[Help] please recommend me a book

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I need to give my middle brother our Crimbo list and I'm holding up the process. I'd like to ask him to buy me a book (by tomorrow at the latest). The spec is:

Modern (written after 1990)

Of modern lit, I like the Dragon Tattoo series, Dark Materials, MW Craven.....

So, mysteries, a bit dark, not full of gory violence but intriguing, with a twist, but not absurd.

Of wider/older literature I liked Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), HP Lovecraft, Graham Greene . . . . Ngaio Marsh....fairly low brow.

I do not like Amis (father or son) Moorcock and anyone who I might regard as knowingly literary.

Cheers! HWT.

 

[Norman Potting]

Colouring?

 

[Nitram]

Not sure it meets the criteria you listed, but for reminiscing of growing up in the 70’s Stephen Morris’s, Record Play Pause is a good read.

 

[happypig]

 

[GT49er]

If Ngaio Marsh floats your boat, you might also like Josephine Tay - The Man in the Queue. A Shilling for Candles, Brat Farrar off the top of my head. She didn't write many due to dying quite young. Dorothy L. Sayers' Peter Wimsey books are of similar ilk, and also pretty good.

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

VIZ annuals, I find, make cracking Christmas presents.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Something by Peter James? Local boy in the frame? Probably got DEAD in the title. One of the later ones heavily features the Amex I believe. No idea which, tho others will undoubtedly know

 

[PeterT]

Some possibles:
Alan Furst - Dark Voyage (a spy novel / thriller set during WW2)
Eric Ambler - A Coffin for Dimitrios (historical, from 1939, he is said to have invented the modern suspense novel)
Anthony Horowitz* - Moriarty or The House of Silk (Sherlock Holmes spin offs)

(*I should disclose that I am related to Anthony by marriage, but I don’t get commission!)

 

[Blazing Apostle]

Perdido Street Station China Melville

 

[monty uk]

Hello squire. Here's some:









May not be dark and mysterious, well not all of them, but great books.

See you Sunday.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Super book


Also his Cicero trilogy

 

[Deleted member 37369]

Something by Peter James? Local boy in the frame? Probably got DEAD in the title. One of the later ones heavily features the Amex I believe. No idea which, tho others will undoubtedly know

That would be 'Dead If You Don't' - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product...p=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=1509816372

I've read all of them ... 17 I think. The more recent ones seem to be going through the motions a bit.

 

[Poyningsgull]

The Power of one - Bryce Courtney.

 

[robinsonsgrin]

recommend my exes books.. Darren Howell. To Kill Again Part One.. Two. Amazon

 

[R. Slicker]

Enjoy.

 

[Bold Seagull]

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Kate Atkinson - Big Sky.

 

[Bry Nylon]

These might help you sidestep future confrontations with colleagues:

 

[bhafc99]

Something by Peter James? Local boy in the frame? Probably got DEAD in the title. One of the later ones heavily features the Amex I believe. No idea which, tho others will undoubtedly know

If it’s set at the Amex, it’s probably called ‘Dead Level’.