Hello all!
I am in need of book recommendations for my husband’s 90yo grandmother. She likes romance (nora roberts specifically), but is wanting to jump into some mystery/detective or western books. She’s enjoyed some james patterson books recently.
These aren’t genres I am familiar with, so any suggestions are welcome!
by WillowCreekRats
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Harlen Coben is a great mystery writer. Several of his books have been made into successful TV shows.
Jana DeLeon Miss Fortune series and Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich are both laugh out loud light mysteries.
Some mystery/detective suggestions;
-Still Life by Louise Penny (Inspector Gamache series)
-The Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osmond
-The Maid by Nita Prose
-The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz (series)
Authors similar to James Patterson:
-Lee Child
-Tess Gerritsen
-David Baldacci
-Stuart Woods
-Patricia Cornwell
-Harlan Coben
Also, the mystery author JD Robb is the pen name of Nora Roberts, so she may enjoy some of those books too!
Louis L’amour for the win in Westerns.
She might like Dick Francis for mysteries and horses!!!!
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Lady Hardcastle mysteries are great fun.
And I second Janet Evanovich.
Nora Roberts writes a murder mystery series under the name JD Robb. It’s set in the future but realistic. If she likes cats id recommend the Cat who series by Lillian Jackson Braun, the books are highly entertaining. She might also like Diane Mott Davidson. I also second the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich.
Craig Johnson’s Longmire series are western and mystery. I also second Louise Penny series and The Thursday Murder Club series and Anthony Horowitz’s Hawthorne and Horowitz mysteries. His Magpie Murder/The Word is Murder series is good too. Elly Griffith, Elizabeth George and Karin Slaughter all ave series mysteries. Jacqueline Winpear has her Maisie Dobbs mysteries that are set in WWI-WWII.
Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs
Margery Allingham: Death of a Ghost
Agatha Christie: Murder in Mesopotamia
Dorothy Sayers: Murder Must Advertise
Josephine Tey: Brat Farrar, the Franchise Affair