We have enjoyed streaming "White Collar" from Netflix and "Suits" from Amazon. In one, a expert art swindler and forger agrees to help the FBI catch slippery criminals. In "Suits", we get inside a leading New York law office. There are continuing elements in both stories but we have watched them enough to see differences in story structure and writing method. White Collar has episodes that are more independent while Suits is more of a continuing story. That difference got me to ask what characters have we read about in more than one book. Who have we gotten to know well enough that we recognize large parts of their lives in a 2nd or subsequent volume?
I made this list some fictional characters that I have read about in more than one book, that I have revisited:
Characters that I have revisited
Mma Ramotswe - Botswana - Alexander McCall Smith writes about the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, headed by this woman
Bertie - Scotland - a 7 year old genius with a very bothersome mother, also A.M. Smith
Inspector Rostnikov - Russia - Russian police stories by Stuart Kaminsky
Lord Emsworth - England - befuddled English lord by P.G. Wodehouse
John Dortmunder - New York - head of gang of thieves by Donald Westlake
Jake Lassiter - Miami - smart, tough lawyer by Paul Levine
William French, M.W. (failed) - London - wine merchant with dog by A. M. Smith
Commissario Guido Brunetti - Venice - Venetian policeman by Donna Leon
Tenzing Norbu - Los Angeles - Tibetan monk formerly on the LAPD police, now private investigator
Prof. Don Tillman - Australia - Asperger's syndrome prof. of genetics by Graeme Simsion
Cormoran Strike - London - detective by J.K. Rowling
Elvis the Newfoundland - America - Newfoundland dog meant to protect US President by Jenny Lee
Lord Peter Wimsey - London - Nobleman who is detective by Dorothy Sayers
Darko Dawson - Ghana - Ghanaian policeman by Kwei Quartey
Jim Chee - New Mexico - Navajo reservation policeman by Tony Hillerman
Bernadette Manuelito - New Mexico - also Navajo police by Tony Hillerman
Arkady Renko - Russia - Russian policeman often in trouble with Russian police by Martin Cruz Smith
Armand Gamache - Montreal - French Canadian police by Louise Penny
Kate Fansler - New York - Columbia prof. solves crimes by Amanda Cross
Flavia de Luce - England - child genius chemist by Alan Bradley
Joe Gunther - Vermont - by Archer Mayor
Kate Chandler - New York - employs magic by Shanna Swendson
The Man in the Yellow Hat - America - Curious George, child's book by H.A. Rey
Cassie Maddox - Ireland - Tana French writes about Dublin police
Myron Bolitar - America - adventures of a sports agent by Harlan Coben
Josiah Reynolds - Kentucky woman by Abigail Keam
Hamish MacBeth - Scotland policeman by M.C. Beaton
Agatha Raisin - England detective by M.C. Beaton
Lewellyn Ferris - Wisconsin Rhinelander police by Victoria Houston
Lisbeth Salander - Sweden - weird but brainy girl by Stieg Larsson
Clare Fergusson - upstate New York Episcopal woman priest by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Brown Dog - Michigan - dissolute ne'er-do-well by Jim Harrison
Grady Service- Michigan - super game warden by Joseph Heywood
Anna Pigeon - National parks policewoman by Nevada Barr
People in the class on this re-visitable characters subject have added:
Calvin and Hobbes - little boy and his stuffed but alive tiger |
V. I. Warshawski, by Sara Peretsky. Clare Fraser, by Diana Gabaldon. |
My pick, Easy Rawlings Mysteries by Walter Mosley. Forgive me if I submitted this more than once. I was using my Samsung Note and was having trouble so went to my computer. |
Spenser series by Robert B. Parker Kinsey Milhone (A to Z series)by Sue Grafton Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins Jonah Borden (Lake Superior mysteries) by Tom Hilpert |
Children's books Frances series |
Lion, Witch and Wardrobe series |
Harry Potter series |
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