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Originally Posted by HarryT
I have to take Elizabeth George in small doses - I've only read the first seven so far (the last one I read was "Playing for the Ashes"). I probably read one about every 6 months or so. I have to be in the right "mood" to read one; they can be very "depressing".
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Well, the later ones get even more depressing, Harry. I've read all of them and have decided not to bother any more. I even gave away the paper copies.
I also like PD James, Ruth Rendell's Wexford series, and Janet Neel's stories. All three ladies are baronesses: life peeresses in the British House of Lords. (Janet Neel is Baroness Janet Cohen.)
If you like Early PD James and Ruth Rendell's Wexford novels then you may well enjoy Dorothy Simpson's detective novels.
It's also worth mentioning Peter Robinson's atmospheric Yorkshire detective series.
And, Harry, if you haven't yet come across her, you MUST try Margaret Doody. She has a series with Aristotle as the detective, set in Athens, Eleusis and elsewhere in the ancient world.