Best detective novel?

[sunseaandme]

I'm usually into thriller / crime / horror books (Karin slaughter, Peter Swanson, Shari lapena, BA Paris) but wanting to get into detective novels. I know nothing about them as I've never read anything like that. Would prefer something modern rather than Sherlock Holmes type things. If it helps I really enjoy the knives out movies so something in a similar vain to them perhaps?? Sorry not very specific I just enjoy movies where they unravel a mystery or crime layer by layer that leaves you guessing so thinking I would enjoy books like this also x

Hundreds of thousands of novels... Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series are always available in 2nd hand bookshops.
Michael Connelly
Val McDermid
Susan Hill's Simon Serailler series
Elly Griffiths

A quick glance around the crime fiction shelves in a good bookshop will show you a current selection.

There's another thread asking for ideas along the same lines... Recommend me a new detective series.

It's strange, but the first writers in a genre often remain the best. I'm a big fan of ghost stories, and yet I constantly return to MR James. I also like fantasy, yet no one has ever bettered Tolkien. And it's the same with detective fiction. No one beats Sherlock Holmes! There have been countless attempts to create a warped/eccentric/flawed genius-detective. It has been done to death. But no one has ever come up with a character who can match him.

Try The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilerri. It's the first of the Montalbano series and is set in Sicily.

He's very engaging as a Detective and unusually, you get to know his team as well as just him.