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Can I have your recommendations for a really good murder / detective series?

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devildeepbluesea · 07/12/2023 10:16

I’m feeling a bit at sea. I’ve loved:
Strike
Dr Ruth Galloway by Elly Griffiths
The Serrailler series
The Thursday Murder Club series
The Stieg Larsson books
Simon Brett’s Fethering series
Agatha Raisin to a lesser extent

I was a bit meh about Elly Griffiths’s other books (Brighton series and Harbinder Kaur). I found the DCI Ryan books a bit samey, and I’d say the same about quite a lot of the ‘tortured Scottish detective’ series. I also loved The Appeal.

I listen on Audible so would especially welcome series with a good narrator. TIA

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waltzingparrot · 07/12/2023 10:59

I enjoyed the Peter James books - Detective Roy Grace series.

Bin85 · 07/12/2023 10:51

Agatha Christie

BarbaraBuncle · 07/12/2023 10:42

Have you tried Cara Hunter's D I Adam Fawley series? I enjoyed them very much, and they're available as audiobooks. The narrators are also extremely good.

efeslight · 07/12/2023 10:40

You could try:
Peter Robinson, Inspector Banks series
Ruth Rendell
PD James
Stephen Booth set in Derbyshire

LaurieStrode · 07/12/2023 10:36

Look at Sujata Massey on Audible. The Widows of Malabar Hill is the first in a series with great narrators.

Her older Rei Shimura series is good too, but unfortunately only a few are made into audiobooks.

Not a series but the new-ish Bodies from the Library anthologies (six volumes so far) of golden age detective stories is narrated by Philip Bretherton (Alistair from AsTime Goes By) and he is surprisingly brilliant as narrator; different accents etc. The stories are generally obscure ones by famous writers from that era, some real treasures.