Crime recommendations please.

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I don't think I've EVER read a crime novel so not sure whether they're my cup of tea, but there's a £3 sale of 'crime listens' on Audible today so thought it was a good time to read my first.

So please, those of you that enjoy crime novels, what would be a good first one to try?

Here are a selection...
JD Robb - long series, first is Naked In Death
Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli & Isles)
Kathy Reichs
Sue Grafton
Janet Evanovich - Stephanie Plum
SR Garrae - Casey & Carval series
Dorothy L Sayers
Agatha Christie
Ngaio Marsh
Margery Allingham
John Connolly
James Paterson
Richard Castle (pen name linked to a TV series)
Hemming Mankell (Scandi noir)
Minette Walters

Bob Skinner series from Quintin Jardine - Edinburgh - senior cop
Rhona MacLeod series from Lin Anderson - Glasgow - medical examiner

Susan Hill's Serrailler series
Elly Griffiths's Dr Ruth Galloway series
Peter James's Roy Grace series

Jo Nesbo

CJ Sansom for historical detective fiction

Previous posters have made great suggestions.

I offer

Sara Paretsky
Sue Grafton
Andrew Taylor Lydmouth Series

Nichola Upson
Jacqueline Winspear both set Pre-ww11

Ian Rankin
Elizabeth George
Val McDermid
Malcom MacKay

Go to the library and look in the crime section, you find some great books that you hadn't heard of.

B.A Paris. Easy reads.

Thank you all x

I really enjoyed His Bloody Project.

I'm reading The Paying Guests now which features a crime, I'm enjoying it a lot.

Dana Stabenow has a series set in Alaska featuring a female detective. Easy reading and interesting for the culture.

Adding Kelley Armstrong's Rockton series and Nadia Stafford series.

Cara Hunter is excellent, and often on Kindle 99p offers.

Reginald Hill (Dalziel and Pascoe from the old TV series, series was great but the books are much better)

Mark Edwards (some of them, and be careful as there are two Mark Edwards- one is utter laughable dross)

Mo Hayder- some are very good, some are gratuitously violent IMO

Anne Cleeves - the Shetland series is great

PD James. Love her writing.

Agatha Christie all the way. I can never figure out who dunnit!!

William Shaw is a crime writer about to hit the best seller lists. Have just finished the newest (to paperback) Deadlands, which I enjoyed.

Other recommendations that are a bit off the beaten track, or older and unjustly overlooked...

Abir Mukherjee has a series set in the Indian Raj.
Peter May
Raymond Chandler (old but gold, and a brilliant genre-defining stylist)
Sara Paretsky's VI Chicago series
Elmore Leonard
George V Higgins
Michael Connelly
Dick Francis (but not those written with his son)