help me with crime

[strawberryblondebint]

Lol. I have a kindle paperwhite coming soon. I am beyond excited. I have been using the app on my iPhone for ages. I tend to go through phases. Right now I am in a tartan noir Scottish crime police procedural phase. I have done in Ian rankin and ed Mcbain. And Stuart macbride. I have no aversion to trying other crime police stuff. I would prefer Irish or uk though. And I would love someone who has written loads to I can work my way through a series. I am trying mo hayder. I'm on book 3 of the jack caffery but I am finding them a wee bit scary. Who wants to chuck some ideas at me.

Val McDermid

Denise Mina

Matt Bendoris

JK Rowling (not keen on those though)

Karin Slaughter great but US

Denise Mina.

Thrillers rather than straight police procedurals - Linwood Barclay and Michael Robotham

(Those aren't Scottish but they're very good!)

Stonemouth by Iain Banks if you want a diversion to Scottish gangsters without so much police; lots of plot twists which you get with Banks.

anne cleeves will be right up your street. She wrote the vera stanhope books - north england, says pet alot) really good. she also has similar with shetland isles.

also peter may?? i think. Lewis man.

James Oswald - Inspector Maclean series
Ann Cleeves
Anne Granger - Mitchell and Markby series
Stephen Booth -Ben Cooper series

Irish- try Ken Bruen, Gene Kerrigan or Tana French

Frost series by R D Wingfield - brilliant - the banter in them is superb

Peter James
Mark Billingham

Quentin Jardine - The Skinner series is all Edinburgh & there are lots of them.

Susan Hill - Serrallier series.

Michael Robotham

Christopher Brookmyre

You lot are brilliant. I am setting up a wish list as we speak. I'm so excited. Keep them coming

I know you say you prefer UK/Irish but try a Donna Leon - 24 books in the series, all set in Venice.

The earlier ones are the best - Brunetti is a lovely detective, not an alcoholic or woman hater!!

Don't forget you can download a sample of any book onto your Kindle, for free & it will usually give you the first & sometimes second chapters so you can try things1

If you're up for some London noir, then Tony Parsons is writing a series - there's two so far, third due next year I think. The first one is The Murder Bag, second The Slaughter Man. Very dark, and a bit scary, but very good. J K Rowling has three in her Cormoran Strike series - have read these and recommend them.

I keep recommending Peter Robinson and his Inspector Banks' series - excellent books. I think there are around 20 in the series.

Great recommendations above, particularly Ann Cleeves and Susan Hill
Also
Kate Atkinson
Belinda Bauer
Elly Griffiths.

Not tried the Tony Parsons Quog, thanks for the rec.

If you're in a tartan noir phase, Christopher Brookmyre's your man.

Seconding Best's recommendation of Belinda Bauer. She wrote a trilogy of novels set on Exmoor which are brilliant - Blacklands is the first one and is superb.

Blacklands was one of my reads of this year. Have yet to read the others. A treat for 2016.

The Lewis Trilogy by Peter May is excellent

Luke Delaney - Sean Corrigan series
John Connolly - Charlie Parker

Love love love Cormoron Strike. Third one is the best. Due to be a bbc adaptation soon.
So... Who should play the lead parts? I quite fancy Idris Elba. But heard JK wants an 'unknown' cast. Maybe Luther is too much like Cormoron in a way. What about Robin?

Conrad Jones. Have just finished 2 freebies from the kindle store and they were so good I'm contemplating parting with real cash money to but another of his books. Look for 'The Child Taker' and 'Slow Burn'.