Crime Fiction recommendations

Thank you to whoever recommended Gillian Galbraith i am on my second book from Borrowbox already.

Tim Sullivan has written about 5 books featuring Sergeant Cross and his long suffering partner Sergeant? Ottey. I found this series quite by chance. Detective Cross is a very odd character and it took me time listening to The Dentist before I sort of grasped his character- Maybe listen to a sample about one of these books ( I now have all of them) I hesitate to recommend although I love these books in case others cannot put up with the many talented although very odd detective Cross. Has anyone else read any of the books featuring him? I only listen on Audible.

Quintin Jardine for me every time. Best read in sequence though. Think I'm up to No 30 now. Great.

Don't think she has been mentioned:

Janice Hallett, The Appeal. (2021)
Told through a series of emails and text messages, murder involving an amateur dramatic society, very clever.
Also; The Twyford Code (2022)
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels (2023)

Martina Cole. I have read all her books at least twice but they are a bit “gritty” so be warned 🫣

Another vote for Simon MacCleave, Rebecca Tope, Elly Griffiths, Robert Bryndza; but also Jane Bettany, Ann Granger, and Robert Thorogood's Marlow Mysteries (now just shown on tv last week).
I enjoyed Susie Steiner's crime series (3 novels) as they were set in my neck of the woods.... sadly died too young.

Ellis Peters’ Cadfael series, he is a a medieval monk who is based in Shrewsbury Abbey but travels around Shropshire and beyond.
Kate Atkinson - very well plotted
Joanne Harris’s ‘Gentlemen and Players’ and its sequel

British Library Crime Classics were my standby read during Covid. I used to enjoy scandi noir but it is now too gruesome for me. I’m going to try aeries called Lady Fan by Grace someone or someone Grace. They are free on kindle unlimited. .

Celia Fremlin’s ‘novels of suspense’ - a brilliant writer who lived in Hampstead.

grannybuy

Nicci Gerrard ( also writes under Nicci French )
David Baldacci

Love the Nicci French books particularly the Freda Cline series.

PD James
The best!

Nicci Gerrard ( also writes under Nicci French )
David Baldacci

KnittyNannie

Peter James, Kerry Wilkinson.

Oooh! I knew a Kerry Wilkinson at school, up in Northumberland.

I'm enjoying 'Miss. Scarlet and The Duke', set in London (it helps that he's rather delish and has a sexy Scottish accent, too).
There's 'Wycliffe', always worth seeing the old ones again.
And my mind has gone blank as I'm now thinking of egg n chips, thanks to another post 😆😆

I feel so guilty going through this thread and noting authors new to me without adding one. I dont think anyone has mentioned the Japanese female detective Umika Wada written by Robert Goddard First one is called The Fine Art of Invisible Detection. The second is The Fine Art of Uncanny Predictions. The Japanese names can be a bit confusing but these books are so different. Both these books are available in either large print or on CD from the local library.

Thank you all for the author suggestions.

I've just read three books in quick succession by Kate Charles. All three were in the Lucy Kingsley and David Middleton-Brown series. All were set in the Church of England and all three were page-turners. I'm hoping to find more in this series. Clever plots with red herrings. I'm now catching up on sleep after reading in bed until the early hours, couldn't put them down.

Grannynise I've read the Lindsay Davis Falco books and enjoyed them. A bit different as detectives go because there is no tech in ancient Rome 😃

Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimset are well written and a great read
Frances Brody has a series of novels set in Yorkshire in the interwar years with a lady detective, easy to read and well researched

Have you tried JDKirk whose novels are based in a beautiful part of Scotland , or Alex Smith who also writes a nice murder . These are the only books I read . I have a Kindle and pay monthly and for this subscription can read thousands of books for free . It’s well worth the subscription to Kindle Unlimited.

The Stuart MacBride novels set in Aberdeen are very good, esp if you know Aberdeen at all. Love Logan Macrae and his wickedly funny female boss!

Patricia Gibney

If police procedural crime thrillers are more to your taste, do try the DCI Rachel Hart series, starting with Little Girl Missing, followed by What He Did and then Why She Died. They can be read as standalone novels, but there is an underlying thread running through the three books which makes more sense if read in sequence. By J G Roberts.

I also enjoyed reading Peter May, especially The Lewis Trilogy.

Anthony Horowitz books: Magpie Murders; Moonflower Murders;
The word is murder; A line to kill;
Loved all these.
I have not read any of his YA, or Alex Rider books!

Sharon Bolton
Lisa stone

Author LJ Ross-DCI Ryan mysteries. On the last book vol 20. Love them Akso on audio books