Please help me find a book series?

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Recently finished the Katie Stone series by Jennifer Chase and they were fantastic. My son is at his dads until Sunday and my daughter is a bit older so she needs minimum input. What detective series can I read over the next few days?

We're going shopping today, and the rest of the days I just want to relax with books, watch movies with DD. I love Tess Gerritsen and Cathy Glass type books.

Any recommendations?

DH speaks very highly of the Robert Galbraith series. I like Ian Rankin for bleak scottish crime or Janet Evanovich for sassy New Jersey comic crime. Sue Grafton's great, but there are 25 of them!

Tana French. Detective/crime set in Dublin. Strong personal/family/character elements too though. She's a great writer.
Also the Quirke series by Benjamin Black (John Banville). Again set in Dublin, in the 50s. Quirke is the city pathologist and is enlisted by the local police detective to solve crimes. Fantastic period and place detail, great characters, beautiful writing.

Try signing up to Bookbub.Its free and you choose you interests You get a email every day and you get recommendations every day for 99p or even free. That means you can try new authors cheaply and it often leads to new series.

Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch. Magic and crime. It’s not unbelievable magic though and the main character is mixed race, streetwise and hilarious.

I'm a massive reader and I'd say Eve Rabi are amongst the best books I've read, cannot put them down and thinking about the story and what's going to happen when I'm not reading them. Go on the books in order site though as she's written loads of different ones and you want them in order ... Brilliant!

New Cathy glass book is out tomorrow

Cara Hunter's DI Adam Fawley series - the first one is 'Close to Home'. Excellent, very much psychological thriller in tone.

@Danikm151 Thanks for the heads up about the new Cathy Glass!

Angela Marsons, Chris Carter, Chris Mooney, Helen Fields and Robert Bryndza are all authors with a series of books rather than standalones.

If you like Cathy Glass, Casey Watson writes about fostering too.

I second Robert Galbraith and the Strike series. I also enjoyed The Roy Grace books by Peter James about 15 books so far and a few of them were on my library app to borrow.

I’m in a reading slump at the moment can’t decide what to read/listen to next

Not a follow on series as such, but I've recently been reading all the books by TM Logan. They're really good, I finished one in 2 days as I couldn't put it down!

Robert Galbraith is bloody brilliant.

Janet Evanovich for sassy New Jersey comic crime. Sue Grafton's great, but there are 25 of them!

aren't there 26 or 27 of the Janet Evanovich books now? (tbh after 12 it all goes downhill)

I just read The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman. The start of a (i think) 8 book series.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/104106.The_Ritual_Bath?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=wcupcUKFes&rank=1

Anthony Horowitz (author of Magpie Murders currently on BritBox) has a series (of 3) with Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne. And there is a follow up book to Magpie Murders too, Moonflowers Murders.

I love Craig Robertson. Gory, though.

I can highly recommend Jodi Taylor's The Chronicles of St Mary's

(you can thank me later)

Hm maybe you'd like Robert Dugoni's Tracy Crosswhite series. They're police procedurals/legal thrillers but with a strong family/community aspect. Set in Washington (state, not DC). The first one's called My Sister's Grave.

Definitely the Robert Galbraith Strike series if you haven't already read them - far and away the most readable crime series I've read.

After that I've enjoyed the Bryant and May series (Full Dark House is the first one) and the Shardlake serieses. More recently I've been reading The Dr Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths, which are very enjoyable in a gentle way but not anywhere near the same calibre of writing - I enjoy the way the saltmarsh and other rural, windswept, slightly bleak Norfolk setting is not just a backdrop but quite integral though...

I can highly recommend Jodi Taylor's The Chronicles of St Mary's
(you can thank me later)

as a counterpoint: i absolutely loathe them. In a hurling the book across the room sort of way

I don't like the St Mary's books either.

I think she's a good writer in a lot of ways, and I admire the productivity rate.

But I found the books unbearably glib. With weirdly intense and lengthy sex scenes.

Horses for courses, though. The first one is often cheap on Kindle, so it's worth a try to see if it's your kind of thing or not.

Kathy Reichs, Jane Casey, Catherine Ryan Howard, Cara Hunter as mentioned by a pp, Steve Cavanagh (more courtroom style) or Sinead Crowley are all good reads.

I second Angela Marsons and Chris Carter books

[quote Brefugee]Janet Evanovich for sassy New Jersey comic crime. Sue Grafton's great, but there are 25 of them!

aren't there 26 or 27 of the Janet Evanovich books now? (tbh after 12 it all goes downhill)

I just read The Ritual Bath by Faye Kellerman. The start of a (i think) 8 book series.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/104106.The_Ritual_Bath?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=wcupcUKFes&rank=1[/quote]
Blinking heck! I stopped reading at 10 Big Ones. The first few are great fun though.

If you like Cathy Glass you'll probably like Torey Hayden - I find her books less preachy/lecturing than Glass's are, so prefer them.

I tried the St Mary's books but didn't get on with them, despite loving time travel. For time travel fans I recommend Connie Willis' Blackout/All Clear (and her Doomsday Book, but the 'Oxford' sections of it are somewhat anachronistic/just plain odd).

Try any of the books by Carol Wyer! She writes brilliant police procedurals!!
www.carolwyer.co.uk/

Peter James - Roy Grace series. There's about 17 books in total, with a new one due out in May. The first 2 books have also been made it to a TV drama on itv