The series carried on for decades, giving Kinsey a few chances for romances and relationships, always with a new case to solve but also some compelling over-arching mysteries and narratives that came to define this groundbreaking mystery stalwart. Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone novels, which began in 1982 and concluded in 2017 with Y is for Yesterday, might well be the closest literary influence for Veronica Mars-an abundantly competent, no-nonsense former cop who apprenticed under the local PIs opens her own shop in Santa Teresa (a nod to Macdonald’s fictional California city), maintains a-let’s say hostile-relationship with local PD, and goes about solving all the cases the cops can’t, while also bucking city elders and taking up the cause of little guys across the city. Sue Grafton, The Alphabet Mysteries series
This is probably the best book I’ve ever read about a girl who, along with her family (or at least all the members of her family who are left) gets ostracized from the town she lives in-and like Veronica, she develops her own personal brand of outsider chic. Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle Macdonald was all about deeply buried family sins and psychological decay on America’s west coast, and just about any of his books (collected here) you might like to try, you’ll find plenty of affinities to the adventures of Mars Investigations. Macdonald, one of the pillars of midcentury noir, has to be counted among the inspirations for Veronica Mars, in part because you really can’t have a long-running PI series without taking some inspiration from Macdonald’s Lew Archer series, but also because Neptune appears to be at the very least a sister city to Macdonald’s “Santa Teresa,” a fictional town outside Los Angeles where the class divisions were strong and the rich ran amok in seaside enclaves and walled country clubs. Ross Macdonald, The Ross Macdonald Collection
The tone is different, of course, but trust me, you’ll enjoy it. Murder! Teenage girls! A cool female investigator! So many text messages. Now go.”), then The Secret Place is the book for you. If what you love about Veronica Mars is the fact that it exists in a world in which teenagers-particularly teenage girls-have outsize powers that border on the magical, and if you live for the lunch table drama and dope early aughts slang (“If you sit here, it proves that I’m the man-eating bitch who snatched you from one of the sweetest girls in school.
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