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I like crime fiction. I like female crime writers (but not exclusively) Who have I missed?

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WeeTimorousSquonkie · 24/01/2009 22:10

I think I'm about up to date with everyone's books that I know I like.

Need to take a trip to the library next week, who should I be looking for?

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SilentTerror · 25/01/2009 12:50

I love crime fiction,especially British crime fiction,and have just got into period crime.
I would recommend the following female authors
Laura Wilson
Barbara Nadel(especially London in the blitz series)
Barbara Vine
Kate Atkinson
Catriona Macpherson

Male
Peter James
F G Cottram
Peter Robinson
Jim Kelly
Andrew Taylor

march29 · 25/01/2009 12:24

try nora roberts also writes as j d robb. she is brilliant!!

bran · 25/01/2009 10:38

Do you ever buy books WTS? You could join Read It Swap It if you have books that you don't want to read again.

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WeeTimorousSquonkie · 24/01/2009 23:21

I lost a Kate Atkinson book on the train from Manchester so I daren't ask the library for any more

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hazeyjane · 24/01/2009 23:21

Laura Lippman is great.

FlossieT · 24/01/2009 23:21

Kate Atkinson's crime(ish) books? Not the hard-boiled style though so maybe not your thing...

Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects was seriously impressive. Not a series though.

Second Sophie Hannah. Preposterous plots, slightly wooden characters, TOTALLY gripping.

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WeeTimorousSquonkie · 24/01/2009 23:18

fabbo!

Thanks, mate

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weetimerousdizzybeastie · 24/01/2009 23:17

I think I still have the To boil a frog one, will check when I go up and if I do I'll facebook you tomorrow

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WeeTimorousSquonkie · 24/01/2009 23:15

PJ Tracy I have read (is that the one who is actually a mother and daughter writing together?)

don't know the others though.

Dizzy - I wish I'd started it last week now as well

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Zorayda · 24/01/2009 23:14

In addition to a number of those already mentioned, I like:

PJ Tracy
Karen Rose and
Beverly Barton.

weetimerousdizzybeastie · 24/01/2009 23:14

just Dh being lazy then I'm 32 and grew up not far from Paisley but have lived all over Scotland so can pretty much relate to all the locations - I think they're brilliant

bringbackpacers · 24/01/2009 23:11

Not Scottish but similar age as CB, lived in Scotland for a few years (uni), can relate to the the music refs and so on. Though I've also got a friend who loves his books too despite never having set foot in Scotland as far as I know and being much younger.

I'll be making my own library list from this thread I think!

weetimerousdizzybeastie · 24/01/2009 22:54

sqonk I couldn't be arsed changing it [lazy emoticon}

I wish you'd started this thread last week as I've only just given all my brookmyre ones to my friend

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WeeTimorousSquonkie · 24/01/2009 22:52

dizzy - I didn't notice your extraneous "e" till you pointed it out

These are really good, ladies, I will have a nice, large list.

(anyone wanna take bets on the likelihood of my very small local library having any of them?)

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Sidge · 24/01/2009 22:50

Oh yes I forgot to mention Robert Crais - he is very good.

The early few Cornwell books were great, but then she went all weird and ridiculous. I would recommned the first 4 or 5.

weetimerousdizzybeastie · 24/01/2009 22:47

Kay Scarpetta annoys me because you've got 99% of the book as build up and then its all very neatly tidied up in the last chapter - always left feeling a bit short changed with those ones

squonkie not at all, the more timerous beasties the better - yours is spelt right too lol

bringbackpacers are you Scottish or just a fan? I LOVE his work but DH who is Irish didn't quite 'get' it as much as me and I wondered if some of it was lost to him?

blueshoes · 24/01/2009 22:47

Patricia Cornwall really did go off on one - didn't she try to prove that this artist bloke, who was a friend of Oscar Wilde, was in fact Jack The Ripper.

bringbackpacers · 24/01/2009 22:45

Yes Christopher Brookmyre is great. Agree about Kay Scarpetta et al. getting a bit wearing after a while, too.

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WeeTimorousSquonkie · 24/01/2009 22:44

oops, so we are!

Do you mind if I keep mine on till after tomorrow?

(great minds and all that...)

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bringbackpacers · 24/01/2009 22:44

Going back even further, what about Wilkie Collins? The Woman in White and The Moonstone are both good and basically mysteries. I normally do crime more than classics but I enjoyed both of those.

weetimerousdizzybeastie · 24/01/2009 22:43

squonk we're wearing the same dress!!!

weetimerousdizzybeastie · 24/01/2009 22:42

agree with Peter James and his Roy Grace series, they're in Tesco, just read them in the right order

well you could dip in and about but they're better in order

what about Chris Brookmyre - I think his are FABULOUS but he's a Scottish crime writer so I would!!

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WeeTimorousSquonkie · 24/01/2009 22:42

well, she certainly annoyed me!

I really enjoyed the first ones and I wasn't sure whether my tastes had changed or whether PC went a bit ott with the old plots.

Glad you lot are all on the same lines as me...

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bran · 24/01/2009 22:40

Wasn't the character of Kay Scarpetta's niece voted the most annoying lesbian in literature once? She used to really annoy me, much more than Scarpetta.

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WeeTimorousSquonkie · 24/01/2009 22:40

I shall add her to my ever increasing list, elkidee

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