Need some suggestions

[Hula Popper]

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?

[getting old in mke]

1. Hmmm.

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]

2. Some British authors I really like are

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]

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

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]

4. Thanks !

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

[fadedrose]

5. More..

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]

6. Unfamiliar characters

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]

7. characters

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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