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Books By Peter Grainger

The Late Lord Thorpe
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
In This Bright Future: 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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Recommended Books From Peter Grainger Fans

The Soul of Discretion
The Devil's Code
Boar Island
Revenge in a Cold River: A William Monk Novel
Shamed
Friday on My Mind
To the Power of Three
Agatha Raisin and The Witch of Wyckhadden
One Virgin Too Many
Fire and Ice
The Birthday Present
The Thunder Keeper
Suicide Run
A Truth to Lie For
Serpent Gate
On the Edge
The Chessmen
The Spider's Web
Here I Stay
The St. Zita Society
Easy as A-B-C
The Jackal's Head
Naked Once More
Crusader's Cross
Ordinary Grace
Hell's Corner
Goldengirl
Blue on Black
The Dark Wind
The Perfect Husband
Hallowed Ground: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
The Surrogate Mother
The Last Remains
Dishing the Dirt
At Risk
Die for Love
Creole Belle
A Treacherous Curse
Watching the Dark: An Inspector Banks Novel
Quantum
Faith
Blood on Snow
Full Scoop
The Guest
Cleanskin
Credible Threat
Next to Last Stand: A Longmire Mystery
Fugitive Colors
The Sinister Pig
Alchemist
Lockdown
Smoke and Whispers
The Black Cabinet
A Cry in the Night
Oystercatcher
People of Darkness
I Shall Not Want
The Murders of Richard III
Long Road to Mercy
The Burnt House
Tamarack County
The Dead Sea Cipher
Mind Prey
One Fine Day You're Gonna Die
Wild Fire
Here One Moment
The Stolen Hours
Heartstone
The Seventh Trumpet
Broken Promise
Right Behind You
The Hanged Man's Song
End of Watch
Wicked Charms
Showstopper
Another Kind of Eden
Heat Lightning
End of the Pier
No Time for Goodbye
The Bone Code
The Seventh Sinner
Return to Sender: A Longmire Mystery
An Enemy in the Village
Evan Only Knows
Lamentation
A Demon In My View
Eyes of Prey
Win
World Without End
The Cruelest Month
The Widow's Husband's Secret Lie: A Satirical Novella
Triple
The Hit
The Murder Room
Half Moon Street
The Apprentice: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Three Twisted Stories
To Love and Be Wise
Cooking the Books
A Bird in the Hand
The Summer That Never Was
Sweet
Flashback
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
State of Terror
The Sheen on the Silk
Fever Dream
V is for Vengeance
A Bitter Truth
Tomb of the Golden Bird
Rhymes With Prey: Lincoln Rhyme vs. Lucas Davenport
Postcards From the Mediterranean
The Trespasser
The Quiche of Death
Joe Country
Fair Warning
The Last Place
Started Early
Unfinished Business
C Is for Corpse
Silence in Hanover Close
The Reversal
Through the Evil Days
Then She Was Gone
No Cure for Love: A Novel
The Punishment She Deserves
Sunset Limited
Apostle's Cove
Behind Closed Doors
Walk the Wire
The Simple Truth
Dark Sky
A Letter of Mary
A Good Hanging
The Gimlet Slip
Long Bright River
Lion in the Valley
M is for Malice
The Therapist
Alexandria
Lord John and the Hellfire Club
All That Glitters: A Sgt. Windflower Mystery
The Keepsake: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax
Playing with Fire
Resurrection Row
Death of a Poison Pen
Missing Pieces: A Kings Lake Investigation
A Sudden
Devil May Care
Cause of Death
Stranded
An Old
Death of a Hussy
Death of a Domestic Diva
The Law of Innocence
I Am the Only Running Footman
The Armor of Light
A Christmas Secret: A Novel
Raw Bone
The Mapping of Love and Death
Deserves to Be Dead: MatchUp Collection
Mercy Falls
The Safe Man: A Ghost Story
Master of the Moor
J is for Judgment
Still See You Everywhere
A Fatal Lie
Death of a Kingfisher
Song of the Lion
Never Look Away
Cell
Not Dead Enough
Urn Burial
Call After Midnight
Stop Them Dead
Full Speed
The Scottish Prisoner
U is for Undertow
The Benefit of Hindsight
The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists
Faithless: A Novel
The Vicious Vet
This Is Why We Lied: A Will Trent Thriller
Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding
Leaving Everything Most Loved
The Rope
Cleaning the Gold: A Jack Reacher and Will Trent Short Story
Cop to Corpse
The Night of Four Hundred Rabbits
Murder in My Backyard
Evil Bones
Finger Lickin' Fifteen
Patriot's Dream
A Breach of Security
Gravity
The Grey Wolf
The Salaryman's Wife
The Falls
Hunting Season
Night Prey
The Mill on the Shore
Beneath the Skin
Death at the Sign of the Rook
At the Reunion Buffet: An Isabel Dalhousie Story
Death of a Celebrity
Careless Love
A Cruel Deception
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
Charm City
The Speaker Of Mandarin
The Pillars of the Earth
Maisie Dobbs
A Better Man
Bare Bones
To Fear a Painted Devil
Gathering Prey
Tombland
Sons of the Wolf
Not the Ones Dead
Verdict in Blood
The Recovery Agent
Heavenly Pleasures
The Lost Art of Gratitude
The Magnolia Palace
No Graves As Yet: A Novel
A Dying Light in Corduba
Tuesday's Gone
The Skeleton Road
Silent as the Grave
The Heist
Black and Blue
The Inheritance
A Cool Head
Twisted: A Novel
Unto Us a Son Is Given
Swing
Magpie Murders
After That Night: A Will Trent Thriller
Hardball: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
The Absent One
The Risk of Darkness
Baltimore Blues
Death in Darkness
Dead Wrong
One by One
Our Lady of Darkness
Hatchet Island
The Poacher's Son
House of Death
Dream Girl
Slaves of Obsession: A William Monk Novel
By a Spider's Thread
Shots Fired
Dry Bones: A Longmire Mystery
Harm Done
Killing the Shadows
Up Jumps the Devil
Westwind
T is for Trespass
Extreme Prey
Death of a Charming Man
The Old Contemptibles
Identity Unknown
The Bride's Kimono
The Black Cat: A Richard Jury Mystery
The Retribution
206 Bones
Cruel and Unusual
The Good
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
An Inside Job
Blindfold Game
The Janus Stone
The Mystery of the Lost Cezanne
All Mortal Flesh
Miracle Cure
From a Far and Lovely Country
Paper Money
All the Colors of the Dark
Serpentine: An Alex Delaware Novel
Death at La Fenice
Blood from a Stone
The Whitechapel Conspiracy
The Spider's Web
Shock Wave
Fade Away
The Silkworm
All That Is Hidden
Do You Remember?
Something to Hide
Cardington Crescent
The Master Falconer
Plain Truth
Dead Man's Time
Believing the Lie
Man Overboard
Serpent's Tooth
Airship

“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.”