Peter Grainger.
I have long enjoyed police procedural literature as a means to let (what remains of) my hair down but have so often been disappointed by the quality of writing. Indeed, without any hint of arrogance, I have often judged my own works to be distinctly better than the majority currently in print.
I read the new authors as they come out on the daily Bookbub lists for Kindle. With free or very cheap novels - unhappily, you can get precisely what you have paid for.
So many are consigned to oblivion before I am even ten pages in. (Weak, unrealistic dialogue immediately has my hackles rising and anything which is about the incredibly famous, the unbelievably talented - along with those featuring billionaires of any hue - are all promptly consigned unto the bin!)
I have discovered some authors with burgeoning talent but there has been none to match the mighty Peter Grainger.
This is an educated man who possesses genuine quality across the gamut of his remarkable writing skills.
DC Smith is arguably the best crafted detective I have encountered. Grainger possesses that rare ability to write simply with nary a hint of being simplistic. It is a gift.
Smith is a finer creation than anything proffered by Dexter, Rendell, McBride, Rankin, Peter James, Arnott etc. I have now read the first seven in the series. His writing begins well and simply gets better with every new volume.
Strongly recommended by this Blog.
I suggest that you give yourself a treat and look Grainger's work up on Kindle.
This freshly amended article was first published on this Blog in December of 2017. The canon has now increased - and he only gets better. DC Smith's exploits should be nationally known.
Plaudits to our best writer of detective fiction.
Flawless!
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