Don't sleep on JD Robb's 'In Death' series. It's a straight-up, long-running series following Eve Dallas, not separate series that interconnect. But the reason it fits here is the sheer depth of the ongoing world-building. Every side character has a rich, evolving backstory that gets novel-length attention. What starts as a simple futuristic cop procedural grows into this massive tapestry about her found family, their careers, and their lives.
New readers might be intimidated by the number of books, but the mysteries are mostly self-contained. The real hook is watching the relationships change over time—friendships, marriages, promotions, losses. It’s less about interconnected series and more about an interconnected life built across dozens of thrillers.
I'm just laughing because my favorite 'interconnection' is when an author clearly forgets a minor detail from an earlier book and a fan points it out. The author then retroactively declares it an 'unreliable narrator' situation or a 'parallel universe.' Happens more than you'd think in long-running series! Keeps the forums lively.
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