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I've just completed the first 3 of the "Breen& Tozer" Series by William Shaw (author of The Birdwatcher". They are detective novels based mainly in London but around historic world events in the late 1960's. Quite thought provoking.

By coincidence the next one I've started on, A Darker Domain by Val McDermid, is based around the events in Fife in 1984, the year of the Miners Strike.

Just finished reading an ebook from the library. It's by P J Tracy, called The Guilty Dead. It's about the eighth or ninth book in a series featuring Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth from Minneapolis and a quartet of misfit computer geeks. The detectives provide a welcome dose of humour in what could be an otherwise soppy series but it is very enjoyable and worthwhile starting from scratch. Not too much gratuitous violence or swearing.

The authors were mother and daughter but the last 2 books are by daughter only after the death of the mother.

Recommended series.

Just started the latest offering from Ann Cleeves (of Vera and Shetland fame). She's come up with another new detective, Matthew Venn and the book, presumably the first in a series is set in and around Exmoor and North Devon.

Seems very promising so far! 

And by coincidence Amazon have the whole series of Vera books by Ann Cleeves at 99p each today. I loved the Shetland series and this new one looks very good as well, but I never got into the Vera series but I might well pick up some of these now! 

Ooh thanks for this, I love Ann Cleeves. I've read all of the Vera books (first one is strange in that Vera doesn't appear until well into the story but stick with them as they get better) and I'm almost through the Shetland series, so will be in need of new material soon!

Thanks, M. I’ve just downloaded the whole set.👍🏻

I got the only one that was missing from my collection of Vera books today.

Joffe Books are offering the first of  Faith Martin's Hillary Green series, Murder on the Oxford Canal, for 99p and one gets the 2 nd one free.  Great reading for those that like English village murder .mysteries.

Just reading, and really enjoying, the latest Fred Vargas book with her French detective, Adamsberg. If you like Maigret, updated, then you'll enjoy the whole Adamsberg series. This one is called This Poison Will Remain.  Like all good series it pays to start from the first book.

Adamsberg is a wonderful creation and the "minutiae" writing of Vargas first class.

I quite like the Bruno series written by Martin Walker but sometimes that feels more like a British view of an idyllic France Dordogne and I half expect Bruno to get changed in a telephone booth.

For those that like Scottish Crime novels I can recommend a couple of series. One based on the Kintyre Peninsular by Denzly Meryick, and the second around Inverness, although the first one is based at Fort William by J.D.Kirk. Both are best read from the start of the series.