 | George Pelecanos: Three Great Novels: The Derek Strange Trilogy: Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, Soul Circus: "Right as Rain", "Hell to Pay", "Soul Circus" by George Pelecanos
Buy used from: £2.84 Easily the master, Derek Strange is the king of private eyes, Washington, not the most written about city is so real as are the characters
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 | Fleshmarket Close: An Inspector Rebus Novel by Ian Rankin
Buy used from: £0.01 The UK's best....Seedy Edinburgh comes to life with the complex outcast,
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 | Robert Crais: Three Great Novels: Early Years: Stalking The Angel, Lullaby Town, The Monkey's Raincoat: "Stalking the Angel", "Lullaby Town", "The Monkey's Raincoat" by Robert Crais
Buy used from: £0.01 Cole & Pike, inovative cross betwen the light hearted such as Spenser and the darker stuff like Pelecanos
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 | A Triple Shot of Spenser (Spenser Mysteries) by Robert B. Parker
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £5.68 Spenser the wisecracking gourmet with a tender side and Hawk, a law unto hinself
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 | Still Water (A Resnick novel) by John Harvey
Buy new: £5.45 / Used from: £0.01 Resnick, not your usual police hero but great storytelling, for Washingon or Edinburgh, read Nottingham
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 | The Harry Bosch Novels: Volume 1: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
Buy used from: £20.00 Like most featured here, Harry Bosch, a complex character, brilliantly IMHO coming to life thanks to wonderful writing
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 | Deadlight (Detective Inspector Joe Faraday) by Graham Hurley
Buy new: £5.32 / Used from: £2.99 Joe Faraday, by a former adventure book author slowly becoming a gripping low-key cop hero with his deaf son and Portsmouth for company
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 | Playing with Fire: The New Inspector Banks Novel by Peter Robinson
Buy new: £4.19 / Used from: £0.01 unlike the rest here I read the early Banks novels years ago and was not that impressed, better now revisited but he has grown up so!
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 | The Risk of Darkness by Susan Hill
Buy used from: £0.01 a new series by an author better known for surperior womens and teenages fiction.
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 | The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Buy used from: £0.01 Quite simpily the book that got me into all this, wonderful films but the book is even better. Not a detective series, just wonderful
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