I will check those out, I need a new detective.
Another series I’ve enjoyed are the Dr. Siri novels by Colin Cotterill.
Now, in a way these are stinking communist books, it’s sort of Quincy in 1970s post US defeat in Laos. And Dr. Siri himself was a commie solider for many a decade.
But somehow the characters are still sweet. There’s a pretty big supernatural element to the stories, as there is in a lot of things I’m running into lately (stories, not real life, not yet anyway!) and I’m sorry but some part of me thinks that’s kind of cheating. I mean, when the dead person comes to you in a dream and reveals who killed them?
It can still make a good story. We did enjoy that TV show “medium” a good deal.
I’m pretty sure Dr. Siri would not be every freeper’s cup of tea, but I’ve liked them.
I’ll check them out. I love a good time travel story, so can probably handle the supernatural touches.
I second the Dr. Siri books. They’re awesome. As for being a communist, well, he’s so darn human you kind of excuse him for the foibles of his youth. The novels are the antithesis of what the current fad for paranormal mystery has done to the genre.