Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
What we're reading

Find your new favourite book or recommend one on our Book forum.

Original poster

Need a new crime / thriller writer please?

115 replies

diabolo · 22/01/2012 18:58

I am a voracious reader and I have run out of books / authors and really, really need you to recommend someone to me, (preferably with a huge back catalogue that I can really get my teeth into).

I've read everything by: Val McDermid, Ruth Rendell, Karin Slaughter, Tess Gerritsen, Patricia Cornwell, Agatha Christie, Mary Higgins-Clark, Jeffrey Archer, Lee Child, Jo Nesbo, Sidney Sheldon and Michael Connelly.

Is Reginald Hill worth pursuing? (I loved the Woodcutter) but haven't read anything else by him.

What about Mo Hayder? I read Pig Island and it made me feel very strange inside. Are her other books so disturbing?

Is there someone I should be reading and have somehow missed?

Please help, I need stimulation.....

OP posts:
Original poster
diabolo · 22/01/2012 19:14

FullBeam - thanks, have read the RJ Ellory book and forgot to add Harlen Coben to my list of what I have read to death.

I dont' really "get" James Patterson - I think he did the Lake House with the Bird / Humans? - not really me, sorry.

OP posts:
flatbellyfella · 22/01/2012 19:13

Lesley Pierce books are an excelent read, you may need a box of tisues when reading some of her books.

magpieC · 22/01/2012 19:13

If you like psychological thrillers then I'd recommend Sophie Hannah's novels.

ParsleyTheLioness · 22/01/2012 19:13

Try: Harlan Coben, Lisa Gardner, Nicci French and Karen Rose.

FullBeam · 22/01/2012 19:09

R.J. Ellory: A quiet belief in Angels

Beautifully written but also tense and violent.

Mark Gimenez
Crime thrillers set in Texas - I really enjoyed his books.

Anything by Harlen Coben

whatithink · 22/01/2012 19:08

James Patterson, Alex Cross series particularly

steviesmith · 22/01/2012 19:05

what about
Sara Paretsky (VI Warshawski)
Denise Mina
Henning Mankell (Wallender)
George Pelacanos
Stella Duffy

I love crime novels!

TheFarSide · 22/01/2012 19:05

I also love the Mallory novels by Carol O'Connell, an American writer.

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 22/01/2012 19:04

Kathy Reichs, Alex Gray, Ian Rankin, Stuart Macbride...

HouseworkProcrastinator · 22/01/2012 19:04

James Paterson?
Also Joe Hill only two novels so far and a book of short stories although not really crime as such but strange/good

TheFarSide · 22/01/2012 19:03

Reginald Hill is very good and has a huge back catalogue.

Andrew Taylor has a detective series set in the 1950s plus some very good stand alone thrillers.

Also, you might enjoy Ruth Rendell and PD James although they might seem old fashioned now - although I see you like Agatha Christie.

That should keep you going for a year ...

Exogenesis · 22/01/2012 19:01

S.J Bolton ia very good.

K999 · 22/01/2012 19:01

I enjoyed The Treatment by Mo Hayder....and the Birdman

dinkystinky · 22/01/2012 19:00

PD James?

K999 · 22/01/2012 19:00

Mo Hayders books are quite disturbing but I like them. I also love Gerritsen. Am in the same boat as you....I need a new crime writer!

Swipe left for the next trending thread