Help for an Addict

[Colwyn]

I am addicted to reading novels featuring detectives firmly located in their own milieu. I long ago exhausted the supply of Sherlock Holmes (London) and Philip Marlowe (Los Angeles) books. The more recent Kurt Wallander (Ystaad, Sweden) are also done. I am down to the last few of the huge catalogue of Jules Maigret (Paris + trips) and have only one Cetin Ikmen (Istanbul) left. I am getting a little tired of John Rebus (Edinburgh) and I can't be reading Salvo Montalbano (Vigata, Sicily) one after the other - splendid fun though they are.

So my appeal is for some new input in similar vein to those above. Neither Shetland (Jimmy Perez, guess where) nor Hinterland (Tom Mathias, Aberystwyth) seem to have been in novels before going on to the TV screen - and I don't want to be reading book-of-the-programme stuff! And I don't want shoot-em-up American trash. Fussy, ain't I? Anyway, anybody got suggestions for some other detective novels that are well-written and worth reading?

[Steve A]

Michael Connelly has a character called Harry Bosch and the novels are set in L.A. you may like these

[Colwyn]

Thanks Steve. Actually I've read quite a few of the Bosch stories and just finished an early one - The Concrete Blonde. I'm never quite certain how much I like Connelly's writing. The best stuff is Bosch in his house on stilts on the hillside musing things over as he surveys the city but it sometimes slips into crash, bang, wallop style. I'll try another couple of books though to make up my mind.

[yabanci]

Harry Hole a detective in the Oslo police force in the Jo Nesbo books.

[Colwyn]

Hole, eh? I'll look into it.

Sorry yabanci I just couldn't resist the obvious. Seriously, I'll not heard of these novels and I'll certainly give them a go.

[yabanci]

Here's a Hole link for you to look into Colwyn.

https://crimefictionlover.com/2013/03/a-guide-to-harry-hole/

[JohnF]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianrico_Carofiglio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvo_Montalbano

JF

[Colwyn]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianrico_Carofiglio

Thanks for this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvo_Montalbano

As I said "I can't be reading Salvo Montalbano (Vigata, Sicily) one after the other - splendid fun though they are".

[Colwyn]

In a completely different direction, just to show I don't just take intravenous detective fixes, but reflecting a Spanish influence, I've downloaded Cervantes' "Don Quixote". How have manged to live to this advanced age without reading this classic? It is available to download for Kindle @ £0.00 - so if you want to give it a go, you won't be lashing out much, or indeed anything at all.

[JohnF]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianrico_Carofiglio

Thanks for this one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvo_Montalbano

As I said "I can't be reading Salvo Montalbano (Vigata, Sicily) one after the other - splendid fun though they are".

Sorry, missed that.  Try this one then:

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Giuttari

JF