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Please help me find a gripping crime novel

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Pimpleonanelephant · 03/10/2021 17:46

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!

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IntermittentParps · 31/01/2022 14:49

The Quirke books by John Banville (well, his nom de plume Benjamin Black). I don't know who reads the audiobooks though as I read them as book-books.
The only author I know from your list is Tana French and I'd say they're a little like her books in that they're about the crime but also the characters and setting. They take place in Dublin in the 50s and Quirke is the city pathologist and gets embroiled in not just the 'after-effects' of crime ie the bodies, but the solving of them.
The characterisation is great and they're very immersive in the place and time. They're quite melancholy; there seems to be a running theme of loneliness. But they're wonderfully written and I find the crime aspect of them gripping.

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