Crime/mystery recommendations

[SatsukiKusakabe]

I want to buy my dad a good book for his birthday and not sure what to get as it's not my favourite genre I'm not widely read in it

He has read and enjoyed all the Shardlake series, so something similar, perhaps with a historical bent (but not too similar) would be ideal. He also liked the Robert Galbraith, but I would say prefers the more mystery type of crime novel than the horror/gory kind.

He's read all Agatha Christie/Conan Doyle/Chesterton.

Has to be well-written.

All suggestions welcome, many thanks in advance.

I liked the first Stephens and Mephisto book from Elly Griffiths too - that's historical, set just a few years after WW2 and refers back to the war.

There's one I can't remember what it's called - Someone's War or Someone's London - by a female author, about a married policeman, set during WW2, with the complication of a beautiful civil servant as well??? Can't even remember if there was just one book or maybe two or three - I got it from the library and kept going back to see if she'd written any more but she hadn't! Will have to go to the library next time I'm in town, see if I can work it out by knowing roughly where on the shelf it was, lol!

Thank you very much for all these great suggestions, I'm going to spend a pleasant hour browsing tonight and will make notes for future also.

Enjoyed the Stephen Booth anecdote, his wife must be a tough customer

I love the stephen leather dan shepherd series, proper page turners

Just read a brilliant thriller recommended by an uncle (he's an ex-police officer) - who said reading it was as close as it feels like to cracking a case in real-life.

I really enjoyed it and learned a lot about how things have typically been done behind the scenes. Which is quite scary in many ways! If you want to know how detectives REALLY get from A to B and you enjoy unravelling a mystery from the police point of view, then I'd highly recommend this one.

It's a mix of fiction/fact about a real case. The Theseus Paradox. This link is to the UK Kindle version, here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B015UDFYQ6