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Being a huge fan of the detective series genre, now is the time to expand my ranking list of favourite and best series beyond my postings so far. Originally a top 30, this will be an expansion of what has gone before (see January 2024 update). Starting with the previous list there are now two…
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The Silver Wind Nina Allan 2011 Named as one of ’50 Writers You Should Read Now’ by The Guardian . ‘The Silver Wind’ is a remarkable narrative exploring the nature of time itself. A powerful tale of time travel, time lost, time regained and time disrupted. In this remarkable narrative, watches and clocks become time…
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Michael Robotham Cyrus Haven 3. Lying Beside You 2022 If I could tell you one thing about my brother, it would be this. Two days after his nineteenth birthday, he killed our parents and twin sisters because he heard voices in his head. As defining events go, nothing else comes close for Elias, or for…
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The Good Neighbours Nina Allan 2021 Cath is a photographer hoping to go freelance, working in a record shop to pay the rent and ekeing out her time with her manager Steve. He thinks her photography is detective work, drawing attention to things that would otherwise pass unseen and maybe he’s right. Starting work on…
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Jo Bannister Brodie Farrell & Detective Jack Deacon 5. Breaking Faith 2005 When she called her business “Looking for Something?” Brodie Farrell hoped to receive challenging commissions from interesting clients. Even by her standards though, demon rock musician Jared Fry is hard to please. Fortunately his manager, the charismatic Eric Chandos, is easier to like,…
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My list of recommended works of imaginative fiction can be found here and presents 60 of the very best IF books published between 1818 and 2019. However, my reading of imaginative fiction hasn’t ended there but continues both within that 201 year period and beyond. And indeed so far in the 2020s two new novels…
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Iain McDowall Detectives Jacobson & Kerr 7. The Evil Thereof 2014 Inspector Jacobson is back. The Mill Street area, Crowby. A young woman strangled to death. A talented writer or a talented drug-dealer, depending on who you talk to. Either way, a bad killing in a bad location. But as the body-count mounts, Jacobson realises…
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My list of recommended works of imaginative fiction can be found here and presents 60 of the very best IF books published between 1818 and 2019. However, my reading of imaginative fiction hasn’t ended there but continues both within that 201 year period and beyond. And indeed so far in the 2020s two new novels…
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Danielle Ramsay Detective Jack Brady 3. Blind Alley 2013 Three brutal attacks. One near-fatal beating. And a deadly score to settle. DI Jack Brady is riding high after the successful outcome of his previous case but his world is about to come crashing down. There’s a serial rapist plaguing the streets of Whitley Bay. Three…
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My list of recommended works of imaginative fiction resumes here with a reprise of 60 of the very best IF books ever published. Click the links see earlier posts for further details of the individual works listed. Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1818 Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 The Captain of the Pole Star Arthur…