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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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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

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 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

Zorayda · 24/01/2009 23:14

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

PJ Tracy
Karen Rose and
Beverly Barton.

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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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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 23:18

fabbo!

Thanks, mate

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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.

hazeyjane · 24/01/2009 23:21

Laura Lippman is great.

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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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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.

march29 · 25/01/2009 12:24

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

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

FossilSister · 25/01/2009 13:13

Second Barbara Vine - it's Ruth Rendell under a pseudonym but no annoying Inspector Wexford. very psychological - great stories.

Love the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich. Already mentioned. Very light and funny, partic. Grandma Mazur!

Patricia Highsmith = the Ripley stories. Again very psychological.

SaltireOShanter · 25/01/2009 13:14

I have read All the rebus books
All the Karin Slaughter ones
Some Val McDermid
Some Harlen Coben
and I have read quite a few Patricia Cornwell books but that bloody Scarpetta woman annoys me. The killer always has a grudge or dislike of her, or her bloody neice. She annoys me in away that Amanda Burtons character did in the first few series of Silent Witness - always thinking she was in the right and never caring about rules and regs at all. -Rant over now.

I started reading a Kate Atkinson, called One Good Turn, my mum gave it to me, because it's set in Edinburgh and she know I like Rebus, but I couldn't get into it at all, so gave up.

sweetmonkey · 25/01/2009 13:19

mary higgins clark is great

hannahsaunt · 25/01/2009 13:21

I really like the Lindsey Davies ones, if you don't mind your detectives historical. (I really didn't get the fuss over Mo Hayder either - thought she was quite rubbish). What about PD James and Ruth Rendell - both without measure.

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elle23 · 25/01/2009 15:14

i love sophie hannah. crime thriller

Bucharest · 25/01/2009 15:21

I've also recently discovered Sophie Hannah who I agree is fab- bit like a good Nicci French (some of theirs have been a bit hit and miss)

Also Elizabeth Corley- she's my new fave....

Agree totally about Cornwell being bonkers and Lucy being irritating in the extreme....Cathy Reich far more believable.

ladyhelen2 · 25/01/2009 15:24

I have just discovered Natasha Cooper at my local library. Not a police based crime writer. her heroin is a female barrister. But v v good. A surpise as I'd never heard of her before but would def recommend.

Feenie · 25/01/2009 18:35

I think Sophie Hannah is getting better and better, actually - i enjoyed her last one the most. Can't wait for the next one - reminds me, should go and see if I can pre-order it off Amazon, it's Feb I think.

Feenie · 25/01/2009 18:37

Ooh, 5th Feb! £8.57.

Feenie · 25/01/2009 18:39

New Nicci French 5th March - £7.79. Although I agree with a previous poster, theirs are a bit hit and miss lately.