Recommend me a new detective series

[SonicBoomGirl]

I've motored through all of Cara Hunter's DI Fawley series. They wouldn't be my usual thing, and I don't know how I started reading them, but I have finished them all now.

Please can someone recommend something similar? European, preferably British or Irish and a police procedural series.

Thank you.

Another recommendation for Jane Casey’s Maeve Kerrigan series- hers and Cara Hunter’s are the two I always keep up with.
Also a fan of Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad.
A A Dhand has a good series set in Bradford- the detective is Harry Virdee.
And of course Rebus.
If you’d consider an Aussie setting (police set up v similar to U.K. except they do carry guns) Jane Harper and Chris Hammer are both worth a read.

I'm really enjoying Martina Murphy's Lucy Golden books - only 2 out so far.

Martin Walker's series set in the South of France is really good. Bruno, Chief of Police is the first book. Gorgeous descriptions of the French countryside and local food. More complex than a run-of-the-mill village mystery as well. And you'll end up crushing on Bruno😀

I like this for "by the pool" reading. Bruno is a massive Mary Sue but I do like the sense of place and the way the mysteries are woven into that region and history. The great advantage of words only is that Bruno can be pictured exactly as we want him to be😃

@C8H10N4O2 Don't laugh, but I picture him as looking like Gerard Butler when he was in his early 30's🤗I like the supporting characters as well.

The food descriptions always send me foraging into the depths of my fridge, where I inevitably unearth some questionable goat cheese rather than the delicious regional cuisine I'm reading about!

Seconded! I love Tana.

Helen Fields 'perfect' series.

JDKirk DC Logan series.

Stewart McBride 'Logan McRae' series.

The Hidden Norfolk series by JM Dalgleish. I'm very patiently waiting for book 14........ (I can spend a day just reading the whole book!) I've laughed and cried whilst reading them, sometimes I work it out but not always!

Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series has got me through a horrendous year.

Ann Cleeves Vera or Shetland series are great plus she has a new series set in Devon.
Elly Griffiths - the Dr Ruth Galloway books are sort of police procedural with a bit of archaeology thrown in plus she has a couple of other series.

Slightly off the wall but Ben Aaranovitch’s Rivers of London is a police procedural with magic thrown in.

The Bryant and May series? Not deadly serious but that's why I like them.

Also enjoying rivers of london so far although I find some of the language about women a bit outdated and they weren't written that long ago...

I enjoyed these - but the same author has also written a series set in Yorkshire but I didn't really enjoy those - completely different vibe .

Quentin Jardine's Skinner series? There are about 34, and the first is Skinner's Rules.

Another vote for Chris Hammer's Aussie series: the discovery of 2022 for me.

If you're open to a Canadian setting I highly recommend Louise Penny's Three Pines series. The first book is Still Life.

These are wonderfully atmospheric with a great cast of characters. Very little (if any) violence but not a "cozy" mystery either.

Was just coming to recommend Three Pines/Inspector Gamache too. Thet start off quite slowly but it means the characters develop and lends itself to more intense storylines later on.

@MILLYmo0se Yes, definitely character-driven and you really get invested in how their relationships develop. But absolutely must be read in order!

Did you see the Amazon Prime "Three Pines" series? What did you think of it?

JD Kirk - DCI Logan
Tony Forder - DI Bliss
Alex Smith - DCI Kett
MW Craven - Tilly and Poe
David Gatward - DCI Grimm
TG Reid - DCI Bone

I’ve just ordered a couple of these for myself!
Very much not set in europe but I like Collin Cotterill’s

Dr. Siri Paiboun series set in Laos, the first one is ‘the coroners lunch’- and if you like them there are loads, need to be read in order. Main character is an elderly disillusioned ex communist fighter who is the only coroner in the country so can’t retire. Very likeable man. Gentle touch of magic realism , interesting to read about a country not in the news much.

Im not aure what I thought of it tbh! I think if it been watching it as 'just' a dective series Id have been v meh about it, they seemed to be trying to squash a lotin between the particular individual crime, the First Nations storyline and the characters development. Knowing the characters and storylines were a benefit and i think the actors suit their roles bar the female junior dectective whose name escapes me, dont know where she fits in!

@MILLYmo0se I wasn't a fan of the series. They did a terrible job of portraying the village of Three Pines, which is just so integral to the books! Louise Penny herself wrote about how disappointed she was with the TV version of the village.

I thought Alfred Molina was good as Armand Gamache but they tried to shoehorn too many subplots into the episodes. I think overall it just didn't capture the essence of the books very well.

I think the series has been cancelled anyway.

I loved the Camilla Lackberg books, must see if there are any new ones since I last reread them. Some have been made into films but I haven't been able to find them online.

Stephen Packer are good but not exactly procedural.
D M Greenwood are quite different, set against a clerical background.

Val McDermid’s Karen Pirie series is very good
The Inspector Lynley series by Elizabeth George is a bit dated now but I enjoyed them. She is American but the books are set in England and she does quite a decent job of it, although the constant reference to one character as “Lady Helen” and never just “Helen” irrationally gets on my wick.
Kate London is a former police officer who has written a series of crime novels. One was dramatised as The Tower last year I think.

Spy rather than police but Mick Herron’s Slough House series is very well written, very funny and has some excellent female characters.