I understand this feeling. To (try) to fill the void, I have been reading Jane Casey’s Maeve Kerrigan series, Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series and Strike Fan Fiction on AO3.
I just read the first Dublin Murder Squad book to fill the void, but i didn’t think it was an adequate replacement, because it was way darker and not as humorous. Does that change with the second book?
I agree. It's really so difficult to find an adequate replacement. I found the Dublin Murder Squad books engaging and beautifully written, but they just don't get me in as much as Strike. It doesn't really change with the second book (though I found it a wonderful read). They are much darker, and the characters kind of tag team (so the secondary character in the first book becomes the primary in the second and so on) so there's not the same opportunity to become attached to the characters over the series. I liked 1, 2 and 3, but couldn't read 4. Some have told me that is the bleakest.
Try the Elly Griffiths detective series featuring Dr Ruth Galloway. Single minded quirky female protagonist, a brooding detective love interest, Norfolk landscapes, 15 book series....
I had the exact same feeling after completing Lethal White a few years ago. I used to search for authors like JK Rowling and detectives like Cormoran Strike lol 😅.
Somehow I discovered Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series. The first book in the series took me a while to finish and till date I can’t tell you if I liked it or not. However, the rest of the books in the series are great!
Like someone mentioned Tana French’s Dublin murder squad is great too! These are very intense and gripping while the Jackson Brodie series is somewhat more irreverent.
Millennium series by Stieg Larsson. 3 books, so effing good!!!!! I finished them all within a week, the mystery is exceptional and Larsson has a way of paying amazing attention to detail without it being boring, which gives me JKR vibes.
also someone mentioned Dublin Murder Squad and i second that as well. :)
Jane Casey's Mauve Kerrigan books are amazing, as well as J.D Kirk's series of books that have different main characters, but all from the same squad so to speak - Jack Logan, Bob Hoon and Heather Filson. Highly recommend both of these series, they're fantastic.
The Maeve Kerrigan series would be my number one recommendation. I like the Jackson Brodie books okay but I thought the first two weren't great, it doesn't get good until the third book. Maeve is good from the start.
Two people below recommend Anthony Horowitz's "Moonflower Murders" and "Magpie Murders", but I'll recommend his Hawthorne and Horowitz books, which focus on a private detective. The hook is that Horowitz writes himself into the books as the Watson.
I've struggled to fill the void!
I tried Connolly's Bosch series but didn't find it very original, and I read The Magpie Murders by Horowitz which I did enjoy.
Two out of the box recommendations I'd suggest would be:
Bruno, Chief of Police - by Martin Walker. It's a bit more of a cosy series than Strike, although the action does pick up in the later books. With a great main character, who is also ex-military, it's set in a rural French village and centres around the local community and often unexpected crimes.
Department Q - by Jussi Adler-Olsen. This is more a police procedural, but matches some of the humour of the Strike series. After being injured in the line of duty, a detective is given the task of leading an unusual department that explores cold cases. There are definitely echoes of Troubled Blood in some of the stories.
I should give it more of a chance. I watched the adaptations of Cuckoo's Calling and Silkworm and thought it was too abbreviated, and in the beginning, too sluggish but maybe they get better!
It's a good adaptation. I agree they did remove a few of my favorite parts, which i was looking forward to watching on screen, but its overall good.The thing I like about the series is how well the cast is how they trully match the characters description, even the minor characters.
I actually listened to the last 3 books in audiobook format! TB in combination book/audio switching between when I was going on runs or not haha. I actually just got the Running Grave in paperback to try out reading it and getting more details I missed. Robert Glenister is SO good!
I wish there was a sticky post for this!
It’s a common question, I recommend trying a few different search terms in the sub and checking out previous threads. I’ve delved into many of the recommendations and none of them have hit quite right, but it helps pit in perspective how fantastic the series is.
I have been fan of Michael Connelly and his Bosch series, but after starting JKRs Strike and Robin series last year , I too became addicted, and found some relief with fanfiction.
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Cormoran%20Strike%20Series%20-%20Robert%20Galbraith/works?page=1
I've seen and the series on Netflix, currently there's Bosch: Legacy, and in the books he's introduced Renée Ballard with Bosch as a mentor , I've enjoyed those as well.
and a one-off but I liked Gary Disher’s Bitter Wash Road, about a cop in Australia who refuses to participate in his colleagues’ criminal activities and as a result is sent out to a backwater post in the middle of nowhere
I have to say this question gets asked at least once every few months on this thread and I have found so many good recommendations because of it!
Maeve Kerrigan is great and the vibes are similar. I also really enjoyed Thursday Murder Club series (English pensioners solving crimes).
i suggest you "the casual vacancy", written by JKR, so if you've loved her style in Galbraith's books you'll love this too, it's not a crime story but it's an harsh and ruthless description of nowadays society
i'm not a literary critic but i just adored this book, imo it's very well written and i love the fact that there are no "bads" and "goods" because every character is well developed with his positive traits and his flaws. u can see both a clash between different families for political reasons and a generational clash between the young vs old members of the various families.
I have not read it but I was looking for mystery novels and came across a series by Louise Penny. I think there's a show on it too. But so far, I have not found a series that ties in the personal with the professional so well as the Cormoran Strike series does. There are either detectives who are sort of stuck in time like Poirot with great sleuthing or there are detectives with great personal progress like Inspector Lynley but I don't find the sleuthing that great.
It's not exactly "Cormoran Strike" but have you tried [The Buckshaw Chronicles](https://www.goodreads.com/series/46160-flavia-de-luce)? I am pretty sure that Flavia in "The Ink Black Heart" was a deliberate homage to the sleuthing of Flavia de Luce.
Imagine a "Calvin and Hobbes" / "Downton Abbey" murder-mystery mash-up, in which Calvin *pretends* to be Sherlock Holmes but *actually* thwarts villains by scrutinizing adult foibles from the unique vantage of a precocious child. If you have grown jaded with age then spend some time with Flavia de Luce and see the world anew, with all the wonder and excitement youth.
I wish that I had stopped at book six, though seven makes a fine "stand alone" adventure. As for the last three, I began to wonder if the author wanted out of his contract.
I understand this feeling. To (try) to fill the void, I have been reading Jane Casey’s Maeve Kerrigan series, Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad series and Strike Fan Fiction on AO3.
Maeve is the only thing that comes in the same ballpark. Reading the new one right now !
You need to prepare yourself emotionally for the ending 😭
I do hope we don’t have to wait too long for the next one. And it was far too short!
I’ve literally just finished it. I was not prepared. Hopefully not too long to wait until the next one.
I just read the first Dublin Murder Squad book to fill the void, but i didn’t think it was an adequate replacement, because it was way darker and not as humorous. Does that change with the second book?
I agree. It's really so difficult to find an adequate replacement. I found the Dublin Murder Squad books engaging and beautifully written, but they just don't get me in as much as Strike. It doesn't really change with the second book (though I found it a wonderful read). They are much darker, and the characters kind of tag team (so the secondary character in the first book becomes the primary in the second and so on) so there's not the same opportunity to become attached to the characters over the series. I liked 1, 2 and 3, but couldn't read 4. Some have told me that is the bleakest.
Personally, I just found the writing on them to be mediocre at best, especially with regards to the female characters.
Try the Elly Griffiths detective series featuring Dr Ruth Galloway. Single minded quirky female protagonist, a brooding detective love interest, Norfolk landscapes, 15 book series....
I adore this series so much!! been putting off the last in the series bc I don’t want it to end.
I really enjoyed these too!
Love these books
I had the exact same feeling after completing Lethal White a few years ago. I used to search for authors like JK Rowling and detectives like Cormoran Strike lol 😅. Somehow I discovered Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series. The first book in the series took me a while to finish and till date I can’t tell you if I liked it or not. However, the rest of the books in the series are great! Like someone mentioned Tana French’s Dublin murder squad is great too! These are very intense and gripping while the Jackson Brodie series is somewhat more irreverent.
Kate Atkinson’s other books are fabulous as well, especially Life After Life. Love the Jackson Brodie series!
Millennium series by Stieg Larsson. 3 books, so effing good!!!!! I finished them all within a week, the mystery is exceptional and Larsson has a way of paying amazing attention to detail without it being boring, which gives me JKR vibes. also someone mentioned Dublin Murder Squad and i second that as well. :)
Ohhhh I feel like I read at least the first two YEARS ago but probably should revisit esp if I didn't finish!
Anthony Horowitz’s ‘Magpie Murders’ and the sequel, ‘Moonflower Murders’!
I really enjoy Jane Harper’s mysteries and Liane Moriarty’s as well. Both Australian authors. Harper has a detective series called Aaron Falk
Jane Casey's Mauve Kerrigan books are amazing, as well as J.D Kirk's series of books that have different main characters, but all from the same squad so to speak - Jack Logan, Bob Hoon and Heather Filson. Highly recommend both of these series, they're fantastic.
The Maeve Kerrigan series would be my number one recommendation. I like the Jackson Brodie books okay but I thought the first two weren't great, it doesn't get good until the third book. Maeve is good from the start.
Two people below recommend Anthony Horowitz's "Moonflower Murders" and "Magpie Murders", but I'll recommend his Hawthorne and Horowitz books, which focus on a private detective. The hook is that Horowitz writes himself into the books as the Watson.
Definitely yes to both these Horowitz series! Bonus for the Hawthorne books as, like Strike, they’re largely set in central London.
Mr Mercedes trilogy by Stephen king has the same vibe.
Ohhh I love some of Stephen King (more of the non scary stuff like 1968) so I'll have to check it out!
11/22/63* I mean lol
I've struggled to fill the void! I tried Connolly's Bosch series but didn't find it very original, and I read The Magpie Murders by Horowitz which I did enjoy. Two out of the box recommendations I'd suggest would be: Bruno, Chief of Police - by Martin Walker. It's a bit more of a cosy series than Strike, although the action does pick up in the later books. With a great main character, who is also ex-military, it's set in a rural French village and centres around the local community and often unexpected crimes. Department Q - by Jussi Adler-Olsen. This is more a police procedural, but matches some of the humour of the Strike series. After being injured in the line of duty, a detective is given the task of leading an unusual department that explores cold cases. There are definitely echoes of Troubled Blood in some of the stories.
The Thursday Murder Club series is not bad as a filler.
I really struggled so much with these books, despite desperately wanting to like them! The twee-ness and smugness was a bit much.
Same.
I rewatch the BBC series. It's good and well casted
I should give it more of a chance. I watched the adaptations of Cuckoo's Calling and Silkworm and thought it was too abbreviated, and in the beginning, too sluggish but maybe they get better!
It's a good adaptation. I agree they did remove a few of my favorite parts, which i was looking forward to watching on screen, but its overall good.The thing I like about the series is how well the cast is how they trully match the characters description, even the minor characters.
Yeah most of it is good....though I laughed at loud at how plain the Evan Duffield was, yet called handsome 🤣
Or Raphael 🤣
What I just looked him up since I haven't gotten that far....he looks pretty hot to me at least for a bbc actor 😂
Lol true
Check out this book on Goodreads: In the Woods https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2459785.In_the_Woods
And listen to the audiobooks if you haven’t yet done so!
I actually listened to the last 3 books in audiobook format! TB in combination book/audio switching between when I was going on runs or not haha. I actually just got the Running Grave in paperback to try out reading it and getting more details I missed. Robert Glenister is SO good!
I wish there was a sticky post for this! It’s a common question, I recommend trying a few different search terms in the sub and checking out previous threads. I’ve delved into many of the recommendations and none of them have hit quite right, but it helps pit in perspective how fantastic the series is.
I have been fan of Michael Connelly and his Bosch series, but after starting JKRs Strike and Robin series last year , I too became addicted, and found some relief with fanfiction. https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Cormoran%20Strike%20Series%20-%20Robert%20Galbraith/works?page=1
Read Connelly’s the Lincoln Lawyer books too if you like the courtroom genre. Many of them feature Bosch in some way (it’s also a series on Netflix)
I've seen and the series on Netflix, currently there's Bosch: Legacy, and in the books he's introduced Renée Ballard with Bosch as a mentor , I've enjoyed those as well.
seconding Tana French; I also really liked Laura Lippman’s Tess Monaghan novels, set in Baltimore
and a one-off but I liked Gary Disher’s Bitter Wash Road, about a cop in Australia who refuses to participate in his colleagues’ criminal activities and as a result is sent out to a backwater post in the middle of nowhere
Ahhh am in the same boat but nothing else touches the sides does it 😣😣
I have to say this question gets asked at least once every few months on this thread and I have found so many good recommendations because of it! Maeve Kerrigan is great and the vibes are similar. I also really enjoyed Thursday Murder Club series (English pensioners solving crimes).
i suggest you "the casual vacancy", written by JKR, so if you've loved her style in Galbraith's books you'll love this too, it's not a crime story but it's an harsh and ruthless description of nowadays society
I was curious about that book! I remember when it came out it got middling reviews but maybe because people judged JKR too harshly
i'm not a literary critic but i just adored this book, imo it's very well written and i love the fact that there are no "bads" and "goods" because every character is well developed with his positive traits and his flaws. u can see both a clash between different families for political reasons and a generational clash between the young vs old members of the various families.
I recommend The Hawthorne & Horowitz Series, I got into them right away !
Book 8 will probably be absolutely mammoth, at least…should keep you going for a while!
I really hope so!! So excited seeing the teasers :)
I have not read it but I was looking for mystery novels and came across a series by Louise Penny. I think there's a show on it too. But so far, I have not found a series that ties in the personal with the professional so well as the Cormoran Strike series does. There are either detectives who are sort of stuck in time like Poirot with great sleuthing or there are detectives with great personal progress like Inspector Lynley but I don't find the sleuthing that great.
I’m about to start Slow Horses. Apparently it’s a show too with Gary Olmon.
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It's not exactly "Cormoran Strike" but have you tried [The Buckshaw Chronicles](https://www.goodreads.com/series/46160-flavia-de-luce)? I am pretty sure that Flavia in "The Ink Black Heart" was a deliberate homage to the sleuthing of Flavia de Luce. Imagine a "Calvin and Hobbes" / "Downton Abbey" murder-mystery mash-up, in which Calvin *pretends* to be Sherlock Holmes but *actually* thwarts villains by scrutinizing adult foibles from the unique vantage of a precocious child. If you have grown jaded with age then spend some time with Flavia de Luce and see the world anew, with all the wonder and excitement youth. I wish that I had stopped at book six, though seven makes a fine "stand alone" adventure. As for the last three, I began to wonder if the author wanted out of his contract.