Need a new crime / thriller writer please?

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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.....

Laurier R King's books about Sherlock Hmes and his wife!

Quintin Jardine (in a similar bein to Ian Rankin) is an author I have recently discovered.

I've read a bit of Elizabeth George (This Body of Death, With No One As Witness), so I will do the rest of those. I really like Thomas Lynley.

I've always wanted to read the Cadfael books, so thanks for reminding me of those.

Not sure I'm ready for Feminist Fantasy yet though.

OOOH go on, you'll love it!! Live dangerously!!

Belinda Bauer, Sophie Hannah, Jane Casey for psychological crime/thrillers. S J Watson is supposed to be good - debut novel is the only one out at the moment, I think. Henning Mankell is brilliant if you like Nordic crime, and he has a big backlist to read through.

Steig Larsson (Girl with the Dragon Tatoo etc)

Stuart McBride - all set in Aberdeen

I read Tami Hoag years ago as I am old gimmer! You are right they are fab, DD and I had one of our obsessions!

I have a Kindle now and as I am obsessed with character development I get so cross when they put Book 1 on, then book 7, I just cannot read them out of order. This is happening with Laurie King

Susan Hill, John Harvey

Peter James
Lesley Horton

Robert Crais
Denis LeHane
Janet evanovitch (v funny)
Nelson DeMille
John Sandford (Prey series, I've just found out there's a Evangelical writer with the same name!)
Sue Grafton
Harlan Coben
Greg Hurwitz
Rivhard Montanari
J A Kerley

Birdman by Mo hayder scared the life out of me!

ohh Dennis Lehane totally, if you like Michael Connelly.......the Kenzie/Gennaro books esp

Dorothy L Sayers - knocks Agatha C into a cocked hat
Josephine Tey - The Franchise Affair and the Daughter of Time are excellent myteries
Simon Brett - The Fethering mysteries
Alan Hunter - The Gently myteries
Jill Paton Walsh - Imogen Quy mysteries plus some Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries (she took up the LPW flame)

Birdman is a must read, even if you find it disturbing it's well worth it.
Just read the two Belinda Bauer books - Blacklands and Dark Side and loven them!

John Connolly.

Peter James, based in brighton/sussex area. There's several all linked but can be read individually. Easy to get into and a great read.

Philip Kerr - Bernie Gunther series. He has accrued a back-list now - so plenty to go at! My lastest and fave recommendation at the moment.
Sarah Paretsky - couple of duff ones, but generally high standard of writing
Carl Hiaisen (sp?) - crime/thriller/comedy/US based
Christopher Brookmyre - ditto, Scotland based. But not most recent one - was pants. So bad I nearly wrote to author to tell him... (saddo emoticon)
Ian Rankin - Rebus novels, HUGE back list. Prob worth reading in order

HTH. I am bookmarking this thread for ideas also!

I agree with Hedley....I love John Connolly, especially the earlier Charlie Parker detective books

It's crime with lashings of gothic horror and supernatural undercurrents

I have read a couple of Jo Nesbo recently but found the writing a bit generic, I like lesser known authors without a huge back catalouge and recommend
Donald James, Vadim and Monstrum
Nick Stone, King of Swords and Mr Clarinet

Minette Walters, The Sculptress, The Ice House, Acid Row and many more

In the Dorothy L Sayers Vein, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham are both good (better than Sayers in my view), but you have to like that kind of between the wars stuff.

I'd agree with tallpoppies - Belinda Bauer's novels Blacklands and Dark Side were brilliant, but you need to read them in that order. She's also got another novel out, also set in Shipcott, that eery village on Exmoor.

I didn't know that duchess (runs off to download it!)

I was going to say the same as parsleythelioness Lisa Gardner etc but also add Simon Kernick - all set in London and mainly about gangland London but really gripping.

I also love Dean Koontz more thriller than crime.

I've just brought a few Stuart MacBride's for my iPad so will let you know about him!

Arturo Perez Reverte (tend to be stand alone mysteries) and Camilla Lackberg are worth a go, as is Yrsa Sigurdardottir. The latter two do need to be read in order.

has anyone said simon lelic. just found him, as like you running out of options. great thread.

Was going to suggest Kathy Reichs, Minette Walters and Dorothy L Sayers but I see I've been beaten to it!

Give Boris Starling a try if you can - he wrote 'Messiah' which the BBC adapted a few years back (Ken Stott, Neil Dudgeon, bloody gory) and the book's well worth a read. My favourite of his is Visibility - it's rare for me LITERALLY to not be able to put a book down, but this one I read in a day!

Don't touch Nicci French with a barge pole though. I read her (their actually, it's a husband and wife writing team) first novel after enjoying the adaptation of Secret Smile (mmmmmmmmm, Tennant) but the writing was AWFUL. I guessed whodunnit within the first few chapters, waded through the rest of the book (like swimming in treacle) and was not impressed to discover I'd been right for the previous 200+ pages and needn't have read the rest...