Hello! I was sick as a DOG 🐕 but I'm on the mend finally. I need a book recommendation, please. (I am crying MOST piteously as I await @janecasey.bsky.social's latest) A police procedural, like Anne Cleeve/Elly Griffiths/Val McD except I've read all theirs? Thank you in advance - ThreadSky

mariankeyes.bsky.social • 43 days ago

Hello! I was sick as a DOG 🐕 but I'm on the mend finally. I need a book recommendation, please. (I am crying MOST piteously as I await @janecasey.bsky.social's latest) A police procedural, like Anne Cleeve/Elly Griffiths/Val McD except I've read all theirs? Thank you in advance

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fizzyblue.bsky.social•43 days ago

I would highly recommend any book by @stevecavanagh.bsky.social He has a brilliant series of books about a lawyer and his standalone books are fantastic too.

hodders129.bsky.social•43 days ago

Anything by Belinda Bauer - they are wonderful!

sophiagrene.bsky.social•43 days ago

📌

christinemichael.bsky.social•43 days ago

Have you read the late Susie Steiner’s police procedurals - Manon Bradshaw is the ultimate messed-up and wonderful heroine. Very funny too.

rikkiprice.bsky.social•43 days ago

Stephen Booth‘s Fry and Cooper Series is great

michelehowarth.com•43 days ago

Gatecrashing your illness to plug my own book. To be fair I think you’d like it. It has just the right combo of humour, pathos and filth to rouse you from your sickbed. https://www.michelehowarth.com

sharondavis.bsky.social•43 days ago

Kathy Reichs books? Glad you’re getting better 😊

alanscottwells.bsky.social•43 days ago

I am reading ‘Black Storms’ at the moment and loving it. Setting: Barcelona. Detective is married to a forensic pathologist, with a slightly kooky family.

katyfitz.bsky.social•43 days ago

Our London Lives by Catherine Dwyer Hickey is a great read.

judithkaye.bsky.social•43 days ago

Michael Dibdin wrote police procedurals located in Italy and featuring police officer Aurelio Zen. « Each Aurelio Zen novel took its hero to a different part of Italy, from Zen’s native Venice to Rome, Milan, Naples, Perugia, Tuscany, Sicily, Sardinia and elsewhere.» (New York Times obit 2007)

n16oya.bsky.social•43 days ago

Vaseem Khan

emreynolds.bsky.social•43 days ago

I second this recommendation

lyncbrown.bsky.social•43 days ago

Oh yes!!

sarahnai.bsky.social•43 days ago

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lisamitch68.bsky.social•43 days ago

Mark Billingham, The Last Dance and The Wrong Hands, includes a bit of ballroom dancing too! X

russeldmclean.bsky.social•43 days ago

Full disclosure that I was development editor on these, but Carol Wyer's Kate Young books, DS Butler's Karen Hart novels, and Matt Brolly's Louise Blackwell series are all absolutely superb series with strong mysteries and great complex personal lives for their 'tecs.

russeldmclean.bsky.social•43 days ago

And Andy Maslen's Kat Ballantyne books, too, which are slightly high concept in the earlier entries, but balanced with strong procedural and messy personal life stuff. (Just editing the most recent of these now and it's very good indeed!)