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Well-written mysteries and thrillers pleeease?

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kittyfishersknickers · 18/07/2012 19:27

My Kindle is looking bare and it makes me sad.

I loved 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, and Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels. Also 'Enigma' 'The Ghost' and 'The Fear Index' by Robert Harris. Also Denise Mina's books, Val McDermid's, Rankin a bit. DIdn't like Dan Brown's.

What else would I like?

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Housewifefromheaven · 26/07/2012 09:27

Out by natsuo kirino. Brilliant. Wish I'd chosen it for my book circle now!

Drywhiteplease · 26/07/2012 08:21

C j Sansom Shardlake series. Dark,medieval,mystery,thriller, and the best bit there are loads in the series!

RubyGates · 22/07/2012 21:39

Try the Flavia de Luce books by Alan Bradley. Graet if you like a bit of Gothic silliness along with your period mystery.

Cremolafoam · 21/07/2012 22:15

Claude* Izner sorry
. Have a similar problem with Jo Nesbø ... And autocorrect.
Pah! I'll shut up now Grin

Cremolafoam · 21/07/2012 22:13

Oh and for fun I love Clyde Izner- silly but diverting detective stories set in Paris again but in the 1900s belle époque era.
Dunno if kindle would have them thoHmm

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kittyfishersknickers · 21/07/2012 22:13

Also, whoever recommended Blacklands by Belinda Bauer - thank you! Finished it yesterday, was totally gripped. Read it in less than 24 hours. Was supposed to be saving it but never mind. I might read ITW again actually...

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Cremolafoam · 21/07/2012 22:09

Second lightpassenger on yrsa sigurdardottir. Very enjoyable characters set in Reykjavik .
Also åsa Larson Rebecca Martinson series in particular The Black Path.
Liza marklund Anita bengtzon series.
Cara Black if you can get it - series of mysteries set in Paris.
Grin

StealthPolarBear · 21/07/2012 22:04

Shock really?
I'm going to have to buy the other 3 raja French books this week. Will read broken harbour first, then faithful place then likeness then in the woods. I want to get that engrossed again. It's such a good feeling.

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kittyfishersknickers · 21/07/2012 22:00

Ooh I got hugely addicted to In The Woods and read it in one sitting, going from door to door on my outward holiday journey
I also really liked Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell, such a creepy main character...

I'm not great with anything too graphic or gory - I have been known to faint while reading a book...

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cocolepew · 20/07/2012 19:38

John Hart is a great writer.

joanofarchitrave · 20/07/2012 18:35

William Boyd - Restless, and Ordinary Thunderstorms.

Has anybody said Ruth Rendell, or perhaps try Barbara Vine? The only one of the latter I have read was The Dark Adapted Eye, which took a hell of a time to get into, but you might like them.

StealthPolarBear · 20/07/2012 18:32

Yes I have it, kids go away in a week so am waiting to see if I can wait until then :o

MabelStark · 20/07/2012 18:28

Yes yes to Tana French, amazing writer,she's got a new one out, Broken Harbour, can't wait to read it.

StealthPolarBear · 20/07/2012 12:33

oh and Tana French is brillinat (IMO). I have given away In the Woods but am going to buy it back and keep all her books, which is somehting I never do with thrillers. For me, they're the sort of books you completely lose yourself in.

TwllBach · 19/07/2012 20:28

They can be quite graphic, but I think Karin Slaughter writes beautifully. I also think Cody McFadyen has a stunning way with words, I can read the same sentence 20 times just because it's so beautiful. Also wry graphic and upsetting though. There was one bit about a dog that upset me so much that I burst in to tears and threw the book off the bed.

I keep going back to reread the books though!

notnowImreading · 19/07/2012 20:24

Last suggestion - Jeffrey Deaver. Very twisty-turny and exciting until you figure out his formula, which takes a few books.

UnexpectedItemInShaggingArea · 19/07/2012 20:24

I have to recommend Nikki French.

Properly, properly scary (I could only read "Killing Me Softly" when DH was in the house...).

Envy re the kindle, I think it will be on my birthday present list.

StealthPolarBear · 19/07/2012 20:22

If you like Sophie Hannah and Lisa Gardiner then try abi Taylor as well all very similar

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kittyfishersknickers · 19/07/2012 20:21

Thanks AnonymousBird, have downloaded The Blackhouse - looks good.

Must stop Kindling now before I bankrupt myself...

Thanks for all suggestions, have read a few of them before but will keep a list of the rest!

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kittyfishersknickers · 19/07/2012 20:18

Ooh NoraHelmer, have downloaded and am reading 'Blacklands' - really good, have read a third although was supposed to be saving it for holiday...

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AnonymousBird · 19/07/2012 08:35

Try The Blackhouse (Part one of the Lewis Trilogy) by Peter May. Fabulous. Part two I will be reading this summer. Part three not out yet, but due later this/early next year.

Inspector Montalbano books are absolutely outstanding. I read five of them a couple of years a go and have a few more now on my kindle for this summer as well.

Also, one I read years ago and actually dug off the shelf yesterday - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. It's US literature but it's so good.

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kittyfishersknickers · 19/07/2012 00:08

Wow, loads of great suggestions. I will get downloading sample chapters.

thanks all!

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UptoapointLordCopper · 18/07/2012 21:47

How about Kinky Friedman? It's a little bit different. We like his books. And we've been to see him and his band play in Camden about a million years ago.

hanahsaunt · 18/07/2012 21:47

Jeffery Deaver - love them.

Richard North Patterson for thrillers.

Anne Cleeves.

Alex Gray.

BenderBendingRodriguez · 18/07/2012 21:34

Jesse Kellerman's books are well written and enjoyably twisty.

They're crime rather than thriller I guess, but I have recently become obsessed with James Lee Burke's series of novels about Detective Dave Robicheaux - set in New Orleans, beautiful writing, fascinating setting and characters, and certainly thrilling in parts.