA)
- Good starting place. Lists 13 authors of culinary mystery series, with description of series, and links to a few books in
each series. Includes Susan Wittig Albert, Nancy Bell, Camilla T. Crespi, Diane Mott Davidson, Ellen Hart,
Peter Christopher King, Janet Laurence, G.A. McKevett, Joanne Pence, et al. Updated March 2006.
- Culinary Mysteries (Clues Unlimited Mystery Bookstore, Tucson, AZ)
- Article about the subgenre with embedded lists of suggested authors and titles. Over 35 books or
series described.
- Tasteful Mysteries (Plymouth District Libraries, MI)
- Author, title, webcat link for almost 50 culinary mysteries, from (in title order)
A Dash of Death by Claudia Bishop to
Who's Afraid of Virginia Ham? by Phyllis C. Richman. Updated Feb. 2005.
- Cooking Up Crime (Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Jefferson City, MO)
- "A smorgasbord of ... favorite yummy mysteries!" One of Wolfner's
mini-bibliographies, lists 12 titles, with authors and summary of each book. Updated Oct. 2006.
- Culinary Mysteries (Harris County Public Library, Houston, TX)
- Author, title, brief description of sleuth, and webcat link
for first titles for about 20 culinary mystery series,
from Susan Wittig Albert's series featuring Texas herbalist
China Bayles to Lou Jane Temple's series starring Heaven Lee, caterer and restaurant owner.
- Culinary Mysteries Mixed Platter (Auckland City Libraries, NZ)
- Author, title, author webcat link, series name and book titles for 14 culinary mystery series.
- Mysteries with Gastronomic Flair (Cerritos Library, CA)
- Author, title, summary, publication year for about 15 mysteries involving food, from
Thomas Averill's Secrets of the Tsil Cafe to Lily Prior's La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture, followed by
15 suggested dessert cookbooks. Created Sept. 2001, updated June 2005.
- Murder on the Menu (Lincoln City Libraries, NE)
- Author, title, and webcat link for about 55 books, listed by category (breakfast, lunch, tea, cocktails, dinner, for the diet-conscious,
dessert, after-dinner drinks, leftovers). Compiled 1997; updated Oct. 2003.
- Stir Crazy: A Recipe for Murder (Addison Public Library, IL)
- Title, author, summary, and webcatalog link for books in 6 series, by Susan Wittig Albert, Diane Mott Davidson, Peter King, Tamar Myers, Nancy
Pickard, and Lou Jane Temple. Compiled Aug. 2001.
- Cooking Up a Mystery (Terry Frey Weingart, Suite 101.Com)
- Description of six caterer/chef mystery series, two inn/restaurant owner series,
five food writers/columnists series, and several others food-related.
Also a list of mystery cookbooks, culinary mystery short story collections,
and related websites and listservs. (Scroll past ads.) Compiled Feb. 2001.
- Cafe Crime (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- "Delectable culinary mysteries." Author, title, and summary
of about 20 books -- appetizers, entrees, desserts, or new mysteries. Followed by another
batch of titles listed with little annotation. Compiled Feb. 2001, updated Nov. 2006.
- Food Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mouth-watering tales of murder, often including recipes.' Author, title,
and Amazon link for about 190 titles, from Peter E. Abresch's James P. Dandy series
to Janice Weber's Devil's Food
- Appetite for Mysteries? (Johnson County Library, KS)
- Author, title, webcatalog link, summary for 20 culinary mysteries. From Susan Wittig Albert's Chile Death
to Lou Jane Temple's Death is Semisweet.
- Culinary Crime (Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, NY)
- Arranged by meal (Breakfast, Lunch, Lite Menu, Afternoon Tea,
Side Orders, Entrees, Dessert, Beverages), lists author, title,
and webcat link for about 70 books. Compiled 2003.
- Murder Most Delicious: A Tantalizing Menu of Culinary Mysteries (Boston Public Library)
- Books arranged by meal (appetizers, side orders, entrees, etc.), listing only author. Compiled in 1999.
- Culinary Mysteries (Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, MO)
- Culinary mysteries written by 24 authors listed. No summaries.
- Culinary Mysteries Series Book List (El Dorado County Library, CA)
- Over 15 series listed, with author, some titles with pub. year, description of
series. From Susan Wittig Albert's China Bayles series to S.J. Rozan's Lydia Chin/Bill Smith series. Updated
Oct. 2003.
- Culinary Mysteries Bibliography (Berwyn Public Library, IL)
- Author and title for about 50 mysteries featuring food, from Peter Abresch's Killing
Thyme to Janice Weber's Devil's Food.
- Murder on the Menu (Mount Prospect Public Library, IL)
- List of mystery titles by over 15 authors, featuring food and/or recipes,
from Nancy Atherton's Aunt Dimity's Death to Rex Stout's Too Many Cooks.
- Murder On the Menu: Recipes for Murder (AART, Rolling Meadows Library, IL)
- Author, title, publication year, and page count, for 10 mysteries featuring
food, from Camilla T. Crespi's The Trouble With Going Home
to Johannes Simmel's It Can't Always Be Caviar.
- Armchair Pampering: Spas in Fiction (Omaha Public Library, NE)
- Lists author and title for over a dozen novels (includes 8 mysteries) set in/featuring health spas, from
MC Beaton's Death of a Snob to Jennifer Rowe's The
Makeover Murders.
- Techno-Thrillers (Bookbytes)
- Extensive summaries/reviews of almost 20 recommended techno-thrillers, from
Donna Andrews' You've Got Murder to Maralys Willis's Scatterpath. Updated Aug. 2006.
- Techno-Thrillers (Cleveland Public Library)
- Author, title, cover image, summary, webcat link, and publication info for 15 technothrillers,
by authors such as Dale Brown, Stephen Coonts, Michael Dimercurio, Martin Corrick,
James Cobb, Harold Coyle, et al. Books published from 1998-2004.
- Techno Thrillers Crime Fiction Booklist (Overbooked)
- Books with starred reviews. 'Men and Machines - weapons systems, lots of action and a
fast paced plot. Often packed with technical detail and military terminology, Heroic protagonists
(frequently military personnel) fight to save the day.' List of key authors, plus a more
detailed list (author, title, publication info, summaries) for about a dozen titles,
from Goliath by Steve Alten to The Pepperdogs by Bing West. Updated Feb. 2007.
- Cyber-Thrillers (Springfield Library, Springfield, MA)
- Title and author listed for about 20 books in this subgenre of "novels about computers and virtual reality." Updated May 2006.
- Cyber-Thrillers (Springfield Library, Springfield, MA)
- Title and author listed for 12 books in this subgenre of "novels about computers and virtual reality."
- Techno-Thrillers (Reader's Advice)
- 'Adventure stories, usually involving military or ex-military characters, with an emphasis on the latest and highest tech.'
Author, titles, and Amazon link for about 200 titles, from
John Antal's Proud Legions to Robin A. White's Typhoon.
- Computer Thrillers (Reader's Advice)
- 'Hackers, viruses, and other dangers of the computer age.'
Author, title, and Amazon link for about 30 titles, from
David Alexander's Special Ops to F. Paul Wilson's Mirage. Updated Aug. 2006.
- Techno-Thrillers (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- If You Like Tom Clancy ... "The stakes are high in these tales of high-tech weaponry and gadgetry, shifting geopolitical
alliances and tension-filled military action!" About 60 titles in all (excluding Clancy's)
by over 30 authors.
AGE
- Senior Sleuths (Lincoln City Libraries, NE)
- Mysteries featuring "men or women who have retired from their life's
regular lines of work only to take up crime solving." Author, primary series character, and
webcat link for series by about 60 authors, from Peter Abresch's The Elderhostel series to
James Yaffe's 'Mom'. Compiled 1998; updated March 2004.
- Grandma Gumshoes (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Senior sisters who solve mysteries. Lists author and title of 25 mysteries.
- Sisterhood of Senior Sleuths (Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Jefferson City, MO)
- One of Wolfner's mini-bibliographies, a list of 6 series featuring older female sleuths:
the Agatha Raisin series by M. C. Beaton; Miss Marple series by Agatha Christie;
the Alvirah Meehan series by Mary Higgins Clark; the Mrs. Pollifax series by Dorothy Gilman;
the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters; and the Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate series by
Corinne Holt Sawyer.
- Amateur Sleuths: Sweet Old Ladies (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mystery stories in which the detective is a sweet old lady or other senior citizen.'
Author, title, and Amazon link for 15 series, from MC Beaton's Agatha Raisin series
to Richard West's Old Gang of Mine series.
- Geriatric Gumshoes (AART, Rolling Meadows Library, IL)
- Author, title, publication year, and page count for 13 mysteries, from
Margot Arnold's Cape Cod Caper to Kate Wilhelm's The Hamlet Trap.
ETHNICITY AND RACE
- Ethnic Mysteries (Fiction Addiction LLC)
- Author and title of first book in series for about a dozen series featuring
non-white protagonists, from Kent Braithwaite's Jesse Ascencio series (Latino) to
Paula L. Woods' Charlotte Justice series (Black).
African/African American
- African-American Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mysteries involving African-American detectives.' Author, title, and
Amazon link for about 75 titles, from Eleanor Taylor Bland's Marti
McAllister series to Paula L. Woods's Charlotte Justice series.
- Mysteries With a Black or African-American Sleuth (Oxford County Library, Ontario, Canada)
- List of 9 authors whose mysteries feature black sleuths, with one-word description of sleuth (PI, police
officer, etc.) and country or state of setting.
- African American Mystery Page Booklist (The African American Mystery Page)
- Lists mystery titles by about 40 authors, no summaries. Their Authors
page provides listing of titles and plot summaries.
- African American Mystery Writers (Enoch Pratt Public Library)
- Compiled 2000. Lists 20 authors, their books, pub. years, and summaries. Also:
African American Mystery and Suspense Writers, 2004,
with author, title, summary for 15 more books.
- Murder And Mayhem: African American Mystery Writers (Laura Hirshfield, Evanston Public Library, IL)
- Lists 16 authors, summarises their mystery series, and lists titles for each author. Compiled 1997, updated 2000.
Native American
- Native American Mysteries (Santa Fe Public Library)
- By author, lists title(s), publication years, and sleuth. Books by 45 authors listed.
- Sweetgrass and Desert Sage (Lincoln City Libraries, NE)
- Mystery novels featuring Native American sleuths. Lists about 35 authors, along with name and tribe of sleuth, and webcat links
for titles and series. Updated April 2006.
- Native American Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mysteries featuring Native American tribes and/or Native American detectives, usually
contemporary, and usually set in the Western U.S.' Author, title, and Amazon
link for about 15 series and a few single titles, from Peter Bowen's Gabriel Du
Pre series to Betty Webb's Lena Jones series.
- Four Corners: Native American Mysteries (AART, Rolling Meadows Library, IL)
- Author, title, publication year, page count, and series name for about a dozen mysteries/series, from
Jean Hager's Grandfather Medicine to Amy and
David Thurlo's The Blackening Song.
Asian/Asian American
- Mysteries featuring Asians (MysteryGuide.com)
- A list of books featuring Asian or Asian-American authors, characters, or issues. Over 20 titles listed.
Author, title, summary.
GENDER
- The Detective Doesn't Wear Trousers (State Library of Tasmania)
- Interesting assortment of books, featuring either: female sleuths, male sleuths who literally
don't wear trousers (togas, cossocks, robes, and other diverse attire - yes), and animals who solve crimes!
Provides author, series title, and series summary. Updated March 2006.
- Mystery and Suspense With Transvestite and Transsexual Themes/Characters
- Extensive list of mystery and suspense containing transvestite or transexual themes or characters.
Women
- Women Sleuths (Madison Public Library, WI)
- List of mystery writers, identifying details about their female sleuths, and list
of titles in series. Extensive and interesting. Over 100 authors listed, from Susan Wittig Albert
to Kate White. Updated June 2004.
- Female Detectives in U.K. Fiction, 1850-1900 (Chris Willis, Birkbeck College)
- Chronological list of books, providing author, detective, and sometimes characteristics of
the detective (profession, motive, etc.).
- Women Mystery Novelists: A Selected Annotated List (Helene Androski, Univ. of Wisconsin Women's Studies Librarian's Office)
- Three-part, annotated, text bibliography. Three sections are Mean Streets (gritty realism - 27 writers),
Tea at the Vicarage (feature a minimum of violence - 30 writers), and
Making a Statement (mystery fiction used to comment about
social or environmental issues as well as to entertain - 27 writers).
Author and nationality, series character, setting, time period, title/year of first book in series.
- Suspicious Women (Chicago Public Library, IL)
- "List of mystery fiction featuring women who are private investigators, police officers,
amateur detectives." Lists multiple titles by author, with summary of first
book in series and titles and publication dates of the rest. From
Margot Arnold's Exit Actors, Dying to Barbara Wilson's Murder
in the Collective. 25 series in all. Updated July 2001.
- Female Sleuths by Female Authors (Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, IN)
- List of authors and first titles in series in alphabetical order by sleuth featured in series.
Links to webcatalog for each title. Over 180 female sleuths listed.
- Sassy Tarts and Tough Cookies: Recent Mysteries with Women Detectives (Seattle Public Library)
- Author, title, short summary for about 25 books, from Linda Barnes' Big Dig to
Kathy Hogan Trocheck's Irish Eyes.
- Female Private Investigators (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- Listed by author, provides information on over 25 female sleuths and titles in which they appear. From
Carlotta Carlyle, Linda Barnes' ex-cop, to the private investigating team of
Constance Leidl and Charlie Meiklejohn, who appear in Kate Wilhelm's books.
- Female Private Eyes Book List (El Dorado County Library, CA)
- About 25 series featuring female sleuths listed, with author, some
titles, and character name and description. From Lydia Adamson's Alice Nestleton (and cat) series
to Kathy Hogan Trocheck's Callahan Garrity series.
- R.S.V.P. for Murder: Britain's Best Women Detectives (Amy Manson, Boston Public Library)
- Author, titles, publication years, and sleuths' occupations listed for
over 25 series featuring British female sleuths. Compiled 1997.
- Women Sleuths (Multnomah County Library, OR)
- Author, title, publication year, summary for about 35 mysteries
featuring female sleuths, from Christine Andreae's Smoke Eaters,
with Montana Forest Service firefighter Mattie McCulloch, to
Marilyn Wooley's Jackpot Justice, with California clinical psychologist
Cassandra Ringwald.
- Sleuths in Skirts (Adelaide Hills Library, Australia)
- Sleuth and author listed, with link to author's webcatalog info,
for about 30 mystery series featuring women. Sleuths listed
from Beatrice Bradley (author: Gladys Mitchell) to Tessa Crichton (author: Anne Morice).
- Mysteries with strong female characters (Kingston Frontenac Public Library, Ontario)
- Author, webcat link, name and brief description of sleuth, for 8 series featuring strong women protagonists.
Series by Kathy Reichs, Laurie King, Tami Hoag, Lynn Hightower, Sue Grafton, Linda Fairstein,
Patricia Cornwell, and Nevada Barr.
- Merciful Heavens! Religious Women as Amateur Sleuths (Boston Public Library)
- Books or series of books listed by author (12), with one-line summary. Compiled 1998.
- Religious Women as Amateur Sleuths (Springfield Library, Springfield, MA)
- Author, title, series name, and summary of title for 9 books, from Quaker Indictment by
Irene Allen (featuring Quaker Elizabeth Elliot) to The Subtle Serpent by Peter
Tremayne (featuring Sister Fidelma of the Celtic Church). May 2006.
- Full-Figured Sleuths (Terry Frey Weingart, Suite 101.Com)
- Excellent narrative list and description of mysteries featuring full-figured sleuths (all female),
some who are happy with their weight and some who diet. Details on
9 sleuths and their series/books.
- If You Like Mysteries - Private Investigators/Police Officers - Female (Hennepin County Library, MN)
- Author and sleuth listed only for almost 50 series featuring female PIs or police officers.
- Grandma Gumshoes (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Senior sisters who solve mysteries. Lists author and title of 25 mysteries.
- Sisterhood of Senior Sleuths (Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Jefferson City, MO)
- One of Wolfner's mini-bibliographies, a list of 6 series featuring older female sleuths:
the Agatha Raisin series by M. C. Beaton; Miss Marple series by Agatha Christie;
the Alvirah Meehan series by Mary Higgins Clark; the Mrs. Pollifax series by Dorothy Gilman;
the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters; and the Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate series by
Corinne Holt Sawyer.
- Amateur Sleuths: Sweet Old Ladies (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mystery stories in which the detective is a sweet old lady or other senior citizen.'
Author, title, and Amazon link for 15 series, from MC Beaton's Agatha Raisin series
to Richard West's Old Gang of Mine series.
- Feminist Mystery Authors and Books (Feminist Majority Foundation)
- Authors listed alphabetically, with a sentence or two about the sleuth's occupation, demographics, style. Some links to
authors' websites.
- Spunky Women Sleuths (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mystery stories featuring strong, capable women as detectives, amateur or professional.'
Author, title, and Amazon link for over 250 titles (many in series), from
Lise S. Baker's The Loser's Club to M.K. Wren's Neely Jones: The Medusa Pool.
- Hard-Boiled Ladies: No-nonsense Crime Solvers of the Female Persuasion (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Lists about a dozen authors and briefly describes their female sleuths. Compiled March 1998.
RELIGION
- Clerical Detectives (Philip Grosset)
- Excellent and expansive website offering information about authors and in-depth summaries of books in more than 50 series featuring clerical
detectives ('any detective with a significant church or religious background' including priests, ministers,
monks, nuns, ex-nuns, rabbis, church administrators, a church organist, and the clerk of
a Quaker Meeting). Also has 'A Beginner's Guide to Detective Nuns.'
- Religious Mysteries (Fairfax County Public Library, VA)
- Listed by religion (Amish, Catholic, Episcopalian, Jewish, Methodist, Mormon, Quaker, and Shaker), provides author,
character names and slight description, titles in series, and publication dates for about
35 series.
- What Should I Read Now? Christian Fiction: Darker Reads: Mystery and Suspense (Tulsa City-County Library, OK)
- Provides titles and webcat links for about 35 authors (with series/titles listed) of Christian suspense
and mystery novels, from Randy Alcorn's Deadline to Ellen Gunderson Traylor's The Oracle.
- Christian Mystery (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA)
- Author, title, publication info, summary, webcat link for about 15 books, from Hideaway by
Hannah Alexander to Unveiling by Suzanne M. Wolfe.
- Merciful Heavens! Religious Women as Amateur Sleuths (Boston Public Library)
- Books or series of books listed by author (12), with one-line summary. Compiled 1998.
- Saintly Sleuths (Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Jefferson City, MO)
- One of Wolfner's mini-bibliographies, a list of 9 series -- with author, titles, and summaries
of each series' sleuth -- that feature male and female sleuths in a religious profession.
- Holy Sleuths (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- Author, title, sleuth, and sleuth's religious affiliation. Books by about 15 authors listed.
- Holy Murder (AART, Rolling Meadows Library, IL)
- Author, title, publication year, and page count, for 13 mysteries featuring
clergy, religious setting, etc., from Veronica Black's A Vow of Sanctity
to Joseph Telushkin's Eye For An Eye.
- Mormon Mysteries: Mainstream Mystery Novels Featuring Mormons (Adherents.com Religion in Literature Database)
- "The novels on this list feature Mormons as the protagonist (the detective), as the
antagonist (or possible suspects), or as both." Lists authors of Mormon
mystery and detective novels, and lists fictional detectives in Mormon mystery novels,
as well as summaries and details on some series.
- Episcopal Clergy as Amateur Sleuths (the Rev. Canon Laurence D. Fish, The Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey)
- PDF. Author, series character, titles in series, and background/summary of series for nine series featuring Episcopal clergy as sleuths. Compiled 2005.
- Mysteries With Ecclesiastical Detectives (Oxford County Library, Ontario, Canada)
- List of over 15 authors whose mysteries feature people of the cloth, with name of
sleuth. From Barbara Byfield's Simon Bede to Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma.
- Clerical Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- Mysteries featuring clergy members.
Author, title, and Amazon link for about 130 titles (many in series), from
Alan Beechey's Murdering Ministers to
Deborah Woodworth's Sister Rose Callahan series.
- Clerical/Church Thrillers (Reader's Advice)
- Author, title, and Amazon link for about 25 titles, from
Dan Brown's Angels and Demons to
Greg Tobin's Celestine VI series.
- Clerical Sleuths (Jasper County Public Library, IN)
- Authors, titles, publication years, and good summaries of 15 mysteries featuring pastors, nuns, abbesses,
rabbis, deaconesses, rectors, etc., from Veronica Black's A vow of devotion to Charles Merrill Smith's Reverend Randollph and
the unholy Bible.
- Religious Thrillers or Puzzles (Jasper County Public Library, IN)
- Author, title, some summaries of about 25 thrillers or puzzlers that in some way involved religion.
From Dan Brown's Angels and demons to Eric Zencey's Panama.
- Religious Women as Amateur Sleuths (Springfield Library, Springfield, MA)
- Author, title, series name, and summary of title for 9 books, from Quaker Indictment by
Irene Allen (featuring Quaker Elizabeth Elliot) to The Subtle Serpent by Peter
Tremayne (featuring Sister Fidelma of the Celtic Church). May 2006.
SEXUALITY
- Mystery and Suspense With Transvestite and Transsexual Themes/Characters
- Extensive list of mystery and suspense containing transvestite or transexual themes or characters.
- Gay and Lesbian Mysteries (Madison Public Library, WI)
- Two lists: Mysteries featuring Gay Detectives and Mysteries featuring Lesbian Detectives. Authors,
series name, titles, publication years.
- Gay Men's Mysteries (Vancouver Public Library)
- Author, title, publication year, and webcat link (no summary) for about 100 gay men's mysteries (some duplicates),
organised by subtopic of the mystery story: Addiction and Recovery; Alcoholism; AIDS;
Books and Writing; Drag; Drugs; Extremists and Fanatics; Gangsters; Fashion
and Hairdressing; Gay Journalists; Gay Lawyers; Gay Men and Lesbian
Friends; Gay Murder Victims; Gay Policemen; Gay Private Detectives
and Amateur Sleuths; Gay Sports Stars; Gay Teachers;
Hollywood and the Theatre; Jailhouse Mysteries; Love Triangles;
On Holiday; Outing and Coming Out; Politics and Intrigue; S/M; and Authors To Look For.
Often just one author's books listed in a category. Compiled June 2001.
- Gay Mystery Novels (Auckland City Libraries, NZ)
- Author, author webcat link, series name and book titles for about 15 mystery titles and series featuring gay men or
written by gay men, from George Baxt's A queer kind of love to Mark Richard Zubro's Paul Turner series.
- Gay Male Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- Author, title, and Amazon link for about 55 titles, from
Jon P. Bloch's Best Murder of the Year to Mark Richard Zubro' Tom and Scott series.
- Lesbian Detectives (Leone Moffat, Mystery Women Authors)
- Extensive list of books featuring lesbian detectives, with author, sleuth, and book titles. Lists
about 200 books.
- Lesbian Mystery Novels (Auckland City Libraries, NZ)
- Author, author webcat link, series name and book titles for about 20 mystery series featuring lesbians or
written by lesbians, from Rose Beecham's Amanda Valentine series to Mary Wings' Emma Victor series.
- Lesbian Mysteries (Vancouver Public Library)
- Author, title, publication year, summary, and webcat link for about a dozen books, from
Robin Brandeis's She scoops to conquer : a mystery to Pat Welch's Moving targets : a Helen Black mystery. Compiled July 2004.
- Lesbian Mystery and Detective Fiction (University of Kansas Libraries)
- About 75 or so lesbian mystery and detective fiction titles. Author, title, and publication info only.
- Lesbian Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- Author, title, and Amazon link for about 55 titles, from
Kate Calloway's Cassidy James series to Mary Wings' Divine Victim.
- Gay and Lesbian Mysteries (Kingston Frontenac Public Library, Ontario)
- Webcat link and title of book(s) or series, for 11 authors whose mysteries feature a gay or lesbian
character. Authors: Pat Welch, Sandra Scoppettone, Deborah Powell, Edward Phillips,
Mary Morell, Claire McNab, Laurie R. King, Jonathan Kellerman, Marion Foster, Michael Allen Dymmoch,
and Robert Barnard.
DISABILITY
- Disabilities in Mystery (Seattle Public Library)
- Author, title, brief summary, webcat link for about 15 mystery and suspense stories featuring
disabled detectives, victims, and criminals, from Bruce Alexander's The Price of Murder to
Penny Warner's Blind Side.
- Digging Up A Good Mystery (Suite 101.Com)
- Excellent narrative list and description of gardening and botanical mysteries, continued
on their Digging Up
A Good Mystery 2 page. (Scroll past ads on top of article.)
- Fiction in Bloom (Des Plaines Public Library, IL)
- General fiction and mysteries (noted). Lists 21 books, with author and summary of each.
From Harriette Simpson Arnow's Between the Flowers to Christy Yorke's The Wishing Garden.
Seven of the books are mysteries.
Also, Garden Variety Murder,
a list of authors and titles for 50 gardening mysteries.
- On A Garden Path: Fiction with Gardening Overtones (Addison Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, brief summary, webcat link for 8 mysteries and 7 fiction titles. Compiled Oct. 2000.
- By the Pricking of My Thumb...Something Wicked This Way Comes: Garden Mysteries (Wakefield Public Library, MA)
- List of 23 gardening mysteries and 11 mystery series (with titles listed and linked), with
author, title, publication data, webcat links.
- Digging for Clues: Mysteries in the Garden (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Author and title only (no summaries or publication dates) for 43 mystery books or series
in which plants play a role. For more gardening mysteries, try their
Rooting Out Evil: Finding Mystery in the Garden page, with authors and titles only
of 22 similar books.
- Mysteries in the Garden (Kingston Frontenac Public Library, Ontario)
- Author and title, with webcat links, for 16 mysteries featuring gardens and gardening, including
Suddenly while gardening by Elizabeth Lemarchand, Tulip fever by
Deborah Moggach, and The deadly ackee by Joan Hadley.
- Reading About Gardening Sleuths Better Than Killing Plants (Polly Summar, ABQ Journal)
- Newspaper column from July 2002 recommending and detailing Mary Freeman's gardening mysteries,
and also recommending several others, including The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas and
Flowers of Evil by John Sherwood.
- Gardening Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- Author, title, and Amazon link for 8 series and a few stand-alones, from
Peter E. Abresch's James P. Dandy series to Heather Webber's Nina Quinn series. Created April 2000;
updated March 2006.
- Gruesome Gardens (Ricki Nordmeyer, Skokie Public Library, IL)
- Lists about 25 mysteries featuring gardens, with author, title, pub. year, and webcat link.
- Mysterious Gardens (Omaha Public Library, NE)
- Lists author and series/title for about 70 mysteries featuring gardening and plants,
from Susan Wittig Albert's China Bayles series to Nathan Walpow's Cactus Club Killings.
- Genealogy Mysteries (Lincoln City Libraries, NE)
- Author, title, publication year, and webcat link for about 50 books, from Robert Barnard's At Death's
Door to Laurali Wright's Mother Love. Compiled March 2005, updated Dec. 2005.
- Genealogy mysteries (Christine's Book List)
- Author, title, publication year for about 45 genealogy mysteries, from
Deborah Adams's All the Crazy Winters to Laurali Wright's Mother Love: A Karl Alberg Mystery.
- Murder in the Family: Genealogy Mysteries (Omaha Public Library, NE)
- Lists author and title for about 15 mysteries featuring genealogy, from
Robert Barnard's At Death's Door to Laurali Wright's Mother Love.
- Genealogy Mysteries (Janice Burwash, Fiction-L)
- Lists 15 titles and one series on this theme. Compiled Sept. 2001.
Novels "set among criminals rather than crimefighters.
A typical storyline concerns revenge, vigilante justice, or the commission (rather
than detection) of a crime; the classic narrative style is terse, colloquial, and stripped-down."
Subject matter is generally the rougher, seamier side of life. [adapted from Mysteryguide]
- The Hard-Boiled Way (Gary Lovisi)
- An article, written March 1995, that defines and describes the hard-boiled crime novel; includes
30 titles the writer believes to be among the best of the subgenre.
- Mean Streets: Hard-Boiled Fiction (Winfield Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, summary, and webcat link for about 15 authors of hard-boiled crime novels, listed by type and time:
Founding Fathers, The Next Generation, The Distaff Side: The Big Three Women Authors, Modern Mean, and
Mean Fun.
- The Hard Boiled Era: A Checklist 1929-1958 (William Denton, Rara-Avis)
- Chronological list of hard-boiled novels: "All sorts of dissimilar works: naturalistic novels,
political novels, spy thrillers, conventional whodunits, all those books that
seem to orbit near the undefinable quantity I have referred to as the
hardboiled novel." Author, title, pub. year.
- Hard-Boiled (MysteryGuide.com)
- List of authors of hard-boiled novels, with titles, publication dates, and ratings, with links to reviews. You
can also get a list by publication year and by rating. About 40 books listed, by authors including
Lawrence Block, Andrew Vachss, Derek Raymond, James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard,
James M. Cain, more.
- Detecting Men: Hardboiled Provate Eyes (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- Listed by author, provides information on over 25 hardboiled detectives and titles in which they appear. From
Jake Lomax, created by by Michael Allegretto, to Neal Carey, who
appears in books by Don Winslow.
- Hard-Boiled Detectives (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mysteries featuring a private eye who is often short on morals but long
on integrity.' Author, title, and Amazon link for over 400 titles, from
JL Abramo's Catching Water in a Net to Stuart Woods' Stone Barrington series.
- Mean Streets (Reader's Advice)
- 'Gritty, noir thrillers set in the urban jungle.'
Author, title, and Amazon link for about 25 titles, from
Stephen J. Cannell's Shane Scully series to Minette Walters' Acid Row.
- Historical Mysteries (Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, MA)
- "Based on an article from The Armchair Detective [Spring 1997], these mysteries
have settings in different centuries and countries." Arranged by
time and place, lists author, title, publication date, and setting/place.
Time periods/settings: The Ancient World and the Dark Ages (Egypt, Greece, Roman Empire,
England, China); The Middle Ages (1066-1485); Tudors (1485-1603); Stuarts (1603-1714);
Hanoverians; Victorian and Edwardian, Great Britian and Empire (Mainly London,
Kent, Oxford, Southeast Coast, Debyshire, Edinburgh, Egypt, South Africa, France, USA);
and First World War Onwards. Excellent resource, easy to read. Updated May 2004.
- Historical Mysteries (MysteryGuide.com)
- List of authors of historical mysteries, with titles, publication dates,
and ratings, with links to reviews. You can also get a list by publication
year and by rating. About 105 books listed, by authors including
Josephine Tey, Kate Ross, Elizabeth Peters, Anne Perry, Katherine Neville,
Miriam Grace Monfredo, Joseph Kanon, Margaret Lawrence, Ellis Peters, etc.
- Historical Mystery Homepage (N. S. Hurt)
- Huge resource. Author lists and lists by time period (Ancient World Mysteries,
Medieval Mysteries, Renaissance Mysteries, Regency/Georgian Mysteries,
Victorian Mysteries, 1900-1919 Mysteries, 1920's Mysteries,
1930's Mysteries, 1940's Mysteries, Postwar Mysteries). Provides author, title, exact time period, and location.
- Historical Crime Novels (Auckland City Libraries, NZ)
- Author, title, author webcat link, series name for about 50 historical mystery series by place/time:
Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Roman Britain, Medieval and Early Renaissance, 17th century Japan,
Italian Renaissance, Tudor and Elizabethan, Restoration, 18th Century, Regency England (1820s),
and Victorian.
- Historical Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- Big list. Subdivided by setting/time period: Ancient Egypt; Ancient Greece & Hellenistic World;
Ancient Rome; Middle Ages; 5th Century (400s); 7th century (600s); 11th century (1000s);
12th century (1100s); 13th century (1200s); 14th century (1300s); 15th century (1400s); 16th century (1500s);
Renaissance; Elizabethan Age; 17th century (1600s); 18th century (1700s); Victorian Era;
19th century (1800s); 20th century (1900s); Various Eras.
Provides author, title, and Amazon link for hundreds of titles. Series are noted.
- Fictitious Characters Historical Mystery Series (Fairfax County Public Library, VA)
- Arranged by fictitious character, provides description of character, time/setting of books,
first title in series with publication date, and author's name for a dozen or so series.
- Enter History, As Death: Historical Mysteries (Irving Public Library, TX)
- Well-organised, attractive list of about 115 authors, with titles (series are noted) in these
time periods: Prehistory; Ancient Egypt; The Classical Era; T'ang Dynasty China;
Medieval Europe; Tudor and Elizabethan England; Renaissance Italy; 17th
Century Japan; 17th Century; 18th Century; Regency England; Early 19th Century;
The U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction; The U.S. Western Frontier; The
Victorian and Edwardian Era; The Twenties and Thirties; and Anthologies.
- Historical Mysteries (Anderson Bookshop, Illinois)
- "Based on an article from The Armchair Detective, these mysteries
are arranged according to time period and then, in some cases, by setting within
that period." Lists about 125 books, with author and time period/place. Notes first in series.
- Mysterious Past (Marin County Free Library, CA)
- Two-page PDF file of about 30 historical mysteries arranged by time period and place: Ancient World; Medieval and
Renaissance Times; 18th, 19th, and Early 20th Centuries; American History. Compiled July 2004.
- History's Mysteries: Fictional Crime
Throughout Time (Enoch Pratt Free Library - Baltimore)
- Compiled 2003. More than 15 books, with author, title, summary, webcat link, and publication year,
organised by time period/place, from Greece - 4th century to
India - 1900.
- Historical Mysteries (AART, Rolling Meadows Library, IL)
- Author, title, publication info, page count, and summary for
about 15 historical mystery titles, from Bruce Alexander's Blind Justice to
Martin Cruz Smith's Rose. Compiled 1997.
- Mysteries Through the Centuries (Williamsburg Public Library)
- "This list contains mysteries set in 18th Dynasty Egypt, 1st century
Rome, and in Europe from the Norman times until the 18th century,"
arranged by time period. All of the books listed are the first book in a series. Total
of 19 authors. Compiled May 1997.
- Historical Mystery Novels 2000 BC - 1950 AD (Anitra L. Freeman, Mystery-B)
- Lists author, series/character, titles, and comments, which usually include era or year or mystery. Books
link to Amazon.
- Historical Mystery Bibliography (Dean James, Tangled Web UK)
- Lists author and title(s). Organised by time period from The Ancient World to WWII. About 70 authors listed.
- Murder Most Historical (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- Author, title, period, and setting for about 45 books.
- Mystery - Historical (Cleveland Public Library)
- Author, title, cover image, summary, webcat link, and publication info for a dozen historical mysteries,
by authors such as Bill Boyd, Kate Ellis, Charlotte Carter, David Dickinson, Michelle Black,
Tom Bradby, et al. All books published in 2003.
- Historical Mysteries Bibliography (Dean James)
- Author and title only listed for mysteries taking place from ancient times to WWII era.
- Historical Mysteries (Fiction Addiction LLC)
- Author and title, or title of first book in series, for over 20 historical mysteries/series, from
Caleb Carr's books, set in turn-of-the-century NYC, to Peter Tremayne's Sister Fidelma series, set in medieval Ireland.
- Historical Whodunnits (Stonnington Library, Victoria, Australia)
- Lists almost 50 authors of historical mysteries, by time period: Ancient World,
Medieval, Renaissance/Elizabethan, Regency/Georgian, and Victorian. With webcat links to book info.
- British Historical Mysteries (Clues Unlimited Mystery Bookstore, Tucson, AZ)
- Lists about 40 titles, organised by time period -- Roman Britain, Elizabethan, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, 20th Century,
and Researchers Into the Past. See also the
American Historical Mysteries page, listing about 30 titles, with time
periods of Colonial, Civil War, 19th Century, 20th Century, and Time Travel/Alternative History. Both compiled 2001.
- Spotlight On Elizabthan Intrigue (Montgomery County Library, MD)
- "This selection of books includes fiction inspired by Elizabethan times, and
history titles that prove fact can be even more intriguing than fiction."
Author, title, publication year, summary, and
webcat link for 10 titles (fiction, mystery, and non-fiction), from Fiona Buckley's Queen of Ambition to
Benjamin Woolley's The Queen's Conjurer.
- 19th Century Mystery Series (Williamsburg Public Library, Virginia)
- Lists 19 authors of Victorian mystery series, one title in the series, and a summary/review of the title. Compiled Nov. 2000.
- Victorian Mysteries (Mount Prospect Public Library, IL)
- Author and title only for about 15 mysteries set in nineteenth-century England,
capturing the atmosphere, morals and manners of the period.
From John Burke's Ladygrove to Julian Symons' The Detling Secret.
- If You Like Anne Perry... (Seattle Public Library)
- Author, title, short summary for about 25 Victorian mysteries,
from Bruce Alexander's Person or Persons Unknown to
Gerard Williams' Dr. Mortimer and the Aldgate Mystery.
- Holmesian Fiction (Lincoln City Libraries, NE)
- "Follow-ups, parodies and pastiches featuring Sherlock Holmes and Holmes-like
characters." Author, title, and some webcat links for about 300 novels, series, and anthologies,
from Poul Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest to Wayne Worcester's The Jewel of Covent Garden.
Also short list of Original Radio Programs. Updated Aug. 2005.
- Welcome Back, Mr Holmes (Williamsburg Public Library)
- "Since Conan Doyle's death, many more Sherlock Holmes books have been
published. These range from traditional stories written in the Conan Doyle style to parodies
of that style, and the stories take place in time from the Victorian period to the present day, and
even into the future. Most of these recreations have Holmes and
Watson as the main characters, but some authors have chosen minor characters from
the original tales to be their protagonists." Lists 18 authors and story
collections, with summaries/reviews of the titles. Compiled Oct. 1998.
- 'New' Sherlock Holmes (Janice Burwash, Fiction-L)
- Author and title listed for about 45 books that continue the legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional
detective Sherlock Holmes, from Edmund Aubrey's Sherlock
Holmes in Dallas to Ray Walsh's Mycroft memoranda.
Also lists some relevant websites. Compiled Sept. 2002.
- What Should I Read Now? If you like Anne
Perry and Elizabeth Peters... (Tulsa City-County Library, OK)
- Provides titles and webcat links for books by 12 authors of historical mysteries,
including Emily Brightwell, Diane Day, Quinn Fawcett, Miriam Grace Monfredo,
Robin Paige, Victoria Thompson, others.
- History's Mysteries: Fictional Crime
Throughout Time (Enoch Pratt Free Library - Baltimore)
- Compiled 2003. Over 15 books, with author, title, summary, webcat link, and publication year,
organised by time period/place, from Greece - 4th century to
India - 1900.
- Notable Historical Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- 'Historical mysteries in a literary style (i.e. Umberto Eco).'
Author, title, and Amazon link for about 35 titles, from
Caleb Carr's Alienist series to Richard Zimler's The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon.
ANCIENT/PRE-HISTORIC
- Mysteries Set in Ancient Times (Ellen Lamb, Fiction-L)
- Books set no later than the 2nd century A.D. About 45 titles (by over 25 different authors). Lists author, title(s), setting. Compiled Nov. 1999.
- The Detective and the Toga (Richard M. Heli)
- An extensive, detailed bibliography of mystery novels and short stories set in Ancient
Rome. Authors, titles, publication info, summaries of mystery novels in various languages
involving ancient Rome (here's mystery novels
in English, with authors in alphabetical order from Gertrude Atherton to David Wishart). Also
links to Amazon for ordering. Lists short stories and anthologies separately. Also
listings of novels in Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Also: books
for younger readers; a listing
of the books by time period; profiles
of the authors (from Eliette Abécassis to Christa-Maria Zimmermann);
a related listing of books about daily life, the arts, etc., in ancient Rome;
and forthcoming books in the subgenre.
MEDIEVAL
- Mostly Medieval Mysteries (B. J. Seitzer, Durham County Library, NC)
- Author, title, paragraph-length summaries of 14 mysteries, plus 2 general fiction works,
and one each sci-fi and fantasy novel set in Medieval times. Compiled August 1999.
- Medieval and Renaissance Mysteries (Gail Egbers)
- Lists author, title and publication year, and time and setting of the plot.
- Medieval Mysteries (Clues Unlimited Mystery Bookstore, Tucson, AZ)
- Article about the subgenre with embedded lists of suggested authors and titles. Over 20 books or
series described.
- My Lords and Ladies ... Medieval Mystery Booklist (Pollard Memorial Library, Lowell, MA)
- Lists author, title, and sleuth for 30 mystery titles (series?) set during the middle ages,
from Simon Beaufort's Murder in the Holy City
to Joan Wolf's No Dark Place.
- Medieval Mysteries (Ricki Nordmeyer, Skokie Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, and webcat link for about 30 mysteries set in medieval times,
from PC Doherty's Satan's Fire to Ann Woodward's The
Exile Way. Updated Feb. 2006.
- Medieval Mysteries By Historians (ORB)
- Lists series by 8 authors, describes the series, and lists the titles in chronological order
of their settings, with publication dates. Authors are Peter Tremayne,
Sharan Newman, Ellis Peters, Sharon Kay Penman, Ian Morson, Candace Robb,
Caroline Roe, and Margaret Frazer.
- Mysteries: Seasonal Picks (MysteryGuide.com)
- All kinds of thematic lists of mysteries, with author, title, and summary. Some
themes: States of the Union, Valentine's Day, A Christmas Carol, Anglo-American writers,
Asians, Affairs with Younger Women, Memorial Day, Historical Ladies with an Attitude,
BritNoir, Big Money, Sports, Knitting/quilting/cooking, Labor unions,
Summer, Siblings, and Parents and offspring.
SPRING and SPRING HOLIDAYS
- Springtime Can Be Murder
- List of 11 murder mysteries with spring holiday themes, including Passover, Lent, Easter,
April Fool's Day, and Mothers' and Fathers' Days. Author and title only. Updated Nov. 2005.
- My Shelf: Easter Mysteries (MyShelf.com)
- Author and title only for about 10 Easter mysteries.
- My Shelf: Mother's Day Mysteries (MyShelf.com)
- Author and title only for 7 Mother's Day mysteries.
- Memorial Day Mysteries (MysteryGuide.com)
- List of titles that "These all feature a war in the background -- everything from the American
Revolution to the Korean War." Provides title, author, summary,
and link to review for each of 13 books, from Christianna Brand's Green for Danger
to Ellis Peters' One Corpse Too Many.
- Wedding and Honeymoon Mysteries (Terry Frey Weingart, Suite 101.Com)
- Lots of detail on nine wedding and four honeymoon mysteries. Compiled June 2001.
SUMMER AND SUMMER HOLIDAYS
- Summer Sleuthing (Terry Frey Weingart, Suite 101.Com)
- Detailed descriptions of over 20 mysteries set in summer, some on holidays. June 2001.
- Mysteries Set in Hot Climates (Northbrook Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, summary of each of 40 books, from Steve Allen's Murder in Hawaii
to Charles Willeford's Miami Blues.
- Summer Can Be Murder
- List of 5 murder mysteries with Independence Day and Labor Day themes. Author and title only. Updated Nov. 2005.
- My Shelf: Independence Day Mysteries (MyShelf.com)
- Author and title for about 10 Fourth of July mysteries.
FALL AND FALL HOLIDAYS
- Autumn Can Be Murder
- A compendium of murder mysteries with Autumn holiday themes, including Yom Kippur,
Halloween, and Thanksgiving. Author and title only. Updated Nov. 2005.
Halloween
- My Shelf: Halloween Mysteries (MyShelf.Com)
- Author and title for about 50 books.
Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving Cornucopia of Murder (Terry Frey Weingart, Suite 101.Com)
- Detailed description of nine Thanksgiving mysteries. Nov. 2001.
- My Shelf: Thanksgiving Mysteries (MyShelf.com)
- Author and title only for about 15 Thanksgiving mysteries.
Winter and Snow
- Mysteries Set in Cold Climates (Northbrook Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, summary of each of about 45 books, from Rosemary Aubert's The Feast of Stephen
to Scott Young's Murder in a Cold Climate.
- Winter Can Be Murder
- A compendium of murder mysteries with winter holiday themes, except Christmas; including
Hannukah, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day.
Author and title only. Updated Nov. 2005.
- Mistletoe Mysteries (Lincoln City Libraries, NE)
- Set at Christmas, Hanukkah, or New Year's. Author, title, and webcat link for about 275 books. Compiled Nov. 2000; updated Nov. 2005.
- Merry Little Murders (Des Plaines Public Library, IL)
- Christmas mysteries. List of 17 books, with author and summary of each. From Lydia Adamson's A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock
to Dell Shannon's No Holiday for Crime.
- Murder for Christmas (Downers Grove Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, publication year, page count, summary for more than 20 Christmas mysteries and
anthologies, from Marian Babson's The Twelve Deaths of Christmas
to Georges Simenon's Maigret's Christmas. List compiled
1983, revised 1993.
- Holiday Whodunits (Winfield Public Library, IL)
- Christmas mysteries. Author, title, summary, and webcat link for
about 15 mysteries, from Aunt Dimity's Christmas by Nancy Atherton
to A Cold Christmas by Charlene Weir.
- Christmas Fiction (Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, MA)
- List of 50 Christmas mysteries, with author, title, publication data,
and links to catalog information on each.
- More Holiday Mystery Favorites (Terry Frey Weingart, Suite 101.Com)
- Lots of detail on about a dozen Christmas mysteries. And for two dozen more summaries of Christmas
mysteries, try her Holidays Can Be Murder.
And her descriptions of eight more 2001
Christmas mysteries!
- 'Tis the Season: Mysteries With a Christmas Theme (Madison Public Library, WI)
- Author, title, and publication year for 58 Christmas mysteries.
- Holiday Mysteries (Addison Public Library, IL)
- Title, author, summary, and webcatalog link for 13 Christmas mysteries, including a few anthologies. Compiled Nov. 2001.
- Christmas Can Be Murder
- A compendium of about 150 murder mysteries (novels and short stories) with Christmas themes.
Author and title only, for authors whose last names begin with letters from
A-H (about 100 titles listed); another page
lists about 60 novels and stories by authors whose names begin with I-Z. Updated Nov. 2005.
- Christmas Mysteries (Tracy Compton, Bay County Library System, MI)
- Newspaper column with a paragraph each on about a dozen Christmas mysteries, including
the Leslie Meier's Christmas Cookie Murder, Mistletoe and Murder by Carola Dunn,
several books by Mary Higgins Clark. Compiled Nov. 2003.
- My Shelf: Christmas Mysteries (MyShelf.Com)
- The plot of the books might be centered on the holiday or the holiday may be only in the background.
Only author and title provided. Extensive list.
- A Little Christmas Crime (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Authors and titles only (no summaries) for about 35 Christmas mysteries, by authors
including Patricia Sprinkle, Jill McGown, Ed McBain, Jane Langton, John Gano,
Eleanor Boylan, Mary Higgins Clark, M.C. Beaton, many more. Compiled Dec. 1998.
- Murder Most Merry (Marin County Free Library, CA)
- Two-page PDF file. Lists author, title, and publication year for about 45 books,
from Lydia Adamson's A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock to Kathy H. Trocheck's Midnight Clear.
Compiled Dec. 2002.
New Year's Day
- My Shelf: New Year's Day Mysteries (MyShelf.com)
- Author and title only for about a dozen New Year's mysteries.
Valentine's Day
- Valentine's Day Mysteries (MysteryGuide.com)
- List of 12 titles with "a strong romance component, including some of the
classic love stories of the genre." Author, title, summary, and link to review.
- My Shelf: Valentine's Day Mysteries (MyShelf.com)
- Author and title only for about 20 Valentine's Day mysteries.
- Capers (MysteryGuide.com)
- List of authors of capers ("Books we classify as capers are defined by their
humorous narration, scrambling action, bumbling but lovable characters, and sheer
fun"), with titles, publication dates, and ratings, with links to reviews. You
can also get a list by publication year and by rating. About 55 books listed, by authors including
Nancy Atherton, Elmore Leonard, Charlotte MacLeod, David Handler, Kinky Friedman,
Carl Hiaasen, Edmund Crispin, Janet Evanovich, more.
- Mystery - Humorous (Cleveland Public Library)
- Author, title, cover image, summary, webcat link, and publication info for about 15 funny mysteries,
by authors such as MC Beaton, Tom Corcoran, Sharon Fiffer, Joe Gores, Janet Evanovich,
Tim Cockey, Nageeba Davis, Donna Andrews, et al. Books published from 2001-2003.
- Funny Mysteries (Seattle Public Library)
- Author, title, short summary for about 30 books, from Donna Andrews' Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon to
Sarah Strohmeyer's Bubbles a Broad.
- Seriously Humorous Mysteries (Eric Robbins, Fiction-L)
- Compiled Aug. 1997. Author, titles, publication years. Over 25 authors.
- If You Like ... Mysteries (San Francisco Mystery Bookstore, CA)
- If You Like strong female leads, female leads in a lighter or more domestic vein, classic English
mystery, really funny mysteries, the standard private eye novel,
male leads of the amateur persuasion,
tough crime novels, gritty (and often unpleasant) stories, big lawyer
books, really good writers (that we feel have been undeservedly neglected in recent years),
then this is the place for you. Simply lists lots of authors for each category,
no titles, series, or links.
- If You Like Thrillers/Adventure, Try (Mayo County Library, Ireland)
- Recommends 2 or 3 similar authors, if you like: Evelyn Anthony;
Geoffrey Archer; Campbell Armstrong; Desmond Bagley;
David Baldacci; Mary Higgins Clark; James Clavell;
Jon Cleary; Clive Cussler; Len Deighton;
Robert Goddard; John Le Carré; Eric Lustbader; Alistair MacLean;
Michael Ridpath; Gerald Seymour; Sidney Sheldon;
Nevil Shute; Martin Cruz Smith; Wilbur Smith; Craig Thomas; Gordon Thomas.
- If You Like Crime, Try (Mayo County Library, Ireland)
- Recommends 2 or 3 similar authors, if you like: Margery Allingham;
Lawrence Block; Jay Brandon; James Lee Burke; William J.
Caunitz; James Hadley Chase; Agatha Christie; Patricia
Cornwell; Jeffrey Deaver; Michael Dibdin; Janet Evanovich;
Dick Francis; John Grisham; Tami Hoag; P.D. James; Jonathan Kellerman;
Val McDermid; Sara Paretsky; Richard North Patterson;
Ellis Peters; Kathy Reichs; Ruth Rendell; Scott Turow;
Minette Walters.
In alphabetical order by author's last name.
- If You Like Lilian Jackson Braun... (Vicki Nesting, Fiction-L)
- Lists about 25 other authors who write similar books to Braun's, with
some discussion about how alike they are. Oct. 1999.
- IF YOU LIKE LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN, then you might like ... (San Antonio Public Library, TX)
- Author, title, publication year, summary for over 15 books similar to Braun's, from
Lydia Adamson's A Cat on Stage Left to Shirley Rousseau Murphy's Cat Raise the Dead. Most are pet mysteries.
- If you liked ... The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Hennepin County Library, MN)
- "Perhaps you liked the thorough research and fast pace of The Da Vinci Code or maybe
you were compelled by the book's religion, art history, or cryptography aspects."
Author, title, publication year, cover image, summary, and webcat link for a dozen books,
from Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michel Baigent to Simon Singh's The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots, to Quantum Cryptography.
Updated Aug. 2004.
- Keys to the Treasure: Beyond the Da Vinci Code (Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library, OH)
- Author, title, synopsis, and Barnes & Noble link for each of 16 books for fans of The Da Vinci Code, from
The Burning Road by Ann Benson to The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler.
- If you liked The Da Vinci Code ... Tales of history,
art, mystery and betrayal (Portland Public Library, ME)
- Author, title, summary and webcat link for more than 15 books similar to Dan Brown's The Davinci Code,
from John Case's The Eighth Day to Barbara Wood's The Prophetess.
- The Da Vinci Code Read-alikes (Hamilton Public Library, Ontario, Canada)
- Authors, titles, summaries, webcatalog links for 10 books, from
The Third Translation by Matt Bondurant to The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber. Compiled Sept. 2005.
- Da Vinci Code Readalikes (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, PA)
- Author, title, summary, webcat link for 10 books, from Ann Benson's The Burning Road to
Alan Wall's The School of Night.
- If you liked The Da Vinci Code, or, What to read while waiting for your copy (Timberland Regional Library, WA)
- Suggests Dan Brown's three other books, several non-fiction books on a similar topic,
about a dozen intellectual thrillers with historical underpinnings,
four series of fantasy fiction, and five other fiction readalikes.
- If You Enjoyed Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Try These ... (Marin County Free Library, CA)
- 2-page PDF file. Author, title, publication year, and summary for 14 books, from The Assassini by
Thomas Gifford to The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick.
- It's a Conspiracy! (Hampshire County Council, UK)
- Author, title, one-line summary for 10 books similar to or related to The Da Vinci Code,
including Cracking the Da Vinci Code: Facts behind the Fiction by Simon Cox;
The Da Vinci Code Decoded by Martin Lunn; A Thief in the Night: The Death
of Pope John Paul 1 by John Cornwell; The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell;
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl; and Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
Compiled Dec. 2004.
- The Da Vinci Code Read-alikes (Madison Public Library, WI)
- Author and title for more than 30 books similar in style or story to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code,
from Steve Berry's The Amber Room to Barbara Wood's The Prophetess Compiled July 2004.
- Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) Read-alikes (Kathie Newsted, Fiction-L)
- Author and title for books by more than 20 authors, similar to Dan Brown's
bestselling The Da Vinci Code, with description of factor
that's similar. From John Case's The Genesis Code (mythological, religious aspect)
to Barbara Wood's The Prophetess (feminine divine, suppression by Catholic Church).
- If You Liked The Da Vinci Code ... (Bookreporter.com)
- A list of 20 books, fiction and non-fiction, that will appeal to
readers who enjoyed Dan Brown's THE DA VINCI CODE. Author, title,
summary, publisher, ISBN, Amazon link. In title order, from The Amber Room by Steve Berry
to The Messianic Legacy by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln.
- If You Liked The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown... (Multnomah County Library, OR)
- Author, title, publication year, summary for more than 25 books similar to
The Da Vinci Code, from Ann Benson's The Burning Road: A Novel to
Cameron West's The Medici Dagger.
- After the Da Vinci Code (Addison Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, summary, webcat link for about a dozen books with themes related to THE DA VINCI CODE's,
including books by Deborah Crombie, Iain Pears, Umberto Eco, Katherine Neville, Barbara Woods, and Michael Frayn. Nov. 2004.
- Magdalene.org Booklist
- Author, title, publication info, ISBN, comments, summaries, reviews and Amazon links
for about 70 non-fiction and fiction titles focusing on Mary Magdalene. Those who
like Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code will find other titles of interest here.
- DaVinci Code Readalikes (Kitchener Public Library, Ontario, Canada)
- Authors, titles, webcat links for about 70 novels, from Ann Benson's The Plague Tales to
Barbara Wood's The Prophetess.
- Chandler & Hammett Readalikes (Christine Jeffords, Fiction-L)
- About 45 similar authors listed, with series/titles by many noted. May 2000.
- IF YOU LIKE MARY HIGGINS CLARK, then you might like ... (San Antonio Public Library, TX)
- Author, title, publication year, summary for about 20 books similar to Clark's, from
Michael Allegretto's The Suitor to Phyllis Whitney's Woman Without
a Past.
- If You Like Barbara D'Amato's Cat Marsala, You Might Also Like... (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- If you like the Cat Marsala series, you might also like the dozen or so
sleuths/series listed here. Compiled Oct. 1997.
- 'New' Sherlock Holmes (Janice Burwash, Fiction-L)
- Author and title listed for about 45 books that continue the legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional
detective Sherlock Holmes, from Edmund Aubrey's Sherlock
Holmes in Dallas to Ray Walsh's Mycroft memoranda.
Also lists some relevant websites. Compiled Sept. 2002.
- More Sherlock Holmes Ideas (Rumford Public Library, Maine)
- Author and title for about 30 Sherlock Holmes stories and books "that are a
good continuation of or about the Master's Works." From
The New Sherlock Homes Adventures (Mike Ashley, ed.) to
Kay Van Ash's Ten Years Beyond Baker Street. Compiled June 2003.
- Welcome Back, Mr Holmes (Williamsburg Public Library)
- "Since Conan Doyle's death, many more Sherlock Holmes books have been
published. These range from traditional stories written in the Conan Doyle style to parodies
of that style, and the stories take place in time from the Victorian period to the present day, and
even into the future. Most of these recreations have Holmes and
Watson as the main characters, but some authors have chosen minor characters from
the original tales to be their protagonists." Lists 18 authors and story
collections, with summaries/reviews of the titles. Compiled Oct. 1998.
- Sherlock, continued... (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- 'The character outlives his creator to appear in these books.' Author and title only
for 18 novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, from The Glendower Conspiracy by Lloyd Biggle
to The Seventh Bullet by Daniel Victor. Compiled Feb. 2000.
- If You Like Janet Evanovich... (Multnomah County Library, OR)
- Author, title, publication year, summary for about 20 books similar to Evanovich's, from
Donna Andrews Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos
to Judith Viorst's Murdering Mr. Monti : A Merry Little Tale of Sex and Violence.
- If You Like Janet Evanovich, Try These Series (Therese Sonnek, Ramsey County Library, MN)
- Lists 17 series similar to the Stephanie Plum series, with brief description of each series, and titles and publication dates.
From Nancy Bartholomew's Sierra Lavotini series to Kathy Hogan Trocheck's Callahan Garrity series.
- What Should I Read Now? If you like Janet
Evanovich... (Tulsa City-County Library, OK)
- Provides titles, short summaries, and webcat links for books by 20 authors similar to
Evanovich, including Jen Sacks, Gillian Roberts, Tamar Myers, Marissa Piesman,
Lauren Henderson, Marne Davis Kellogg, Donna Andrews, Selma Eichler, Donald Westlake, and others.
- If You Like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series... (Kansas City Public Library)
- If you like "mysteries featuring sassy and sexy
heroines who can handle themselves in any situation," you might like these authors and titles.
Provides author, title, summary for 10 similar series, from Linda Barnes's Carlotta Carlyle series to
Noreen Wald's Ghostwriter series. Compiled Nov. 2003.
- If You Like Janet Evanovich... (Laura Hohmann, Fiction-L)
- Lists 28 authors similar to Evanovich, most with details about books/series. April 1999.
- Mysteries in the Manner of Elizabeth George (King County Library System, WA)
- "English cozies with a psychological twist." Title, author, and summary
for 11 books.
- IF YOU LIKE JOHN GRISHAM, then you might like ... (San Antonio Public Library, TX)
- Author, title, publication year, summary for about a dozen books similar to Grisham's legal suspense novels, from
David Baldacci's The Simple Truth to Sabin Willett's The Deal.
- If You Liked Thomas Harris' Silence Of The Lambs... (Multnomah County Library, OR)
- Author, title, publication year, summary for about 30 similar books, from
Ethan Black's Irresistible to Donald E. Westlake's The Ax.
- if You Like Tony Hillerman's Native American Mysteries, Try... (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- Provides list of authors, books/series, and summaries. Lists about 40 titles
(besides Hillerman's), from Peter Bowen's Coyote Wind to Scott Young's The Shaman's Knife.
- IF YOU LIKE JAMES PATTERSON, then you might like ... (San Antonio Public Library, TX)
- Author, title, publication year, summary for about 15 books similar to Patterson's, from
Adam Barrow's Flawless to Mary Willis Walker's Red Scream.
- IF YOU LIKE RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON, then you might like ... (San Antonio Public Library, TX)
- Author, title, publication year, summary for about a dozen books similar to Patterson's, from
William Bernhardt's Cruel Justice to Kate Wilhelm's Malice Prepense.
- If You Like Anne Perry... (Seattle Public Library)
- Author, title, short summary for about 25 Victorian mysteries,
from Bruce Alexander's Person or Persons Unknown to
Gerard Williams' Dr. Mortimer and the Aldgate Mystery.
- What Should I Read Now? If you like Anne
Perry and Elizabeth Peters... (Tulsa City-County Library, OK)
- Provides titles and webcat links for books by 12 authors of historical mysteries,
including Emily Brightwell, Diane Day, Quinn Fawcett, Miriam Grace Monfredo,
Robin Paige, Victoria Thompson, others.
- If You Like Ruth Rendell... (Ann Lautner, Fiction-L)
- Lists 11 authors similar to Rendell. Nov. 1999.
- Stuart Woods Readalikes (Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, MO)
- About 45 other authors whose books are similar to Woods' are listed, with titles.
- Scales of Justice: A Plethora of Legal Thrillers & Courtroom Dramas (Lynne M. Kennedy, Sachem Public Library, Holbrook, NY)
- Multiple titles for each of 28 authors of the subgenre, with a total of
over 155 titles in all, including publication info and summaries.
All published since 1970 (most in the 1990s). And if you just can't get
enough, there's also Back to the Bench:
More Legal Thrillers amp; Courtroom Dramas, with another 33 titles.
- Legal Stars Booklist (Overbooked)
- An annotated list of legal stories and thrillers that received a
starred review from Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, or Kirkus.
Listed in order of year of publication, from 2001-1997, with an additional list
of titles published before 1997, not annotated.
- Authors of Legal Fiction (Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, IN)
- Author, title, webcat link for hundreds of works of legal fiction from Alex Abella's Dead of Night
to Scott Turow's Personal Injuries.
- Legal Mysteries (MysteryGuide.com)
- List of authors of legal mysteries, with titles, publication dates,
and ratings, with links to reviews. You can also get a list by publication
year and by rating. About 40 books listed, by authors including
Scott Turow, Stuart Woods, John Mortimer, Steve Martini, William Lashner,
Michael Gilbert, and Sarah Caudwell.
- Legal Thrillers (Wolfner Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Jefferson City, MO)
- Compiled Aug. 2001. One of Wolfner's mini-bibliographies, a list of 18 titles, with author and summaries
of each title.
- Legal Fiction (Durham County Library, NC)
- Author, title, paragraph-length summaries of over 25 novels. From P. Ackroyd's The Trial of Elizabeth Cree
to Kate Wilhelm's The Best Defense.
- Legal Thrillers (Marin County Free Library, CA)
- Two-page PDF file. Lists about 20 books and series, with author, title,
publication year, and summary, from William Bernhardt's Death Row to Kate Wilhelm's Clear and
Convincing Proof. Compiled Aug. 2003.
- Courtroom Dramas (Halton Hills Public Library -- Georgetown, Ontario, CAN)
- Author, title, webcat link for about 50 books, from Joseph Amiel's A Question of Proof to
Kate Wilhelm's The Best Defense.
- Guilt or Innocence (Harford County Public Library, MD)
- "Legal thrillers and courtroom dramas in the tradition of
Scott Turow, Lisa Scottoline, and Brad Meltzer." Author, title,
summary for 8 novels in alpha order by title, from
Breach of Promise by Perri O'Shaughnessy to Tell Me No Secrets by Joy Fielding.
- Legal Thrillers (Northbrook Public Library, IL)
- If You Like John Grisham, Try... Lists about 80 titles, with author and summaries of each title,
from Reed Arvin's The Will to Shelby Yastrow's Undue Influence.
- Legal Thrillers (Laura Dudnik, Evanston Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, publication date, and summary for each of 26 books,
with an additional 15 titles listed with no summaries. Compiled April 1994.
- Courtroom Fiction (Vancouver Public Library)
- List of more than 15 books, all published in 2002, with author, title, publication year, summary, and webcat link, from
Dream of the broken horses by William Bayer to Reversible errors by Scott Turow. Compiled May 2002.
- Guilt or Innocence: Legal Thrillers And Courtroom Dramas (Harford County Public Library, MD)
- Author, title, summary for 8 legal thrillers in title order from
Breach of Promise by Perri O'Shaughnessy to
Tell Me No Secrets by Joy Fielding.
- Legal Thrillers (Manchester Public Library, Manchester, CT)
- Author and title only (additional info for some titles); almost 200 books listed,
from Alex Abella's The Dead of Night to Sabin Willett's
The Deal.
- Legal Thrillers: Beyond Perry Mason (Monroe County Public Library, IN)
- Author, title, publication year listed for about 65 books, by authors such as
Wm. Bernhardt, Phillip Margolin, Richard North Patterson, Lisa Scottoline,
Kate Wilhelm, Philip Friedman, Nancy T. Rosenberg, etc.
- The Court is in Session: Law and
Lawyers in Fiction (Williamsburg Public Library)
- Mysteries, thrillers, and simple legal fiction. About 80 books in all,
from Jessica Auerbach's Catch Your Breath to Rafael Yglesias's
The Murderer Next Door.
- Legal Thrillers (Reader's Advice)
- Author, title, and Amazon link for about 200 titles, from
Reed Arvin's The Will to William P. Wood's Court of Honor.
- Corporate Thrillers (Reader's Advice)
- 'Like The Firm, but in other industries besides law.'
Author, title, and Amazon link for about 40 titles, from
Iain Banks' The Business to Don Winslow's California Fire and Life.
Type of business is often noted.
- Legal Thrillers (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Lists title and author of about 20 legal thrillers, from A Question of Proof by Joseph Amiel
to Undue Influence by Shelby Yastrow.
- Legally Speaking: Crime Fiction by Lawyers (St. Charles Public Library, IL)
- Lists about a dozen lawyer-authors and their crime titles, plus a list of 12 more lawyer-authors
without title listing. Authors include Neil Albert, William Bernhardt, Kate Charles, Margaret Maron, Barry Reed, Carolyn Wheat, others.
- If You Like Legal Thrillers (Hennepin County Library, MN)
- Lists over 30 authors of legal thrillers. Few titles, no summaries.
- Forensic Fiction (Lincoln City Libraries, NE)
- Author, title, protagonist's name, publication year, and webcat link for about 100 books and series, subdivided by scientific specialty (Forensic Artists or Photographers; Forensic Archaeologists/Anthropologists;
Medical Examiners, Doctors/Pathologists, and Dentists; general forensics; Historical Forensic 'detectives';
Geologists and Historians; Psychologists and Psychiatrists. Compiled May 2004; updated Nov. 2005.
- Medical Suspense (If You Like Robin Cook, Try ...) (Northbrook Public Library, IL)
- Lists about 25 titles, with author and summary of each title,
from Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio to F. Paul Wilson's The Select.
- Crime Scene Investigation ... Forensic Mysteries (Harris County Public Library, Houston, TX)
- Author, title, summary, and webcat link for about 20 forensic novels,
from Sarah Andrews' Tensleep to Karin Slaughter's Blindsighted.
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Winfield Public Library, IL)
- Titles featuring forensic specialists. Author, title, summary, and webcat link for
about 15 books: 4 fiction, 4 mystery, and 6 non-fiction.
- Forensic Mysteries (Bloomington Library, IL)
- Author, title, and summary for 15 books, from Patricia Cornwell's From Potter's Field to
James Thayer's Terminal Event.
- Forensic Medicine (State Library of Tasmania)
- Author, title, and occupation of sleuth listed for 14 series featuring forensics.
- Forensic Mysteries (Reader's Advice)
- 'Mysteries in which the detective works in forensics, or uses forensic evidence to solve the crime.'
Author, title, and Amazon link for about 80 titles, from
Keith Ablow's Compulsion to Robert W. Walker's Jessica Coran series.
- Medical Thrillers (Plymouth District Libraries, MI)
- Author, title, webcat link for almost 60 medical mysteries, from
Acceptable Risk by Robin Cook to
The Wyndham Case by Jill Paton Walsh.
- Medical Thrillers (Park Ridge Public Library, IL)
- Author, title, publication year, and summary for 15 medical thrillers,
from In Harms Way by Paul A. Breeze to
The Select by F. Paul Wilson.
