Detective Fisher

The Detective Fisher series is a series of novels by suspense crime and psychological suspense thriller writer Isabelle Grey. Composed of three novels, it is by far the most popular series by Isabelle Grey, who has also made a name for herself writing nonfiction and autobiographical works. The first novel in the Detective Fisher series was Good Girls Don’t Die, which was first published in 2014. Grey went on to write two more titles in the series by 2017 that garnered much critical acclaim and became highly popular on both sides of the Atlantic. The idea for the series came to Isabelle when her editor at Quercus asked her to write something that had a strong female protagonist. D.I. Grace Fisher was conceived as a detective that was excellent at her job even though she has skeletons from her old workplace. She hates bullies with a passion having been bullied by her colleagues at her previous workstation. As such, much of the series examines the workings of institutions and their role in society through the eyes of Grace Fisher. Some of the important themes that the Detective Fisher tackles include the toxic male culture within the police force and the corruption that has become endemic and institutionalized. One of the most important contemporary issues that the author deals with is how institutions whose mandate is to protect the society tends to protect their own, when they are guilty of the very same evils they are fighting against.