What book series do I need (audiobook, detective fiction)?

Anthony Horowitz series are brilliant - the Magpie Murder series.

I found the original narration on BorrowBox a few months ago

If you find this anywhere let me know!

I took the physical book out the library in the end, never got round to starting it as I don’t have time to read but have time for audible due to time spent in car and I ran up a fine so had to take it back pronto!

I can’t move on with the series now.

It was apparently deleted and the book withdrawn due to ‘cultural appropriation’ ☹️

How can they do that??

Although I wish I could gift and then delete a lot of my early books. I have a lot of meg and mog books my tween no longer wants 😂

I bought them all on audible when they first came out. A few months ago I went to read the early ones again and found that several original audiobooks had been deleted from my collection. I played merry hell with Audible - surely if I’ve bought them they’re mine?

I got 3 or 4 free credits but since then have noticed a few other titles seem to have gone missing., I need to go through my purchase history.

Another good detective series is the Logan McRae books by Stuart McBride. It’s about a detective in Aberdeen and they’re well written and narrated.
Actually I’ve just noticed that there is a new one out so that will be my next listen!

Definitely the Maeve Kerrigan series by Jane Casey. I have loved these and read them more than once! I also like the DI Fawley books by Cara Hunter. I’m currently reading the Eddie Flynn series by Steve Cavanagh and really enjoying them too!

I’m re listening to basically all of them while I wait for something new and exciting to catch my eye and be ‘worth the credit’.

I was a big fan of Colin Bateman (in the 00s??) which is similar dark Irish humour.

100% recommend these, I’m due another reread I think

@ThursdayLastWeek I agree. I absolutely love The Stranger Times and The Dublin Trilogy. They are some of my favourites, so funny, and great characters. The narration is brilliant

For fans of Aaranovitch RofL I’d like to recommend The Stranger Times by CK McDonnell. Same fantasy realism vibe, but journalism in Manchester instead of police in London.

His other books under Ciamh McDonnell (Dublin Trilogy, McGarry Stateside) are also v good. Crime and black humour. His books all have excellent narration IMO.

JD Kirk Jack Logan books plus the various spin offs. Fantastic on Audible.

This has been the best news of the last few days: Peter Grainger is going to be in print at last! Congratulations to Heineman...

Gildart Jackson, his reader, is also much loved.

Who could you find to play the character of DC Smith though? His character is so nuanced, his quiet charisma would be hard to replicate. He has so much presence and his believable backstory would be beyond the imagination of most ordinary joes…It would have to be an amazingly good actor to play such a man… until then the actor that narrates the books on audible is spot on, Gildart Jackson…

DS Nathan Cody series by David Jackson.

I would love this to be made into a tv series.

I recommend Ruth Galloway BUT the room full of bones is not on audible which is very annoying. I'm trying to read it but it's taken me a year to get 1/4 into it as I just never have the time (hence why I use audible!)

I watched the beginning of the Mr Mercedes TV adaptation the other day and loved it.

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone and all the others in the series.

Absolutely yes!
Honestly people just don’t know what they are missing…but they will next year when his back catalogue is published!

Have you tried the Roy Grace books, I've started to listen to that series and I'm really enjoying it.

The Inspector John Reynolds books by Jo Spain is another series of books I enjoyed. For once the main character has a happy home life and isn't a damaged, heavy drinker or loner which makes a nice change. I really like the narrator too. Lovely Irish accent.

For a good mystery without too much violence the Death in Paradise books are really good. Nice sunny settings to brighten up the dark nights.
There's only four of them I wish there were more.

My favourite authors are Karen Rose, Karin Slaughter and Rachel McLean. Rose and Slaughter are both American and McLean is English. I like long series that repeat characters. I especially like McLean's Dorset crime series as I was born in Dorset and found it a novelty to read about places i am familiar with. If you like conspiracy theories Scott Mariani's Ben Hope books are enjoyable.

I’m in the middle of the Bill Hodges series by Stephen King - the first is Mr Mercedes. I tend to read crime fiction and listen to fantasy, but my last
listen wasn’t doing it for me and my brother recommended this, and I’m totally loving it.

The VI Warshawski Books by Sara Paretsky
Vic is a woman Private Investigator in Chicago.

I've been reading the Anne Cleeves ones which the TV series Vera is based on. I can't stand the series but am enjoying the books.