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Please recommend a detective series that DOESN'T start with a serial killer.
I can't stand stories about serial killers.
Barring that, a series that I can start at book 2 or 3 in the series, avoiding the serial killer and still able to understand the world/characters.
Thank you.
I like Ian Rankin, Marion Todd, Denise Mina, Mick Herron, Richard Osman

skim city. Listening to this on Audible for free. Jumped a couple of chapters after chapter 3. Picked up the pace so getting better. Like the speed setting, too. Another way to skim. The reader is good; able to differentiate btwn the voices of various characters in a way that isn't distracting or sounds artificial.

ISO a detective series that doesn't start with a serial killer or is explicit or also in the horror genre.

I might DNF this. The romance is too ditsy for me. I wish there was more plot/story and less angst. I get it they're conflicted and at cross purposes. I'd like to know about the problem they're trying to solve.

took me a while to get my head around the world building, After that it's been better and better.

Dense. I cannot pick up and put it down without having to back up to figure out where, what and who.
It's space opera, not really my favorite kind of SciFi, but it's very well written.
I'll have to save this to read during the week when i can concentrate on it.

I don't even know why I'm reading this again.
Okay, I do. I'm comparing it to the novel I'm writing and I can't justify watching the TV series again because I almost know all the lines by heart and I really need a Sci-Fi fix but I can't find anything I like.