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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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A Christmas Visitor
Murder on the Serpentine
A Column of Fire
A Darker Place
Thin Air
Agatha Raisin and The Case of the Curious Curate
Messenger of Truth
Deception on His Mind
Just One Look
Long Upon the Land
X
The Mistletoe Mystery: A Maid Novella
Love You to Death
Exiles
Injustice for All
Seasonal Work
The First Eagle
Death of an Addict
Heaven's Prisoners
No Night Is Too Long
Divorce Horse: A Walt Longmire Story
Earthly Remains
The Cabinet of Dr. Leng
The Twelve Clues of Christmas
An Old
Abracadaver
The Perfect Victim
The St. Zita Society
In This Grave Hour
Hush Now
The Fourth Enemy
Hammer of Eden
A Long Shadow
Agatha Raisin and Tthe Haunted House
Watching Eagles Soar
A Capitol Death
The Secret Place
The Winner
The Walker on the Cape
Plum Lovin'
A Christmas Gathering
Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
City of Bones
Dead If You Don't
One Good Deed
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Rough Cider
Killing Season: A Thriller
An Irish Hostage
Extraordinary People
FaceOff
There Goes the Bride
Burning Angel
Cold
Trial by Fury
The Night Fire
Heartbreak Hotel: An Alex Delaware Novel
The Investigator
Broken Promise
Elevation
Dressed for Death
Suffer Little Children
The Black Cabinet
A Twist of the Knife
Dark Tide Rising: A William Monk Novel
Blockade Billy
The Last Remains
The Kill Artist
Endangered
Midnight at Marble Arch
Death on the Edge: A V.I. Warshawski Short Story
Dance of the Bones
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions
Buckingham Palace Gardens
Cold Vengeance
Magpie Murders
Common Murder
No Good Deeds
Naked Prey
Murder on Brittany Shores: A Mystery
The Grey Wolf
Red Knife
Slow Dollar
Dismissed with Prejudice
The Woman in Blue
First Family
Under the Dome
Death of a Heretic
Death of a Snob
The Cuckoo's Calling
Y is for Yesterday
Fall of Giants
Case Histories
The Shoeshine Man's Regrets
The Sunday Philosophy Club
The Waiting
The Devil's Cave
S is for Silence
Cold Comfort: A Novella
Ode To A Banker
An Unkindness Of Ravens
Stolen Prey
A Christmas Homecoming
Deadlock: A V. I. Warshawski Novel
Death of a Ghost
Death of a Smuggler
Goldengirl
At Some Disputed Barricade
This Dark Road to Mercy
The Franchise Affair
The Body in the Castle Well
The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery
Silent Bones
Payment in Blood
Whistleblower
A Game of Fear: A Novel
Uniform Justice
The Bone Garden
Kindness Goes Unpunished: A Longmire Mystery
A Fatal Grace
The Boy from the Woods
Below Zero
Postcards From the Mediterranean
A Death in Cornwall
The Ink Black Heart
The Vault
Mulholland Dive: Three Stories
Pit Stop: Sean Reilly vs. Glen Garber
The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery
Summer Rain: An Inspector Banks Short Story
Deliver Us from Evil
The Hollows
The Bear Trap: A Mike Bowditch Short Story
For the Love of Mike
Black Rainbow
The Secret Hangman
O Jerusalem
Murder on the Red River
Black Cherry Blues
Bloodmoon
The Family Remains
Say Goodbye
Death of a Spy
The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax
Beau Death
Too Good to Be True
Fearless Fourteen
Neon Prey
One Of Us Is Dead
A Guilty Thing Surprised
An East End Murder: A Charles Lennox Short Story
The Snowman
The Old Silent
The Deadly Dance
Full Scoop
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
Red Eye: Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch
Backtrack: A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
A Christmas Resolution: A Novel
Butchers and Other Stories of Crime
Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads
Twisted Prey
Nine Dragons
Mile 81
The Inheritance
The House at Sea's End
Vicious Circle
Unusual Suspects: Stories of Mystery and Fantasy
Straight into Darkness
Better Safe Than Sorry: A Sgt. Windflower Mystery
Here I Stay
The Island
Evil Bones
The Quality of Mercy
The Scorpion's Tail
Reliquary
An Unmarked Grave
Among the Mad
With a Mind to Kill: A James Bond Novel
Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories
Don't Let Him In
Rock with Wings
Stately Holmes
The Wrong Side of Goodbye
We Solve Murders
The Lost Bird
Roxanne: A Kings Lake Investigation
Past Pretense
The Last Mile
The Distant Echo
Trace Elements
Our Lady of Pain: An Edwardian Murder Mystery
Death at the Sanatorium
Isle of Dogs
The Sentence is Death
I Am the Only Running Footman
Blood Hunt
Home by Nightfall
Plum Lucky
The Museum of Desire
The Devil's Star
Port Mortuary
The Murderer's Daughter
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
The Innocent
Junior High Samurai: A Short Story
The Twenty-Three
Shadow of the Solstice
Hidden Depths
The Killing Stones
Treachery at Lancaster Gate
A Good Fuck Spoiled
How the Dead Speak
Arm and the Woman
Caravan: A Novel
With This Ring: A Deborah Knott Short Story
A Gathering of Secrets
The Crash
The Marriage of Mary Russell
Nothing But Trouble
Stagestruck
Oh Danny Boy
The Haunted Abbot
The Story Teller
Two for the Dough
Knock
A Fearsome Doubt
Storm Front
Apples Never Fall
Still Life: A Karen Pirie Novel
Taking the Fifth
Death of a Master Chef: A Brittany Mystery
Hangman: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
Christmas Is Murder
What's Past Is Prologue
Outlaw Mountain
Three-Day Town
Do You Remember?
Sharp Objects: A Novel
Mary's Christmas
Badlands
Cleanskin
The Copenhagen Connection
Death by Deep Dish Pie
The Old Fox Deceiv'd
Arcadia: A Case For Willows And Lane
Deadly Election
Watching the Dark: An Inspector Banks Novel
Bleeding Hearts
Harvest
The Mysterious West
The Babysitter's Code
A Sinister Revenge
The Pact: A Kate Burkholder Short Mystery
The Woman in the Water: A Prequel to the Charles Lenox Series
Queen of the Flowers
The Black Ascot
Fade to Red
The Housemaid Is Watching
The Complaints
The Spook Who Spoke Again
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
Missing Joseph
Grasshopper
Transient Desires
The Murder Stone: A Novel of Suspense
Uncharted Waters
Death in the Cards
Masked Prey
Flashback
City of Darkness and Light
Gaslighted
All That Is Hidden
The Baby Snatcher
A Simple Murder: A Kate Burkholder Short Story Collection
Doctored Evidence
Nothing More Dangerous
Silken Prey
Land of Wolves: A Longmire Mystery
Do Not Disturb
Tess Monaghan: A Mysterious Profile
A Match Made for Murder
The Laws of Murder
Fleshmarket Close
The Spirit Woman
The Valkyrie Directive
The Lost Art of Gratitude
The Retribution
The Lost Man
Left You Dead
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown and Other Stories
A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women
An Echo of Murder: A William Monk Novel
A World of Curiosities
London Rules
Keeper of the Bride
Spook Street
Before She Disappeared
V is for Vengeance

“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.”