Mystery series: Campbell and Carter

I’m finally up to day with Ann Granger’s “other” contemporary mystery series, so the time is right for a Friday series post about them.

Jess Campbell is a detective inspector, who we first met in the Mitchell and Markby series, but who has now moved to Gloucestershire. In the first book Ian Carter is her new superintendent and they start their working relationship by investigating a murder mystery, and the murders keep coming as we’re due an eight book in the series just before Christmas.

They are definitely towards the cozier end of mystery novels with police officers as the leads and are rural-based in the main, set in villages and rural locations with interesting casts of characters. If you like Mitchell and Markby, these have all the same sort of vibes and feels, just with different lead characters (who are both cops this time) and a different location. They’re incredibly easy to read and once I’d got my hands on copies of the ones I was missing, it was hard not to just read them back to back. I’m really looking forward to seeing what happens in book eight – I started in the middle of the series then jumped back to the start and read the ones that I hadn’t read in order – so I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next and what happens with Jess and Ian. I#

I’ve got hold of these from larger book stores with big crime sections – like Waterstones Gower Street and Foyles, but they’re also in Kindle and Kobo and are often pretty reasonably priced.

Have a great weekend everyone.