Babs Norman Hollywood Mystery Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles | 2024 | Buy |
| Bye Bye Blackbird | 2025 | Buy |
The Time Traveler Professor Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Meridian | 2019 | Buy |
| A Pocketful of Lodestones | 2019 | Buy |
| A War in Too Many Worlds | 2021 | Buy |
Elizabeth Crowens writes fiction that sits at the intersection of history, mystery, and speculative ideas. Her Time Traveler Professor series, which began in 2019 with Silent Meridian, draws on her interest in the golden age of Hollywood and takes characters across time periods to explore how the past and present connect. The series has a cinematic quality that reflects Crowens’s background in the entertainment industry.
Her Babs Norman Hollywood Mystery series, which launched in 2024 with Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles, takes a different approach, using a contemporary Hollywood setting and a Sherlock Holmes pastiche framework for its first entry. The combination of classic mystery conventions with a distinctly Los Angeles backdrop gives the series a personality of its own.
Crowens is a relatively recent presence in genre fiction, with all five of her books published between 2019 and 2025. Readers who enjoy mysteries with a strong sense of place and a love of Hollywood history will find her work worth exploring.