Take a look at Edward Marston ..The Railway Detective
Christopher Fowler ..the Bryant and May series
Mark Billingham.
C J Sansom ..The Shardlake Mysteries (historical)
Donna Leon .set in Venice ..Inspector Brunetti ...
Robert Goddard
Peter Turnbull
Peter Lovesey ...Detective Inspector Peter Diamond
And of course Ian Rankin (Rebus) and Dalziel and Pascoe by Reginald Hill
Ruth Rendell ....Inspector Wexford
Henning Mankell ..Inspector Wallender
Lee Child .
J M Gregson...Lambert and Hook
Graham Hurley ...DI Joe Faraday
John Harvey ...brilliant ..Charlie Resnick.
Lee Jackson ( Victorian derring do )
You may not like American crime novels but have you tried James Lee Burke ? Wonderful writer ..brings the deep south to life and has a wonderful way with words. He knocks your average American crime writer into a cocked hat.But you have to start at the beginning with Purple Cane Road .His latest novel Tin Roof Blow Down was brilliant .
Have a look at
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/
Gives you all the latest books and a synopsis .
if you like "Cosy crime " Veronica Heley . M.C. Beaton (Agatha Raisin) or period type stuff set between the wars by Carola Dunn and Catherine McPherson..or you could fall back on Agatha Christie .Dorothy L Sayers and Patricia Wentworth.