As the title says I am looking for a crime/action/thriller book series set in modern times that should mainly take place in urban environments. The main character should be a male badass carrying some unprocessed history though. I guess the ‘The Dark Knight’ movie series gets pretty close to what I am looking for. I just read the first Joe Pike book and liked it too. However, I’d like the series to be more cohesive. It think the ‘The Dark Knight’ is more cohesive in this regard than for example the ‘Harry Blosch’ series or the Joe Pike series, where each book is mostly about a case and the next book about the next. I don’t mind that, but I’d like to see more connections between the books than in these two examples mentioned. Like relationships and/or romances developing and the character going through better and worse times.
I heard of the Jack Reacher series, but it seems to me too much like a fast-paced action movie without the focus on the character, his problems, and his development as a person over the course of the series, that I would be looking for.
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by felixcra
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Try Joe Ide’s series about IQ (Isaiah Quintabe). He’s a young, urban African American that solves local crimes as an accidental PI. He uses his specialized skills of logic and observation, like Sherlock Holmes, to make a difference. I really enjoyed this series.