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I like Jackson Brodie in Kate Atkinson's books
Also Inspector Barnaby, George Smiley (does some detecting in A Murder of Quality) and Adam Dalgleish

Columbo each and every time

Mma Ramotswe as she is the No 1 Ladies detective

VI Warshawski
Used to like a bit of Jim Rockford on TV (and my guilty secret is Monk on TV on dark wet winter afternoons).

Logan McRae (Stuart MacBride), Rebus, Charlie Parker (John Connolly) is my absolute fave. Loads actually.

Ellery Queen and Charlie "Bird" Parker. Magnum P.I.

Harry Bosch (Michael Connelly) and Hercule Poirot.
They have slightly different styles.

Lord Peter Wimsey.

Albert Campion

Stephanie Plum, Poirot (novels not the TV series - can't stand tv version).

TV - Magnum PI, Columbo, just old enough to remember Starsky & Hutch too.

Appleby. (Michael Innes novels. Far fetched and uses very long words but I LOVE it.)

Has to be Sherlock

Harry Hole

Peter Wimsey, Gervase Fen, John Appleby, Adam Dalgliesh and Roderick Alleyn.

But I am ver' ver' old.

Hercule Poirot and hs little grey cells do it for me!

Rebus. Nobody else.

Sid Halley
Mme Ramotswe
Alex Delaware

At this moment another vote for Lord Peter Wimsey as I have been listening to the serialisations on R4+
It is odd as I am Leftie radical!!

I love V I too and Kinsey Mahone (Sue Grafton), Inspector (Elizabeth George) and Merrily Watkins.!(Phil Rickman)

Sam Vimes (Terry Pratchett)

Oh, SingingSands reminds me of Alan Grant. How could I have forgotten him!

Inspector Banks (Peter Robinson),Inspector Lynley, Merrily Watkins and Simon Serrailler are my favourites atm.

Elvis Cole

Harry Bosch
DI Tom Thorne (Mark Billingham)
and, based on MN recommendations I have recently got into PC Grant and Inspector Nightingale in the Ben Aaronovitch books. Looking forward to the 3rd book in the series.

Trying to get into Bryant & May (another MN recommendation) but finding it a bit slow going

Lord Peter Wimsey
Alan Grant