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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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TheLightPassenger · 18/07/2012 21:26

US authors - Gillian Flynn, S J Rozan, Tony Hillerman, Aimee Thurlo (Ella Clah series), Michael Connelly, Jesse Kellerman, Olen Steinhauer.

Canadian authors - Louise Penny, Giles Blunt

Scandinavian authors - Karin Fossum, Karin Alvetegen, Hakan Nesser, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Arnaldur Indridason

British - Reginald Hill, Ian Harvey, Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine, Barbara Nadel, Elly Griffiths. And Perfect People by Peter James is only 20p on Kindle atm.

GummiberryJuice · 18/07/2012 21:18

Jo Nesbo phone keeps changing it

GummiberryJuice · 18/07/2012 21:17

Agree with cocolepew the first 8 scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell, maybe first 10, brilliant,
Jo Bravo also

anniewoo · 18/07/2012 21:08

Minette Waters? Walters? Super books

UptoapointLordCopper · 18/07/2012 21:07

Also for thrillers - I remember enjoying very much the Jason Bourne trilogy. I remember (perhaps wrongly) lots of exclamation marks, itallics and capital letters. What more can you want from a thriller?

UptoapointLordCopper · 18/07/2012 21:06

I've ordered a copy of Inspector Montalbano book from the library and it's sitting there waiting for me (bloody library not opened today) - I have high hopes after watching the tv series. Smile

notnowImreading · 18/07/2012 20:56

I was going to suggest some 1930s detective stuff, but if you're after modern thrillers I like Sophie Hannah, Lisa Gardiner, RJ Ellory.

NoraHelmer · 18/07/2012 20:00

Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbo, Henning Mankell, Anne Holt, Camilla Lackberg - if you like Scandinavian thrillers.

Dorothy L Sayers, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey, for atmospheric 1930s+ mysteries.

Belinda Bauer - modern English thrillers, set on Exmoor. I've read Blacklands, and Dark Side so far, and there's one more in the series which I haven't yet read - very dark and menacing stories.

I'd second Wilkie Collins - try The Moonstone - it's good.

JaponicaTroggs · 18/07/2012 19:59

Have just finished The Missing by Karl Vadaszffy. I really enjoyed it.

cocolepew · 18/07/2012 19:51

Very early Patricia Cornwell, before she lost the plot.

DontEatTheVolesKids · 18/07/2012 19:49

Shoot me, i meant Harlan Coben there. blame the idiotic chat of children not the glass of wine Only Coben's later work, earlier stuff is much kludgier. There's a father-son pair who write books about forensics FBI stuff (fiction, but based on the father's real career).

Some Grisham novels are good.

cocolepew · 18/07/2012 19:49

Oh and the John Sandford 'Prey' books. They go back years so plenty to pick from.

cocolepew · 18/07/2012 19:47

Peter Robinson, Mark Billingham and Peter James are English police proceedurals. Stuart McBrides are Scottish .

The Americans do it best though Wink

Another vote for Harlan
Robert Crais
Nelson De Mille
Jonathan/Faye Kellerman
KA Kerley
Lee Child
Chelsea Cain

DontEatTheVolesKids · 18/07/2012 19:46

I quite like Mirage, Day of the Jackal, a good Dick Francis novel, Iain Banks, too.

DontEatTheVolesKids · 18/07/2012 19:42

Can't beat a bit of Edgar Allen Poe.
I like Harlan Carlan.
List of personal faves here.

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kittyfishersknickers · 18/07/2012 19:41

Which old classics are you thinking of notnow? Have read Bleak House, The Woman in White, Turn of the Screw, some Ruth Rendell and some Christies. Was thinking more of new/modern writers though...

ILike - I did like Before I Go To Sleep, will check out the others - thanks!

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ILikeMagicMike · 18/07/2012 19:35

Not sure if they are your cup of tea but some of my favourites have been:

Into the darkest corner by Elizabeth Haynes
Before I go to sleep by SJ Watson
Cuckoo by Julia crouch

notnowImreading · 18/07/2012 19:28

Have you read all the old classics already?

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