Ahh I love reading. As a little child I always read the books of my dad. I always read information books. As I’m a bit older now I’m getting a bit more into stories. I love detective stories as it keeps on getting more complicated and you can try figuring or yourself what the answer might be.
Oh…there’s the women’s one from James Patterson too. The Women’s Murder Club??? I can’t recall but all the books were numerical. 1st to Die. 2nd Chances. Etc
Martha Grimes wrote a great series about a British detective named Richard Jury. One is the main characters is Melrose Plant. You can’t go wrong with a name Iike that.
I’ve been reading a lot of Dan Wells. The I am not a Serial Killer series and the Hollow City. There are supernatural elements to it but lots of mystery and detection stuff.
Also The Wire in the Blood by Val McDermid. Excellent TV series too.
Yeah the movie is great too, they are very different so one doesn’t really spoil the other. I’m a massive fantasy fan myself, the stormlight archive by Brandon Sanderson is huge but very worth it
Friends don’t let friends read James Patterson. I read tons and there are much better detective novelists out there. If you do really like Patterson, take a step up towards Jonathan Kellerman. His main character, Alex Delaware, is a child psychologist, and the books are very fast paced.
If you like suspenseful crime thrillers Blood On The Tracks by Barbara Nickles is fantastic. It’s the first in the Sydney Rose Parnell series. Book 2 was great too. About a woman railroad cop who’s an Iraq War vet with PTSD, and her canine partner, also a K9 vet with Dog PTSD.