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Uncommonly Good Mysteries

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Barbara Casey

Links to my full book reviews plus lists of books in order. I started my Uncommonly Good Mysteries book reviews in 2011 after reading Eliot Pattison's “The Skull Mantra”. Here are links to actual reviews of some of my favorite mystery series with all...

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Charlie Muffin Mystery Series by Brian Freemantle

Chief Inspector Gamache Series by Louise Penny

Kate Shugak Novels by Dana Stabenow

The Inspector Shan Series by Eliot Pattison

"Cold in the Earth" by Aline Templeton

Book Review of "The Long Way Home" by Louise Penny

Charlie Muffin Mystery Series by Brian Freemantle

If you like British espionage books, I think you’ll enjoy the Charlie Muffin mysteries by Brian Freemantle. Many reviewers call Brian Freemantle one of the top espionage writers today… possibly one of the best of all time.

Excellent spy novels from the Cold War era onward. Charlie Muffin is a character worth knowing.

Charlie Muffin Mysteries in Order - Barbara Casey

Chief Inspector Gamache Series by Louise Penny

If you haven’t tried the Three Pines/Chief Inspector Armand Gamache detective fiction series yet, you’re in for a treat. The characters become old friends and the village of Three Pines feels like home (a place I’d love to live in).

Great writing and a cast of characters that you grow to love

Chief Inspector Gamache Novels in Order - Barbara Casey

Kate Shugak Novels by Dana Stabenow

Dana Stabenow’s Kate Shugak novels feature well-developed, interesting characters, a locale known to few (an Alaskan national park) and lifestyles even fewer of us could handle. This is one of the handsdown best mystery series I’m following. Stabenow...

Set in Alaska, this is an uncommonly good mystery series by an Edgar Award-winning author

Kate Shugak Novels by Dana Stabenow

The Inspector Shan Series by Eliot Pattison

The Inspector Shan series begins with “The Skull Mantra,”, which won Eliot Pattison the 2001 Edgar Award for Best First Novel.

“The Skull Mantra” was the book that inspired my “Uncommonly Good Mysteries” list, which I first started in 2011. I had just read Eliot Pattison’s newest book “Ashes of the Earth: A Mystery of Post-Apocalyptic America” and was impressed enough to loo...

Inspector Shan Series by Eliot Pattison - Barbara Casey

"Cold in the Earth" by Aline Templeton

Aline Templeton’s DI Marjory Fleming series had been on my radar for four years, ever since one of my favorite mystery writers, Louise Penny, recommended it on her blog. The series made it onto my Uncommonly Good Mysteries list.

The main character, Detective Inspector Marjory Fleming, is a tall, athletic woman who is married to a sheep farmer in the Galloway, Scotland area. The locale is important to the story which has twists and turns galore.

Cold in the Earth by Aline Templeton

Book Review of "The Long Way Home" by Louise Penny

My review of “The Long Way Home” – Louise Penny’s 10th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series… and why I thought it was the best book in the series to date. (There are 10 more books after this one… so far)

The ending of this book made me cry. At one in the morning, when I finished reading the story and then tried falling asleep. Except I kept thinking about the book. And when I woke up in the morning, I was writing a review in my head.

The Long Way Home by Louise Penny