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Books By Peter Grainger

The Late Lord Thorpe
Another Girl: A Kings Lake Investigation
Lane: A Case For Willows And Lane
One-way Tickets: A Case For Willows and Lane
Arcadia: A Case For Willows And Lane
Persons of Interest: A DC Smith Investigation
In This Bright Future: A DC Smith Investigation
The Rags of Time: A DC Smith Investigation
Time and Tide: A DC Smith Investigation
A Private Investigation: A DC Smith Investigation
The Truth: A DC Smith Investigation
The Camera Man: A DC Smith Investigation
Songbird: A Kings Lake Investigation
On Eden Street: A Kings Lake Investigation
Roxanne: A Kings Lake Investigation
Missing Pieces: A Kings Lake Investigation
An Accidental Death: A DC Smith Investigation
But For The Grace: A DC Smith Investigation
Luck and Judgement: A DC Smith Investigation

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With a dismay for bad grammar, a distrust of modern gadgets and an appreciation for nature, DC Smith tackles crimes and life with dry wit and understanding. He’s also a marvellous addition to the pantheon of fictional sleuths whose modus operandi is “good old fashioned detective work.” Grainger’s DC Smith and Kings Lake police procedural novels benefit from his ability to make characters feel like real people. Grainger says that he spends a lot of time developing the characters because “character comes before everything else in fiction.” Do you agree? Which characters in the DC Smith series do you enjoy the most? Or maybe you prefer the characters in the Kings Lake Central murder squad? Have you read any of his Willows and Lane adventures?

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Trouble Island
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Royal Flush
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Dead If You Don't
Seven Dials
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An Unkindness Of Ravens
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Past Imperfect
Shoot Don't Shoot
Murder at the Mendel
The Black Tower
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Die for Love
Stranded
M is for Malice
The Old Fox Deceiv'd
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The Likeness
Death with a Double Edge
Two for the Lions
Something Borrowed
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Dead at First Sight
The Summer Guests
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Standing in the Shadows
Stop Them Dead
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Absolution by Murder
Isle of Dogs
The Marching Season
Weighed in the Balance: A William Monk Novel
Day of the Dead
Dead Water
The Dark Angel
Critical Mass: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
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Lay Down My Sword and Shield
Proof of Life
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The Surrogate Mother
The Doomsday Decree
Cross Bones
Flesh and Blood
Touchstone
Wings of Fire
An Unexpected Peril
Breach of Duty
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The Crash
The Dark Wives
Death in the Devil's Acre
The Baby Snatcher
Murder Unfolds
Stalker: A Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus Novel
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Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled
Mercy
Life Sentences
Uniform Justice
Among the Wicked
Water Like a Stone
The Drowning Man
The Burning
In a Dark House
Black Cherry Blues
Deja Dead
Death of an Addict
Rage
The Naming of the Dead
This Tender Land
When the Bough Breaks
Beastly Things
The Evening and the Morning
House of the Rising Sun
Dangerous Minds
Until Proven Guilty
The Rising Tide
Overboard: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Ashworth Hall
The Unlikely Spy
The Forgotten Garden
Listening Woman
In Sunshine or in Shadow
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Street of the Five Moons: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Coffin Road
The Dead Will Tell
Nasty Girls
Tales: Short Stories Featuring Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford
Friends are Forever
Now May You Weep
Beginnings: A Kate Martinelli Novella
The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Death Row
Whisper to the Blood
Tunnel Vision
Grave of the Lawgiver
The Snake
Midnight Guardian
The Silent Spirit
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
The Narrows
His & Hers
Ruth's First Christmas Tree
Unto Us a Son Is Given
A Mind to Murder
Kiss of the Bees
How the Dead Speak
An Old Betrayal
Eleven on Top
Suffer Little Children
The Kalahari Typing School for Men
With a Mind to Kill: A James Bond Novel
Darkest Fear
Saving Emma
The Secret Encounter
A Royal Pain
Then She Was Gone
Blindfold Game
The Shapeshifter's Lair
Dead Lions
Finders Keepers
Outside
The Secret Servant
The Vicious Vet
Still Life with Crows
The Colorado Kid
Death in Darkness
Dark Storm Rising: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
Burying Ariel
Death of an Eye
Where Memories Lie
The Zig Zag Girl
Find Them Dead
Triple
The Secrets of the Abbey
Speaking in Bones
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I Found You
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Glass Houses
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Sons of the Wolf
Girl
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Gravity
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The Third Victim
Legend in Green Velvet
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Murder on the Ile Sordou
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Baltimore Blues
A Dangerous Collaboration
Residue
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The Rose Arbor
Rattlesnake Crossing
The Family Remains
Death of a Cad
Folly
Mile 81
Killing Custer
Fugitive Colors
Silhouette in Scarlet: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
The Empress File
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The Lincoln Lawyer
First Frost: A Longmire Mystery
The Lost Man
Cooking the Books
Lost Birds: A Leaphorn
Meet and Greet
Don't Forget Me
The Stolen Hours
Murder in Paradise
S is for Silence
The Second Death
The Best American Mystery Stories 2011
To Die but Once
Masked Prey
The Spectacular
Home Fires
Deserves to Be Dead: MatchUp Collection
The Vault
Hidden Prey
Death in Daylesford
Watching You
The Green Mill Murder
Home
A Darkness More Than Night
Long Lost: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
Hush Hush
Come Death and High Water
Dead on Target: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
A Cool Head
The Waiting
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
The Joy and Light Bus Company
The Winds of Change
The Next Accident
The September Society
Blue Genes
Disappeared: A Kate Burkholder Short Mystery
Other Worlds
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
Sunburn
Summer of the Dragon
Raisins and Almonds
Kissing Christmas Goodbye
The Match
Kopp Sisters on the March
Deception on His Mind
The Crow Trap
The House at Riverton
Scandal Takes a Holiday
One Of Us Is Dead
The Understudy
Dead Man's Wake
A Pattern of Lies
Unusual Suspects: Stories of Mystery and Fantasy
The Resistance Man
Lost Light
Dead Man's Footsteps
Burial of Ghosts
Dublin Murder Squad Mysteries: Books 1-6
You Will Never Be Me
The Black Loch
A Breach of Security
The Quiet Side of Passion
Nobody's Fool
The Lantern Men
Tularosa
Diamond Solitaire
Bad Boy: An Inspector Banks Novel
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories
Slow Horses
Twelve Sharp
Crusader's Cross
The Skeleton Road
Past Pretense
Ode To A Banker
Dressed for Death
One True Love
Shimura Trouble
The Last Illusion
Faking a Murderer: MatchUp Collection
The Boy from the Woods
Left for Dead
Hunting Shadows
Back of Beyond
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
The Secret House Of Death
Mrs de Winter
The Circle
A Dangerous Fortune
The Murder Room
The Late Lord Thorpe
The List: A Novella
Not Dead Yet
Crime Scene: A Novel
Missing Joseph
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
The Mercedes Coffin
Death of a Snob
Evan and Elle
In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II
A Pale Horse
Death of a Nurse
Honor Bar
A Fearsome Doubt
The Brass Verdict
Acceptable Loss: A William Monk Novel
Postmortem
Girl Waits with Gun
We Three Queens
An Unwilling Accomplice
Death at La Fenice

“You think it’s just selfishness? Just? Makes it sound trivial. All crime is caused by selfishness, I say. It’s the ‘Me first, my needs first’. Take that away and you’re about one step from paradise. Don’t ask me what the last step is, I don’t know, but it sounds good.”

Peter Grainger, An Accidental Death
Alice Chow
“I picked up Peter Grainger’s first DC Smith book ‘An Accidental Death’ upon a recommendation and I’m hooked. Smith is a wonderful fictional detective and Grainger’s writing is excellent. These are solid police procedural mysteries that don’t stretch credulity or veer into sensationalism just to spice up the plot. Instead, characters take centre stage and shine. I can really see the influence of Morse, which I believe Grainger said was an inspiration for him.”