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I am reading my first PD James

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Pansythepotter · 20/08/2017 17:55

I am not usually a detective novel fan, but I have just started Original Sin and am enjoying it. Can any one recommend any more of her books.

Also any other detectives which are non violent.

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PaperdollCartoon · 20/08/2017 17:57

Her Death Comes to Pemberly, Pride and Prejudice sequal is fantasic

OhOhDearling · 20/08/2017 18:02

Devices and Desires is good (set in a power station). Have you ever read any Alexander McCall Smith/No 1 Ladies' Detective Series? You might also like Ann Cleeves (Shetland or Vera series)

Pansythepotter · 20/08/2017 21:17

Thanks for those suggestions

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SenecaFalls · 20/08/2017 21:24

I love PD James. One of my favorites is an earlier one Shroud for a Nightingale. I have read it many times.

SenecaFalls · 20/08/2017 21:33

Dorothy Sayers, if you haven't read her books, is wonderful. Got me started on my love of detective fiction years ago.

Clawdy · 21/08/2017 17:47

I loved PD James' early books, but the ones she wrote in later years did not compare.

HerBigChance · 21/08/2017 17:54

Ruth Rendell's Wexford series is good, although I prefer her non-Wexford and Barbara Vine stuff, good psychological stuff.

bigkidsdidit · 21/08/2017 18:59

Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell) - I like the BV books a LOT. Particularly A Judgment in Stone and A Fatal Inversion.

SenecaFalls · 21/08/2017 19:23

Judgement in Stone is a Rendell book not a Vine book. It is one of her very best. I have re-read it many times.

bigkidsdidit · 21/08/2017 20:54

Is it? It's very vine-y

TheFallenMadonna · 21/08/2017 20:58

I would read the Dalgliesh novels in order. The first is Cover Her Face, I think. I reckon they get better...

Definitely Dorothy L Sayers too!

And I read some Josephine Tey books on holiday and enjoyed them.

TheFallenMadonna · 21/08/2017 20:59

Oh, and Reginald Hill.

SenecaFalls · 21/08/2017 21:04

It is, but it's Rendell. I have read it many times. It is one of the best.

bigkidsdidit · 21/08/2017 21:16

I haven't read it for ten years, I must dig it out. And some Reginald hill, you're right Madonna they're great too. I love Dalziel

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