Oh I do like James Oswald, have read most of his Inspector McLean ones, really good reads, think they were Oxfam finds. Just been on his website and there is a new(ish) one and some earlier ones I haven't read. I've read Natural Causes, Book of Souls and Dead Men's Bones.
I hadn't heard of the The Ballad of Sir Benfro series.
I don't know if this is quite the genre you are looking for, bit having read and enjoyed some of the ones you mentioned, may I suggest Colin Falconer ? I have just finished The Disappeared , and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Samuraisan too, thanks for that. Is that the same The Disappeared that was just on TV, though that was a French thriller TV wise, very good if you didn't catch it and on catch up from BBC4.
I'm even getting the TV name mixed up, was The Disappearance, not The Disappeared if anyone fancies looking in to it! I think I need me an early night tonight! :)
Thanks for those shaney, lots of ideas to keep me going :) On the look out for books I can really get hooked in to as had a bit of a lull after some really good ones.
Yes I agree about Lee Child and Michael,Connelly......though the Jack Reacher books are getting a bit samey, I feel . And he is now well over fifty, a bit old to be roaming around America slaughtering the bad guys and picking up ladies,all over the place.
Michael Connelly is brilliant, especially the last one, The Crossing.
Also brilliant is Mick Herron, the British thriller writer. ......Slow Horses, Real Tigers etc .