I'm reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles on the recommendation of Fenris
at the moment.

Brookmyre is also fab.

Mankell?
( Johnny Catfish - Yowsa!, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:43, archived)

Mankell = Henning Mankell
Swedish crime writer, quite bleak - very much in the vein of Rankin's Rebus, but set in Sweden, so colder, yet cleaner.

I've become rather hooked, as proven by the fact I seem to have bought all of them over the past few months :S
( The Teviot Moose major 5th., Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:52, archived)

I feel compelled to investigate
Any particular one that I should start off with?
( Johnny Catfish - Yowsa!, Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:54, archived)

The first one (keeps any back story clear)
Which is called Faceless Killers
( The Teviot Moose major 5th., Fri 8 Jul 2005, 11:57, archived)