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Please help me find a new series of books

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MrsPnut · 11/07/2015 15:42

A few of my favourite authors have finished their series of books and I have been casting around my ereader for a few days looking for something to read. As I am about to go on our annual holiday (also known as read as many books in two weeks as possible), I need to find someone new to get enthused about.

I have read and enjoyed the Kim Harrison Hollows series, Kat Richardson grey walker series, everything Janet Evanovich has ever written, Jim Butcher until the stupid ghost one, Sue Grafton's alphabet series, all of the Agatha Raisin series, quite a few other cozy mystery ones, all of the Jack Reacher books and some of Jame Patterson's early stuff (but it's all the same now)

Please can you suggest something new, and if there are a few in the series, so much the better. I do read a couple of books a week so I'm always looking for suggestions.

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Trumpton · 20/07/2015 07:29

Yay ! So pleased you are enjoying The St Mary's Chronicles .

hagsrus · 19/07/2015 19:59

Kage Baker

Julia Spencer-Fleming

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MrsPnut · 19/07/2015 19:15

I've finished the first St Mary's book and am half way through the second one. I absolutely love them and I would never have discovered them without you lot.

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Elllimam · 14/07/2015 19:20

Oh that's brilliant :) I'm off to google :)

LumpySpacedPrincess · 14/07/2015 07:24

Elliemam new one out on November, plus they are filming the series! Grin

SleepIsOverrated · 13/07/2015 18:49

Dresden Files get better again after the stupid ghost one - latest is definitely back approaching some kind of decent reading.

Second the Patricia Briggs recommendation too. And going to check out some of the others now!

Elllimam · 13/07/2015 18:44

Second Phil Rickman's Merrily Watkins series about a female minister who gets involved in 'deliverance'. Absolutely excellently done. Elly Griffiths is also good.

YesThisIsMe · 13/07/2015 18:40

....that should be World Con - sodding autocorrect.

YesThisIsMe · 13/07/2015 18:39

Oh! Were you at WorldCom too Talesin? I wondered whether there were any other MNers there.

I would second Rivers of London, (which is just as well since the OP's already bought it) but the Laundry series are perhaps more of a specialist taste. If the OP doesn't know her Cthulhu from her Nyarlathotep then they may be lost on her (for the benefit of the curious, the Laundry series combines Le Carre's downbeat Civil Service spies, some very nerdy computer programming, and HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos)

flightywoman · 13/07/2015 18:25

John Harvey - I heard him at Isle of Wight Literary Festival and the extracts he read out sounded really good.

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MrsPnut · 13/07/2015 16:50

You lot are blooming marvellous.
I've downloaded the St Mary's Chronicles, the Ben Aaronovitch series, the Paul Cornell books, the Mercy Thompson and Alex Craft books and I will check out some of the other suggestions.

Thank you so much.

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GiantGaspingSatanicCyst · 13/07/2015 12:30

James Lee Burke's series about Dave Robicheaux. Fascinating, well written detective fiction, and there are loads of them.

bookwormbeagle · 13/07/2015 12:26

I'd also highly recommend the rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. Have you read the cuckoo's calling and the silkworm by Robert Galbraith (aka j k Rowling)? Also very good.

cdtaylornats · 13/07/2015 12:24

If you liked the Agatha Raisin series then you could try her other series Hamish MacBeth

sparkysparkysparky · 13/07/2015 12:16

And the Jasper Fforde - Thursday Next series

sparkysparkysparky · 13/07/2015 07:48

First St Mary ' s just added to my holiday list - 1.99 on kindle! Thanks.
I'd recommend the V I Warshawski series by Sara Paretsky.

Trumpton · 12/07/2015 22:18

I have just pre- ordered book 6 of the St Mary's Chronicles but have started re-reading them .

PoppyAmex · 12/07/2015 21:56

St Marys Chronicles are such great fun and there's already 5 books in the series plus a few short stories.

Talisin · 12/07/2015 18:42

Ooh, the Ben Aaronovitch recs (with which I totally agree) have reminded me of Paul Cornell's London Falling and The Severed Streets. Number three in the series (was called Who Killed Sherlock Holmes but I think it may have changed) is due next year now but I heard him read an excerpt at Worldcon last year and I can't wait!

DuchessofMalfi · 12/07/2015 09:27

Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London and subsequent novels in the series are wonderful. I love them. They're a clever and funny mix of fantasy and police/detective work. I love them, and the good news is that there's another novel out later this year :)

OwlAtEase · 12/07/2015 08:07

I agee with Talisin about the Alex Craft series and Mercy Thompson series. I love urban fantasy fiction, and recently really enjoyed the Darkfever series by Karen Marie Moning, the Disillusionist trilogy by Carolyn Crane, and the Jane True series by Nicole Peeler.

ZacharyQuack · 12/07/2015 07:17

John Sandford's Prey series, with the Virgil Flowers offshoots.
Michael Connelly
Robert Crais' Elvis Cole series
Julia Spencer-Fleming

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theITgirl · 12/07/2015 07:07

I will also agree with the St Mary's chronicles by jodi Taylor. Currently reading them for the second time.