Cara Black
Aimee Leduc series, Paris
Parisian P.I. Aimee Leduc works her way through the blue-collar quarters of the city on her moped.
James Lee Burke
Dave Robicheaux series, Louisiana
Hard-boiled P.I. chases criminals through the bayous.
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Inspector Montalbano series, Sicily
"A cross between Columbo and Chandler's Philip Marlowe, with the added culinary idiosyncrasies of an Italian Maigret." - The Guardian
Michael Dibdin
Aurelio Zen mysteries, Italy
“Like going on holiday in Italy but without being bitten by mosquitoes, while at the same time learning about the seamy side of Italian politics and institutions.” -- The Guardian
Karin Fossum
Inspector Konrad Sejer, Norway
Police procedurals starring a tough, ethical and reclusive Norwegian policeman.
 Arnaldur Indridason
Inspector Erlendur , Reykjavik
A stout, divorced, Icelandic detective, a heavy smoker living (mostly) alone on hastily assembled junk food.
Stuart Kaminsky
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, Moscow
A one-legged Moscow policeman who reads Ed McBain.
Donna Leon
Commissario Guido Brunetti series, Venice
"A splendid series with a backdrop of the city so vivid you can almost smell it." -- The Sunday Telegraph
Henning Mankell
The Kurt Wallender mysteries, Sweden
"A portly cop in bleakest Scandinavia makes an unlikely thriller hero. But Henning Mankell's novels are the best Swedish export since flatpack furniture" - The Guardian
Petros Markaris
Inspector Haritos, Greece
“Any viewer impelled during a dull Olympic moment to wonder about the background setting rather than the foreground action - or inaction - should make a date with the morose, rule-bending but (of course) essentially decent Haritos at once.“ -- The Independent
Alexander McCall Smith
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, Botswana
Precious Ramotswe sets up shop in a storefront on the edge of the Kalahari desert.
Michael Pearce
The Mamur Zapt series, Edwardian Egypt
"Urbane, intelligent and never patronising, Pearce writes about Egypt with the observant eye of the lover who sees yet forgives all faults." -- Val McDermid
Iain Pears
Jonathan Argyll Mysteries, Rome
Art mysteries rife with references to European history, art, and cuisine.
Daniel Pennac
Belleville novels, Paris
Stylish, slang-smart crime novels set in the ethnic Parisian neighborhood of Belleville.
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody, Egypt
Victorian Egyptologist, part Miss Marple and part Indiana Jones.
Qiu Xiaolong
Inspector Chen Cao, Shanghai Police
Like the author, he's a native of Shanghai, an expert on T. S. Eliot, and a published poet.
Louis Sanders
Death in the Dordogne
Portrays a rural France very different from A Year in Provence. An essential book for everyone planning a gîte holiday. First of a series.
John Straley
Cecil Younger series, Alaska
"His word-pictures have a hallucinatory brilliance appropriate...to the eerie beauty of the Alaskan landscape." -- The Wall Street Journal | 
