Jack Lynch

Jack Lynch was born and brought up in Seattle, graduated from the Washington University with a Bachelor degree in journalism, and reported for a variety of Seattle region newspaper publishers, and later on some others in Kansas and Iowa. He later on relocated southern San Francisco Bay Area, in 1960s, where he temporarily worked for a brokerage house and also as a bar-tender in Sausalito, prior to getting started with as a reporting staff member of San Francisco Chronicle.

The best place to start is the Peter Bragg Mystery series, the earliest of Jack Lynch's multi-book series: it opens with The Dead Never Forget (1982) and runs to 14 books across 1982–2015, ending with Die for Me (2015). Jack Lynch's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Jack Lynch has 37 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1982 and 2020. 22 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Peter Bragg Mystery series with 14 books — and 15 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Jack Lynch's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Peter Bragg Mystery (1982–2015, 14 books), I Am Not a Machine (2004–2007, 3 books) and Literature in Context (2006–2018, 5 books).

This guide splits Jack Lynch's 37 books into 3 named series and 15 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Peter Bragg Mystery (14 books, 1982–2015); Literature in Context (5 books, 2006–2018); I Am Not a Machine (3 books, 2004–2007).