No, I don't mean Librarians who work in Cozy Libraries! I mean…. cozy mysteries that feature sleuths who just happen to be librarians, also. (Or should I say sleuths who sometimes are librarians?!?) Here is the list of the cozy mystery authors (on the Cozy Mystery Site) who keep us entertained with librarians:
Jeff Abbott: His Jordan Poteet Series features a librarian in Texas…
Deborah Adams: Her Jesus Creek Mysteries feature volunteer librarians…
Lydia Adamson: The Lucy Wayles Series features a retired librarian…
Claudia Bishop: Hemlock Falls Series has one less librarian, and one more inn….
Lillian Jackson Braun: No, The Cat Who *** Series is not about a cat librarian… but Jim's friend Polly fills that part…
Elizabeth Lynn Casey (aka Laura Bradford): Southern Sewing Circle Mystery Series… Tori Sinclair is a librarian/sleuth who is also a member of the Sewing Circle in South Carolina…
Shirley Damsgaard: Ophelia of the Ophelia and Abby Series fills the librarian position…
Jo Dereske: Helma Zukas of the Miss Zukas Series is the librarian in this series…
Amanda Flower: The India Haye Mystery Series features a college librarian…
Jeanne Glidewell: The Roxie Starr Mystery Series features an assistant librarian…
Charlaine Harris: Her Aurora Teagarden Series revolves around Aurora, a librarian…
Patricia Harwin: The Far Wychwood Mysteries' retired librarian moves to England to be close to her daughter…
Jess Lourey: Her Murder by the Month Mysteries feature a librarian/reporter…
Charlotte MacLeod: Her Peter Shandy Mysteries quickly added Helen, the librarian, to the list of main characters…
D. R. Meredith: Megan Clark, from the Murder by the Yard Series, is the librarian…
Miriam Grace Monfredo: The Seneca Falls Historical Mystery Series features a 19th century librarian…
Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Her Joe Grey Cat Series features Dulcie, the library cat…
Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Mertz, Barbara Michaels): The Jacqueline Kirby Series features an ex-librarian who now is a romance novelist…
R. T. Raichev: Antonia, from the Country House Mystery Series, is not only an author, but also a librarian…
J. B. Stanley: The Supper Club Mystery Series features an ex-professor who currently is a librarian/sleuth…
Eric Wright: The Lucy Trimble Brenner Series revolves around a librarian who inherits a detective agency…
Here is an addition to the list:
Fran Stewart: The Biscuit McKee and Marmalade Mystery Series has a librarian/sleuth
Judith Van Gieson: The Claire Reynier Mystery Series…
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Don’t forget R. T. Raichev’s Country House Mystery series. Antonia is a librarian in the Military Club when we first meet her in “The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette.”
Mary Ann,
Thanks for the reminder! I am going to go add Raichev to the page right now… (Which will make our comments look a little odd… since I’m adding that series after the fact!)
I have just finished the fifth Megan Clark book by D.R. Meredith. Do you know if she is still writing these? I do like the wasy she has written the series. Thanks.
Hi Dennis,
I tried to find out about D. R. Meredith, and came up with nothing, nada, zilch… Sorry about that! Hopefully, a site reader will know the answer.
(I always feel bad when I am not able to track down information… But, I have found that actually writing the author’s last known publisher is not very fruitful… actually, it’s not at all fruitful!)
YAY! I love to see my fellow librarians in books! Thank you for this fantastic website!
Hi Suzanne,
And a big thank you to all the librarians out there!
(Let’s face it, our love for books probably started way back when we got to make our weekly visits to the libraries at our elementary schools…)
How about adding a “law enforcement” theme..police officers, lawyers, judges, bounty hunters, park rangers, private detectives?
You might add “and educators” to librarians. When I was helping at the circulation desk at our library a woman was checking out a “Miss Zukas”. I told her that series was one of my favorites, and although she agreed it was good, she said she preferred a series about a college professor. Because the library was so busy, we didn’t have a chance to chat, and all the information I got was that the professor was an older man. I have not been able to find a series about a college professor, and I would like to read something like that.
Hi Sue,
Thanks for all of the theme ideas. I have some of them already started (I compiled a list a while back… going through each of the authors on the Cozy Mystery Site.)
Also, I wonder if she wasn’t referring to J. B. Stanley‘s Supper Club Mystery Series…
Maybe it was the Peter Shandy series.
Definitely could be Charlotte MacLeod’s Peter Shandy series… Sorry, I misunderstood… I thought it had a library tie-in…
Sarah Shaber does an academic cozy about a college professor in Raleigh, North Carolina. They are called the Professor Simon Shaw mysteries.
Hi Karen,
I have Sarah R. Shaber on my “teachers theme” list… and I really should get that done… Thanks for reminding me!
Anyone ever heard of Bonnie Chesterfield? Not sure if she is the author or the librarian?
Thanks so much!
Hi Kate,
The best I can come up with is this:
Lorna Barrett‘s Bookmarked for Death mystery novel has a character in it named Fiona Sample who supposedly writes the Bonnie Chesterfield, librarian mystery series…