I recently read celebrity librarian Nancy Pearl's book More Book Lust and came away with a short list of detective series to consider reading or remember for others. More Book Lust is the follow-up to the successful Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Reason and would be very handy to keep or to use to find books which cover a huge range of topics. For more information about More Lust, I wrote a book review for PLCMC.
I'll mention three series here and more another time.
Author Lee Child is recommended as one "too good to miss." His official website would likely agree. Child's biggest fame has come from a series of books with his character Jack Reacher, a former military policeman. Pearl suggests reading in this order The Enemy (a 2004 title), Killing Floor, and Persuader. After that, she says that the order doesn't matter although she cautions about intense violence in the books.
And Child was just mentioned to me by another librarian as an author who she has recently started reading. I've read about him but have yet to read one of his books.
Another writer is Donna Leon with the Italian detective, Commissario Guido Brunetti. Pearl comments how her character's "love of good food and despair about political corruption in his native land play prominent roles in each book." Uniform Justice is recommended as a particularly good title, the story is about Brunetti's investigation of a murder of a military academy student and how officials repeatedly undermind his investigation.
Finally, author Ellis Peters is mentioned by Pearl as "the best pure mysteries featuring a member of the clergy." Set in 12th century England, Brother Cadfael, a Bendictive monk, is involved in mysteries during the bloody battles between King Stephen and the Empress Maud for the rule of Britain.
Pearl writes one should start with the first book, A Morbid Taste for Bones and read in order.
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