Crime novel recommendations- set in certain locations

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I am getting my dad some crime novels but he only reads ones set in locations that are personal to him.
So far I have got

• Ambrose Parry The Way of The Flesh for Edinburgh
• LJ Ross Holy Island for, well, Holy Island

And I got Cara Hunter Close To Home for Oxford BUT having looked more closely I think this was a mistake as I think it could probably have been set anywhere, I'm not getting any sense of place. So I am after an alternative please.

The other places he likes are
Peak District, Yorkshire Dales, Manchester, East Anglia, Durham, Shetland, Galway, Oxford, Lake District, Hebden Bridge.
I'm not looking to find a book for every area, I could just do with one more please.

Missed a big bit of helpful information off sorry. He has already read
Ann Cleeves
Peter Robinson
Stephen Booth
Ian Rankin
Reginald Hill
Ken Bruen
Val McDermid
Kate Atkinson

What about Norfolk? The Ruth Galloway series is set there.

No connection to North Wales? The DCI Ruth Hunt series is set there and she is a newcomer so there's lots of descriptions and explanations of the locations.

Yes came on to suggest that one. Also know a good one set in NI but that isn't one of his places!

Joy Ellis novels are set in the Fens but many of the locations are fictional.

Has he read The Inspector Morse books? They're set in Oxford

I was just coming to say Vera and Stephen Booth but he beat me to it!
Looking at the type of writing he likes, rather than the location- Stephen Booth, Val Mc, Reginald Hill etc might he like Elizabeth George? He maybe saw the Inspector Lynley series on TV but the books (like Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe books) are much more complex.
Ruth Rendell and PD James imo can't be beaten for writing either.

The later LJ Ross books move to Durham. A warning though- the authors you've mentioned are a level above Ross, although I do quite like them they're not well written at all. Joy Ellis is also not great, though very cheap on kindle. Try the British Library Crime Classics- some great novels, many of which have fallen out of publication until recently. Many have a really strong sense of place.

Gaudy night is set in Oxford. As is The late Scholar. Both Peter Whimsy books.

Death of an Expert Witness by PD James is set very atmospherically in East Anglia!

Sarah Ward has written crime set in the Peak District

@Ulelia oh heck, thanks for the heads up. Might take that back too then. Should have consulted the wisdom of mumsnet before I got carried away.

Thank you everyone, this is very helpful.

Joseph Knox writes about a down on his luck detective in Manchester - I think they’re a good read

Searching the British Crime Library I have found Fell Murder: A Lancashire Mystery by E.L.C Lorac, which looks to fit the bill.

I am working through suggestions. He has read the Morse ones and I suspect will have read PD James and the Whimsey ones. He won't read American crime writers so that is Elizabeth George out.
Thanks for all the help.

The Edge of the Grave by Robbie Morrison is set in Glasgow (in 1932!) Very atmospheric! It won the Bloody Scotland Debut crime novel of the year recently.

Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins has been very well reviewed and is set in Oxford - I have bought it but not read it yet so can't recommend it personally.

www.waterstones.com/book/magpie-lane/lucy-atkins/9781784293833

Frances Brody’s books are mostly set in Yorkshire. There’s one called Death in the Dales.

@Sp1ke3

What about Norfolk? The Ruth Galloway series is set there.

I just recently discovered this series, and I love it. I almost abandoned it because it is written in the present tense which I usually find very irritating. But it's so good that after a while I hardly notice it.

Faith Martin for Oxford, and Rebecca Tope for Lake District (not her Cotswold books) The Lake District ones have an awful lot of local detail, especially Windermere, Bowness, Coniston etc., if you know the area you'll be very familiar with some of the roads and routes!

The Guards by Ken Bruen is set in Galway. It's the first in a series of Jack Taylor books.

Link to the whole Jack Taylor series in order here

Dammit, just noticed he's already read Ken Bruen. As you were.

Dervla McTiernan has a series set in Galway, the Cormac Reilly series. First book is The Ruin.

Alan Parks writes about Glasgow in the 70s, and it's very accurate from my googling and asking older relatives! First one is called Bloody January, very good series!

Veronica Stallwood has a detective series set in contemporary Oxford, they are a fairly good read. Not exactly Literature though.

Second the British Library Crime recommendations, Death on the Cherwell is good, also The Lake District Murder, haven't read any others.