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

[silentbrown]

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]

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

[Mezzanine]

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]

Will Schindler - DI Alex Finn series

Simon Mason - DI Ryan Wilkins series

[Mick Dastardly]

James Lee Burke.

Lawrence Block.

[anonymous-user]

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

[NickZ24]

Jonathan Kellerman

specially the Alex Delaware Books

https://mysterysequels.com/jonathan-kellerman

[silentbrown]

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]

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]

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]

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]

NickZ24 said:

Jonathan Kellerman

specially the Alex Delaware Books

https://mysterysequels.com/jonathan-kellerman

Plus 1 - I liked these

[lornemalvo]

I forgot to mention - Robert Crais - Elvis Cole / Joe Pike series - excellent

[SydneyBridge]

Stephen leather, Mark Dawson, Davd Baldicci
I have just started Daniel Silva series

[soad]

lornemalvo said:

I forgot to mention - Robert Crais - Elvis Cole / Joe Pike series - excellent

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

[Little Pete]

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.

[Mezzanine]

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]

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]

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]

Henning Mankell is one of my favourite detective/crime authors, specifically the Wallandar series.