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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
I'm sorry if he's been mentioned previously, haven't had a chance to work through recently, but Peter Robinson's "police procedurals" are excellent stuff - and there's a lot of them ! Top notch.
Very well written, believable characters, and spot-on details (I was reliably informed by a member of the Met recently), and can be read stand-alone, but as a series even better.
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It's good to remind us of Peter Robinson's Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks series. Since the series debut in 1987 with
Gallows View, the author has delighted readers through nearly twenty novels, the most recent being last year's
Bad Boy. Expected later this year is
Before the Poison ...
Dr Robinson is from Yorkshire but emigrated to Canada in 1974 and now splits his time between a home in Toronto and another in England.
Another "police proceduralist" worth noting is Giles Blunt, also currently residing in Toronto, although he hails from North Bay, Ontario and has spent some years writing television shows based in New York. His lead character is Detective Inspector John Cardinal who trolls for murder as part of the local police force in Algonquin Bay, a fictional town not unlike North Bay. The first title,
Forty Words for Sorrow, was published in 2001and has now reached seven books with
Crime Machine published last year.
Like Robinson, Blunt spares the reader few details of the crime scene and morgue ... but also creates vivid characters and strongly plotted tales.