"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

I went through a Martha Grimes phase, as a direct result of the roll call in the Pilot, and that was alright as long as it lasted, which was about five books for me.

If you can get Mo Hayder's Birdman and her sequel The Treatment, I'd recommend them, as long as you have a strong stomach.  (Though their occasional weaknesses seem a little less charming to me now that Hayder has released Pig Island, which is pretty much weakness from front to back.)

"Charles Todd" has written a terrific series of Ian Rutledge mysteries.  They're modern books, but the setting is post-WWI England.  You have to start at the start, though, which is A Test of Wills.

~ 'I will give you my finest hour, the one I spent watching you shower' ~

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Dorothy Sayers, author of the Lord Peter Wimsey series of mysteries.  IMO one of the best, most readable best mystery writers of all time. Of course Agatha Christie, although I have to say that she did write a few mystery books that were real clunkers, and some that were only average. "Ten Little Indians" is a classic; "Murder on the Blue Train" and "Murder on the Orient Express," "The Mysterious Affair at Styles," "Murder on the Links," "Curtain," "Sleeping Murder," many other very good mysteries. I can only say one thing that  best mystery writers goes to Dorothy Sayers,  because he made me horrified by her stories.

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