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Old 12-25-2015, 03:25 AM   #196
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I concur with Salvo Montalbano :

but he should stop arguing with Livia...
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Old 12-25-2015, 04:17 PM   #197
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I concur with Salvo Montalbano :

but he should stop arguing with Livia...
Yes, that is one dysfunctional long-distance-relationship! They should just break up already, since they hardly ever see each other and spend most of their time arguing
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Old 12-25-2015, 04:50 PM   #198
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Nah, Camilleri needs Livia to be distant so that he can create all the sexual tension between Montalbano and all those gorgeous hussies .....
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Old 12-26-2015, 05:00 AM   #199
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I like Peter Diamond,an overweight,ponderous thinker,
created by Peter Lovesey. I have all the books (15 to
date) and often re-read them.
I am also keen on The Roy Grace series by Peter James.
More speedily paced than the Diamond books,but generally
perfectly good procedurals.
Agatha Raisin is another favourite by MC Beaton;not quite
as enamoured of her other creation Hamish Macbeth,although
I have read all of them!
Sherlock Holmes (of course) since I first read them at the age
of twelve,but curiously, I have no love for Agatha Christie books,
despite having read around a dozen of them,when a young man.
Jussi Adler-Olsen and his 'Department Q' series are favourites,as
are the Jo Nesbo 'Harry Hole' series.
During my thirties and forties,I probably read every Ed McBain
'87th Precinct' book that I could get,and loved them too,at the
time!
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Old 02-15-2016, 12:06 PM   #200
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Inspector Erlendur series (Arnaldur Indridason - Iceland locale)
Inspector Gamache series (Louise Penny - Quebec locale)
Maisie Dobbs series (Jacqueline Winspear - British)

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Old 02-16-2016, 04:46 PM   #201
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Inspector Erlendur series (Arnaldur Indridason - Iceland locale)
Inspector Gamache series (Louise Penny - Quebec locale)
Maisie Dobbs series (Jacqueline Winspear - British)

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Renee looking at your books, you may also like:

Donna Leon - Inspector Brunetti - Venice
Andrea Camilleri - Inspector Montalbano - Sicily
Martin Walker - Bruno - Dordogne (France)
Michael Dibdin - Zen - Italy
David Hewson - Nic Costa - Rome

Or possibly you're already familiar with them?
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Old 02-16-2016, 07:50 PM   #202
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Encyclopedia Brown! I was a bit surprised that there were so many of these (29) and that the series lasted from 1963 to 2012. It was an absolute favorite of mine when I was a kid, lo these many long years ago, and after re-reading the first several, are still pretty entertaining. Pretty fun solving the mystery. I enjoyed the old Ellery Queen TV series, with Jim Hutton, for the same reason.
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Old 02-17-2016, 08:45 AM   #203
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Heron Carvic's Miss Seeton. Really funny cozy mystery series, but only the first 5 actually written by Heron Carvic before his death. The series was continued by other authors afterwards but are not nearly as good. They just don't have his way with words.
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Old 02-17-2016, 05:13 PM   #204
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crossi the Heron Carvic books sound fun. I can't find any ebooks on Kobo UK, AU, CA, or Amazon AU. Do you know if they're in ebook format? Thanks
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Old 02-17-2016, 09:28 PM   #205
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Alas, no ebooks yet. I keep hoping. My paper copies are some of my most prized books because they are hard to come by now. I hope you can find some copies at the library or used books store because they are really fun reads.
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Old 04-07-2016, 06:17 PM   #206
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The newest Nero Wolf by Robert Goldsborough, Stop the Presses is out. It is a little pricey.
http://www.amazon.com/Stop-Presses-N...olfe+mysteries
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Old 05-04-2016, 12:20 AM   #207
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In terms of the character itself I like Erlendur best of what I've read so far, although there are others I like better when it comes to the story as a whole, such as Martin Beck.

I also really like Evert Bäckström in small doses (like in the Story of a Crime trilogy), but he is a bit too much as a main character.
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Old 05-04-2016, 03:14 AM   #208
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In terms of the character itself I like Erlendur best of what I've read so far, although there are others I like better when it comes to the story as a whole, such as Martin Beck.
A thumbs up from me for Erlendur.

The closest modern books I have read to compete with the Martin Beck series are Hakan Nesser's Van Veeteren novels.

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Old 05-04-2016, 06:06 AM   #209
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I like the detectives Donald Lam and Bertha Cool created by Erle Stanley Gardner in his series of 29 novels I am currently reading. Donald is about 5'6", weighs 130 pounds soaking wet, and gets beat up quite frequently. Two hundred pound plus Bertha Cool is the Senior partner of the detective agency and has the personality of a rabid grizzly except when a potential client is offering money. Then, she’s all sweetness and light. She’s also not adversed to soaking a client for as much as she can. Lam is a lot more brains than brawn and he knows how to handle Bertha. He is known to have been a lawyer who had his license to practice law suspended for a year for casually mentioning to a client that he, Donald, had worked out a way to commit a murder in such a way nobody could do anything about it.
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crossi the Heron Carvic books sound fun. I can't find any ebooks on Kobo UK, AU, CA, or Amazon AU. Do you know if they're in ebook format? Thanks
These are to be released very shortly and the first book is available on Amazon for US 99 cents.
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