Who's your favourite fictional detective?

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Jack Caffrey

And good old cheap beer drinking, football loving, curry eating Tom Thorne.

Who's your favourite? And if I like those two, what else might I enjoy?

Montalbano for meeeee

Montalbano! Lord Peter Wimsey, and Marlowe "shop soiled Galahad"

Maddie and David from Moonlighting - aah the chemistry

Fight you for him OneHolyCow - John Hannah was soooo far away from the Rebus in my head!

I like Eve Dallas in the books by JD Robb - just gone back and am reading them all from the start.

Also like Bob Skinner by Quintin Jardine and Logan McRae by Stuart MacBride (going back to my Scottish roots here).

Nah, RDJ never did it for me, and nor did those films.

So what should I be reading? What's like Caffrey and Thorne (but preferably without scaring me shitless as Hayder does)

Poirot, then marple then morse.

Pommes frites from the M. Pamplemousse mysteries.

Rebus. I love Rebus.

And then probably Inspector Morse.

My newest fave is Jimmy Perez in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series.

I also like Simon Serrailler in the Susan Hill series.

I am so glad Rankin brought Rebus back. A new book is due out this autumn, can hardly wait.

I want them to do a Rebus TV series again and recast it, but I haven't yet figured out who should play Rebus. I like John Hannah and Ken Stott as actors, but neither one is the Rebus in my head.

Agatha Christies,miss marble.

Makes me feel all warm inside

Bernie Gunther in Philip Kerr's books
Philip Dryden ,not a detective but a journalist in Jim Kelly's books
Roy Grace
Jackson Brodie
David Raker in Tim Weaver's series
Laura Wilson's inspector Ted Stratton
Inspector Troy in John Lawton's books
Alan Banks
Resnick
I love British detective fiction and wartime fiction!

Rebus. Didn't know how much I miss him until he came back.

V I Warshawski in the Sara Paretsky books.

Kinsey Milhone.
Lucas Davenport.
Harry Bosch.
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.
DCI Banks.
Thorne.
Rebus.
Carson Ryder.

Miss Marple-Joan Hickson.

Tom Thorne
Logan McCrae
David HUnter (from the Simon Beckett books)
Fin Macleod from the BlackHouse trilogy (Peter May)
Alan Banks
Roy Grace

and for very light reading - Daisy Dalrymple

Holmes, every time. Especially as played by Jeremy Brett or Benedict Cumberbatch.

My username is a very geeky Holmes reference

Sherlock, as played by the delectable Benedict. Vaticancameo - I like your name!

Rebus
Lindsay Boxer

Oh and morse too

Lord Peter Wimsey, Salvo Montalbano, and Jackson Brodie. And Spenser, who's more of a PI than a detective so I don't know if he counts.

Lord Peter Wimsey here too!

Probably an odd choice but I'd go for Dirk Gently.

Elvis Cole
Virgil Flowers
Lucas Davenport
Reacher

Tie between Albert Campion and Benjamin January (the latter is in a series by Barbara Hambly set in early 19th century New Orleans).

Lord Peter Wimsey
Gervase Fen
Theodora Braithwaite