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The Late Lord Thorpe
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
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
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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Fox Creek
Stone Rain
We Shall Not Sleep
Defend and Betray: A William Monk Novel
An Official Killing
A Death in Vienna
Firestorm
Behold a Pale Horse
Extraction
The Evening and the Morning
Strangers in Time
The Lie Maker
Elegy for Eddie
Death of a Stranger: A William Monk Novel
Bark M for Murder
A Christmas Legacy: A Novel
Sometimes I Lie
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Help the Poor Struggler
Jupiter's Bones
Jennie
The Dark Angel
Overboard: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Collateral Damage
A Simple Deduction
Cadillac Jukebox
Lethal Prey
They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story
Blood from a Stone
Red Knife
Letters to a Soldier
Faking a Murderer: MatchUp Collection
The Second Death
Street Dreams
The Murder of Mary Russell
The Raging Storm
A Highland Christmas: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
The Moth Catcher
Daughter of the Morning Star: A Longmire Mystery
A Gathering of Secrets
Visions of Sugar Plums
The Old Silent
Alexandria
Triple Jeopardy
The Hidden City
Seeing a Large Cat
Deep Storm
The Seagull
Harbour Street
The Curse of La Fontaine
Middlemen
Day of Atonement
The Teacher
Presumed Guilty
Winter's Child
Death in Brittany: A Mystery
Faith
Skinwalkers
Curious Minds
Dead Like You
Star Struck
Lightning Strike
A Game Called Malice: A Rebus Play
Portrait of a Spy
Death of a Poison Pen
Under the Dome
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Buried Road
Bertie and the Crime of Passion
Wildcat: V. I. Warshawski's First Case
The Soul of Discretion
Jerusalem Inn
A Prey to Murder
A Christmas Grace: A Novel
One Good Deed
Gone
Crimson Shore
Malice Domestic 1
Hell's Corner
Murder in the Rue Dumas
The Echoes
Pirate King
Tell Me
Judgment Call
The Fly on the Wall
The Convenience Boy: A Short Story
Death of a Nag
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy
Water Like a Stone
The Gimlet Slip
Pitch Dark
Rock Paper Scissors
Cell
Desolation Mountain
Trace Elements
Daisy Darker
Troubled Blood
Not Dead Yet
The Wife
The Lying Game
Theft of an Idol
The Wandering Soul Murders
The Secret of Spandau
Honor & . . .(MatchUp Collection)
Hard Row
The Midnight Hour
The Woman in Blue
Heartstones
One Step Too Far
Bedford Square
In Their Footsteps
A Plague of Zombies: An Outlander Novella
Dead Man's Wake
A Spot of Folly
The Darkest Evening
In League with Sherlock Holmes
The Prisoner of Castillac
Gone Before Christmas: A Charles Lenox Mystery
The Winner
The Bear Trap: A Mike Bowditch Short Story
But For The Grace: A DC Smith Investigation
House of Correction
Death on the Edge: A V.I. Warshawski Short Story
The New Iberia Blues
Seeds of Deception: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
The Other Woman
The Truth About Melody Browne
Frozen: A Vera Stanhope Short Story
Long Time Gone
Fool Me Once
A Refiner’s Fire
The Reaper
The Survivors Club
Bloodstream
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Dead Souls
The Last Good Day
Blue on Black
Seven Dials
The Body on the T
Reconstruction
Snakebit: A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
The Hunter
Death at the Chateau Bremont
The Devil's Star
A Place of Execution
True Detectives
Keeper of the Bride
The Chase
Nemesis: A Harry Hole Novel
The Guise of Another
The Stargazey
The Best Man to Die
The King Arthur Case: A Brittany Mystery
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories
Night Train to Memphis
Lying in Wait
Winterkill
The Messenger
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes
Hints of Heliose
Naughty In Nice
In the Woods
Kissed a Sad Goodbye
Away with the Fairies
The Woman in Cabin 10
Forever and a Day: A James Bond Novel
Every Secret Thing
Full Speed
The Son: A Novel
Creole Belle
Fire
The Beast: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
The Twist of a Knife
Storm Watch
Nasty Girls
Desert Heat
Hot to Trot: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Too Good to Be True
Dangerous Waters
Hid from Our Eyes
Dreaming Spies
Arcadia: A Case For Willows And Lane
The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse: A Flavia de Luce Story
Black Diamond
The Ghost Orchid: An Alex Delaware Novel
Trojan Gold: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Invisible Prey
Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories
Hard Eight
The Eagle Catcher
No Second Chance
Dry Bones: A Longmire Mystery
The Dead Will Tell
Borrower of the Night: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
The Bounty
Tomb of the Golden Bird
Live to Tell
Trial by Fire
Death of a Prankster
The Laughter of Dead Kings: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
Back to the Garden
Slow Kill
One Last Lie
Good Bad Girl
The Lost Coast: A Novel
Y is for Yesterday
The Burning
Macbeth: William Shakespeare's Macbeth Retold
Sunday Silence
Unseen: A Novel
Christmas at Patchin Place: Two Molly Murphy Mysteries
Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit
Death Without Company: A Longmire Mystery
Six Years
To Die but Once
Ten Big Ones
3 Truths and a Lie
The Body by the Sea: A Brittany Mystery
Christmas Mourning
Birds of a Feather
Losing You
Reliquary
Other Worlds
The Order
The Vault
The Girl in the Green Raincoat
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Something Borrowed
Less Than a Treason
The Killing Hour
A Dedicated Man
The Prisoner
I Know a Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
The Spotted Dog
He Shall Thunder in the Sky
Death Comes to Pemberley
Apostle's Cove
Feast Day of Fools
The White Lady
A Serpent's Tooth: A Longmire Mystery
Upon a Dark Night
Telling Tales
To Darkness and to Death
Light of the World
Silhouette in Scarlet: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
A Demon In My View
No Man's Land
The Traitor Among Us
The Redeemer
The Poet
Not Dark Yet
Riptide
The Grey Wolf
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
No Fixed Line
Master of the Moor
Knave of Diamonds
The Golem of Hollywood
Knife: A Harry Hole novel
Pray for Silence
Seven Years
Callander Square
To Love and Be Wise
A Christmas Promise: A Novel
A New Lease of Death
Entry Island
The Jackal's Head
Persons of Interest: A DC Smith Investigation
Girl in a Box
A Birthday Lunch
The Island
Tigerlily's Orchids
The Piper: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Story
City of the Dead
Home
The Geometry of Holding Hands
The Department of Sensitive Crimes
Three-Day Town
Storm Track
Bethlehem Road
The Thief
A Distant View of Everything
A Noble Radiance
The Black Cabinet
Blind Justice: A William Monk Novel
Blood Hollow
Dance of Death
Kissing Christmas Goodbye
The Tick of Death
The Tightrope Walker: A Novel
Savage Run
Wild Fire
The Kizuna Coast
On Eden Street: A Kings Lake Investigation
A Tap on the Window
Leave the Grave Green
Death of a Nurse
Murder in My Backyard

“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.”