Crime/ thriller series recommendations

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I like crime, psychological thrillers etc, also true crime. I'd like to get into a good series of crime/ thrillers. Any recommendations?

The Merrily Watkins series by Phil Rickman are good.

Sorry if you watched these already: I’ll be gone before dark and The Vow are absolutely excellent true crime docuseries, on par with The Staircase and making the murderer. They are on sky / now tv but really worth it.

from fiction (including various sort of crime):

Unbelievable
The Sinner
Manhunt for Unabomber
Fargo
Quicksand
Wisting
midnight mass (if you like a light horror)
mare of easttown
the outsider
chestnut man
severance
slow horses
dropout (really enjoyed this one and there was a documentary about it too!)
inventing anna
dopesick

Sue Grafton's A to Z* series

*Actually Y as sadly Grafton died before reaching the end of the alphabet.

Flickr in the darkness. Just finished and is so good.
The night shift. Very good.
The echo man. So so very good.
The stand alone any Michael wood.

I have many many more 😂

Sorry. That should have said. The stand alone books that Michael wood writes. Although his police drama series Matilda black are good.

Thanks for recommendations. In case I wasn't clear, it's books I'm looking for.

I love the DI Fawley series of books by Cara Hunter. I'm also currently really enjoying the Matilda Darke books by Michael Wood.

I’ll be gone in the dark is originally a book so would recommend that

Another recommendation for Cara Hunter.

Also the series by Tim Weaver featuring missing persons investigator David Raker.

Any Jack Olson true crime books. He was an American writer, some of his books are quite disturbing with facts.

Tana French's Dublin detectives are great. I find them quite funny as well as dark - wonderful turns of phrases.

Rivers of London series. Seems a bit woo to begin with but brilliantly written and excellent humour, research and nerdy architecture facts.

Tana French is good, read most of hers.
Christopher Brookmyre's Jack Parlabane books. Read a couple, definitely a good turn of phrase, well written.
Susan Hill , Simon Serrailler books.

The Washington Poe books by MW Craven are excellent. Highly recommended.

I love KL Slater, not exactly high brow, but she's a great storyteller, I have been known to do them in one go.

Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan books are great. I also recommend Cara Hunter as mentioned above and Catherine Ryan Howard. I've just started reading Buried Angels by Patricia Gibney and I hadn't realised there are lots more in this series too (Detective Lottie Parker).

I quite like the Eddie Flynn series by Steve Cavanagh

The Jane Casey books were to be my recommendation.

Henning Mankell
Karin Fossum
Steigg Larson
Kristina Ohlsson

Anything Nordic really!

I rate Tana French too.
Also Benjamin Black (John Banville's) Quirke series. Quirke is the city pathologist in 1950s Dublin and gets mixed up in solving various fairly bloody crimes. Great period detail (clothes, Dublin hotel restaurants, slightly grotty flats etc) and some good stuff about Irish society then (the attitude to unmarried mothers etc). And beautiful writing.

I recently read Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden. He's Native American, as is his protagonist. It's a crime novel but also totally fascinating on a culture that I knew little about and the relationship between the reservation and the police/white society.

Chris carters series -us detective who solves grizzly serial killings. Around 10 books so far.

Try Matt Weslowski Six Stories series. They are based on the idea of a podcast, with each chapter being a new episode.

I second the Steve Cavanagh Eddie Flynn series. The protagonist is an ex con man turned lawyer. They are courtroom thrillers/crime books. Really clever and keep you on the edge of your seat.

The Chris Carter Robert Hunter series. I think there are about ten books in the series now but it starts with The Crucifix Killer.

Michael Connolly’s Harry Bosch novels will keep you going a good while.

James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels too.

A but dated now, but Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series.