If I've recently enjoyed the Strike series and the Wolfe Hall trilogy. what would you recommend?

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Looking to stock upnon a new batch of fairly hefty page count wise, well written/ lightly literary but not too intellectually hefty novels. A series is always good. Not interested in a romance/ love story as the central plot device (rather than tangental) but anything else goes...

Any recommendations?

I’m enjoying the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie R King. It sounds a bit unlikely, but has a good dose of academic life, religious history and politics thrown in too.

I loved Wolf Hall. Matching up to that will be hard!
Have you read Gormenghast?
I've recently read the Starless Sea which is very different but I enjoyed the style - also very long.
The Goldfinch maybe?

I loved Troubled Blood and the Wolf Hall books.
Have you read any of the Shardlake novels, by CJ Sansom? I really enjoyed these. Almost a cross between Troubled Blood and Wolf Hall!

A hefty tome I enjoyed was Little Friend by Donna Tartt. Better than Secret History and Goldfinch, I thought.

Second the shardlake series by CJ Sansom

I'm currently really enjoying the Dublin Murder Squad series

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A hefty tome I enjoyed was Little Friend by Donna Tartt. Better than Secret History and Goldfinch, I thought.

I thought the Little Friend was great until the end. Really disliked the conclusion. Didn't really like Secret History at all. Loved the Goldfinch. All really well written.

Have you read the Kingsbridge series? I've not yet got to the new one, it's on my list.

Kate Atkinson Jackson Brodie series is brilliant if you haven't read them. Also Tana French as pp mentioned.

Ah this is grest for me, the Thursday murder club, then the strike series and now a few Agatha Christie’s have got me back into reading, after kids and a serious lack of concentration (and smart phone addiction) derailed my reading. Used to read every day.

So I’m going to use a few of these recommendations. If it helps I loved wolf hall and the Shardlake books. Not sure if it’s what your looking for, not a series but I really enjoyed a gentleman in Moscow (amor towles) and any human heart (William Boyd)

Tana French as pp said is excellent.

I loved the Shetland and Vera series. Simon Serrialer (sp) is excellent as well. And the Maeve Kerrigan series by Jane Casey is very readable and similar in some ways to the strike series.

Thanks everyone, I've just ordered second hand copies of

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie King
Titus Groan (the first Gormenghast book)
Dissolution (The first Shardlake book)
In the Woods by Tana French
Little Friend by Donna Tartt
and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

and

bought
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes (which I found when googling some of the other recommendations on here)
The Evening and The Morning (I read Pillars of The Earth and liked it but didn't enjoy World Without End so much, it frlt a bit churned out to me in comparison, so I ordered this thinking I'd missed the novel written first, but its actually a prequel - teach me to read descriptions better when deciding what to read!)
and
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

for my e-reader

I haven't quite finished Troubled Blood (I hadn't even heard of the Strike series until all the fuss but decided to read them in order and they're so good!) but don't like not having anything in to read next.

I used to read loads of "literary fiction" type stuff, but was in search of a slight new direction I guess and the Wolf Hall and Strike novels really hit the spot.

I'm very pleased lots are the start of a series so I can read the next one if I enjoy the first.

Thank you everyone!