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Crime series recommendations?

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Annebronte · 06/02/2021 16:26

Any suggestions of series you’ve loved? I have really enjoyed:
Rendell’s Wexford; Leon’s Brunetti; Lloyd and Hill; P.D. James; Elly Griffiths; Ann Cleeves; Josephine Tey; Nicola Upson; Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency; Strike; Agatha Christie...
I’d love some ideas of what else I might like! Thanks in anticipation.

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Blackcountryexile · 16/02/2021 19:41

Catriona Mcpherson Dandy Gilver series. Cosy mysteries set in 1920s and 1930's Scotland .Very funny at times
Elizabeth Mundy Lena Szarka . Set in contemporary London. They have an old fashioned, cosy feel .

elkiedee · 15/02/2021 15:10

More suggestions:

Peter Lovesey's Peter Diamond series
Jim Kelly has two good series set in East Anglia - there is a police detective series and one with a journalist as the main character.

elkiedee · 15/02/2021 14:36

If you like Nicola Upson's series featuring Josephine Tey, you might enjoy Frances Brody's Kate Shackleton series set in Yorkshire in the 1920s. Kate lives in the area of Leeds where my dad used to live and we moved nearer there when I was 10 and a lot of the settings are places that we'd go to for days out etc.

Barbara Nadel has a series set in Istanbul with over 20 books, and at least 6 books so far in another series set in London.

I echo recommendations for Peter Robinson's Banks books, another series with more than 20 books,

John Harvey's Charlie Resnick books (Nottingham)

Stephen Booth's Cooper/Fry series (Derbyshire Peak District)

Again, people have suggested Ian Rankin's Rebus books
Denise Mina has a number of series and standalones, mostly set in and around Glasgow.

An older series I love is Patricia Hall's Thackeray and Ackroyd books, again set in West Yorkshire.

Stuart Pawson's Charlie Priest series

John Baker, series set in York

Neverspeakofthisagain · 15/02/2021 00:51

Another vote for Tana French / Dublin Murder series

Ellmau · 15/02/2021 00:40

Louise Penny is great.

SteppinOutwithMyBaby · 14/02/2021 22:45

www.fantasticfiction.com/
If you look at an individual author's page on this site, you'll find useful links to similar/recommended authors at the bottom of the page. Very, very helpful site.

Particularly love Stuart MacBride's Logan McRae books.

Bookwyrm · 14/02/2021 22:38

I enjoyed The Ashes of London, the first book in Andrew Taylor's Marwood & Lovett series, I've yet to read the subsequent books but my friends who have assure me they are just as good as the first.

BunnyRuddington · 14/02/2021 11:24

I really like Andrea Camilleri Montalbano books.

Annasgirl · 13/02/2021 21:26

Maeve Kirwan
Ruth Galloway
Thora Gudmundsdottir
Manon Bradshaw
The Oxford Murder series - not as good as the other 4!

BerniceBobsHerHair · 13/02/2021 21:11

I really like the Susie Steiner books with the female detective manon Bradshaw

VienneseWhirligig · 07/02/2021 22:13

Sharon Bolton
Angela Marsons
Faith Martin
Stuart Macbride
Mark Billingham
Leigh Russell
Jane Casey
Janet Evanovich

QueenofBrickdon · 07/02/2021 22:05

My favourites are

Val McDermid - Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series
Peter May - Lewis Trilogy

hidingmystatus · 07/02/2021 22:05

All previous, plus: Kerry Greenwood's Miss Phryne Fisher series; Alex Gray, JD Robb, Margery Allington, Edmund Crispin, Dorothy Sayers, Minette Walker, SR Garrae, Ben Aaronovitch (with magic), Ngaio Marsh, Charlaine Harris' Lily Bard (Shakespeare) series and Harper Connelly series; MC Beaton (Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series); Georgette Heyer's murder mysteries; Janet Evanovich (moderately silly and slapstick); Kelly Armstrong's Nadia Stafford and Rockton series; Patricia Wentworth; Richard Castle (spin off from a TV series); Ruth Dudley Edwards.

Do you think I might read too many crime novels?

cinders15 · 07/02/2021 21:48

The Peter James Det superintendent Roy Grace series - all the titles have got "Dead" in the title
I read somewhere the first is coming to TV and is being filmed now with John Simm as the lead
Based in Brighton - the first one is Dead Simple

Cocolapew · 07/02/2021 21:34

Claire McGowan Paula Maguire series, there's only 6 but are gripping.
John Sandford Prey series.
Gregg Hurtwitz Orphan X series.

Standrewsschool · 07/02/2021 21:27

If you want a cosy murder, slightly tongue-in-cheek, then the ‘Lady Hardcastle murders’ by T Kinsey are good.

Also, J Twinn8ng Tom Kirk books are good.

Standrewsschool · 07/02/2021 21:25

@newtb

The books by LJ Ross set in Northumberland are good.
Yes, I agree.
Frouby · 07/02/2021 20:14

Tana French, Dublin Murder Squad series. Thank me later. Its amazing and I like similar stuff to you. Surprised no one else has recommended it tbh!

dayswithaY · 07/02/2021 17:14

Denise Mina.

DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 07/02/2021 00:11

If you like the old school PI novels like Sara Paretsky, add Janet Dawson (who is often cheap on Kindle), Jan Burke and Nevada Barr to your list. I also like Eileen Dreyer’s medical mysteries - they’re dark, but often funny.

You could try Karin Slaughter and Tess Gerritson.

I think Reginald Hill is one of the UK’s best crime writers.

Also David Hewson, Peter Temple, John Connolly, Linwood Barclay, and if you like John Connolly’s dark weirdness (which I do), Michael Marshall Smith.

dingoesatemybaby · 06/02/2021 21:28

Rachel Abbott - DCI Tom Douglas

Autumnchill · 06/02/2021 21:25

Just read Alex Smiths Paper Girls, really good with a touch of humour

StepOutOfLine · 06/02/2021 21:12

Another vote for Ann Cleeves, especially the Shetland series

I like Ragnar Jonasson (Dark Iceland and Hidden Iceland series)

Agree with most Val McDermid's and some Nicci French's. I also like Rebus and the Cara Huntley ones.

Going back a bit, Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe series are much more complex than the TV series was, and likewise Elizabeth George and Inspector Linley.

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Annebronte · 06/02/2021 21:01

Thanks so much: loads here to try!

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Meduse · 06/02/2021 19:44

Louise Penny
Angela Marsons Kim Stone series

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