police procedurals - ideas?

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I really enjoy police procedurals as long as they are not solely based in the US! I love the Sjowall- Wahloo (sp?) ones in Sweden, for example; the Giuttari and Camillieri ones in Italy. But for some reason I don't enjoy them so much if they are only based around US system. If you add Montreal it becomes ok- don't know why.

Any ideas?

Have you read the Wallander books (Henning Mankell)?

Most of them, but you've just prompted me to think about getting out the ones I haven't read or can't remember.

a good but v quirky French series - Fred Vargas. also for France - Yves Marie Bonnot has a series set in south of France. For more complex, with a political tinge - Dominique Manotti and not quite police but v worth reading - Murder in Memoriam by Didier Daeninckx. And of course Maigret series by Simenon!

german historical (1920s/30s) - Eberhard Mock series by Marek Krajewski.

Carlo Lucarelli - has an Italian historical series and an Italian contempoary series - Always blue etc, set in Bologna, v good

Scandinavian - Jo Nesbo, Anne Holt, Arnaldur Indridaason, Karin Fossum, Jussi-Adler Olsen, Camillla Lackberg

US but with a difference - Henry Chang (Chinatown NY), Tony Hillerman (Navajo country), Stan Jones (Alaska/Eskimoes).

Austrialian - Peter Temple, Garry Disher

Anne holt. 1222 was great!

Just started a Manchester based one " locked in" on kindle (99p!) can't recall author though.

I love these, all UK based-
Ian Rankin
John Harvey (probably my favourite)
Graham Hurley
Peter Robinson
Stuart Pawson and Ken McCoy write with a Yorkshire setting and are quite witty.

Brilliant! funnily enough, just picked up an Arnaldur Indridaasun one from the library this afternoon, and love Tony Hillerman - must be the Navajo bit that makes it work for me. Will put all these on my library lists - but keep them coming...

the Ella Clah series by Aimee and David Thurlo isn't quite as good as Tony Hillerman, but if you like Hillerman then you would like that as well imo.

Ken Bruen has a series of police procedurals (film Blitz was based on first of these) quite short, brutal and v dark humour. For more conventional police procedurals then yy to Ian Rankin, Peter Robinson, John Harvey. Oh and of course Ruth Rendell (Wexford series, earlier ones the best), ditto Reginald Hill (Dalziel and Pascoe).

Stuart McBride - set in Aberdeen
MR Hall - not police procedural but the heroine is a coroner would that do

SecretSquirrels, as you mention Rankin, Harvey, Robinson and Pawley, I will have to look up McCoy.

Denise Mina's 2 Alex Morrow books are about a police detective - the first is Still Midnight - though they're maybe not quite conventional police procedural.

Gah, I was going to suggest the Per Wahloo and Sjowall ones.

Indridasson is fab. You will enojy them.

Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Sp?) writes about a lawyer who works with police. Really funny and sharp as well as gripping. Icelandic. Start from the first one.

Anne Holt is great. Norweigian I think. Am very sad I've read them all so far.

Have you read Stef Penney? Last one was based in Paris and another mostly in Canada. ...I think. Or am I getting confused with Fred Vargas? Where are they based?

John Connor writes police procedurals set in the UK www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=john+connor&x=0&y=0

I have just read Locked In it was brilliant. Started it last night finished it this morning couldnt put it down. Have downloaded next two books in series onto the kindle

I really enjoyed Brother Grimm by Craig Russell. It's set in Hamburg, Germany, and focuses on the Murder Squad.

Just bought Locked In .. 88p!

I downloaded the sample chapter for the first Henry Chang but it didn't really grab me, is it worth sticking with?

I have just started the next book in the series after Locked In promising to be just as good!!