Do you have some recommendations for good police procedurals? (Including all the limits you mentioned, because I also don't like horror and too much violence or thrillers.)
I really like the Alan Banks series. As the stories have been written over the past decades, they show a change in procedures as well as in (British) society and the main characters' lives.
For a newer series (that I have not yet read completely) I can highly recommend Bruce Beckham's Inspector Skelgill series. The style is very different from most others as the stories are written in present tense. And the narrating voice is a bit distanced from the main character in that we do not get to read about his feelings, only see his interactions. The language is beautiful, though.
I also enjoyed Jake Needham's series about Singapore-based Inspector Tay.
There is one cosy mystery series I cannot laud enough, by the way. I enjoyed it in audio book form, read magnificently by Peter Wickham. The series is called "Mad Max" aka Peter Maxwell mysteries, and it was written by famous historian M.J. Trow.
Thank you :) I usually read F/SF but I do like to watch good mysteries on tv and started to read a few as well - mostly the books that the tv shows were based on. But I've been disappointed quite a few times. The absolutely worst has been the one book by Kathy Reichs that I read. I loved Bones so much and the book was awful.
I actually like both versions of Bones. (Or used to, I don't watch much tv other than sports these days.) But they are basically two completely different characters. What made the books work for me is the fact that (a lot of) the (German) audio books were read by Hansi Jochmann, who did a splendid job of it. You might know her from the tv show "Pfarrer Braun" with Ottfried Fischer, where she played his housekeeper.
What I am actually looking for is some well-written German crime series to read. Well-written as in language use. I want to enjoy word play, not cringe at sloppy grammar and denglisch.
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For a newer series (that I have not yet read completely) I can highly recommend Bruce Beckham's Inspector Skelgill series. The style is very different from most others as the stories are written in present tense. And the narrating voice is a bit distanced from the main character in that we do not get to read about his feelings, only see his interactions. The language is beautiful, though.
I also enjoyed Jake Needham's series about Singapore-based Inspector Tay.
There is one cosy mystery series I cannot laud enough, by the way. I enjoyed it in audio book form, read magnificently by Peter Wickham. The series is called "Mad Max" aka Peter Maxwell mysteries, and it was written by famous historian M.J. Trow.
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What made the books work for me is the fact that (a lot of) the (German) audio books were read by Hansi Jochmann, who did a splendid job of it. You might know her from the tv show "Pfarrer Braun" with Ottfried Fischer, where she played his housekeeper.
What I am actually looking for is some well-written German crime series to read. Well-written as in language use. I want to enjoy word play, not cringe at sloppy grammar and denglisch.
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