If I loved the Strike and the Thursday Murder Club series...

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What else would I love please?

Trying to fill the void that finishing book series with beloved characters leaves.

The Mick Herron Slow Horses books? Christopher Brookmyre? Belinda Bauer? All great books but I don’t particularly read series. Hopefully you’ll get some more suggestions for those.

Have you read the Percy Jackson books, I know they are for children but they are very well written and the mythology in them is interesting.

Kate Atkinsons Jackson Brodie series or Pat McDiarmids Karen Pirie Series - I enjoyed both of these as well as the Strike books (hated Thursday Murder club though)

Patricia Fisher series - Steve Higgs, good cozy mystery series

For a kooky one try Fiona Leitch’s Cornish Murder series, or else I’d say Graham Norton’s books or the Maid by Nina potell. (All different but similar iykwim!!!)

Jane Casey’s Maeve Kerrigan series.

I've just started Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series. Crime. DC in the Met Police. Starts with The Burning and goes from there. Nicely filling the Strike shaped hole.

Haha Jinx @ChessieFL

I adore the Thursday Murder Club books, I don't want them to end so I ration them! RO is a clever man. I believe he's about to release a new book soon. I'm trying Richard Coles books but I have to be honest, as much as I like the Rev in person, I'm finding his prose a bit slow. I've read a couple of the QE II murder mysteries by Sophia Bennett. They're OK, a bit lightweight maybe. Fiona Leitch's Cornish mysteries are quite good too, might be worth a go. Finally you may like MC Beaton's Agatha Raisin books - there are stacks and stacks of those to keep you going!

Lisa Regan - Josie Quinn series.

Elly Griffiths writes the Dr Ruth Galloway books which are very good.

Have you tried the Ian Rankin Rebus books? Grittier but equally great.

Hawthorn series by Anthony Horowitz

Lots of good suggestions (Dr Ruth Galloway, Rebus). Also the Hawthorne series by Anthony Horowitz (think there's 4 books now).

I'm also re-reading Agatha Christie.

Sorry @AuntieDolly, didn't see your reply 🙈

I know loads of people addicted to Elly Griffiths books and they are generally readers of Richard Osman, etc. Luckily, there are lots of them - although it can get a bit samey.

Marlow Murder Club series by Robert Thorogood (who wrote Death in Paradise - there are some DIP books he has written too not read them yet...). Far prefer Marlow Murder Club to Thursday MC series, I think Richard Osman has hammered the same formula too hard and they're boringly on repeat now.

Marlow Murder Club has 3 books so far, 4th for release next year. ( First book televised on Drama u.co.uk/shows/the-marlow-murder-club/watch-online, with Samantha Bond playing a superb Judith Potts)

Another vote for the Marlow Murder Club series by Robert Thorogood, Hawthorne series by Anthony Horowitz and Jackson Brodie series by Kate Atkinson.

DCI Ryan series by L J Ross are really good and set in North East England.

Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series - set in Australian outback.