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[darchildre]

Friends, I come to you requesting recommendations. I am in the market for a new series of mystery/detective novels, because I am in that kind of mood and none of the ones I have are crying out for a reread. Thus, I ask for your assistance.

Mystery series I have read and enjoyed:
- Sherlock Holmes (including many and various ridiculous pastiches)
- Lord Peter Wimsey
- Nero Wolfe
- Albert Campion

There are probably others that I am forgetting, but those are the main ones. Once upon a time in middle school I read a hell of a lot of Agatha Christie but I have apparently erased all of the from my memory, except for the solutions to And Then There Were None and Murder on the Orient Express.

Things I like in a mystery/detective novel/series:
- For the detective to be more interesting than the mystery. He/she is is, after all, a person I'm going to have to spend a good bit of time with.
- If it's historical, I like it to be recent enough that I have at least a general knowledge of what the laws are. (So, y'know, I do not care terribly much for mysteries set in ancient Rome or whatever.) I am not married to this, though.
- If it's a series, I like to have an interesting recurring supporting cast. Again, people I'm going to be spending time with.
- If there's fanfic, so much the better.
- The same goes for audiobooks. Double for audiobooks, even.

Things I do not like:
- Mysteries solved in any way by the detective's pets
- The kind of mystery novel that has recipes in the back
- Novels where the mystery doesn't get solved.
- Most (but not all) hardboiled noir-ish detective novels. I mean, recommend them if you've got them but they tend not to be my thing.


Any recommendations? (Thank you in advance.)

Comments

[darchildre]

I bounced really hard off the first Thursday Next book, but people keep saying good things about them, so perhaps I should go back and try again. Thank you for the suggestion.