I'm sure I missed some things, but here is my best fast crack at a roundup of the 100+ books/series/authors people recommended in this thread requesting non-cozy, kinda literary, ideally wintery mysteries that aren't police procedurals. [gist.github.com/kissane/cd8d...](

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Seeking: Non-Cozy(tm) not also not completely nihilistic literary-ish mysteries or detective stories (not crime fiction) with fantastic audio editions. I’ve exhausted the usual suspects ranging from Chandler and Sayers and Tey through CJ Sansom’s too-gruesome but wonderful Shardlakes.

Seeking fun middle-grade and up fiction recs for a kid reading voraciously at an undergrad level in the technical sense, but with the sensitivities of a softhearted 10-12 year old. Comic violence is fine, could do without terrible grief. Likes in following post…