Recommend me a detective series?

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Hi all

I'm struggling to find my next series to read and wondered if you lovely lot could point me in the right direction?

I love detective /crime books (preferably series), and have read all of these at least - can you recommend any new ones for me please?

Michael Connelly / Bosch
Robert Bryndza / Erika Foster
Karin Slaughter / GBI and the ones before them
Lisa Gardner / DD Warren
Robert Craig / Elvis Cole
Jeffrey Deaver / Lincoln Rhyme
James Patterson / Alex Cross
Chelsea Cain / Archie Sheridan
Val MacDermid / Carol Jordan
And a load of Linwood Barclay books

Sue Grafton Alphabet series. She just died and only got to X

One letter - I've just bought Y.

I'd definitely recommend them, brilliant books with a strong heroine. And since they're in alphabetical order, reading in order won't be a problem!

I would second the recommendations for John Sandford and Cormoran Strike.

Seconding the Vera and Shetland series.

Also Peter May.

Another vote for Ian Rankin and Rebus
Peter Robinson and DCI Banks and Reginald Hill and Dalziel and Pascoe would be my recommendations. The TV series are incredibly thin in comparison to the books. On Beulah Heights is probably one of the best books I have ever read tbh.

Val McDermid’s Kate Brannigan series (‘Dead Beat’ is the first of the six). Her living arrangements with her slightly useless journo boyfriend are just genius. Not as gothic as her later stuff.

Also Robert B Parker’s Spenser novels - haven’t read them for years so the early ones might have dated a bit. For OP’s benefit, ‘The Godwulf Manuscript’ is the first the of 40-odd.

Another vote for Ian Rankin and Rebus.

Do they have to be modern? If not Sansom and his Shardlake series are good too. Agatha Christie and the Poirot books? Edmund Crispin and the Gervase Fen mysteries.

Also, just the beginning of a series (only two books so far) but really, really good was A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee set in pre-independence Calcutta.

If you want something a bit different, there's two excellent detective series set in ancient Rome:

The Roma Sub Rosa series by Steven Saylor, with detective Gordianus The Finder.

The 9quite long) series with detective Marcus Didius Falco, by Lindsay Davis. First book = The Silver Pigs.

And not a series, but very long and excellent,

I am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes
The Theseus Paradox, David videcette

Definitely Robert Galbraith- Comoran Strike. Also thoroughly enjoyed MJ Aldridge DI Helen Grace series - first book is Eeny Meeny.

Oooh, yes - definitely Falco, Annie. Also love the radio versions with the lovely Anton Lesser, which come up from time to time on 4Extra.

Donna Leon - Brunetti set in Venice (actually helped me when I was lost in Venice as I remembered that the buildings are numbered continously ie. not stopping and starting again like they do here)
Robert Goddard

PD James/Inspector Dalglish?

And if 1920s social history interests you, Dorothy Sayers and Lord Peter Wimsey.

More votes for Sophie Hannah and Robert Galbraith!

Ellis Peters - Brother Cadfael? Very gentle and sunny for a murder series, set in the 1100s.

One to avoid:

I enjoyed the first three books in the Joy Ellis "[...] on the Fens" series but have just read one of the more recent ones and thought it was dreadful.

Val McDermid’s Kate Brannigan series (‘Dead Beat’ is the first of the six). Her living arrangements with her slightly useless journo boyfriend are just genius. Not as gothic as her later stuff.

Yes to this! And also her Lindsay Gordon series.

Second the Cadfael books, my go to comfort reading

I also quite enjoyed Catriona McPherson's Dandy Gilver series. And, I also second simbobs, if you prefer grittier stuff Peter May's Lewis trilogy is quite good.

Also love the radio versions with the lovely Anton Lesser, which come up from time to time on 4Extra. Waves to fellow Anton Lesser fan. He is wonderful as Falco.

MO hayder. I've read her books twice. My favourite author.

Tess Gerritsen rizzoli and Isles. She worked as a forensic pathologist I'm sure and it shows in her books.

And Angela marsons.

Simon Serrailler by Susan Hill

Stephen King's trilogy starting with Mr Mercedes. Its excellent

Malcolm Mackay is great too

They are full of 80s colour, but I have really enjoyed Dorothy Simpson’s Inspector Thanet series. He is a very likeable hero.

Also LJ Ross DCI Ryan.

Henning Mankell - Kurt Wallander
Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo - Martin beck
Ake Edwardsen - Erik Winter

Like Scandi crime

Peter Robinson, DCI Banks; Peter James and DS Grace; Graham Hurley, DI Faraday

Estelle Ryan is very good.

Elly Griffith's Ruth Galloway series. A mix of archaeology and crime. The characters are really believable and I'm waiting not very patiently for the next book.