I love PD James, who else might I enjoy?

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Can an fellow PD James fans recommend some writers? Thanks!

*any

Have you tried Iain Banks? Writer of the Rebus books, not quite as descriptive as PD James but fantastic plots and characters.

I also like Michael Connelly and his Harry Bosch books which are set in LA.

Finally take a look at the Roy Grace books by Peter Janes, all set in and around Brighton, they're really well written.

Colin Dexter
Elizabeth George
Ruth Rendell

Have a look at www.literature-map.com - good place to start

Phil Rickman
Val McDiarmid
L J Ross

Dorothy L. Sayers titles are often surprisingly fun although very much of their time in some ways

The Dublin murders books

And if you want something frothier, M. C. Beaton, who wrote Hamish Macbeth and the Agatha Raisin series

Ngaio Marsh

Margery Allingham

What about Elly Griffiths? She does a couple of series, the ones set just after WW two come to mind. Also I was coming in to say Ruth Rendell or MW Craven.

Peter Robinson.
Robert Goddard.
Ruth Rendell
Peter Lovesey
Elly Griffiths

Tana French - though much more modern - I loved the pathos of PD James and her incredible empathy with her characters especially people who are alone (struggled to find it with anyone else).

Ruth Rendell definitely

Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell pseudonym- much darker than RR and more "psychological")
As with PD James, definitely not just policing by numbers, here's a body, here's a dysfunctional copper, rinse and repeat.
A Fatal Inversion, Gallowglass and A Dark Adapted Eye are all excellent.

Susan Hill’s Simon Serrailler’s series.