Well-written mysteries and thrillers pleeease?

[kittyfishersknickers]

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?

Have you read all the old classics already?

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

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!

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

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

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

The Americans do it best though

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

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

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.

Very early Patricia Cornwell, before she lost the plot.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

Minette Waters? Walters? Super books

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

Jo Nesbo phone keeps changing it

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.

Jesse Kellerman's books are well written and enjoyably twisty.

They're crime rather than thriller I guess, but I have recently become obsessed with James Lee Burke's series of novels about Detective Dave Robicheaux - set in New Orleans, beautiful writing, fascinating setting and characters, and certainly thrilling in parts.

Jeffery Deaver - love them.

Richard North Patterson for thrillers.

Anne Cleeves.

Alex Gray.

How about Kinky Friedman? It's a little bit different. We like his books. And we've been to see him and his band play in Camden about a million years ago.

Wow, loads of great suggestions. I will get downloading sample chapters.

thanks all!

Try The Blackhouse (Part one of the Lewis Trilogy) by Peter May. Fabulous. Part two I will be reading this summer. Part three not out yet, but due later this/early next year.

Inspector Montalbano books are absolutely outstanding. I read five of them a couple of years a go and have a few more now on my kindle for this summer as well.

Also, one I read years ago and actually dug off the shelf yesterday - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. It's US literature but it's so good.

Ooh NoraHelmer, have downloaded and am reading 'Blacklands' - really good, have read a third although was supposed to be saving it for holiday...

Thanks AnonymousBird, have downloaded The Blackhouse - looks good.

Must stop Kindling now before I bankrupt myself...

Thanks for all suggestions, have read a few of them before but will keep a list of the rest!