Can someone recommend me some good non-recent crime/thrillers?

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And by non-recent, I mean anything from around ten years ago or earlier.

I've been looking for some new books to read but I seem to have read pretty much all the new crime/thriller stuff

Susan Hill

Patricia Highsmith's Mr Ripley series?

Have you read Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie books?

Tess Gerritsen's Rizolli/Isles series
Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar series

Seconding Nelson DeMille.

Also early John Grisham

Ed McBain

John Harvey's Resnick books.
Adrian McKinty'sSean Duffy series. Written recently but they are set in 1980s Northern Ireland. Witty and very evocative of the era. My number one favourite author.

CJ Sansom's Shardlake series for medieval thrillers
Peter May's Lewis Trilogy is brilliant. The Black House is the first one.

I really enjoyed The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Total page-turner, enjoyed it much more than the film.

Brighton Rock is a classic thriller

Michael Gilbert wrote a lot of very good crime stories - some were traditional detective stories, like Smallbone Deceased, some police- procedural such as the Petrella series & others, like the Luke Pagen stories more of the thriller type.

More votes for Minette Walters and Ian Rankin. Also Dennis Lehane and Robert
Crais.

Great thread. I'm looking for a new detective series to get stuck into. Can anyone confirm if Dorothy Sayers or Ian Rankin (or others recommended) are 'cosy crime'? Can't be doing with anything to scary or gory.

For the OP, have you tried Louise Penny, Inspector Gamache? Magnificent

Oh just remembered Camilla Lackberg's books after reading your comment about 'cosy crime' whatnonsenseisthis

Faith Martin series.
Tasha Alexander - Lady Emily series.
JD Robb Eve Dallas series set in the future, don’t normally like books set in the future but these are brilliant.

I recently read Marnie by Winston Graham (published in 1961) and was impressed.

These are contemporary but I've recently read a few by Japanese writer Keigo Higashino. Highly recommend in case you haven't come across him.

Whatnonsenseisthis you'll be safe with Ian Rankin.

R.D Wingfield's 'Frost' series are brilliant - I love the banter and the detail in them - much better than the tv series

Ann Granger - Markby and Mitchell series
Kate Ellis -- Wesley Peterson series
Whatnonsense - Dorothy L Sayers is perfect , also look at Ngaio Marsh - great vintage crime . If you like something a bit more 'cosy' /light hearted then Carola Dunn's Daisy Dalrymple books may be worth a look

ooh - remembered Margaret Yorke , she wrote loads , mostly one offs

Thanks for the tips!

Clawdy - I love Celia Fremlin. I inherited a paperback copy of The Jealous One years ago and got quite attached to it. It was published by Avon books and has a wonderful purple and green cover.

The author herself is quite an interesting person to read about too.

I've just bought The Hours Before Dawn in the new paperback, and a lot of her others are available to buy on kindle quite cheaply, which is good because I've bought them all.

OP have you read the earlier Nicci French books? They have been concentrating on the Frieda Klein books for a while but the earlier stand alone books are also very good.

John Katzenbach "The Analyst"
Donna Leon

Have you read Exquisite by Sarah Stovell?

It IS recent but she's not terribly famous AFAIK.

An author and a wannabe-author meet at a writing workshop thingy, we know at the beginning that one of them is in prison for doing something to the other, but we don't know which one it is or what they did.