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Tartan 09-08-2019 11:00 AM

Mystery writer
 
I just finished Linda Castillo’s latest book Shamed. It is a really good series about formerly Amish police chief Kate Burkholder and her investigations. If you haven’t read this series, I highly recommend it.

Iceblossom 09-08-2019 11:28 AM

I've enjoyed that series of books.

I have both chronic insomnia and vision issues so at night I listen to audio books. In a typical week I go through 2-3 books so am always looking for new authors and series. It's unfair that I can listen so much faster than the authors can write :p

Not at all the same (other than a female police officer as the main character) I enjoyed the Constable Molly books by Vicki Delaney. Lighter than Burkholder books.
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/co...e-molly-smith/

lindaschipper 09-09-2019 03:05 AM

I've read a couple of her books also. Love the insight she gives us into the Amish community. I'll have to go to the bookstore and library to look for another. Thanks for reminding me about her novels.

cindyb 09-09-2019 04:54 AM

Thanks Tartan. I love sewing with a good mystery playing.

quiltybarb 09-09-2019 05:46 AM

Just finished it also.....excellent...

lorimax5859 09-09-2019 05:47 AM

Thanks for the tip! Always looking for new authors. I will check them out.

SillySusan 09-09-2019 12:29 PM

Yep! She's one of my favorites also. I list to books on CDs when I'm quilting. Love 'em!

ccthomas 09-09-2019 05:15 PM

Good author. She also has a movie from at least one of her books.

ctrysass2012 09-09-2019 07:23 PM

Her books or on my 'always look for' list for the library.

Ellen 1 09-09-2019 09:14 PM

Kate Burkholder! I have read all of them and am always looking for a new one or perhaps something I have missed.

I like to read “series books” in the order they were written. It does get a bit annoying when the library does not have the full series though......sigh.....

leonf 09-10-2019 07:36 AM

Alice Duncan Daisy Gumm series. a fake spiritualist in Pasadean, CA, USA circa post WWI. GF and I started a FB groups for her and she is a frequent contributor. Sometimes we offer pissibilities for her future adventres.

lberna 09-10-2019 07:50 AM

Thanks. I just entered a “hold” for a download at my parish library. I decided I would start with the first book of this series. “Sworn to Silence” has an estimated wait time of 8 weeks. I’m not in any hurry. I’ll wait for a good mystery. There are other books I can read in the meantime.

Seasew 09-10-2019 10:44 AM

I really like Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder books. I listen to them on audio. Thanks for telling us about the new one.

Iceblossom 09-10-2019 12:32 PM

I looked up the Daisy Gumm books they sound like a good fit for me, my library doesn't have any of them in Audio form but Audible does and I am a prime member so can get it that way. I'll write myself a note.

For similar tastes but set in the past is the Maisie Dobbs books by Jacqueline Winspear, set in Britain mostly from WWI on. They say "maisie dobbs" so often in the first books it sort of got to me... Maisie is a girl who grew up in service but was able to go to school and otherwise improve her lot in life and then got involved in adventures of various sorts as a "psychologist and investigator".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maisie_Dobbs

Lately I'm going through the Mary Russell/Mrs. Sherlock Holmes books by Laurie R King. I read the Beekeeper's Apprentice when it was first written, bunch of them have come out since then. There are a number of similarities between Mary and Maisie. Some have been better than others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie...lmes_mysteries

Another semi-similar series is set in San Francisco around the time of the fire/earthquake is by Shirley Tallman. The protagonist is a female lawyer. Or more specifically, the only female lawyer...
https://www.goodreads.com/series/41576-sarah-woolson

For modern female lawyers I enjoyed the Barbara Holloway books by Kate Wilhelm. Barbara is a death penalty qualified lawyer in Eugene, Oregon. Not the usual place for murder mysteries!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Wilhelm

Only a few of them, but I liked the Cree Black books by Daniel Hecht. Cree is a Seattle based psychic detective, so some supernatural elements to the story. Not similar to the other books but psychic detective got in my head :p
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hecht

leonf 09-10-2019 01:44 PM

Quote0 Lately I'm going through the Mary Russell/Mrs. Sherlock Holmes books by Laurie R King. I read the Beekeeper's Apprentice when it was first written, bunch of them have come out since then. There are a number of similarities between Mary and Maisie. Some have been better than others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie...lmes_mysteries

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Oh yes, I should have recommended those. Great fun
Let me know if you want to Join Daisy Daze.

leonf 09-10-2019 01:49 PM

PS Dasiy is a fashion seamstress for her family and uses a knee control White. Though Alice called it something different. I've corrected her. hehe

mjkgquilt 09-10-2019 06:03 PM


Originally Posted by Ellen 1 (Post 8299870)
Kate Burkholder! I have read all of them and am always looking for a new one or perhaps something I have missed.

I like to read “series books” in the order they were written. It does get a bit annoying when the library does not have the full series though......sigh.....

In Michigan we can search of Libraries in the state for a book. Takes about a week or 10 days for a book to arrive at my Library. When I'm finished reading, I return it to my Library and they return it to its Home Library. Perhaps Colorado has a similar exchange.

leonf 09-11-2019 05:33 AM

interlibrary loan can be international. I've done that, too.


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