Please help me find a gripping crime novel

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If I like:
Mark Billingham
Peter James
Tana French
Rachel Abbott
Val McDermid
Stuart McBride
Lee Child

Never been able to get through an Ian Rankin book, though. Can you please help me find another author? I only listen to audiobooks and much prefer an narrator to be from our side of the water than an American narrator.

Im going round in circles looking for the next listen but nothings grabbing my attention!

Cant find him listed but they were recommended on another thread and I love them - they Eddie Flynn series by Steve Cavanaugh - unputdownable. However, I am reading his latest stand alone (Twist) and I can't get into it.

@Ellmau

Jo Spain is an excellent Irish crime writer.

Steig should have stopped after The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. The rest just were bad.

Has OP tried much Scandi Noire? Indriadason, Nesbo

MJ Arlidge is absolutely fantastic. Especially the first book.

A previous poster suggested Mo Hayder. She was an amazing writer but The Treatment still haunts me - I know most of her books were based on real life crimes but her themes and content are seriously dark!
I also like Karin Slaughter and CJ Sansome is good if you like to combine history and crime.

Another vote for Sharon Bolton/SJ Bolton - her stand-alones are excellent and the Lacey series is very good

Mo Hayder - Jack Caffery series

Galbraith Troubled Blood

Liz Mistry - DS Nikki Parekh

Simon Kernick books. He's written a whole series. Absolutely amazing. Could not put them down. Read each book in a day

Blood Orange was quite good

Love Ruth Rendell and as Barbara Vine - Asta's Book, The House of Stairs,
No Night is Too Long, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy...
I can read them again and again. Also Nicci French and Kate Atkinson (love Jackson Brodie)
I've read a few Sophie Hannah books but they've gone beyond weird 😕
Magpie Murders is a fab read.

Everything by Conrad Jones!!

Have you tried The Roth Trilogy by Andrew Taylor?

(Although maybe check the subject matter first in case it's upsetting for you.)

I recently found Chris Carter, it was my first introduction into crime fiction and I was hooked immediately and bought everything he's written. 🥴

Susie Steiner
Jane Harper
Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine’s ability to make horrible people understandable is wonderful. I love PD James’ prose but I think she is the opposite- even the characters who should be sympathetic are ghastly.

Martin Walker's books about Bruno Chef de Police, set in the Dordogne

I have read and enjoyed a lot recommended already and am taking notes on new authors.
I wanted to recommend the Christopher Brookmyre Jack Parlabane books on Audible.
I have only listened to two as I have read the older books but I love the narrator.
I'm not Scottish so it's a novelty for me to listen to that accent.

I've just finished
i The Dinner Guest
by BP Walter. Excellent, twisty stuff.

Another good police procedural series is Peter Robinson's Alan Banks series. There are about 25 books, and while I'm quite keen on reading in order you could probably start with one like #10, In a Dry Season (published about 20 years ago, gulp! - have I been reading these for so long?), and go back a bit if you enjoy, as the first one isn't that good.

I love John Harvey's Charlie Resnick series, written in the 1990s I think, and many of them were adapted/serialised on Radio 4.

I also really like Deborah Crombie's Kincaid/James series set in London - she's American but her portrayal of London is reasonably realistic though I think she has her characters living in rather unaffordable places that her American readers might recognise.

Another favourite Scottish crime writer: Denise Mina - several series and standalones mostly set in Glasgow - her 5 books featuring police detective Alex Morrow are among her more recent work (thinking of books that are more likely to have been done in unabridged audio as well as print).

I'm not sure about audio adaptations

@Imdoingitnow

Mel Sherratt - all set around Stoke The Beck novels - scandi crime set in 1950s pre mobile phones and computers The Wallander books

"Mel Sherratt - all set around Stoke"

You're not selling them to me....

Just came back to say I've read the new Elizabeth George (Something to Hide) and found it excellent and gripping.

Some improbable coincidences but on the whole a thoroughly fulfilling read with an interesting subject matter (FGM).

Need to find something else to read now. Stuck.

@LakeDweller?? I wasn't aware I was supposed to be selling them to you........

[quote Imdoingitnow]@LakeDweller?? I wasn't aware I was supposed to be selling them to you........[/quote]
Not literally, just the idea of them It’s ok, just a turn of phrase.

Has anyone read ‘the couple at the table’. I was going to get it but the reviews are not great.

Claire Douglas and Marion Todd are recent discoveries for me. I worked my way through them all really fast.