If you love Tana French

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Anonymous wrote:Suggest Richard Osman Thursday Murder Club books. Wonderful!!

The next one comes out in a few days, woo hoo! The audiobooks are fantastic.

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I've been enjoying Anthony Horowitz's novels where he casts himself as a sort of Watson to the main detective. (The first is The Word is Murder and now I'm reading The Sentence is Death.) But they're not dark dark.

Definitely second Kate Atkinson and the Robert Galbraith books. I loved The Ink Black Heart so much that I drove around to 3 different bookstores to find a paper copy after I finished it on Kindle so I could skim it a second time knowing the "answer."

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Anonymous wrote:Anything by Ruth Ware

I love Tana French’s books and I totally disagree about Ruth Ware.

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OP here. Thank you all for the recommendations! Just finished my newest French (The Searcher—didn’t enjoy it as much as my beloved Dublin Murder Squads but still great) and now I’m excited to go down to the used bookstore to see what I can find!

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Try Allen eskens

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Anonymous wrote:Anything by Ruth Ware

I love Tana French’s books and I totally disagree about Ruth Ware.

+1 PP. I don't think this OP would like Ruth Ware much, or Lucy Foley as suggested further up the thread.

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Gillian Flynn is good too. 3 good ones.

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Anonymous wrote:Gillian Flynn is good too. 3 good ones.

I wish she’d write another! Dark Places is one of my favorite reads of all time. Never read a book that captured the feeling of chill and bleak misery so well. I still think about it 10 years later.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been enjoying Anthony Horowitz's novels where he casts himself as a sort of Watson to the main detective. (The first is The Word is Murder and now I'm reading The Sentence is Death.) But they're not dark dark.

Definitely second Kate Atkinson and the Robert Galbraith books. I loved The Ink Black Heart so much that I drove around to 3 different bookstores to find a paper copy after I finished it on Kindle so I could skim it a second time knowing the "answer."

I liked the Cormorant Strike books until The Ink Black Heart- just hated that chat room format.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been enjoying Anthony Horowitz's novels where he casts himself as a sort of Watson to the main detective. (The first is The Word is Murder and now I'm reading The Sentence is Death.) But they're not dark dark.

Definitely second Kate Atkinson and the Robert Galbraith books. I loved The Ink Black Heart so much that I drove around to 3 different bookstores to find a paper copy after I finished it on Kindle so I could skim it a second time knowing the "answer."

I liked the Cormorant Strike books until The Ink Black Heart- just hated that chat room format.

*Cormoran

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Anonymous wrote:Suggest Richard Osman Thursday Murder Club books. Wonderful!!

The next one comes out in a few days, woo hoo! The audiobooks are fantastic.

You might also like Killers of A Certain Age

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been enjoying Anthony Horowitz's novels where he casts himself as a sort of Watson to the main detective. (The first is The Word is Murder and now I'm reading The Sentence is Death.) But they're not dark dark.

Definitely second Kate Atkinson and the Robert Galbraith books. I loved The Ink Black Heart so much that I drove around to 3 different bookstores to find a paper copy after I finished it on Kindle so I could skim it a second time knowing the "answer."

I liked the Cormorant Strike books until The Ink Black Heart- just hated that chat room format.

*Cormoran

I would prefer a book about cormorant strikes, honestly 🤔

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Anonymous wrote:If you like darker, well-written mysteries, I recommend Jo Nesbo and the Harry Hole series. Definitely not "pretty" but in my mind they are the best in that genre.

Along those lines would be the Adrian McKinty books with the protagonist Sean Duffy. They are set in Belfast. The books are fast-paced and riveting; they make an excellent murder mysteries with fascinating insight into what it was like to live in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.

Ooohh, I love McKinty. I started with the Sean Duffy series. Definitely recommend.

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Anonymous wrote:Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series - the first one is Case Histories. Beautiful writing in the crime/mystery genre.

Absolutely agree! Some of her other books are a little heavy, but the Jackson Brodie series is great. Also try Laura Lipman’s books and the Strike series by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling).

Loved Case Histories!

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Anonymous wrote:Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series - the first one is Case Histories. Beautiful writing in the crime/mystery genre.

Absolutely agree! Some of her other books are a little heavy, but the Jackson Brodie series is great. Also try Laura Lipman’s books and the Strike series by Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling).

I was going to recommend the Jackson Brodie books. I also enjoyed Ann Cleeves's Shetland mysteries, and some international murder mystery series: Giancarlo Carofiglio, Andrea Camilleri, Antonio Manzini. James Church's North Korean mysteries/police procedurals are good, too.