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Craig Johnson · 2006 · US · mystery · crime
Book 2 of 21 in Walt Longmire
★ 4.22 Goodreads · 29,170 ratings

Sheriff Walt Longmire investigates the poisoning of an elderly Basque woman at the Durant assisted-living home, and the case leads into the region's buried past and that of his old predecessor, Lucian Connally.

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A Is for Alibi

Sue Grafton · 1982 · US 96% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 195,287 ratings
Book 1 of 25 in Kinsey Millhone
shares: dry humour, murder, detective · easy read, story-driven

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone of Santa Teresa, California, is hired by Nikki Fife, just out of prison after eight years for poisoning her philandering husband, to find out who really killed him.

Open Season

C. J. Box · 2001 · US 96% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 63,488 ratings
Book 1 of 26 in Joe Pickett
shares: Wyoming, murder, rural · easy read, plain prose

Joe Pickett, a young and underpaid game warden in Saddlestring, Wyoming, finds an outfitter dying on the woodpile behind his house, and the trail leads into a fight over land and money in which he and his family are in the way.

The Laughing Policeman

Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö · 1968 · Sweden 96% match ★ 4.17 Hardcover · 21 ratings
Book 4 of 10 in Martin Beck
shares: dry humour, procedural, murder, detective · easy read, plain prose

On a rainy November night in Stockholm, a gunman kills eight people on a city bus, among them a young detective from Martin Beck's squad.

The Searcher

Tana French · 2020 · Ireland 95% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 178,820 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Cal Hooper
shares: rural, detective, friendship, small town · unhurried, easy read

Cal Hooper, a retired Chicago detective, buys a cottage in a remote Irish village for a quiet life, until a local kid asks him to find out what happened to a missing brother.

Faceless Killers

Henning Mankell · 1991 · Sweden 94% match ★ 3.76 Goodreads · 81,155 ratings
Book 1 of 9 in Kurt Wallander
shares: procedural, murder, detective · easy read, plain prose

In the first Wallander novel, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the brutal killing of an elderly farming couple in rural Sweden, and a dying word sets off a wave of anti-immigrant violence.

The Steam Pig

James McClure · 1971 · South Africa 94% match ★ 3.50 Goodreads · 443 ratings
Book 1 of 8 in Kramer and Zondi
shares: dry humour, procedural, detective · easy read, plain prose

In Trekkersburg, a town in apartheid South Africa, a mortuary mix-up shows that Theresa le Roux, a young white piano teacher, did not die naturally, and Lieutenant Tromp Kramer and his Zulu colleague Sergeant Mickey Zondi set out to learn why.

Bitter Wash Road

Garry Disher · 2013 · Australia 94% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 5,183 ratings
shares: procedural, rural, small town, detective · easy read, intimate

Constable Paul Hirschhausen, a whistleblower exiled to a one-man police station in the South Australian wheat country, is sent out to a report of gunshots on Bitter Wash Road, and soon after a girl is found dead by the highway.

Last Bus to Woodstock

Colin Dexter · 1975 · UK 94% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 19,146 ratings
Book 1 of 13 in Inspector Morse
shares: procedural, murder, detective · easy read, intimate

Two young women give up on the bus to Woodstock and decide to hitch a lift. That night one of them is found dead in the yard of a Woodstock pub, and Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis go looking for the other.

Rivers of London

Ben Aaronovitch · 2011 · UK 94% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 156,935 ratings
Book 1 of 10 in Rivers of London
shares: procedural, detective · easy read, story-driven

Probationary constable Peter Grant is guarding a murder scene in Covent Garden when he takes a statement from a witness who turns out to be a ghost, and is recruited into the Metropolitan Police's one-man unit for magic as a strange spree of violence breaks out.

In the Woods

Tana French · 2007 · Ireland 94% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 457,243 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Dublin Murder Squad
shares: procedural, murder, detective · easy read, intimate

A detective investigating a child's murder in the Dublin suburbs realises the case connects to his own forgotten childhood trauma in the same woods.

The Dry

Jane Harper · 2016 · Australia 94% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 278,788 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Aaron Falk
shares: detective, rural, small town · easy read, intimate

Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown in rural Australia for the funeral of his childhood friend, accused of killing his family and himself, and stays to look into the case, reopening a death twenty years old.

The Broken Shore

Peter Temple · 2005 · Australia 94% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 7,702 ratings
shares: detective, small town · intimate, familiar

Joe Cashin, a Melbourne homicide detective recovering from injuries, takes a posting back in his home town on the south-west coast of Victoria, and a rich old man is bashed in his home.