NW Book Lovers
From the Pacific NW Booksellers Association | promoting independents since 1965
  • Find a store
  • NW authors
  • Classifieds
  • Browse
    • N.W. Voices: Essays
    • Conversations: Interviews
    • The Storefront: NW booksellers
    • Face Out:
      Bookseller recommended
    • One Nightstand:
      Reader recommended
    • Award Winners
    • A Cup of News
    • Best Foot Forward
    • Doodles
    • Reading-Related Rambles
    • The Shelf Talker
    • Turning Pages
  • Indie NW Bestsellers
  • About Us
Browse: Home / amateur sleuths

amateur sleuths

Apr

15

2026

Olive Oakes and the Haunted Carousel by Kalynn Bayron

I have loved Kalynn Bayron’s work since she published Cinderella is Dead. Recently she moved to middle grade fiction with the Vanquishers series about a new breed of vampire hunters. Now Bayron has turned the page again and we have Olive Oakes, detective extraordinaire. Olive is looking for mysteries in every part of her life, …

Sep

22

2025

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

More fun than a barrel full of kittens! Why sit around and complain about life in the elder neighborhood when you can get out there and solve crimes! This entire series is fun, interesting and invigorating. You should start with the first and you’ll be in a hurry to get through all 4 as fast …

May

7

2025

Murder at Gulls Nest by Jess Kidd

Jess Kidd is an absolute magician of storytelling. Be prepared to be caught under her spell with this atmospheric and cozy new mystery. Brew yourself a cuppa and dig in! –Christina Heagney, Country Bookshelf, Bozeman, MT How about this for a blurb from Kidd’s publisher across the pond? ‘Nora Breen is Maria Von Trapp on …

Jul

7

2023

Cover of "The Spare Man" featuring a standing couple with a dog. The wife holds a cane.

The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal

This really did feel like a futuristic “The Thin Man” in space, complete with the smoldering wife/husband chemistry, the swanky cocktails, the glamorous fashion, the charming dog, and the determined sleuths. I loved it! Bonus elements that added layers of satisfaction were a culture that normalizes pronouns at introduction (plus lots of nonbinary pronouns and …

Search

Facebook icon Twitter icon Instagram icon
What are you reading?

Advertising information

We recommend

Of N.W. interest

  • Book Nook Bits for Teens
  • Brad Craft: Used Buyer
  • Brian Doyle: Complete Epiphanies
  • Literary Arts
  • Northwest Passages Book Club
  • NW Book Talk
  • Oregon Humanities
  • Poetry Northwest
  • Seattle City of Lit Map
  • Seattle Indie Bookstore Day
  • Seattle Literary Map
  • Writing the Northwest

Of national interest

  • Authors Against Book Bans
  • Bookstore Romance Day
  • Christian Science Monitor
  • Independent Bookstore Day
  • Indie Bob Spot
  • largehearted boy
  • Literary Hub
  • Live Wire Radio's Open Book Podcast
  • New York Times Books
  • NPR Books
  • Salon.com
  • The Book Man
  • The Rumpus

On the industry

  • Book Publishers Northwest News
  • Bookselling This Week
  • PW Daily
  • Shelf Awareness

For library lovers

  • ALA READ Poster Series
  • EarlyWord
  • Home
  • Find an Indie Bookstore Near You!
  • NW authors
  • Classifieds
  • Indie NW Bestsellers
  • About Us

© 2010-2026 NW Book Lovers

A production of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association.