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Recommended by Camila Taylor

Peter Grainger’s DC smith series is really good. He has other series too, but the DC Smith books are

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Recommended by Scarlett Moore

I’ve read the first three books of Peter Grainger’s DC Smith series so far and really enjoyed them.

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I really love the DC Smith series and it’s companion series with the same characters, King’s Lake In

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Books By Peter Grainger

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
The Rags of Time: A DC Smith Investigation
Time and Tide: A DC Smith Investigation
A Private Investigation: 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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I’ve read the first three books of Peter Grainger’s DC Smith series so far and really enjoyed them.

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Recommended Books From Peter Grainger Fans

The Dry
Dead Man's Grip
The Stone Wife
The Murder Stone: A Novel of Suspense
The Traitor Among Us
Unnatural History: An Alex Delaware Novel
Sons of the Wolf
Hide and Seek
We Three Queens
The Long Way Home
Dangerous Minds
Robicheaux
A Share in Death
Flashback
The Twisted Root: A William Monk Novel
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Isle of Dogs
Ten Big Ones
Death of a Macho Man
The Comfort of Ghosts
The Three Fates
The Scarecrow
I'm Not Done with You Yet
Kissing Christmas Goodbye
Dead Man's Chest
A Cool Head
The Kate Shugak Investigations: Books 1-9
The Shadow Killer
The Running Grave
A Line to Kill
Masked Prey
Tunnel Vision
Killing Season: A Thriller
The Curious Case of the Copper Corpse: A Flavia de Luce Story
The Beautiful Mystery
The Clairvoyant Countess
Unfinished Business
Death of an Addict
The Black Cat: A Richard Jury Mystery
The Last Mrs. Summers
On Eden Street: A Kings Lake Investigation
Death in a Strange Country
Play with Fire
Powers of Detection
Two for the Dough
Lay Down My Sword and Shield
Resistance
Need You Dead
Lightning Strike
The Stone Circle
Desert Heat
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
Crocodile on the Sandbank
The Right Thing to Do
C Is for Corpse
A Necessary End
A Christmas Odyssey
Black Diamond
Queen of Hearts
Trial by Fury
Vicious Circle
The Disappeared
The Perfect Suspect
The Bone Hacker
Judgment Call
The Girl of His Dreams
As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Playing with Fire
The Golden One
A Question of Belief
The Body by the Sea: A Brittany Mystery
Holy Ghost
A Christmas Vanishing: A Novel
A Fearsome Doubt
The Order
The Long Call
Off the Grid
The Old Contemptibles
Pushing Up Daisies
Ends of Justice
And Justice There Is None
Wicked Charms
Back to the Garden
Hard Row
A Stranger in Mayfair
Swan Peak
1979: An Allie Burns Novel
Cruel and Unusual
Trophy Hunt
Lamentation
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
In a House of Lies
The Mary Russell Companion
Dead on Target: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
The Bounty
Transient Desires
Resurrection Walk
Diagnosis Dead
The Lying Game
Gone: An Alex Delaware Novel
The Fly on the Wall
The Cruelest Month
The Man Who Fell from the Sky
Half of Paradise
Wild Irish Rose
Autopsy
You Will Never Be Me
The Deeds of the Disturber
Wolf Pack
Black Rainbow
Smoke and Murders
The Levee
Mortal Prey
Hangman: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
The Fleur de Sel Murders: A Brittany Mystery
Dead to Rights
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Through a Glass
The Janus Stone
The Brass Verdict
Standing in Another Man's Grave
Point of Origin
The Hippopotamus Pool
Now or Never
Winter Prey
Last Breath
Bertie and the Crime of Passion
The Spook Who Spoke Again
A Certain Justice
Molly Murphy Series: Books 1-15
A Christmas Beginning
Moscow Rules
Pieces of Her: A Novel
Hidden Depths
Surfacing
I Follow You
Agatha's First Case: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
Messenger of Truth
Angle of Investigation
Break No Bones
All the Colors of Darkness
Listening Woman
Cop Town
Edge of Evil
The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists
A Beautiful Blue Death
The Pact: A Kate Burkholder Short Mystery
An Island of Suspects: A Brittany Mystery
Hardcore Twenty-Four
The Black Ascot
The Trespasser
At the Reunion Buffet: An Isabel Dalhousie Story
A Cruel Fate
Exit Wounds
Third Twin
Deja Dead
Dead Souls
Winter in Madrid: A Novel
Evanly Bodies
Silent Partner
The Five Bells and Bladebone
The Woman in Blue
Showstopper
Skeleton Hill
Land of Wolves: A Longmire Mystery
Reader
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Wicked Appetite
The Black Echo
Dull Knife
Trick of the Dark
Abracadaver
Blue Lightning
Full Tilt: A Novel
Murder at the Mendel
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
H is for Homicide
Union Jack
The Mapping of Love and Death
Fatal Error
Kaleidoscope: A Countess Karitska Novel
Beneath the Skin
The Fallen Angel
Acceptable Loss: A William Monk Novel
Ordinary Grace
The Night Fire
Bones of the Lost
Revelation
Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
Twisted Prey
The Lion and the Rose
The Twelve Clues of Christmas
Evan Only Knows
Sleeping in the Ground: An Inspector Banks Novel
Peril in Paris
Spider Girl
Justice Hall
Street of the Five Moons: A Vicky Bliss Novel of Suspense
The Scroll
Guardian of the Horizon
An Extravagant Death
Deadly Appearances
Bruno and the Carol Singers: A Christmas Mystery of the French Countryside
Bruno
Murder and Mendelssohn
What Child Is This
Jackdaws
Payment in Blood
A Sunless Sea: A William Monk Novel
High Country
The Way of All Fish
The Reversal
The Tin Roof Blowdown
Kingdom of the Blind
The Executor: A Thriller
The Complaints
A Rule Against Murder
Death in Holy Orders
A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
The Falcon at the Portal
Gallows View: The First Inspector Banks Novel
Be Buried in the Rain
The English Spy
In Like Flynn
Careless in Red
Copper River
A Question of Honor
Broken: A Novel
Silent Voices
Dark Tide Rising: A William Monk Novel
Pentecost Alley
Dead Simple
Dublin Murder Squad Mysteries: Books 1-6
The Fourth Enemy
Cross Bones
A Matter of Justice
Corpus Christmas
Blood Hollow
Void Moon
The Discreet Charm of the Big Bad Wolf
Too Good to Be True
Moriarty
Murder in Paradise
Ocean Prey
A Hidden Secret: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
A Highland Christmas: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
The Crossing
The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Devil's Waltz
Doctored Evidence
Trunk Music
Trouble
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
The Truth: A DC Smith Investigation
Dust: A Richard Jury Mystery
The Charming Quirks of Others
The Torment of Others
Pardonable Lies
A Taint in the Blood
A Monstrous Regiment of Women
An Accidental Death: A DC Smith Investigation
Bad Blood
Fortune and Glory
Hunting Badger
An Unmarked Grave
Death at Victoria Dock
Shadows Reel
Judgment Prey
The Wandering Soul Murders
The Truth
Death in Blue Folders
Never
Stately Holmes
A Case of Spirits
From Potter's Field
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Camera Man: A DC Smith Investigation
The Rose Arbor
The Hidden One
Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death
The Thursday Murder Club
The Snake
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Death of a Hussy
Ode To A Banker
The Fleet Street Murders
The Secret Place
Windigo Island
Hallowed Ground: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
Phantom Prey
Burning Angel
The Bone Bed
Breaking Point
The Body in the Castle Well
The Son: A Novel
The Overlook
Summer Rain: An Inspector Banks Short Story
Dorchester Terrace
The Distant Echo
The Sweet Remnants of Summer

“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.”

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