I am reading my first PD James

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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.

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

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)

Thanks for those suggestions

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Is it? It's very vine-y

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.

Oh, and Reginald Hill.

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

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