fadedroses- Fiction Book Series Authors (A-Z)
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Authors' book titles, reviews, ISBN’s, availability, price, genre, etc., can be found at one or more of the following:
http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/index.html (mysteries)
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk / (all types of books)
http://www.amazon.com /
http://www.barnesandnoble.com / or all other book sellers,
Your local library website
The Library of Congress at: http://catalog.loc.gov /
This list will not be complete until you add your comments, opinions, questions, or links, etc., to the author’s names.
If you wish, add new authors
note from boston bean:
Fadedrose put this together at DU2 and it is/was a wonderful resource for this group. I could not bear to see it disappear with DU2. Also, I wasn't sure if we would have full access to it from a readable format only on DU2. I have copied and pasted each entry as it was in the DU2 thread as of 12/14/11. Here is the link to this thread on DU2:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=208&topic_id=25268&mesg_id=25268
I wish I could have noted each and every posters name to each reply, but that was impossible for me to do. I hope everyone can continue to enjoy the information posted in this thread and continue adding to it. A huge thank you goes to fadedrose who put most of this together originally. She deserves the credit for this. I'm sure it was a ton of work. And thanks to each and every person who added to it.
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Toby Peters, a 1940s Hollywood P.I. in Los Angeles, California
Porfiry Rostnikov, police inspector in Moscow, Russia - note: I read this entire series and loved it. Unfortunately, the author died in 2009, before really bringing this series to a conclusion. 
Abe Lieberman, 60-something Jewish police detective in Chicago, Illinois
Lew Fonesca, a down and out process server in Sarasota, Florida
James Rockford, a low-rent detective in Los Angeles, California
MacDonald is dead these last 25 years, and his books are probably out of print, but the 21 novels in the Travis McGee series remain among my all-time favorites.
McGee was a "salvage consultant," or a problem fixer. He lived the life of a beach bum on a houseboat ("The Busted Flush"
, and took his retirement in installments, working when he needed money and retiring when he didn't. Usually through word of mouth, someone would approach him with a mystery, or a missing item, or a person in trouble. He would tenaciously go after the problem until he found a resolution.
I love his views of Florida, too. Again, from Wikipedia:
However, unlike other fictional detectives such as Raymond Chandler's jaded and world-weary Philip Marlowe, McGee clings to what is important to him: his senses of honor, obligation, and outrage. In a classic commentary in Bright Orange for the Shroud, McGee muses,
"Now, of course, having failed in every attempt to subdue the Glades by frontal attack, we are slowly killing it off by tapping the River of Grass. In the questionable name of progress, the state in its vast wisdom lets every two-bit developer divert the flow into drag-lined canals that give him 'waterfront' lots to sell. As far north as Corkscrew Swamp, virgin stands of ancient bald cypress are dying. All the area north of Copeland had been logged out, and will never come back. As the glades dry, the big fires come with increasing frequency. The ecology is changing with egret colonies dwindling, mullet getting scarce, mangrove dying of new diseases born of dryness."
This was in a paperback originally published in 1965 when the general public was still not conversant with the concept of environmentalism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_McGee
I read 19 Prey Novels in a row when I (late to the game) found Sandford. Couldn't put them down!
The series is set in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul(twin Cities)area of Minnesota. It is considered a police procedural series.
You can read about the character (Lucas Davenport) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_Davenport
You can find a series list in order on this page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sandford_ (in order for link to work right you need to choose "novelist"
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I also enjoyed his Virgil Flowers Series but there are only 4 novels so far. I must just like the way Sandford writes.
Here is John Sandford's website link:
http://www.johnsandford.org/directory.html
I'm such a latecomer to this group, I had no idea there was a list like this here! I'm so glad you kicked it up!
I've only done a very quick skim, but so far I've seen all of my favorite authors already listed. If I do think of a name to add, I'll be happy to do so. 
You may have noticed I've been busy adding some more authors.
This thread sent me off to Books A Million this afternoon. I got:
"Live Wire" & "Play Dead" by Harlan Coben
and
"Guilt" & "Victims" by Jonathan Kellerman
I didn't really need them but I really wanted them.
was written about 12 years ago so obviously some things have changed since then. My favorite go-to now is the Fiction Database, https://www.fictiondb.com/
Welcome to our little group. 