Detective series suggestions please.

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I wonder if anyone has any suggestions please.

I read a few detective series, but need a new one to get into for the winter.

I’ve read:

Elly Griffiths’ Ruth Galloway series. (Really liked)
Also her Harbinder Kaur series.
Strike novels. (Loved)
Jackson Brodie. (Loved)
P. D. James’ books.
Most Agatha Christie.
Anthony Hotowitz Hawthorn and Magpie Murders series. (Really liked)
Tried the Simon Serralier, but didn’t love.
Read all the Ann Cleeves series. (Quite liked)
Read a fair few Val McDermid. Too graphic for me really.

I have a Peter May upstairs, but haven’t read it yet.

Any great series I’m missing?

Thanks!

If you like historical, the Shardlake series by CJ Sansom, set in Tudor England

LJ Ross and JD Kirk

I don’t think anyone’s suggested Sue Grafton yet

Kate Ellis and the Wesley Peterson books are great. Modern stories with a foot in the past.

Also D.I Logan series by J.D Kirk although they can be quite graphic but have a dark humour in there too.

@emmetgirl Do you know if Stephen Booth has stopped writing? He hasn't had a new book for quite a while, and Goodreads/Fantastic Fiction didn't have any info the last time I looked.

I like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone series too. They are based in California and are deliberately set in the 1980s so Kinsey doesn't get to benefit from a mobile phone or the internet. They start with A and go up to X or Y. Grafton died before completing Z so it's easy to know where you are in the series.

Elly Griffiths has also written the Brighton series, as well as Ruth Galloway. They're very atmospheric, although I prefer Ruth as a character.

Linward Barclay books?
karin Slaughter - Jeffery Tolliver
Anything Lisa Jewel but definitely The Family Upstairs.

Deborah Crombie’s Kincaid & James series, definitely best read in order.

Josephine Tey’s Alan Grant books, and also Brat Farrar which isn’t a detective book but is crime fiction.

Sara Paretsky’s VI Warshawski

John Connolly’s Charlie Parker series, crime with a horror twist

Angela Marsons Kim Stone series. Book 19 is out about now so lots to be getting on with

Ian Rankin

Mark Billingham's Tom Thorne series

Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone A-Z series (though not sure Z was written before she sadly died. I do hope so)

So many to look up, thanks everybody.

I read Cadfael years ago, but could probably read again! I also loved the Shardlake series and all Lisa Jewell’s books.

I’ve just ordered the first Cara Hunter, thanks again.

Joy Ellis - Jackman & Evans series,
Ruth Rendell - Wexford
David Blake - DI Tanner

A few more to add to great suggestions PP have made

Also Ngaio Marsh.

JD Robb's Eve Dallas series, set in New York in the mid 21c

Sue Grafton is fab!

Are are of these suitable for tweens? I have a very mature 12yo who has just got into Miss Marple. Happy for her to read adult level books but want to avoid sex and too much violence.

The Ngaio March Detective Alleyn books are the same vintage as the Marple ones - no sex and any violence is pretty mild. She has Some fairly baroque ways of bumping people off, though. I started reading them at about the same age.

@Tezza1 he's got a book out at the moment it's a standalone novel, I don't know if there'll be any more Cooper and Fry

If Scandi Noir is your thing, and why wouldn't it be - it's bloody awesome...

Henning Mankell's Wallander books are a masterclass in detective fiction.

Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series is also amazing but Harry himself is a bit of a caricature - alcoholic genius type - although doesn't detract from the story arc!

Dorothy L sayers - if you have yet to meet lord Peter Wimsey you are very lucky

I also like Kerry Greenwood. Phryne Fisher (set in the 20s) and also the corrinna Chapman (contemporary)

Maybe also look at sulari gentil

I also love the Sue Grafton series. Have you tried Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad? They aren't exactly sequential but have overlapping characters.

I have thoroughly enjoyed Stephen Puleston's DI Drake series after a mention on here. All set in North Wales, which I know well. Interesting, rounded characters, good writing and sense of place. I binged on Kindle Unlimited. 😂

Post war detective series has been translated recently - Seishi Yokomizo

i really enjoyed them

there’s a lot of locked room mystery books coming out of Japan over the last 80 years

Major yes to Dorothy L Sayers. A better writer than Christie, IMHO, although you might find the pacing a bit slower and the plots less tricky.

And the series of books where Wimsey meets Harriet Vane contain some of the best writing on love and relationships ever.

Mind you, some of the 1920's attitudes are toe curling, as you would expect, but if you're used to Christie I expect you won't break stride over it.

Otherwise I have a soft spot also for Cadfael, albeit they can get a bit samey.

Why not go back to the start and try the Sherlock Holmes stories? They still haven't been bettered. Agatha Christie is pretty amazing too. It's funny the way the pioneers in a genre often remain the best. I've never read a work of fantasy as good as The Lord of the Rings, or a horror story as good as M. R. James' stuff. And H. G. Wells still takes some beating in science fiction.

I think another pp mentioned LJ Ross. Her DCI Ryan series is great. They're set in Northumberland.

Another vote for Louise Penny, I've just discover her and they're great, I like a setting that's a bit different.
Ariana Franklin is good too although sadly only five of those I think as she has now died.
Also love the Carola Dunn series featuring Daisy Dalrymple.