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Recommend me a new detective series

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SonicBoomGirl · 02/04/2023 21:37

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.

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atthebottomofthehill · 05/04/2023 07:05

Thank you @MadeinBelfast 👍🏼

Levriers · 05/04/2023 07:10

Peter Grainger the DC Smith series. I have found them really well written

atthebottomofthehill · 05/04/2023 07:10

Ooh @GulfCoastBeachGirl thanks! I'm feeling self conscious now that I don't want to hijack the thread especially with books that aren't quite like what everyone else likes! But in terms of detective type stuff I have enjoyed the Bryant & May series, the Antony Horowitz Hawthorn series, I have liked the Thursday murder club I'm afraid (!), I'm quite enjoying the Rivers of London. I think I might like Slow Horses? It's on the list.

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SonicBoomGirl · 18/04/2023 10:15

Of all the threads I have started on MN and there have been many I think that this is my favourite.
And it has cost me a fortune Grin

These are not 'cosy crime', but I have remembered two more series that I enjoyed:

Tony Parsons' Max Wolfe books, based in London. Max Wolfe is very much a masculine character, but I quite like that about him.

Any of the books by Helen Phifer, all set in or near the Lake District. The characters are well drawn.

@atthebottomofthehill you weren't hijacking the thread, this is everyone's thread. Peter Monn has two or three channels on YouTube, one called Peter Likes Books! He recommends what he terms 'cosy crime' e.g. non-violent crime books. He's worth a look.

I'm about to start my first Jackson Brodie, it had better be good, or heads will roll, I tell you Wink

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SonicBoomGirl · 29/04/2023 00:13

OMG.

Lately I have been doing a lot of driving for work.

Since I started this thread I listened to all of the Maeve Kerrigan books and.they.were.brilliant. By the 7th book I couldn't listen to them quickly enough.

I'm listening to a Cormac Reilly now. It's good and if I hadn't just listened to Maeve Kerrigan I would love it.

Please can anyone recommend a series as gripping as Maeve Kerrigan?

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chickbean · 29/04/2023 00:19

atthebottomofthehill · 04/04/2023 16:40

Could someone point me in the direction of which of these recommendations so far are:

No too scary
Not too violent or gory
Not much about horrendous violence to women
Have an element of lightness/humour to them, interesting characters and a good narrative?

I've looked at the covers of some of them and they look like the kind of thing I don't like but I don't want to judge a book by its cover...

The "Date with" books by Julia Chapman are lovely.

chickbean · 29/04/2023 00:24

If the Kate Atkinson you read was "Emotionally wierd" then I understand (it was awful), but the Jackson Brodie books are completely different. First one is "Case Histories". I moved to Robert Galbraith when she stopped writing the Jackson series and like these too. Also the Susie Steiner ones, the Helen Fields and Donna Leon.

deeplybaffled · 29/04/2023 00:54

Levriers · 05/04/2023 07:10

Peter Grainger the DC Smith series. I have found them really well written

I <love> the DC Smith books! I just wish I could buy them in paperback as my FIL would enjoy them but doesn’t do kindle.

Peter Lovesey’s Diamond books are amongst my favourites, along with the two series by Anne Perry, but I love historical crime.

ann Cleeves is good, but I found L J Ross got rather samey.

looking forward to trying lots on this thread!

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 14/05/2023 14:04

ChicoryDip · 02/04/2023 23:50

Have you tried Rachel Abbot's books? I loved the Tom Douglas series.

Thank you so much for this recommendation. I have absolutely loved this series (a couple of books less so then the others ). Enjoyed the two Stephanie King ones as well. I have found these books slightly different to most police series in that they focus so much more on the lives of the perpetrator/victims - more like a psychological thriller .

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