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A Listmania! list by Ron Dogers - Palace Fan "50, hurtling towards 18 again!" (On the edge of Caterham)
 
George Pelecanos: Three Great Novels: The Derek Strange Trilogy: Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, Soul Circus
1.  George Pelecanos: Three Great Novels: The Derek Strange Trilogy: Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, Soul Circus by George Pelecanos
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  "Easily the master, Derek Strange is the king of private eyes, Washington, not the most written about city is so real as are the characters"
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Fleshmarket Close: An Inspector Rebus Novel
2.  Fleshmarket Close: An Inspector Rebus Novel by Ian Rankin
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  "The UK's best....Seedy Edinburgh comes to life with the complex outcast,"
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Robert Crais: Three Great Novels: Stalking The Angel, Lullaby Town, The Monkey's Raincoat
3.  Robert Crais: Three Great Novels: Stalking The Angel, Lullaby Town, The Monkey's Raincoat by Robert Crais
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  "Cole & Pike, inovative cross betwen the light hearted such as Spenser and the darker stuff like Pelecanos"
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A Triple Shot of Spenser (Spenser Mysteries)
4.  A Triple Shot of Spenser (Spenser Mysteries) by Robert B. Parker
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  "Spenser the wisecracking gourmet with a tender side and Hawk, a law unto hinself"
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Still Water (A Resnick novel)
5.  Still Water (A Resnick novel) by John Harvey
The list author says:
  "Resnick, not your usual police hero but great storytelling, for Washingon or Edinburgh, read Nottingham"
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The Harry Bosch Novels: Volume 1: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde
6.  The Harry Bosch Novels: Volume 1: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
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  "Like most featured here,  Harry Bosch, a complex character, brilliantly IMHO coming to life thanks to wonderful writing"
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Deadlight (Detective Inspector Joe Faraday)
7.  Deadlight (Detective Inspector Joe Faraday) by Graham Hurley
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  "Joe Faraday, by a former adventure book author slowly becoming a gripping low-key cop hero with his deaf son and Portsmouth for company"
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Playing with Fire
8.  Playing with Fire by Peter Robinson
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  "unlike the rest here I read the early Banks novels years ago and was not  that impressed, better now revisited but he has grown up so!"
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The Risk of Darkness
9.  The Risk of Darkness by Susan Hill
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  "a new series by an author better known for surperior womens and teenages fiction."
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The Godfather
10.  The Godfather by Mario Puzo
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  "Quite simpily the book that got me into all this, wonderful films but the book is even better.  Not a detective series, just wonderful"
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Ron Dogers - Palace Fan "50, hurtling towards 18 again!" (On the edge of Caterham)
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