Crime recommendations

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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

Sorry, Stallwood, not Smallwood.

Placemarking because I love a police procedural. All the ones I would recommend are already on here but a few I haven't so will have a proper look later.

Martin Walker's series about Bruno Chef de Police is a favourite of mine - set in a village in the Dordogne - I'm currently reading number 14.

On basis of this thread I've just started listening to the first Roy Grace on Audible. Not sure tbh - I found the first few chapters really hard going for reasons that anyone who has read it will understand, but will persevere as it seems a bit early to bail out!

The Tony Parsons series.
Detective Max Wolfe.
Gritty, London based male single Dad policeman. Good plots, a mix of procedural, interesting 'facts', crime and some humanity thrown in.
The cases aren't necessarily pleasant, but no murder is pleasant unless it is the sanitised version.

@legosnowqueen I agree and I feel like I visit Edinburgh every Rebus book, love them.

Definitely Louise Penny’s Gamache series. The best detective books I’ve ever read. They’re set in a small village in Quebec and you just fall in love with the characters and their food. I’m always quite sad when I finish one.

Rachel Abbott books are really good

Lynwood Barclay. Just finished Elevator Pitch which I found really gripping.

@Faevern I know, I love Edinburgh

I love Ragnar Jonasson - set in Iceland and really good, non-gruesome crime solving.

Also love Rebus series.

Excellent a few more recommendations thanks all.

Dana Stabenow - very long series set in Alaska. Really good.

Louise Penny - Canada (Quebec) - slightly quirky but also good,

Jo Spain - Ireland - very good.

Has anyone mentioned PD James. Love her crime stories and she used to work for forensic science so she gets a lot of the details right.

Margaret Kirk has police procedurals set in the Inverness area. She won a Good Housekeeping first novel prize.
There are 3 published so far and she's writing a fourth.
Avoid the 2nd book if you have an aversion to reading about children being hurt.

Such a handy thread! Didn't enjoy Roy Grace as much as I'd hoped - the plotting was just a little bit too ludicrous for me.

But big thumbs up for Deborah Crombie - great writing, engaging police duo, some atmospheric London plotting. I'm listening to Kissed a sad goodbye on Audible.

Quintin Jardine's Bob Skinner novels
Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks novels
Peter May's Lewis Trilogy
Reginald Hill's Dalziel & Pascoe series

There''s also the L.J Ross DCI Ryan series. Some of them are free with Kindle Unlimited on Amazon,

If you fancy giving Scandi noir a try, there is Jussi Adler Olsen's Department Q series, Camilla Lackberg's Fjallbacka series, Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole books and Arne Dahl's Intercrime series

Angela Marson's Kim Stone books are good easy reads, all £2.99 on kindle. She has just finished writing the 15th in the series, so they'll keep you going for a while.

Just had a thought. Although not really police procedural, Ben Aaronovitch's RIvers of London series is excellent, bit of crime, bit off the wall and full of humour. Read in order tho.

I enjoyed Camilla Lackberg.
Henning Mankell too - Wallander.
Just about to start on Peter May's Lewis trilogy, having read another one he seton Lewis (but not part of the trilogy).

Some good suggestions on here to follow up.

So glad this thread has picked up again! this lot will keep me going for ages!