

The following list is long and yet still woefully incomplete (I have a more thorough unannotated list that I can send the curious). I realized belatedly that my love of early Nancy Drew books and Agatha Christie novels were always leading me here.Įarly favorites are the Julian Kestrelseries (the author tragically died after only 4 novels), The Alienist series, Amelia Peabody, Maisie Dobbs and the TV series of Cadfael(also a book series) and Foyles War. I started reading historical mysteries like a fiend when I realized that I could find all my favorite genres of fiction (mystery, historical and romance) all in one place.

Foes are vanquished, crimes are solved and justice is almost always served-so much better than real life!

My favorite thing about reading mysteries is that there’s resolution.
