This is so sad! I loved and read all her books. She was 97? So glad she had a good long life and the talent to write. Thanks for the information.

John Lescroart's Dismas Hardy series is about a San Francisco do-good lawyer and his police detective best pal. "Dead Irish" is the first book. Elizabeth George is the American author of a series of mysteries set in Great Britain. The first book in the Inspector Linley series is "A Great Deliverance". He is a handsome, upper crust Scotland Yard inspector, his partner is a frumpy woman from the working class. Very entertaining. William Bernhardt's Ben Kincaid books are about a bumbling lawyer whose oddball staffers have to keep him from getting himself killed. I don't remember which title came first - but it's not really a series. All the books stand alone. Funny, but not as slapstick as the Evanovich books.

digger, If memory serves, Sir Joseph Banks was with Capt. Cook, was he not? If you enjoyed the bio and want to learn a bit more about Capt. Cook, I HIGHLY recommend Blue Latitudes by Tony Horwitz. It is non-fiction. He and a buddy decide to follow the path taken by Capt. Cook. The book is set up with alternating chapters...history about Cook's voyage, then what Horwitz is experiencing in the same vicinity. I literally fell off of the couch laughing at some parts, learned a whole lot and became a Horwitz fan and read everything else he's written. For medieval mysteries, try the Roger the Chapman series by Kate Sedley. The main character is Roger Chapman, a peddler who was near to taking his vows but decided against becoming a monk at the last minute. He claims that God steers his footsteps to towns and villages that have a problem that needs sorting out. Again, I've read every one and would suggest you read them in order. That order is also listed at the STOP! You're Killing Me! website. There are 11 or 12 of them, I believe, which will give you at least a few weeks of reading! I shall try to think of others and post them at a later time. Let us know which suggestions you try! PAM

Rainbow's End and Pierce the Veil by Bob Adamov. These are just mysteries that take place on the island I came from in Lake Erie. Birdman of Alcatraz:the Story of Robert Stroud by Thomas Gaddis I thought of another one but it slipped my mind already :0(((((