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I really like mysteries where they aren't stand-alones and there are progressive changes in the people's lives.
Me too. I adore Elizabeth George for that reason, because her cast of characters all change over the series (though, like any series, there are ups and downs in the quality of the plots, IMO).
I've only read a few of hers and they are indistinct in my memory. Did she have one where a garden gnome was sending postcards from all over the world?
Java - she may, but I'm not familiar with it. Using that site, here is the list of her mystery series featuring Thomas Lynley (aristocrat turned detective) and Barbara Havers (working class sergeant). I love the fact that Havers isn't the typical mystery-series woman protagonist especially.
I think the series hits its stride around the third or fourth book, but I enjoyed all of them.
I think that the garden gnome thing is one of the Elizabeth MacPherson (if that's the way she spells it) mysteries, written by Susan McCrumb.
Sharyn McCrumb did the postcard-sending garden gnome thing, don't know whether Elizabeth George did it too.
ETA: ha, sumi beat me to it by seven seconds
Sharyn! How could I forget that name!
One of the Sharyn McCrumb Elizabeth MacPherson books has a postcard-sending gnome. Elizabeth George is a good deal darker.
Of course it's a xpost.
Sharyn McCrumb stole my name!
Sharyn McCrumb stole my name!
Snacky McCrumb? That bitch!
Yup, McCrumb.
I love Archie Goodwin with body and soul. We're currently TiVoing all the Timothy Hutton Nero Wolfes.
Somehow or other, I've managed to never really get into the American modern mystery. It's weird; I love my old ones, my Stouts and my Chandlers and my Hammets. I prefer the UK ones most of the time, but those three, I love.
But somehow, I've never been able to enjoy Paretsky et al the way I do, say, Catherine Aird or P.D. James.