You can’t very well have a sleuth who is a doctor without a great sleuth who is a nurse to accompany him/her. I wasn’t quite sure what to do with the sleuths who are midwives, since the list is so short. So, I decided to lump midwife sleuths in with the nurse sleuths.
Here is a list of authors who are on the Cozy Mystery site who happen to write series which feature nurse sleuths as well as midwife sleuths :
Mystery Books Theme: Main Sleuth Who Is a Nurse…
Lori Avocato: Pauline Sokol Mystery Series (Ex-Nurse)
Susan Bernhardt: Kay Driscoll Mystery Series – Kay Driscoll is a retired nurse who volunteers at the local free clinic.
Frances Brody: Kate Shackleton Mystery Series – “The Kate Shackleton books by Frances Brody have a protagonist who was a nurse in WWI. It’s not an enormous part of all the books but it is mentioned several times and she does work part time as a nurse to solve a mystery in one of her volumes.”
Candy Calvert: Darcy Cavanaugh Cruise Mystery Series
Christine Green: Kate Kinsella Mystery Series (Ex-Nurse)
Nancy Herriman: Maggie McDonald Mystery Series (nurse in 1860s San Francisco)
Mary Roberts Rineheart: Hilda Adams Mystery Series
Annelise Ryan (aka Allyson K. Abbott & Beth Amos): Mattie Winston Mystery Series (Ex-Nurse)
P.B. Ryan: Gilded Age Mystery Series
Charles Todd: Bess Crawford Mystery Series
Rebecca Tope: Drew Slocombe Mystery Series (Ex-Nurse)
Christine Trent: Florence Nightingale Mystery Series – Florence is a nurse in England during the 1850s.
Jill Paton Walsh: Imogen Quy Mystery Series
Mary V. Welk: Caroline Rhodes Mystery Series
Sharon Wildwind: Pepperhawk/Avivah Rosen Mystery Series
Jacqueline Winspear: Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series (nurse in WWI)
Mystery Books Theme: Main Sleuth Who Is a Midwife…
Margaret Lawrence: Hannah Trevor Mystery Series
Edith Maxwell (aka Maddie Day & Tace Baker): Carriagetown Mystery Series (Quaker midwife in late 1800s Massachusetts)
Victoria Thompson: Gaslight Mystery Series
If you are interested in finding a Sleuth Who Is a Doctor/Physician, click here.
If you are interested in finding a Sleuth Who Works In the Medical Field, click here. (herbalist, apothecary, ambulance driver, medical fraud investigator, medical examiner, deputy coroner, forensic pathologist, forensic anthropologist, forensic sculptor, hospital patient representative, forensic psychiatrist, meal delivery program director, undertaker, alternative healer, naturopathic doctor)
If I have missed any other Cozy Mystery site authors who have a nurse sleuth or a midwife sleuth, please post a comment so that I can add the omission.
♦To access more Cozy Mysteries by Theme click on this link.♦
words and peace says
Sam Thomas, The Midwife’s Tale; The Harlot’s Tale. Lady Bridget is a midwife .
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thanks for telling us about the Sam Thomas midwifery mysteries.
Sharon says
I have recently read a few series where the primary character is a nurse and I love them all. Maisie Dobbs, by Jacqueline Winspear, was a nurse in WWI; Nell Sweeney is a nurse in the series set in post-Civil War Boston by P.B. Ryan. Bess Crawford, a new series by Charles Todd, is a WWI nurse. And then there is Jade del Cameron, a series by Suzanne Arruda, who was an ambulance driver in WWI. Another, although supporting, is Zee an emergency room nurse, JW Jackson’s wife in the Martha’s Vineyard series set in the 90’s by Philip R. Craig. Sharon
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Sharon, thanks for the information about Nurse Sleuths in Mysteries. I went ahead and added them, and am saving Suzanne Arruda’s Jade del Cameron for the last part of the medical theme which is a catch-all for non nurse, doctor, or midwife sleuths.
Thanks, again!
Ann says
Although not a mystery, I love Call the Midwife series (book and TV). They depict London as it was in my childhood and brings back lots of memories.
Ann
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Ann, I really enjoyed the first season of the Call the Midwife series on television. I haven’t read the book which it is based on, but am guessing that it’s very good.
Jayne Self says
Does a medical receptionist count? I have written two Seaglass Mysteries (published by Harbourlight) which ‘star’ amateur sleuth and medical receptionist Gailynn MacDonald.
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thank you, Jayne Self, for telling us about your Seaglass Mystery Series.
F. Beaumont says
The Kate Shackleton books by Frances Brody have a protagonist who was a nurse in WWI. It’s not an enormous part of all the books but it is mentioned several times and she does work part time as a nurse to solve a mystery in one of he volumes. And they’re fun cozies to read!
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Thanks, F. Beaumont! I’ll add Frances Brody’s series to the list.
Heidi says
I’ve read about a nurse in St Louis, she’s a forensic nurse, emergency nurse, and with a number of other degrees.
The author is amazing, clearly a nurse herself or at least someone in the medical field.
The books are funny, poignant and sometimes sad, like when a gunshot wound is brought in, a biker type with a tattooed penis……
Anyway, I can’t remember the writers name since I have let someone borrow them and haven’t seen them since.
Who is the author??
Danna - cozy mystery list says
Heidi, it could be the Monika Everhardt Medical Mysteries by Eleanor Sullivan, though I’m not certain.
MJM says
That would be author Eileen Dreyer!