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.....

Janet Evanovich is also very worth reading - they're very light-hearted though, not like the serious stuff. They're number-based - first one was called One for the Money, and I think she's up to number 17 or 18 at the moment.

Here you go

Peter Robinson good, set in Yorkshire.

Karen Rose if you like romance muddled up with your crime - and she's written quite a few! Jonathan Kellerman is good. David Baldacci. James Patterson is OK if you stick to the ALex Cross ones - but he seems to "write" too many now (always paired up with someone else - don't know how much is actually written by him any more)

If you like Scandinavian crime, maybe try Italian? Andrea Camilleri (Inspector Montalbano) and Gianrico Carofiglio are very good.

Can second most of what has been suggested (other than Mo Hayder who I thought truly awful) and would add Ann Cleeves and Camilla Lackberg.

Reginald Hill is amazing; he died last week which was very sad.

I adore both Dorothy L Sayers and Reginald Hill's detective novels - I think they have quite a few similar traits - quite amusing, clever (& fair - no cheating like Agatha) stories & a love of literary quotation.

They both have big catalogues - with long running story arcs - so try and read them in the correct order. Reginald Hill's in particular get more complicated & satisfying as you get further through the catalogue & he gains confidence as a writer - one of the reasons the tv series diverged from the books (as they couldn't fit the later stories into a convenient 1.5 hour slot).

I also like the fact that none of the main characters fit the stereotype of lonely, sad, disfunctional detective. The female characters (Harriet Vane & Ellie Pascoe) are also some of the most well rounded female characters in fiction I know.

Stuart MacBride, Karen Rose, Chris Carter (relatively new, hasn't got many), Quentin Jardine/Oz Blackstone (not so keen on him writing as the latter & the earlier QJ books are better imo), Mark Billingham.

Mo Hayder
Minette Walters
Karin Slaughter
Mark Billingham
Denise Mina
Val McDirmid
CJ Watson
Tana French

OK - thanks everyone.

Going to start with Reginald Hill, then work my way through most of your other suggestions that I haven't already done.

John Harvey in particular the Resnick series
Chris Simms
Gillian Galbraith

Ooooh I will be marking this page...so much to follow up on.
I give another vote to Tana French www.amazon.com/Likeness-Novel-Tana-French/dp/0670018864 . She bases her books in Ireland but are similiar in vein to Steig Larsson/ Jo Nesbo IMO

Not sure if anyone has mentioned Ann Holt yet - she's written a series of crime novels. I've got one on my kindle waiting for me to read. I think she's Norwegian.

Stuart MacBride for great crime and humour. I met him once at a lit festival and he was just as amusing in the flesh.

Robert Goddard.

His books are very well written and they always have a slightly historical twist (ie some of the action takes place in the past, and somehow affects whatever is happening in the present, where all the action takes place).

I got a JT ellison one in kindle 12 days thingy and it was surprisingly good, working my way through back catalogue now

anything by alan furst - set in europe generally wwii - excellent

Definitely Reginald Hill - was very sad to hear of hie recent death.

Also love Susan Hill's Serrallier series, Sophie Hannah, Minette Waters.

I second Quentin Jardine, tho' the first chapter of the first book in the Skinner series was rather gruesome. I had a three hour wait for a train and HAD to read if I was going to be able to drag dinner out for more than 20 mins, but really didn't want to read about a headless corpse when I had a plate of pasta in front of me! But none of his other books have been so bad.

Alex Gray, Reginald Hill etc etc (shall go through my crime shelves later and see if there's anything major that's not been said up thread).

Michael Robotham is very good, have just found him.

And I'm starting mine soon so can let you know when that's done . . .

John Lawton - set in wartime/just after. Fantastic. There's a cheap one on the Kindle at the moment.

Haven't read all posts, so don't know if the following have been mentioned:-

I've just finished a brilliant book by new writer Chevy Stevens - "Still missing" - had me on the edge of my seat all the way through and i'm an avid crime/thriller reader.

also:

Stuart macbride
John Connolley - although you would need to read them all to understand them;
mo Hayder
tess Gerritsen
Richard Montanari
Tim Weaver

If i think of any others i will post again

Oh, I'll also second Chris Carter, -Karin Slaughter and mark billingham

lindsey davis roman detective falco series
mc beaton
steven saylor another ancient rome gordianus the finder
jd robb, romance/nyc police procedural/near future scifi - pure fun

Kazhy Reiches. The series Bones is based on her character Temperance Brennan.

I also recommend Carter