What book series do I need (audiobook, detective fiction)?

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My favourite audiobooks for long journeys and getting through boring chores have recently been not very highbrow detective novels, particularly Jackson Brodie and Cormoran Strike. I’ve also loved Mick Herron’s books.
Can you suggest another series I might like? I’m listening to Kat and Locke right now. They’re okay too, but short.
Not too gruesome and murdery, not too much about the grief of families. More the detecting and relationships between protagonists.

This! Amazing series, fantastic narration. I’ve just finished the last one and I feel genuinely sad that I don’t have another to look forward to.

Also an amazing story from a publishing perspective - entirely self-published and only available via ebooks or audio-books as a result.

This brilliant article from the FT was started me off … The novelist and the detective

Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan. Easy listen - an old fashioned mystery/dectective story. There’s a few in the series, all on audible.

Does your local library service have audiobooks via Borrowbox or similar? I was surprised how big my local catalog turned out to be having blissfully assumed for years that the audiobooks were all still on CDs. 😊
If you (or someone you know) has a sub to The Times there are a couple of free ebooks and an audiobook given each month. Its a hit and miss selection but if you use a lot of audiobooks it may be worth while and extends the Audible credits.
I also use Librivox - its older books but I found a lot of classic detective and murder mysteries (including the Arsene Lupin books).

Seconding the Dresden books - I enjoyed those as well.

I've been reading the Anne Cleeves ones which the TV series Vera is based on. I can't stand the series but am enjoying the books.

The VI Warshawski Books by Sara Paretsky
Vic is a woman Private Investigator in Chicago.

I’m in the middle of the Bill Hodges series by Stephen King - the first is Mr Mercedes. I tend to read crime fiction and listen to fantasy, but my last
listen wasn’t doing it for me and my brother recommended this, and I’m totally loving it.

My favourite authors are Karen Rose, Karin Slaughter and Rachel McLean. Rose and Slaughter are both American and McLean is English. I like long series that repeat characters. I especially like McLean's Dorset crime series as I was born in Dorset and found it a novelty to read about places i am familiar with. If you like conspiracy theories Scott Mariani's Ben Hope books are enjoyable.

Have you tried the Roy Grace books, I've started to listen to that series and I'm really enjoying it.

The Inspector John Reynolds books by Jo Spain is another series of books I enjoyed. For once the main character has a happy home life and isn't a damaged, heavy drinker or loner which makes a nice change. I really like the narrator too. Lovely Irish accent.

For a good mystery without too much violence the Death in Paradise books are really good. Nice sunny settings to brighten up the dark nights.
There's only four of them I wish there were more.

Absolutely yes!
Honestly people just don’t know what they are missing…but they will next year when his back catalogue is published!

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone and all the others in the series.

I watched the beginning of the Mr Mercedes TV adaptation the other day and loved it.

I recommend Ruth Galloway BUT the room full of bones is not on audible which is very annoying. I'm trying to read it but it's taken me a year to get 1/4 into it as I just never have the time (hence why I use audible!)

I would love this to be made into a tv series.

DS Nathan Cody series by David Jackson.

Who could you find to play the character of DC Smith though? His character is so nuanced, his quiet charisma would be hard to replicate. He has so much presence and his believable backstory would be beyond the imagination of most ordinary joes…It would have to be an amazingly good actor to play such a man… until then the actor that narrates the books on audible is spot on, Gildart Jackson…

This has been the best news of the last few days: Peter Grainger is going to be in print at last! Congratulations to Heineman...

Gildart Jackson, his reader, is also much loved.

JD Kirk Jack Logan books plus the various spin offs. Fantastic on Audible.

For fans of Aaranovitch RofL I’d like to recommend The Stranger Times by CK McDonnell. Same fantasy realism vibe, but journalism in Manchester instead of police in London.

His other books under Ciamh McDonnell (Dublin Trilogy, McGarry Stateside) are also v good. Crime and black humour. His books all have excellent narration IMO.

@ThursdayLastWeek I agree. I absolutely love The Stranger Times and The Dublin Trilogy. They are some of my favourites, so funny, and great characters. The narration is brilliant

100% recommend these, I’m due another reread I think

I’m re listening to basically all of them while I wait for something new and exciting to catch my eye and be ‘worth the credit’.

I was a big fan of Colin Bateman (in the 00s??) which is similar dark Irish humour.

Definitely the Maeve Kerrigan series by Jane Casey. I have loved these and read them more than once! I also like the DI Fawley books by Cara Hunter. I’m currently reading the Eddie Flynn series by Steve Cavanagh and really enjoying them too!

Another good detective series is the Logan McRae books by Stuart McBride. It’s about a detective in Aberdeen and they’re well written and narrated.
Actually I’ve just noticed that there is a new one out so that will be my next listen!

I bought them all on audible when they first came out. A few months ago I went to read the early ones again and found that several original audiobooks had been deleted from my collection. I played merry hell with Audible - surely if I’ve bought them they’re mine?

I got 3 or 4 free credits but since then have noticed a few other titles seem to have gone missing., I need to go through my purchase history.

How can they do that??

Although I wish I could gift and then delete a lot of my early books. I have a lot of meg and mog books my tween no longer wants 😂