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Hula Popper

(374 posts) Sat Sep 22, 2012, 12:35 PM Sep 2012

Need some suggestions

I'm running out of characters... Butch Karp and Marlene, Dr Scarpetta and Pete, Dave, Clete and Alafair , Spenser and Susan, Sunny , Jesse Stone, Brady Coyne, McCone and Rybinski, Supt Jury and friends, Rumpole and others.
I need some suggestions on mystery reads. Tips?

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Need some suggestions (Original Post) Hula Popper Sep 2012 OP

Hmmm. getting old in mke Sep 2012 #1

Some British authors I really like are Lydia Leftcoast Sep 2012 #2

Try M. C. Beaton and James D. Doss fadedrose Sep 2012 #3

Thanks ! Hula Popper Sep 2012 #4

More.. fadedrose Sep 2012 #5

Unfamiliar characters fadedrose Sep 2012 #6

characters Hula Popper Sep 2012 #7

getting old in mke

(813 posts)

1. Hmmm.

Reply to Hula Popper (Original post)

Sat Sep 22, 2012, 01:27 PM

Sep 2012

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, Harry Bosch & pals, Stella Hardesty & Goat Jones, Jack Reacher, the Camel Club, Sean King & Michelle Maxwell...on and on

Lydia Leftcoast

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2. Some British authors I really like are

Reply to Hula Popper (Original post)

Sat Sep 22, 2012, 06:07 PM

Sep 2012

Ruth Rendell's Inspector Wexford series: The English village mystery updated to a much grimmer England than Agatha Christie rights about

Peter James:His "Dead Simple," about a stag party prank that goes horribly wrong and has a sinister background, was a real page turner. I've since read most of his other books.

Peter Robinson: His Inspector Banks novels, about a former London cop transferred to a small Yorkshire village, are densely plotted and full of interesting characters and situations.

Reginald Hill: Since Hill died recently, there will be no more Dalziel and Pascoe novels, which is a shame. Dalziel is a grumpy older cop with a raunchy sense of humor, and Pascoe is younger and university educated. You may have caught the TV series when it was shown on A&E back in the day.

fadedrose

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3. Try M. C. Beaton and James D. Doss

Reply to Hula Popper (Original post)

Sat Sep 22, 2012, 10:33 PM

Sep 2012

and Colin Cotterill . . . All have excellent series

Oh, and Craig Johnson (his 4 first four are terrific)....

Look here for all of them:

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/index.html

(look at the "Genre" section)

The ones I suggested all have some humor, just like Robert Tanenbaum's series (didn't care for his last 5 or so....the early ones are his greatest....

Oh, and Michael Connelly, Robert Crais, and a whole bunch of others...

Hula Popper

(374 posts)

4. Thanks !

Reply to Hula Popper (Original post)

Sun Sep 23, 2012, 02:41 PM

Sep 2012

More tips are always welcome. Being an angry old white guy leaves a lot of time for
reading !

fadedrose

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5. More..

Reply to Hula Popper (Reply #4)

Sun Sep 23, 2012, 04:34 PM

Sep 2012

William Kent Kruger, John Sandford, Christopher Fowler, Alexander Haig, James Church, and I'm sure others will suggest more than you can read in a lifetime

And if you want to search by character's occupation: http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/JobCats/index.html

fadedrose

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6. Unfamiliar characters

Reply to Hula Popper (Original post)

Wed Sep 26, 2012, 04:31 PM

Sep 2012

I read almost all of Tanenbaum, James Lee Burke, and Robert B. Parker, but who do the other characters owe their existance to?

Just plain too lazy to look them up...thanks

Hula Popper

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7. characters

Reply to fadedrose (Reply #6)

Thu Sep 27, 2012, 11:18 AM

Sep 2012

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Morning Rose
Alafair Burke has some books out, also Marcia Mullers Sharon McCone, William G Tapply has the Brady Coyne series. He also write some outdoor non-fiction. Patricia Cornwell writes the Dr Scarpetta mysteries. M Graves writes the Supt Jury stories.
The above recommended website is a great resource...
stopyou'rekillingme.com

good day

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