Who's your favourite fictional detective?

[BurlingtonBertieFromBow]

I like Jackson Brodie in Kate Atkinson's books
Also Inspector Barnaby, George Smiley (does some detecting in A Murder of Quality) and Adam Dalgleish

[jj21]

Bryant and May - Christopher Fowler - love them
Matthew Bartholmew - Susanna Gregory
Marcus Didius Falco - Lindsay Davis
Skinner - Quintin Jardine
Oz Blackstone - quintin Jardine
Primavera Blackstone - Quintin Jardine
Kinsey Millhone - Sue Grafton
Stephanie Plum - Janet Evanovich (the earlier books are best)

And this is just the beginning.... I love detective fiction! Love this thread

[Goodasgoldilox]

Most of the above but also Lund and Meyer (from Danish version of 'The Killing'!) Can I include Lund's jumper?

[jj21]

And on TV....

Sherlock and Watson in the new BBC1 series - Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are fabulous and the writing/acting/casting/styling/production are all exceptional.

[FoFeeFiMum]

Another vote for Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone, which reminds me I owe myself the latest installments!

Also a long term fan of Marple (written or Joan Hickson if TV, def not Geraldine McEwan, her portrayal just never gelled for me) and Poirot (preferably those without Hastings if the TV version).

Have recently discover the Stella Mooney series by David Lawrence which are 'gritty' but fab.

And always love a Columbo.

I have rather eclectic taste in detective fiction!

[FoFeeFiMum]

Oh yes and the Cumberbatch/Freeman interpretation of Holmes & Watson.

[brightspark2]

I have to vote for the Young Sherlock Holmes series by Andrew Lane - they are fab! They spell out his 'missing' years - the teenage years that made him the man he becomes....how and why he learned violin, is so against a relationship, what pushed him into martial arts and how young he was when he developed his logical deductive skills...I can't put them down! The latest is due out about October I think...the fifth one ...and in this latest (God I couldn't wait for this bit!) we finally find out what put him off love.....it's called Snake Bite and is due any day.

OK am a total fangirl, and I don't mind admitting I nick them BEFORE I give them to my teen - I have managed to get away with that so far.....

[Clorinda]

The extraordinary Dr Fell in the wonderfully atmospheric novels of John Dickson Carr. And Lord Peter Wimsey...

[Matildarabbit]

Guido Brunetti (at the moment)

[strictlycaballine]

Another vote for Brunetti

[IndridCold]

No-one read Fred Vargas? I love Adamsberg and Danglard, quite wacky stories though.

[evenkeel]

Brunetti, ooh yes, but more for the food!

Have just discovered Stuart MacBride's books and am reading everything I can lay my hands on. His tec is Logan McRae but I really love his boss, DI Steel, who's hilarious. In fact all the books are, and I highly recommend them to anyone who hasn't had the pleasure.

Someone mentioned Roy Grace - I've read all of these and they were OK-ish; my problem is that they're incredibly repetitive. I know there has to be some re-capping with a series but I couldn't believe it the first time I read the exact same passage which had just been copied and pasted out of the previous book. Naughty Peter James.

[strictlycaballine]

Have you seen this even keel?

And how does Paola reconcile her feminism with cooking all those three course lunches and dinners (having hauled ingredients up several flights of stone steps) and managing with broken washing machine and a husband who does zero around the house ?

[MrsGuyOfGisbourne]

Paola irritates the hell out of me! I hate the ways she tells the DC that 'dessert is fruit again' - hate the bloody American term 'dessert'. I don't know why this riles me so much but it does.... (and DH and the DC saidly know this)

[MrsGuyOfGisbourne]

and
Inspector Montalbano - swooooon
Inspector Morse

[GrumpyOldHorsewoman]

Jackson Brodie - Love him as a gritty Yorkshireman in Edinburgh (TV versions), preferred to the books' setting of Cambridge. Edinburgh suits him better.
Lund and Meyer
I do like the Cumberbatch/Freeman Holmes and Watson. Mind you, I could listen to BC recite the phone book and think it was fascinating. I think the Conan Doyle stories were actually quite dark and Holmes a strange character and BC has that down. He doesn't ham him up, as others before him have tended to do.

[piprabbit]

Has anyone else come across the idiosyncratic Kinky Friedman?
He owes a debt to Raymond Chandler. It gets confusing because Kinky's detective is also called Kinky Friedman.

[Craftymoo]

Inspector Singh (Shamini Flint)
Dr Siri Paiboun (Colin Cotterill) - not strictly a detective I know, but close.

[Geekster]

Kinsey Millhone is my very favourite. Others include Mma Ramotswe, Tom Thorne and Jackson Brodie.

[UptoapointLordCopper]

I like Kinky Friedman. Even been to see his band in a pub in Camden about a million years ago.

[EdithJemima]

Joined the Wimsey/Vane queue. And the embryonic Montalbano queue. And what about Foyle of Foyle's War?

[Lancelottie]

Nope, can't cope with Falco since I read a line that went something like 'he'd thought of a reasonable price and added a zero on the end' -- not in bloody Roman numerals he hadn't!

[TheFallenMadonna]

Another in love with Peter Wimsey.

And I have a tendresse for Peter Pascoe (not so keen on his wife...)

My pre-teen crush was Joe Hardy

[Leo35]

MN running slow. third time lucky (not previewing)

Rebus
Bernie Gunther
VI Warshawski
Jackson Brodie

[UptoapointLordCopper]

Lancelottie you have spoiled Falco for me now. Though he's always ahead of his time ...

[Lancelottie]

Oops, sorry, Copper!