Sarah SammisIf you enjoy cozy mysteries or older mysteries with an amateur sleuth (think Murder She Wrote) are you:
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yelling jackal@pussreboots agender and looking for more mystery recommendations, I lost track about ten years ago when I lost access to a consistent library to lend things from...
@len Cool. What sort of mysteries did you enjoy? I can recommend some.
@pussreboots Cadfael, Fidelma, all the Agatha Christies, Dorothy Sayers, Father Brown, this one series about a woman detective in Australia in I guess the 40s or so that was just on its second book when I lost library access, Ladies' No. 1 Detective Agency...
Honestly I'll go in for just about anything! Books more than series or movies, for speed's sake, but I like both.
Honestly I'll go in for just about anything! Books more than series or movies, for speed's sake, but I like both.
@len Let me think for a bit. I will put together a list of books for you.
This is the start of the recs but I'm going to need to take a break tonight.
Question: are you interested in contemporary / cozy mysteries? I read a ton.
Anyway: here's the list so far:
Mystery series with a historical setting
Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley
first book: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King
first booK: The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely
Phryne Fisher mysteries by Kerry Greenwood (this is probably the Australian series you were reading)
Bones of Paris by Laurie R. King (a standalone mystery set in 1920s mystery)
JamesK@len @pussreboots Someone named Melville did a series in the ‘80s or ‘90s about a Japanese cop, who I think was named Inspector Otani. There was, in addition to the mystery stuff, some interesting cultural parts. No idea how they hold up now, but it makes me want to dig through the boxes and re-read them to see. I quite enjoyed them at the time (probably late ‘90s).
Joan Combs Durso@JamesK @len @pussreboots was that the Superintendent Tetsuo Otani series by James Melville!! Thanks for the reminder! I read a couple of those years ago and will put them on my TBR list.
@econoprof @len @pussreboots That sounds right. It’s been quite a while since I’ve thought about it, and as we can tell, I’ve put no effort into any research.;)