Thanks a lot. I started to like mystery books because of sherlock homes' books, but I knew that there were much more. Locked room subgenre may be a great start point to discover new misteries, and again thanks you very much.
Suspence, Follett's Eye of the Needle, Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park and Arkady sequels and legal thrillers, dual sovereignty gets them every time. I have read Brother Cadfael and some other Italian monk as a detective in Tudor England. I love Doc Martin and enjoy the scenery. Victoria Holt, Phyllis A.Whitney and Mary Stewart, checked all those out of my high school library.
When you mentioned doctors, I remembered Medicus by Ruth Downie - featuring a physician investigator in Roman Britain! I only read the first book but should definitely go back to the series
This mystery lover thought the time just flew by!! Another reason I love following you is our similar taste in books! Love so many of these authors and wish I could keep up with all of their books. Do wish Foyle's War would come back with more in the series.
For supernatural mysteries, there is one ghost-hunting series set in 1930s...oh shoot...it's got a cover like Maisie Dobbs I think...I thought it was pretty good, and will circle back when I remember the title! High on suspense and psych tension! Medium-gritty. :P
This was such a fun video! Though I typically gravitate towards historical mysteries, cozies, amateur sleuth, and whodunits I've started exploring police procedurals and am really enjoying them. I'd like to give a legal/courtroom drama a try-- I've read a couple non-mysteries in the last 2 years with courtroom scenes and was surprised by how much I enjoyed them.
This was such great information! I think I want to try Victoria Holt. I have pretty much run out of Mary Stewart and am definitely craving that subgenre!
Love love love this video!! I love mysteries but because I am extremely busy at work, I could not join Cloak and Dagger Christmas but I will definitely next year if you choose to do it again :)
Well this was a fun video. Now I am trying to decide what my favorite subgenres are. Thrillers, medical, and police procedurals are at the bottom of my list, personally. I love the locked door/puzzle ones, fair play, traditional, and a couple of the others. I need to try more of these to see which I prefer.
You've mentioned so many interesting mystery subgenres. There's a lot to explore. My favorite subgenre is definitely the amateur sleuths as I love cozy mysteries so much. I love it when the cozy mystery has a furry companion that does cat or dog things to help the amateur sleuth out of binds or to solve the crime but I haven't liked cozies that feature furry sleuths. Also, I agree with what you said about Monk. It's one of my favorite TV series of all time. I've re-watched Monk and Psych throughout the pandemic and I've recently been re-watching Murder, She Wrote which has been fun.
If you want a good Victorian set Caper/Heist you could look into Michael Critchton's The Great Train Robbery. This was made into a film starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland The Raffles stories of E W Hornung (Conan Doyle's brother-in-law) feature A J Raffles The Amateur Cracksman Lynda La Plante has written good novels based on her Police Procedural TV series Prime Suspect which starred Helen Mirren as Chief Inspector Jane Tennison. She also wrote the Caper/Heist TV series and book called Widows all about a woman taking on a robbery planned by her husband. You may remember the recent movie of this starring Viola Davis and Liam Neeson Peter Lovesey has written a couple of interesting detective series. Peter Diamond is his modern day Police detective solving mysteries in the UK city of Bath and Sergeant Cribb is his Victorian detective (series starts with Wobble to Death). There was a TV series based on Cribb in the late 70s and was released on DVD
