Recommend a new thriller/crime/mystery series for me...
Recommend a new thriller/crime/mystery series for me...
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silentbrown

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10,083 posts

134 months

Monday 14th July
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Looking for suggestions... Favourite authors/series in those genres are (in order of preference)

John Connolly : Charlie Parker
Philip Kerr: Bernie Gunther
Phil Rickman: Merrily Watkins
Ian Rankin : Rebus
Michael Connelly : Bosch

Sharp dialog, good research, and a bit of humor are important. High body count/gunplay, less so!

awooga

442 posts

152 months

Monday 14th July
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Christopher Brookmyre and his Jack Pallender character sounds up your street. Tartan Noir - funny, creative, lots of violence!

Mezzanine

10,363 posts

237 months

Monday 14th July
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M.W Craven’s Washington Poe series books are my current favourite and I’d recommend them to everyone.

The have a great undercurrent of British humour and references to them which makes a change from American stuff.


Arrivalist

1,808 posts

17 months

Monday 14th July
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Will Schindler - DI Alex Finn series

Simon Mason - DI Ryan Wilkins series

Mick Dastardly

291 posts

42 months

Monday 14th July
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James Lee Burke.

Lawrence Block.

lancslad58

1,510 posts

26 months

Monday 14th July
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Ajay Chowdhury - The Waiter - Part of the Detective Kamil Rahman (5 book series)


NickZ24

299 posts

85 months

Monday 14th July
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Jonathan Kellerman

specially the Alex Delaware Books

https://mysterysequels.com/jonathan-kellerman

silentbrown

Original Poster:

10,083 posts

134 months

Monday 14th July
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Thanks all! Some Kellerman, Chowdhury and Craven books reserved at library. Will let you know which I enjoy!

Passing on Brookmyre - enjoyed his early stuff, but The Cracked Mirror felt like he'd started a story without bothering about an ending, then just used a variant of "but it was all a dream" to try and tie it together.

Skyedriver

21,182 posts

300 months

Thursday 17th July
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Denzil Meyrick - Rebus ish on the west coast Scotland. Stories follow on but the last couple are somewhat of a mess
Tim Weaver - David Raker Series, looks for lost people.
Adrian Mckinty - Sen Duffy, sort of a Rebus in Norther Ireland, enjoyed these,
And of course Mick Herron - Slough House/Jackson Lamb series


silentbrown

Original Poster:

10,083 posts

134 months

Thursday 17th July
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Skyedriver said:
Denzil Meyrick - Rebus ish on the west coast Scotland. Stories follow on but the last couple are somewhat of a mess
Tim Weaver - David Raker Series, looks for lost people.
Adrian Mckinty - Sen Duffy, sort of a Rebus in Norther Ireland, enjoyed these,
And of course Mick Herron - Slough House/Jackson Lamb series
Cheers. I'm already a Mick Herron fan.

lornemalvo

3,467 posts

86 months

Thursday 17th July
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silentbrown said:
Looking for suggestions... Favourite authors/series in those genres are (in order of preference)

John Connolly : Charlie Parker
Philip Kerr: Bernie Gunther
Phil Rickman: Merrily Watkins
Ian Rankin : Rebus
Michael Connelly : Bosch

Sharp dialog, good research, and a bit of humor are important. High body count/gunplay, less so!
Lawrence Block wrote a series about a bookseller who's a part time burglar. E,G The Burglar who thought he was Bogart. Very good.
John Connolly's Charlie Parker series, very good.
Richard Stark - series about Parker, a serious criminal (you may have seen Parker the movie, or the better original Point Blank movie with Lee Marvin). The story was written by Donal Westlake, AKA Richard Stark. Quite a few written under Richard Stark.
Different genre, but I love Valdez is Coming, a western by Elmore Leonard - closely follows the script of the Burt Lancaster movie.
Perhaps the best procedural crime writer of them all - Ed McBain ( AKA Evan Hunter)87th Precinct series.
Robert Crais - Elvis Cole / Joe Pike series - excellent

lornemalvo

3,467 posts

86 months

Thursday 17th July
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NickZ24 said:
Jonathan Kellerman

specially the Alex Delaware Books

https://mysterysequels.com/jonathan-kellerman
Plus 1 - I liked these

lornemalvo

3,467 posts

86 months

Thursday 17th July
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I forgot to mention - Robert Crais - Elvis Cole / Joe Pike series - excellent

SydneyBridge

10,444 posts

176 months

Thursday 17th July
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Stephen leather, Mark Dawson, Davd Baldicci
I have just started Daniel Silva series

soad

34,099 posts

194 months

Thursday 17th July
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lornemalvo said:
I forgot to mention - Robert Crais - Elvis Cole / Joe Pike series - excellent
yes

Note: I really need to pick up the latest ones.

Little Pete

1,783 posts

112 months

Friday 18th July
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Mezzanine said:
M.W Craven s Washington Poe series books are my current favourite and I d recommend them to everyone.

The have a great undercurrent of British humour and references to them which makes a change from American stuff.
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Mezzanine

10,363 posts

237 months

Friday 18th July
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silentbrown said:
…Passing on Brookmyre - enjoyed his early stuff, but The Cracked Mirror felt like he'd started a story without bothering about an ending, then just used a variant of "but it was all a dream" to try and tie it together.
I have just toiled my way through this, my first Brookmyre, doubt I will be picking up any more of his books.


jet_noise

5,944 posts

200 months

Sunday 20th July
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Skyedriver said:
Denzil Meyrick - Rebus ish on the west coast Scotland. Stories follow on but the last couple are somewhat of a mess
Tim Weaver - David Raker Series, looks for lost people.
Adrian Mckinty - Sen Duffy, sort of a Rebus in Norther Ireland, enjoyed these,
And of course Mick Herron - Slough House/Jackson Lamb series
Another in a Scottish stylee - TG Reid's DCI Bone series.
And on the Emerald Isle, notable humour along with the whodunnit - Caimh McDonnell's Dublin Trilogy, currently at 8 books!

Skyedriver

21,182 posts

300 months

Sunday 20th July
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jet_noise said:
Skyedriver said:
Denzil Meyrick - Rebus ish on the west coast Scotland. Stories follow on but the last couple are somewhat of a mess
Tim Weaver - David Raker Series, looks for lost people.
Adrian Mckinty - Sen Duffy, sort of a Rebus in Norther Ireland, enjoyed these,
And of course Mick Herron - Slough House/Jackson Lamb series
Another in a Scottish stylee - TG Reid's DCI Bone series.
And on the Emerald Isle, notable humour along with the whodunnit - Caimh McDonnell's Dublin Trilogy, currently at 8 books!
LJ Ross has a series based in Northumberland, well reviewed but not read any yet.

Cloudy147

3,013 posts

201 months

Sunday 10th August
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Henning Mankell is one of my favourite detective/crime authors, specifically the Wallandar series. smile