imposs1904
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Denise Mina's Garnethill Trilogy is excellent. A wee bit bloody, though.
Detective Books
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The first one of those arrived at my house today.I like Janet Evanovich and Jasper Fforde, so I reckon I'll like these. If you don't mind some comedy in with your crime, the Evanovich books are great - the detective part of it is well-plotted and occasionally surprising. The Fforde books aren't really detective novels, though.
I also really enjoyed the book that the TV show Bones grew out of, though I can't remember the name.
How did you find the Aberystwyth books?
I've just started getting into Ffforde and saw that Amazon recommends them as similar.
scifisam
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I only read one. It was OK; weird, like Fforde's books, but not funny - I don't think they were trying to be.
Pickman's model
sunset spires and twilight woods
what no mention for elmore leonard? 
or chester himes?
or eric ambler?
ffs! for shame
or chester himes?
or eric ambler?
ffs!
for shame 
"heartbreaker" by Robert Ferrigno
"96 tears" by Doug L Swanson
both of them modern gumshoe books with sassy Chandler-style dialogue; and of course, there's a few twists in the tale.
and for pure comedy value, you can't beat Joe R Lansdale's Hap & Len series.
"96 tears" by Doug L Swanson
both of them modern gumshoe books with sassy Chandler-style dialogue; and of course, there's a few twists in the tale.
and for pure comedy value, you can't beat Joe R Lansdale's Hap & Len series.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Can't see a mention of Dorothy L Sayers. She has to be the best writer of thebutlerdidn'tdoits ever. Also very political in a quiet way. Great stuff even if it may seem dated.
I think Malcolm Pryce's books are hilarious. The humour is very dead pan, but it's there all the way through. Patagonia as the Welsh Falklands/Vietnam is a brilliant concept.
Christopher Brookmyre tends to have a journalist as the protagonist rather than a detective, but I think they also belong at least close to the genre. A very dark humour, but wickedly funny nonetheless.
I think Malcolm Pryce's books are hilarious. The humour is very dead pan, but it's there all the way through. Patagonia as the Welsh Falklands/Vietnam is a brilliant concept.
Christopher Brookmyre tends to have a journalist as the protagonist rather than a detective, but I think they also belong at least close to the genre. A very dark humour, but wickedly funny nonetheless.
starfish
No dialogue. Just plot.
what no mention for elmore leonard?
or chester himes?
or eric ambler?
ffs!
or Ed McBain.
baldrick
hmmmmm
i think i've read most of his now
i say this on every thread about detective/crime novels, but: James Lee Burke.
Johnny Canuck3
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Tony Hillerman has written a series of detective novels set on the Navajo reservation, with two Navajo detectives: Detective Jim Chee, and I forget the name of the other one.
They are well done novels, using a somewhat unusual setting.
They are well done novels, using a somewhat unusual setting.
