Does anyone know any good mystery novels written by British authors
Does anyone know any good mystery novels written by British authors
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Does anyone know any good mystery novels written by British authors
Check out Robert Galbraith, JK Rowling pseudonym. They are brilliantly written. 4 so far in series.
Ann Cleeves
Paul Doherty
S.J Bolton. , Sacrifice was her first. It was delicious.
I’m not a great mystery fan, but I’m on my second Barbara Vine novel and enjoying it. (Reading The Minotaur, read A Dark Adapted Eye a while back.) Seems I also liked a Ruth Rendell–Vine’s a nom de plume–quite a few years ago. More psychological than whodunit.
Jack Reacher novels
Robert Barnard (classic mysteries), Simon Brett (classic and comedic mysteries), Andrew Taylor (classic mysteries), Peter Guttridge (satirical mysteries)
jacqueline winspear.. maisie dobbs series. really there are a million great british mystery writers… its their thing i think.
Yes Ann Cleeves. The Shetland series
I didn’t realize Cleeves wrote the Vera Stanhope series too. I’ve seen both series but haven’t read Vera.TBR!
Anne Perry
M C Beaton
Jacqueline Winspear
Frances Brody
Dick Francis
P D James
Rhys Bowen
Ruth Rendell
Carola Dunn
Love Anne Perry. Very prolific, plenty of choices.
Following
Daisy in Chains by Sharon Bolton
Father Brown books (GK Chesterton)
Maisie D0obbs
Anne Perry..the William Monk and the Thomas Pitt series. They’re set in Victorisn England..but you will really like the cases they have to solve and you’ll LOVE Hester (Monk’s wife, a nurse, who worked with hom)..and Charlotte..(Pitt’s wife..who did the same).
The Flavia Deluce novels by Alan Bradley. So weird and quirky but also great mysteries ?
Anything by Andrew Taylor
Julian Barnes: The Sense of an Ending, and The Only Story
Anything by P.D James, Ruth Rendell, Denise Mina, Peter Lovesey, Tana French, Val McDermid, Anne Perry, Lynda LaPlante, Arthur Conan Doyle,
CJ Sansom’s Matthew Shardlake series.
Anything by John le Carre
Mick Herron’s Slow Horse series
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Much depends on what you like in a mystery. Do you like cozy or police procedural? For the classics, I love Dorothy L. Sayer. Anne Perry is also always solid. Her “Resurrection Row” is one of my favorite books. Peter May’s “The Blackhouse” is good, but he’s a Scot. Elly Griffith’s Ruth Galloway series is okay. M.C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin series goes light and would be considered a cozy, but is sort of mean-spirited.
Agatha Christie?
Anything, ANYTHING by Dick Francis. or Lee Childs
Anything by P.D.James.
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