Category Archives: Novels in Series
Katy Munger. Better Off Dead. New York: Avon Books, 2001.
Casey Jones, Triangle-based Private Investigator and (contrarily) ex-convict, is enjoying a quiet evening at home watching NC State trounce Duke at basketball. That is, until her boyfriend Burly starts haranguing the disconsolate Blue Devils fans from their Durham apartment window. … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2001, Durham, Munger, Katy, Mystery, Novels in Series, Piedmont
Katy Munger. Bad to the Bone. New York: Avon Books, 2000.
Casey Jones is doing well: despite being an (unfairly convicted) ex-con, she has established herself as one of the Triangle’s premiere, if unofficial, private investigators. But when Tawny Bledsoe walks through her door, she gets a bad feeling. At first, … Continue reading
Filed under 2000, 2000-2009, Chatham, Durham, Munger, Katy, Mystery, Novels in Series, Piedmont, Wake
F. Paul Wilson. Reprisal: A Novel of the Adversary Cycle. New York: Tor, 2011.
F. Paul Wilson’s Adversary Cycle, originally published between 1981 and 1992, has been updated by the author and is now enjoying a revival. The series begins in 1941, when an incomprehensible evil whom we come to know as the Adversary is … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Horror, Novels in Series, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Piedmont, Wilson, F. Paul
Mark Schweizer. The Organist Wore Pumps. Tryon, NC: SJMP Books, 2010.
It’s been two years since St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in St. Germaine, North Carolina burned to the ground, and the holidays are just around the corner. Police Chief Hayden Konig, also the organist at St. Barnabas, is looking forward to … Continue reading
Schweizer, Mark. The Tenor Wore Tapshoes. Tryon, NC: SJMP Books, 2005.
With writing that compares the rustling of a woman’s gown to the sounds of a cockroach rooting in a sugar-bowl, it’s safe to say that Police Chief Hayden Konig will never join the greats of American literature. Still, he insists … Continue reading
Deborah Wallis. Child’s Play. New Bern, NC: McBryde Publishing, 2011.
The subject matter of this book is every parent’s worst nightmare: the kidnapping of children by a pedophile ring. When Abby Weaver sees the Amber Alert message for a missing boy on her television, she wants to take action. Abby … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Coast, Craven, Novels in Series, Onslow, Wallis, Deborah
Maddie James. The Quest. Edgewater, FL: Resplendence Publishing, 2010.
This third novel in The Legend of Blackbeard’s Chalice series finds Jackson Porter traveling through time to fulfill his mother’s dying wish–that he search for what is rightfully his. His quest takes him from eighteenth century Ocracoke Island to twenty-first … Continue reading
Filed under 2010, 2010-2019, Coast, Hyde, James, Maddie, Novels in Series, Suspense/Thriller
Jane Tesh. Stolen Hearts. Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2011.
David Randall is down on his luck, sleeping in his car, when he hears police cars rushing down the street. It appears that a burglar has broken into Albert Bennett’s house and killed the old man. The crimes galvanizes David … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Mystery, Novels in Series, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Piedmont, Tesh, Jane
Chris Forman. Killer Surf. Lexington, KY: CreateSpace, 2011.
Ian Porthos Wallace is a simple man. He enjoys wearing the kilts of his Scottish ancestry, working as a food writer and photographer, and making his lovely fiancée, Athena Spyros, happy. What Ian doesn’t enjoy is murder, but it falls … Continue reading
Filed under 2010-2019, 2011, Coast, Forman, Chris, Mystery, New Hanover, Novels in Series
