Crime/Mystery authors

[LittleDyn1982]

Hi. I love a good crime mystery but there's so much choice out there! Who to read next?! If you also love this genre then please give me your recommendations of your favourite author. Thanks!

What type of crime do you like? Classic whodunnit, historical, cosy, police procedural, quick read or something longer? Etc. Etc.

And what authors have you already read/do you like best?

Kindle currently has a lot of Golden Age mysteries on at 99p.

For historical, there's Lindsay Davis' Falco or Ellis Peters' Cadfael. Someone also recently recommended to me Ann Swinfen's series set in medieval Oxford, but I haven't tried them myself.

More substantial historical is CJ Sansom's Shardlake.

Ann Granger has written various contemporary and historical.

Will come back with more when I've had a think.

I love Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Stuart Macbride, Peter May (think I've read all their offerings) am now making my way through Peter Robinson.

C L Taylor
Nicci French
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (loads better than Gone Girl)
I’m also working my way through Peter Robinson’s “DCI Banks” series.

Robert B Parker (there are about 50 of them...)
PJ Tracy
Erin Kelly
Karin Slaughter
Harlan Coben
John Connolly
GJ Minett
Sophie Hannah
Lee Child

I love Chris Carter's Robert Hunter series! Very gory and graphic but such a gripping read.

Sara Paretsky ‘s VI Warshawski. Fantastic series. Female PI in Chicago.

Sue Grafton
Janet Evanovich

Quintin Jardine's Bob Skinner series

Belinda Bauer should be better known highly recommend her books, they are excellent

I’ve discovered Kate Atkinson and her Jackson Brodie novels this year. Only read the first 2 so far, but really enjoyed them.

Have you read any of Andrea Camilleri Montalbano books?

Patricia Cornwell all the way!

Camilla Läckberg

I like Robert Goddard. Not crime as such more mystery a bit far fetched but enjoyable. Also second Kate Atkinson. Not keen on police type stuff. I've read a couple of the Shardlake series. They are good but a bit too long winded and complicated at times. For me anyway.

Have just discovered Tana French who's written a series of crime books based in Ireland. She writes really well.

MJ Arlidge
Angela Marsons
Helen H Durrant
Robert Bryndza
I also love most of the ones already named.

Patricia Cornwell
Val McDermid
Harlan Coben
John Grisham
Agatha Cristie

Reginald Hill

James Oswald (Inspector McClean)
Louise Penny (Inspector Gamache - Quebec)
Alex Gray

Catriona McPherson's Dandy Gilver series. Posh private detective in Scotland in the 20s and 30s. Fabulous reads. Characters speak like characters did in books of the era and are believably from that era. Writer was an academic so knows how to do her research but the books aren't weighed down by it. Great reads.

Catriona McPherson's Dandy Gilver series. Posh private detective in Scotland in the 20s and 30s. Fabulous reads.

Susan Hill.
Elizabeth George.
Ann Cleves.

Michael Connelly, Lesley Grant Adamson, Minette Walters, Michael Dibdin, but I would have included lots of others already mentioned. Apart from the first, the others are less well known (and/or dead/OOP so best found via libraries or second hand).

I read loads but never remember the author, just the lead detective! Also I never remember the book titles so series of books are kind of all mashed together

I like the detective called Bosch, and the Glaswegian chap whose wife is a nurse and the have a holiday cottage in Mull.

And the one called Grace who accidentally murdered her sister.

In no particular order:
Iain Rankin
Peter May
William Kent Krueger
Robert Dugoni
Robert Bryndza
Angela Marsons
Alex Gray
Helen Durrant
Guess who got rid of their t.v.?

Tony Parsons (author of Man and Boy) has started writing in this genre and is writing the DC Max Wolfe series. So far he has written:
Die Last
The Murder Bag
The Slaughter Man
The Hanging Club

I've really enjoyed them - interesting stories (which I didn't second guess) and I warmed to the central character DC Max Wolfe