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I'm sorry I just remembered them. Hahaha. They didn't occur to me when I first noticed the thread though. But there really are a lot of surprising things, I have a friend who was just introduced to Sherlock when we were in college. I also know of another person who has never heard and seen The Titanic. That was the most unexpected thing I've ever heard from anyone.
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So many new writers to check out. Glad I saw this thread.
My favorites writers lately are: Dorothy Gilman (Mrs. Pollifax series) Archer Mayor (Joe Gunther) CJ Box (Joe Pickett) Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs) Louise Penny (Inspector Gamache) Peter Robinson (Inspector Alan Banks) |
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Martin Walker (Bruno, Chief of Police) Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/sho...ersion=service Donna Leon (Commissario Brunetti) GR link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/sho...ersion=service |
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12-18-2015, 06:49 PM | #185 |
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Jussi Adler-Olsen's Department Q series - Danish police detective Carl Mork, banished to "department Q" in the basement of the police station, assisted by quirky Rose and Assad, initially hired as a janitor, who has a mysterious past in the Middle East.
Christopher Fowler's Bryant and May series - Bryant and May are elderly detectives leading the Peculiar Crimes Unit in London. A few of the stories are set in their younger days, most are present-day. If you enjoy eccentric characters and a gentle sense of humor, you may like these. Sort of a cross between a cozy and a police procedural. |
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Thanks for reminding me (so many good ones out there, aren't there?) |
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Aaron Elkins' Gideon Oliver, the bone detective. I've read most. The first is more of a thriller, then the series settles into forensic whodunits, and travels the world-- central America, Egypt, Italy, Gibralter, England, France. Anywhere were forensic anthropologist Oliver finds old bones which (usually) turn out to be new.
Arthur Upfields "Boney" series. I add my vote to Inspector Montalbano, and the TV series is great too. The books are actually written in Sicilian, with some Italian, and the comic relief character speaks a sort of bastard Sicilio-Italian jargon, fondly imagining he's speaking proper Italian, a type well recognised in Sicily. The translation (by a Sicilian speaker) does extremely well in my opinion. (I'm pleased to see a new short TV series of Montalbano has been made and is about to start here in Australia, subtitled of course.) The Aurelio Zen series is good, too; and the locations which appear in the books are real. There is one story with the body dumped on a walled island in the Venetian lagoon, and yep, that island is exactly as described. I was put off for a long time by the improbable surname, thinking it made up; but apparently it's a real Venetian surname. So close to the Balkans, not all Venetian names sound Italian. |
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Yes, the series is obviously made for Italian TV, and "standard Italian" is really the only dialect understood all over the country. If you had, say, a Piedmontese and a Sicilian, who spoke only their native dialects, trying to hold a conversation, it would be fun to watch. A truly authentic Sicilian language version would have tiny ratings methinks. I know there have been grumbles that the actor playing Montalbano isn't Sicilian.
(One of the minor joys of a recent trip to Italy was watching an episode of NCIS dubbed into Italian. Quite credibly, too.) |
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I very much enjoy the TV series. I really must read the books; I have a few of them I've picked up in Kindle Daily Deals, including an omnibus edition of the first four books in the series, but I've not yet read any of them. |
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My wife's family is Italian and from the Naples area. They speak a very obscure Dialect.
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They were from the general area and not from Naples itself so I am not sure what they actually spoke. They always said it was a dialect spoken in their area.
Her father's family used to send money back to support a church in the small town they were from. Then when they went to visit they found out they were being scammed. The priest was a con man. Apache |
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Mine would be Kay Scarpetta, Win Garrano and Andy Brazil by Patricia Cornwell; Scotty Bradley by Greg Herren, and several from John Morgan Wilson.
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Many on my fave sleuths are named above. Newer faves are Marcus Didius Falco, his adopted daughter Flavia Albia, and Ruth Galloway.
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