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Recommendations for not too gory crime authors?

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YouCantCallMeBetty · 21/10/2017 17:14

Please can anyone help me find some new authors to read? I love crime/detective fiction series but have lost my stomach for anything too gory and am a bit fussy!

I have read & enjoyed everything by:
Elly Griffiths
Ann Cleeves
Damien Boyd (just finished, v good!)
Ian Rankin

Read all the Agathas years ago in my teens.
Have tried Reginald Hill but struggle a bit with old fashioned attitudes. Don’t like Peter James as think he’s a bit sexist in his writing. Don’t mind Peter Robinson but haven’t been gripped. Have read some stuff by American authors like Mary Higgins Clark and Linda Fairstein.

I’d like to read Val McDermid but hear her books are quite gruesome...

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LecturingLife · 21/10/2017 17:17

I just read a good new series, forget the authors name but first book is Holy Island. All set in Northumbria.

loveka · 21/10/2017 17:17

Have you read Ruth Rendell? She was the absolute best.

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