Who are your top three detectives? Mine are Steel ( Stuart Macbride ), Thorne ( Mark Billingham) and Grace ( Peter James ).
Who are your top three detectives? Mine are Steel ( Stuart Macbride ), Thorne ( Mark Billingham) and Grace ( Peter James ).
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Agree with you about Grace. I’d add Harry Dresden and Harry Bosch (hehe – and, yes just a coincidence about the first names)
Grace (Péter James), cross( James Patterson) , banks ( Péter Robinson)
Lasser, Eve Dallas and Cyril Bennett x
Damen Brook, @Steven
Kim Stone @Angie
Harry Evans @Graham
Thanks, @Susan. You’ve just made my day.
Oooh lover-ly, Susan.
Tom grace for me
Do you mean Roy Grace or Tom Thorns?
@Rae I meant Roy grace,where did I get tom grace from?
Easy Rawlins, Jack Taylor, and Sherlock Holmes
Grace, Banks and Patrick Lennon (Voss and Edwards)
Rebus
Regis and Munk
Robert hunter (Chris Carter) Reiley Steel(Casey hill) and Kim stone Angela marson
I knew you would choose Robert Hunter! Lol
I’m a major fan can’t help it lol
John Luther, John Rebus (although I spend most of my time wanting to slap him) and Henry Standing Bear. Ok, the last one is a cheat, but he does help Sheriff Walt Longmire and I do like him 🙂
Ian Drake … Harry Falconer …. John Marco
Inspector Banks (Peter Robinson; Harry Hole (Jo Nesbo) & all things Ian Rankin
Harry Bosch, Wallender, Sherlock.
DI Dylan (@R), DI Faraday (Hurley) an DI Grace (Graham Hurley).
Roy Grace, John Rebus and Tom Thorne
Surely someone else must love MacBride’s Steel, despite her outrageous incompetence.
I like Rebus. I have no idea why 🙂
@Rae I love Steele and McRae x
David Mark Aector Mcavoy
Ian Rankin Rebus
Peter James Roy Grace
Rebus, Wallender and Jimmy Perez
Roy Grace, Robert Hunter and Ted Darling.
Aww thank you Carol, that’s very kind 🙂
@Lesley Great choices Carol. Hunter and Darling together!
Steve Villani from Truth; Clement from Before it Breaks and the mighty Rebus..
Brodie. Got to think about the other 2, but Jackson Brodie hands down.
Holmes, Poirot.
William Wisting (Jørn Lier Horst), Samuel Tay (Jake Needham), Ana Fekete (Kati Hiekkapelto).
Tom Thorne, Roy Grace & Morse?
Who wrote the tom Thorne books? I know I’ve read a couple but can’t remember the author lol ?
Mark Billingham
@Susan thanks for that my mind was going into overdrive lol ?
Detective Jackson from the series by LJ Sellers. Alec Ramsay from the series by Conrad Jones and Detective Callahan from the Bones and Callahan & McLane series by Kendra Elliot
Harry Hole Thorne and Grace
Charlie Parker, Cormoran Strike, Jackson Brodie
Please won’t someone back me up on Steel. She’s unconventional but oh so funny.
Sorry not read them ?
You must. Thrilling but so funny.
Ooh not got round to Strike yet. Which is a pity given the brilliance of the author.
You have to read the Strike books- they are BRILLIANT! I’ve just started book 3 and really hoping there’s going to be more ? ??
My all-time favourite detective has to be Rex Stout’s NERO WOLFE. Every one of his books is a joy to read. I loved Peter Robinson’s earlier DCI Banks books. Television ruined it for me with the wrong actor in the role. My third choice is David Ashton’s Inspector McLevy.
Can I add a fourth? Martin Beck from the books by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.
Loved McLevy and his relationship with Jean Brash.
Lord Peter Wimsey (Dorothy L Sayers), Harry Dresden (Jim Butcher) & DI Tony MacLean (James Oswald). I’ve also got a soft spot for Karen Pirrie (Val McDermid).
Adam Dalgliesh, Harry Hole and
Lacey Flint.
Oooh Poirot! How could I forget Poirot.
Lasser series @Robin
Helen Grace series M. J. Arlidge
Jack Daniels series J. A. Konrath
I would have added Helen Grace if my list could have included four!
Roy Grace, Helen Grace and Harry Evans
Gotta love Steele!
I still love Harry Bosch
Logan MacRae,Jack Cafferkey,Bob Skinner,John Rebus.
Wallander (Henning Mankell), Rebus and Resnick (Jack Harvey) – may I make a gentle plug for my main protagonist, DCI Jack (Jane) Austin – the only DCI never to have solved a crime…!
Robert Hunter, Roy Grace & Lacey Flint
Harry Hole, Matthew Hope & Every Backstrom