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Recommend me a new detective series

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SonicBoomGirl · 02/04/2023 21:37

I've motored through all of Cara Hunter's DI Fawley series. They wouldn't be my usual thing, and I don't know how I started reading them, but I have finished them all now.

Please can someone recommend something similar? European, preferably British or Irish and a police procedural series.

Thank you.

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MaryDerry · 02/04/2023 23:46

Check out Damien Boyd's series of Nick Dixon if you have a kindle as often on offer.
Not the most amazing blow your socks off read but the author builds up the regular characters nicely. A comfort read (if crime is classed as a comfort read).

Labradory · 02/04/2023 23:46

Jane Casey’s Maeve Kerrigan series is probably exactly what you’re looking for.

Luckingfovely · 02/04/2023 23:44

Roy Grace! Recently discovered and completely in love with them! On book 10 already...

Dionysius · 02/04/2023 23:41

Jane Casey and Dervla McTiernan also have detective series.

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SonicBoomGirl · 02/04/2023 23:29

Thank you everyone.

I've read some of the DCI Ryan books, they are undoubtedly good, but they just don't grab me in the same way as the Fawley series.

Yes! I've read all of the Jo Spain books and I can't wait for the next one!

The other series I like, though not as much as the Fawley ones. Similarly, the various series by Helen Phifer are good though again the Fawley ones have the edge.

I'll look at Donna Leon, thank you.

I've read 4 of Peter May's books, though again they don't grab me as much as the Fawley series.

Thank you & please recommend any others you think of.

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Riverlee · 02/04/2023 21:46

The Lewis series - Peter May

Ellmau · 02/04/2023 21:43

Have you read Jo Spain? Excellent Irish writer with some standalones and a very good police series.

2bazookas · 02/04/2023 21:40

Donna Leon's series set in Venice, about a Venetian detective Guido Brunetti. She writes beautifully and if you read them in order they were written the stories and characters develop.

IggyAce · 02/04/2023 21:39

DCI Ryan series by Lj Ross Holy Island is the first book.

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