Crime recommendations

[PopcornAndWine]

Hi I am a fairly recent convert to crime fiction. I loved the Strike books, I also like Tana French & Sinead Crowley and I'm working my way through the Ruth Galloway series at the moment. Any other recommendations? I like the police procedural elements, not into lots of violence and gore. And I can't handle anything where children get hurt! (Had to skip most of the second Ruth Galloway book!) cheers

Okay. Police procedurals...
Ann Cleeves Vera, Shetland, Inspector Ramsay series.
MC Beaton Hamish Macbeth
JD Robb Eve Dallas (In Death) series - slightly futuristic, US setting
SR Garrae Casey & Carval series - US setting
"Richard Castle" Nikki Heat Series - spin off of a TV show.
Ed Mc Bain - older, and some less than PC elements - US based
LJ Ross - Northumberland/Newcastle based.
Alex Gray - set in Glasgow
Ben Aaronovitch - fantasy: London police dealing with magical crimes

Not police procedural specifically
Dorothy L Sayers
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling) Cormoran Strike
Ngaio Marsh
Patricia Wentworth
Kerry Greenwood (Miss Fisher, now on TV)
Some Kelley Armstrong
Janet Evanovich
Georgette Heyer's country house mysteries

Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series

Thanks! Loads of ideas there

Susan Hill

Michael Connelly books. Especially the Harry Bosch ones, but his others like the Poet, Lincoln Lawyer etc, are also brilliant!

I am currently enjoying the Roy Grace series by Peter James while suffering the wait for the next Strike novel.

I like Nicci French's novels. Not Police procedurals, just good crime thrillers.

Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels are really good.

I do love a good Police procedural novel as well. Just started Cara Hunter's DI Adam Fawley series. So far so good.

Currently reading I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh. But avoid if you don't like children dying. I nearly DNF'd it because of that but glad I carried on. It's really good.

@TheWindOnTheMoon I can just about cope if the details are very vague!

Yes yes to Kate Atkinson, v interesting mysteries but also lovely character studies with moments of real humour

@PopcornAndWine - it's a hit and run accident right at the start (not a spoiler), quite upsetting but it doesn't revisit that scene in a lot of detail (so far).

And there is a sad story running through Cara Hunter's Close to Home too, involving one of the Police officers, which I can't say without plot spoiling.

The Jessica Daniel series by Kerry Wilkinson, first one is ‘Locked In’.

The early Peter James are good but by Christ, I got fed up with the side plot and his GF.

Inspector Banks by Peter Robinson.

A series by Neil White (can’t remember name of the detective).

@CinnamonSweet73

Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series

Yes, these are good. I've just read the fifth one.

Thanks for all the recommendations on this thread.

I don't enjoy some of Val McDermid's series (don't like wire in the blood books for eg) but really enjoy the Inspector Karen Pirie books - I'd say they fit the police procedural category!

Seconding Nicci French here, the days of the week series is fab. I also like Helen Fields, MJ Arlidge and Mark Billingham.

@eeyoredebbie

I am currently enjoying the Roy Grace series by Peter James while suffering the wait for the next Strike novel.

Someone I work with recommend the Roy Grace series to me, I'm about to start the 4th. They are quite good in that they follow police procedures, go into the personals of the characters, just enough mystery to keep you guessing.

@WhatsTheEffingPoint I’ve just started the 4th Roy Grace too! I am quite interested in Roy’s back story with his wife and the new GF whereas it takes a while into the book before I am interested in the criminal case lol

Roy Grace ones sound good!

Try MW craven.

All of Katrina Diamond’s books

Have you tried the American women PI series? One of the best known is Sue Grafton's alphabet series, from A to Y. She's died and she and her family don't want the series continued so it ends there. My favourites are Sara Paretsky and Marcia Muller - Muller is less well known than I'd like her to be but if you have a Kindle most of her books are available at a reasonable price that way. Grafton and Paretsky are fairly continuously in print etc though I don't know if libraries have replaced copies of the early books in the series. Again, if you have a Kindle the books often come up in offers - I'm still waiting for a few of the alphabet books though I had most of them up to 2011 (bought my first Kindle then!) in paperback. Other American women PI authors I like include Linda Barnes and Janet Dawson, but I'm not sure about availability of all the books, though most of the earlier series books were published here too.

Mostly London though the series characters travel
Anabel Donald's Alex Tanner series set in London
American author but UK set series by Deborah Crombie
Alison Joseph's Sister Agnes series
Lauren Henderson, Sam Jones

Bath
Peter Lovesey

Liza Cody though again as many of her books were published a long time ago, I had to search out secondhand copies in the past - she's also published some recent work only on Kindle.

Scotland
Denise Mina
Joyce Holms' Fizz & Buchanan series

Thanks for those! I don't have a Kindle, they're just not for me, I'm too attached to paper books. But will certainly look into those

Can't believe no one has mentioned Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus books...they're excellent!

I can recommend Tess Gerritson, Rizzoli & Isles series

Veronica Smallwood wrote a series of crime novels featuring Kate Ivory. She is a history writer/lecturer and her boyfriend is in the police. She gets “reluctantly drawn” into many mysteries. They are quite gentle, easy to read, and not at all gory. Best read in order, as her friendships and relationships develop. I really enjoyed them.