Need a new crime / thriller writer please?

I got a JT ellison one in kindle 12 days thingy and it was surprisingly good, working my way through back catalogue now

Robert Goddard.

His books are very well written and they always have a slightly historical twist (ie some of the action takes place in the past, and somehow affects whatever is happening in the present, where all the action takes place).

Stuart MacBride for great crime and humour. I met him once at a lit festival and he was just as amusing in the flesh.

Not sure if anyone has mentioned Ann Holt yet - she's written a series of crime novels. I've got one on my kindle waiting for me to read. I think she's Norwegian.

Ooooh I will be marking this page...so much to follow up on.
I give another vote to Tana French www.amazon.com/Likeness-Novel-Tana-French/dp/0670018864 . She bases her books in Ireland but are similiar in vein to Steig Larsson/ Jo Nesbo IMO

John Harvey in particular the Resnick series
Chris Simms
Gillian Galbraith

Mo Hayder
Minette Walters
Karin Slaughter
Mark Billingham
Denise Mina
Val McDirmid
CJ Watson
Tana French

Stuart MacBride, Karen Rose, Chris Carter (relatively new, hasn't got many), Quentin Jardine/Oz Blackstone (not so keen on him writing as the latter & the earlier QJ books are better imo), Mark Billingham.

I adore both Dorothy L Sayers and Reginald Hill's detective novels - I think they have quite a few similar traits - quite amusing, clever (& fair - no cheating like Agatha) stories & a love of literary quotation.

They both have big catalogues - with long running story arcs - so try and read them in the correct order. Reginald Hill's in particular get more complicated & satisfying as you get further through the catalogue & he gains confidence as a writer - one of the reasons the tv series diverged from the books (as they couldn't fit the later stories into a convenient 1.5 hour slot).

I also like the fact that none of the main characters fit the stereotype of lonely, sad, disfunctional detective. The female characters (Harriet Vane & Ellie Pascoe) are also some of the most well rounded female characters in fiction I know.

Can second most of what has been suggested (other than Mo Hayder who I thought truly awful) and would add Ann Cleeves and Camilla Lackberg.

Reginald Hill is amazing; he died last week which was very sad.

If you like Scandinavian crime, maybe try Italian? Andrea Camilleri (Inspector Montalbano) and Gianrico Carofiglio are very good.

Karen Rose if you like romance muddled up with your crime - and she's written quite a few! Jonathan Kellerman is good. David Baldacci. James Patterson is OK if you stick to the ALex Cross ones - but he seems to "write" too many now (always paired up with someone else - don't know how much is actually written by him any more)

Peter Robinson good, set in Yorkshire.

Janet Evanovich is also very worth reading - they're very light-hearted though, not like the serious stuff. They're number-based - first one was called One for the Money, and I think she's up to number 17 or 18 at the moment.

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Was going to suggest Kathy Reichs, Minette Walters and Dorothy L Sayers but I see I've been beaten to it!

Give Boris Starling a try if you can - he wrote 'Messiah' which the BBC adapted a few years back (Ken Stott, Neil Dudgeon, bloody gory) and the book's well worth a read. My favourite of his is Visibility - it's rare for me LITERALLY to not be able to put a book down, but this one I read in a day!

Don't touch Nicci French with a barge pole though. I read her (their actually, it's a husband and wife writing team) first novel after enjoying the adaptation of Secret Smile (mmmmmmmmm, Tennant) but the writing was AWFUL. I guessed whodunnit within the first few chapters, waded through the rest of the book (like swimming in treacle) and was not impressed to discover I'd been right for the previous 200+ pages and needn't have read the rest...

has anyone said simon lelic. just found him, as like you running out of options. great thread.

Arturo Perez Reverte (tend to be stand alone mysteries) and Camilla Lackberg are worth a go, as is Yrsa Sigurdardottir. The latter two do need to be read in order.

I was going to say the same as parsleythelioness Lisa Gardner etc but also add Simon Kernick - all set in London and mainly about gangland London but really gripping.

I also love Dean Koontz more thriller than crime.

I've just brought a few Stuart MacBride's for my iPad so will let you know about him!

I didn't know that duchess (runs off to download it!)

I'd agree with tallpoppies - Belinda Bauer's novels Blacklands and Dark Side were brilliant, but you need to read them in that order. She's also got another novel out, also set in Shipcott, that eery village on Exmoor.

In the Dorothy L Sayers Vein, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham are both good (better than Sayers in my view), but you have to like that kind of between the wars stuff.

Minette Walters, The Sculptress, The Ice House, Acid Row and many more

I agree with Hedley....I love John Connolly, especially the earlier Charlie Parker detective books

It's crime with lashings of gothic horror and supernatural undercurrents

I have read a couple of Jo Nesbo recently but found the writing a bit generic, I like lesser known authors without a huge back catalouge and recommend
Donald James, Vadim and Monstrum
Nick Stone, King of Swords and Mr Clarinet

Philip Kerr - Bernie Gunther series. He has accrued a back-list now - so plenty to go at! My lastest and fave recommendation at the moment.
Sarah Paretsky - couple of duff ones, but generally high standard of writing
Carl Hiaisen (sp?) - crime/thriller/comedy/US based
Christopher Brookmyre - ditto, Scotland based. But not most recent one - was pants. So bad I nearly wrote to author to tell him... (saddo emoticon)
Ian Rankin - Rebus novels, HUGE back list. Prob worth reading in order

HTH. I am bookmarking this thread for ideas also!