I have recently started reading mystery series. I asked my friend Jack Frye what he reads and he told me about a book series set in the national parks. Jack retired after a career as a librarian, so I thought I should consider his recommendation seriously. Plus he and his wife Marcy set the bar high for what to do in retirement. They canoe, bike, sail Lake Superior and are game for anything without being fitness jocks.
Nevada Barr wrote the series with Anna Pigeon as the detective. The books were so easy to pick up and read, yet intelligent enough to hold my interest. I read several until the last one got a little gruesome on me. I'm now reading Sue Grafton and Kinsey Millhone is the private investigator. I am being true to the series and reading in order. It's a little dated but I like Kinsey.
The great thing about liking a series is you've always got something to read when you don't have a good book waiting for you. Not that these aren't good books but they're not great books, books you hate to end. In fact you're always kind of glad when a mystery is solved and you can check that book off and mark a notch on your reading belt. Sort of like watching Castle or Bones.
I think it's a coincidence that the protagonists are female, but maybe it isn't.
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