Angela just asked if I could add a new theme to the site which features "archaeology/anthropology based series">>> so here goes! (Remember that I am only including authors who are posted on the Cozy Mystery Site. I am sure that there are many other authors who write mysteries which feature anthropologists and archaeologists…)
Margot Arnold: Penny Spring & Sir Toby Glendower Mystery Series… set in Great Britain, has both anthropologist and archaeologist as the sleuths…
Dana Cameron: Emma Fielding Mystery Series…Emma is a New England archaeologist/professor…
Barbara Cleverly: Laetitia Talbot Mystery Series…set in France after WWI, the sleuth is an archaeologist…
Aaron Elkins: Gideon Oliver Mystery Series… Elkins, a former anthropologist has as his sleuth, a professor of anthropology…
Lyn Hamilton: Archaeological Mystery Series: Lara McClintoch is a Canadian antiques dealer…
Sharyn McCrumb: Elizabeth MacPherson Mystery Series… sleuth is a forensic anthropologist…
Elizabeth Peters (aka Barbara Mertz & Barbara Michaels: Amelia Peabody Mystery Series… a British Egyptologist/archaeologist…
Kathy Reichs: Temperance Brennan Mystery Series… (Not Cozy) the basis of the Fox show Bones… forensic anthropologist in Quebec…
Lynda S. Robinson: While the Lord Meren Mystery Series does not feature an archaeologist or anthropologist, the author of this ancient Egyptian mystery series holds a PhD in anthropology (emphasis on archaeology)…
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Thank you for the list! You’ve added at least 4 more authors to my list with just this list alone!
Love the Amelia Peabody series…..
Another fun series is actually a children’s series by R.L. LeFevers. Theodosia Throckmorton is a little girl who lives with her father who is curator (or director?) of the museum of antiquities. She is an amateur archaeologist who finds all sorts of mystery and trouble.
Hi Arlene,
That sounds like a truly delightful series. What a neat setting… It would provide a lot of educational possibilities that could just “slipped into” the plot of the story, without the reader knowing…
Diana O’Hehir writes a nice series with a daughter and her Egyptologist father (who is suffering from Alzheimer’s).
Thanks, Kirsten, for telling us about Diana O’Hehir!
Beverly Connor has two series featuring a forensic anthropologist, Diane Fallon and one featuring forensic anthropologist who specializes in archaeology, Lindsay Chamberlain. Both of these are superb mysteries.
Thanks so much for telling us about Beverly Connor!