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Old 12-28-2025, 09:06 PM   #1
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Help finding Detective-type Mysteries..
..minus romance, and gore.

I've read a lot of romance mysteries and I'm not interested anymore. I just want to find some good authors that can write a mystery story, and I do like series.

I like, or used to like all the Sherlock Holmes, (these are all tv shows) Midsomer Murders, Murder She Wrote. I need something more from the US authors as I'm not always good at reading other country's authors.

I learned a lot about the lingo, for example, from Midsomer Murders, but I am so familiar with the programs, I don't want to read the books.

I want something new-to-me and I like detective-types, who done it's etc. I'm so tired I hope this post can help me find something to read on my Kindle until I can purchase a new e-reader as I haven't found the one I want yet. Pretty sure it will be an Amazon Fire Tablet, at this point.

Thanks in advance, for any help finding some books I can really enjoy again. I just know I don't want blood and gore, or romantic, or sexual stuff, denise PS I don't like those cozy books, not the ones I've tried anyway, who knits or bakes all day and then goes and solves a murder mystery??
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Old 12-28-2025, 09:29 PM   #2
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Bill Pronzini - his 'Nameless Detective Series'

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nameless_Detective
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Old 12-28-2025, 09:58 PM   #3
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The Strike series... https://www.goodreads.com/series/108050-cormoran-strike
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Old 12-29-2025, 01:31 AM   #4
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This won't be a serie, but it's (imho) a very good read: https://www.gamesradar.com/thanks-to...h-translation/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kurvitz#Literature
I guess the debate for the copyrights has ended, so possibly there will be an official release (I don't know, meanwhile...).
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Old 12-29-2025, 07:18 AM   #5
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The Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton.
The Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald (as I recall, these are a little darker).
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Here is a good list for you.
  • Will Trent by Karin Slaughter
  • In Death by J.D. Robb
  • Spencer by Robert B. Parker
  • Vera Stanhope by Ann Cleeves
  • Alex Cross by James Patterson
  • Lincoln Rhyme by Jeffrey Deaver
  • Harry Hole by Jo Nesbo
  • J.P. Beaumomont by J.A. Jance
  • Sloane Monroe by Cheryl Bradshaw
  • Inspector Banks by Peter Robinson
  • James Bond by Ian Fleming
  • John Rebus by Ian Rankin
  • Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie
  • Roy Grace by Peter James
  • William Warwick by Jeffrey Archer
  • Women's Murder Club by James Patterson
  • Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  • Ruth Galloway by Elly Griffiths
  • Rizzoli & Isles by Tess Geritsen
  • Chief Inspector Gamache by Louise Penny
  • Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
  • Mitch Rapp by Vince Flynn
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Old 12-29-2025, 08:35 AM   #7
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American, no blood and gore, no romance, no sex:

Probably my very favorite of all, the Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout. They are quirky and funny and as much about the relationship between Wolfe and his sidekick/narrator, Archie Goodwin as about solving the mystery. The classic Holmes/Watson pairing.

I can also be entertained by the Ellery Queen mysteries by Ellery Queen, especially the Golden Age era ones. Meets all your parameters.

Joan Hess had a couple of entertaining series. The Claire Malloy books are a straight-up mystery series; the "Maggody" ones set in Arkansas are hilarious. There's a little mild romance, but the romance isn't the point.
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I'm going to comment: A lot of the above suggestions are what the OP specifically doesn't want. I know people are trying to be helpful, but I don't see the point. People want what they want.
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The Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton.
The Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald (as I recall, these are a little darker).
I've never read Grafton, but this is more what I'm looking I'm thinking. Thanks so much, denise
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Old 12-29-2025, 08:52 AM   #10
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I'm going to comment: A lot of the above suggestions are what the OP specifically doesn't want. I know people are trying to be helpful, but I don't see the point. People want what they want.
Hello Issy, I so like the sound of these books/author. I will see what I can find in my library, but I don't hesitate to spend a little money if they're only on Amazon Kindle Store

Thanks much, denise
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Old 12-29-2025, 08:54 AM   #11
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Here is a good list for you.
  • Will Trent by Karin Slaughter
  • In Death by J.D. Robb
  • Spencer by Robert B. Parker
  • Vera Stanhope by Ann Cleeves
  • Alex Cross by James Patterson
  • Lincoln Rhyme by Jeffrey Deaver
  • Harry Hole by Jo Nesbo
  • J.P. Beaumomont by J.A. Jance
  • Sloane Monroe by Cheryl Bradshaw
  • Inspector Banks by Peter Robinson
  • James Bond by Ian Fleming
  • John Rebus by Ian Rankin
  • Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie
  • Roy Grace by Peter James
  • William Warwick by Jeffrey Archer
  • Women's Murder Club by James Patterson
  • Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  • Ruth Galloway by Elly Griffiths
  • Rizzoli & Isles by Tess Geritsen
  • Chief Inspector Gamache by Louise Penny
  • Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
  • Mitch Rapp by Vince Flynn
thank you Jon, I see several authors I'm familiar with, and more I'll look into
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Thank you @issybird, I don't like having to be so careful, but I'm recovering from CNS damage so some things I just can't handle reading about
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The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo is a classic murder mystery. It isn’t gory but there is blood. It’s very much a classic whodunnit but from a Japanese author.
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The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo is a classic murder mystery. It isn’t gory but there is blood. It’s very much a classic whodunnit but from a Japanese author.
I'll probably skip checking it our for now, I think the lighter, even comical will suit me best I do thank you for your recommend, and taking the time, denise alias abbynormal
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I have to second Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe.
Robert Goldsborough has continued the series starting in the mid 1980's and is still writing them.
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