If You Like…Mystery Series
(with a Reoccurring Main Character)

Compiled by Leslie West
Bessemer Public Library

You’ll Really Like...

Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross)
by James Patterson

Blindsighted (Dr. Sara Linton)
by Karin Slaughter

The Bootlegger’s Daughter (Deborah Knott)
by Margaret Maron

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Jim Qwilleran)
by Lilian Jackson Braun

Dead Midnight (Sharon McCone)
by Marcia Muller

Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitan)
by Harlan Coben

Defense for the Devil ( Barbara Holloway)
by Kate Wilhelm

Everybody Dies (Matt Scudder)
by Lawrence Block

Gonna Take a Homicidal Journey (Lauren Laurano)
by Sandra Scoppettone

Hardball (Cat Marsala)
by Barbara D’Amato

Hard Time (V.I. Warshawski)
by Sara Paretsky

Jane and the Man of the Cloth (Jane Austen)
by Stephanie Barron

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (Mma Precious Ramotswe)
by Alexander McCall Smith

One for the Money (Stephanie Plum)
by Janet Evanovich

Purple Cane Road (Dave Robicheaux)
by James Lee Burke

Potshot (Spenser)
by Robert B. Parker

Shell Game (Kathleen Mallory)
by Carol O’Connell

The Surgeon (Jane Rizzoli)
by Tess Gerritsen

Time Expired (Jill Smith)
by Susan Dunlap

Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon)
by Nevada Barr

A Trouble of Fools (Carlotta Carlyle)
by Linda Barnes

Whisker of Evil (Mary Minor Haristeen & Mrs. Murphy)
by Rita Mae Brown