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The Late Lord Thorpe
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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Hung Out to Die
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Eye of the Needle
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Losing You
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Darkest Fear
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Patriot's Dream
Chaos
Swing
Hush Hush
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Two Graves
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Venus in Copper
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Miracle Cure
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Speaking in Bones
Common Murder
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Death of a Greedy Woman
F is for Fugitive
The Dark Vineyard
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Ward D
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Smoke and Murders
From Doon with Death
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The Best American Mystery Stories 2011
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A Sleeping Life
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Dead Mountain
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The Story Teller
There Goes the Bride
The Best Man to Die
A World of Curiosities
Madame Tessier Knows All
Why We Die
A Sight for Sore Eyes
Later
Smoke and Whispers
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The Son: A Novel
Toxic Prey
Brush Back
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After the Storm
Lady of the Eternal City
Angels Flight
Master of Souls
Justice Denied
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The Healers
Lord of the Silent
Hard Truth
Red Eye: Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch
Payment in Blood
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
The Memory Game
Death of a Hussy
Dark Corners
The Rose Arbor
Death of a Dreamer
Death with a Double Edge
The Perfect Husband
Now May You Weep
Suicide Run
A Fearsome Doubt
Look Alive Twenty-Five
Full Speed
The Collected Short Stories and Essays
Killing Raven
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
Fire and Ice
His & Hers
Knife Creek
The Mary Russell Companion
Brat Farrar
The Chalk Pit
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The Old Contemptibles
Love You Dead
Kick Back
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World Without End
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One Was a Soldier
The Falls
Death of a Travelling Man
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A Question of Blood
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Hiss and Hers
Taking the Veil: MatchUp Collection
The Distant Echo
The Devil's Code
Death of a Perfect Wife
A Good Fuck Spoiled
A Simple Deduction
In the Bleak Midwinter
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Shadows in Bronze
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To Dwell in Darkness
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Midnight Cowboy
Blood Will Tell
Reese Witherspoon Harlan Coben Novel
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Fallen
Search the Shadows
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Death of a Dustman
The Defector
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The Chalice of Blood
The Dollhouse
Depth Perception
The Red Room
Snakehead
As the Crow Flies: A Longmire Mystery
Angels in the Gloom: A Novel
To Love and Be Wise
The Locked Tomb Mystery and Other Stories
The Survivors
Hush Now
Q is for Quarry
Insidious Intent
In the Moon of Red Ponies
Spider Bones
E is for Evidence
Seeds of Deception: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
We Begin at the End
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A Grave Denied
Death in Daylesford
Hatchet Island
The Deadly Dance
The Private Patient
Doctored Evidence
Death at La Fenice
Switchblade
Not Dark Yet
In Sunshine or in Shadow
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Point of Origin
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The Surrogate Mother
Reliquary
The Chase
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Dead Simple
Blue Lightning
What's Past Is Prologue
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Missing Joseph
Reconstruction
The Favor
Potboiler
Locked Rooms
Resistance
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Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
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Easy as A-B-C
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The Poet
Death of a Chimney Sweep
Joyland
The Black Widow
Nightblind
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Death of a Gossip
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The Lost Island
Stagestruck
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The Closers
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The Body
The Rembrandt Affair
The Careful Use of Compliments
Black Rainbow
Mrs Pollifax and the Golden Triangle
Book of the Dead
House of the Rising Sun
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The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
Silent Voices
I Will Find You
How to Solve Your Own Murder
A Rule Against Murder
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After I'm Gone
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Flashback
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“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.”