In terms of crime/mystery, I'd recommend checking out anything by the following, for starters:
Barbara Nadel's books featuring Inspector Ikmen (series starts with Belshazzar's Daughter)
James Lee Burke, who has two series of books, one featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux (series starts with The Neon Rain and another, shorter series which features maverick lawyer Billy Bob Holland (series starts with Cimarron Rose)
Ian Rankin, of course, his Rebus books (series starts with Knots and Crosses)
Walter Mosley's books featuring private eye Easy Rawlins (series starts with Devil in a Blue Dress)
Michael Connelly's books featuring Harry Bosch (series starts with The Black Echo)
Peter Tremayne's series of books featuring Sister Fidelma are quite good reading too (series starts with Absolution by Murder and there's loads of them)
Faye Kellerman's books are good - she's married to another writer but I like her stuff much more than his - her series featuring Detective Peter Decker (series starts with The Ritual Bath)
I'm not a big fan of the forensic stuff, so I've no recs in terms of people like Patricia Cornwell and so on...
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Date: 2008-04-16 04:23 pm (UTC)I'm not a big fan of the forensic stuff, so I've no recs in terms of people like Patricia Cornwell and so on...