You might like the podcast I linked then. They do spend some time on the differences between the books and the miniseries. I agree with them, it's hard to like the miniseries as well if you read the book first.
If you are looking for what I call "easy summer reading", he and Lee Child (Jack Reacher novels) are about as good as it gets.
I second what B1GTide wrote. They are fun, lights reads. There are five different series, and I'm up to the present on the first three. Just starting the Isaac Bell series and then I'll start the Fargo series. Took me a while to track down all the hardcover editions.
