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Recommend me a detective series?

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bigfishlittlefishtupperwarebox · 05/01/2018 11:42

Hi all

I'm struggling to find my next series to read and wondered if you lovely lot could point me in the right direction?

I love detective /crime books (preferably series), and have read all of these at least - can you recommend any new ones for me please?

Michael Connelly / Bosch
Robert Bryndza / Erika Foster
Karin Slaughter / GBI and the ones before them
Lisa Gardner / DD Warren
Robert Craig / Elvis Cole
Jeffrey Deaver / Lincoln Rhyme
James Patterson / Alex Cross
Chelsea Cain / Archie Sheridan
Val MacDermid / Carol Jordan
And a load of Linwood Barclay books

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bearstrikesback · 05/01/2018 13:13

Another vote for Ian Rankin and Rebus.

Do they have to be modern? If not Sansom and his Shardlake series are good too. Agatha Christie and the Poirot books? Edmund Crispin and the Gervase Fen mysteries.

Also, just the beginning of a series (only two books so far) but really, really good was A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee set in pre-independence Calcutta.

UrbaneSprawl · 05/01/2018 13:09

Val McDermid’s Kate Brannigan series (‘Dead Beat’ is the first of the six). Her living arrangements with her slightly useless journo boyfriend are just genius. Not as gothic as her later stuff.

Also Robert B Parker’s Spenser novels - haven’t read them for years so the early ones might have dated a bit. For OP’s benefit, ‘The Godwulf Manuscript’ is the first the of 40-odd.

fleshmarketclose · 05/01/2018 13:04

Another vote for Ian Rankin and Rebus
Peter Robinson and DCI Banks and Reginald Hill and Dalziel and Pascoe would be my recommendations. The TV series are incredibly thin in comparison to the books. On Beulah Heights is probably one of the best books I have ever read tbh.

LoniceraJaponica · 05/01/2018 12:58

Seconding the Vera and Shetland series.

Also Peter May.

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 05/01/2018 12:51

I would second the recommendations for John Sandford and Cormoran Strike.

EmpressOfTheSpartacusOceans · 05/01/2018 12:50

Sue Grafton Alphabet series. She just died and only got to X

One letter - I've just bought Y.

I'd definitely recommend them, brilliant books with a strong heroine. And since they're in alphabetical order, reading in order won't be a problem!

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bigfishlittlefishtupperwarebox · 05/01/2018 12:48

Oh I'm a bit obsessive about reading in order... Grin

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OuchLegoHurts · 05/01/2018 12:41

Another recommendation here for Tana French...try to read them in order

SlingBackWellies · 05/01/2018 12:39

Denise Mina - Alex Morrow - brilliant
If you like a bit of history with your sleuthing, the CJ Swanson Shardlake series

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bigfishlittlefishtupperwarebox · 05/01/2018 12:30

You guys are brilliant, they'll keep me going for ages! Thanks!!

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WhenIGrowUpIWantToBeAPenguin · 05/01/2018 12:19

Seconding (thirding?) Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad books, a bit of a twist on the normal detective series with some really good central characters

WillowWept · 05/01/2018 12:13

Some good suggestions here - thanks

Frouby · 05/01/2018 12:12

The Vera and Shetland series are fantastic. Also the Simon Serralier books too. And I loved the Tana French ones about the dublin murder squad.

patsythepol · 05/01/2018 12:10

Sophie Hannah - Culver Valley crime
Mick Heron - Jackson Lamb (this is more secret service than police)

simbobs · 05/01/2018 12:05

I second John Sandford but also
Sue Grafton Alphabet series. She just died and only got to X
Stephen Booth - Cooper/Fry series, set in Derbyshire
Peter May - Enzo Series and The Lewis Trilogy

Parkrunner25 · 05/01/2018 12:02

Chris Carter/ Robert Hunter.

Viviennemary · 05/01/2018 11:58

I'm not keen on detective novels. But folk I know like Ian Rankin and also Quintin Jardine.

LoniceraJaponica · 05/01/2018 11:58

Jo Nesbo Harry Hole series

MyfanwyMontez · 05/01/2018 11:56

series not dried

CatherineMaitland · 05/01/2018 11:56

Seconding the Sara Paretsky rec.

I liked the first Susie Steiner Manon Bradshaw book.

MyfanwyMontez · 05/01/2018 11:55

I really enjoyed the Charlie Resnick dried by John Harvey. Set in Nottingham.

shhhfastasleep · 05/01/2018 11:54

Sara Paretsky (author); VI Warshawski (private eye). Female. Chicago. Present day. Fantastic.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 05/01/2018 11:54

And Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series..

Greydog · 05/01/2018 11:53

Camilleri/Inspector Montalbano
Martin Walkers - "Bruno, Chief of Police" series

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 05/01/2018 11:52

Oh and Tana French

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