Crime / mystery ideas

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I'm looking for ideas for books to take on holiday this summer. I really like crime / mystery books, anything from Agatha Christie to Val McDermid. But I seem to have run out of authors! I've read Peter Robinson, Reginald Hill, Peter Lovesey etc and probably most like British based stories, but not exclusively. Any ideas as to what I could try next?
Please remember this is holiday reading - nothing too heavy or improving!
TIA

"Period" authors:
Ngaio Marsh
Dorothy L Sayers
Georgette Heyer
Patricia Wentworth

"Historical" authors:
Lindsey Davis
Stephen Saylor
Peter Tremayne
Susanna Gregory
Michael Jecks
Edward Marston

Contemporary cosy:
Ruth Dudley Edwards
Ann Granger

Will probably think of loads more, sorry if you've read these already.

I liked The Brutal Art by (I think) Jesse Kellerman but the one he's got out in paperback at the moment is crap.

Have you read CJ Sansom?

Not British based, but great for holiday reading: Joe R Lansdale.

Gues you've read Mark Billingham and Mo Hayder... hmm... Simon Kernick?
Not British, but Karin Slaughter?

I like:

Lee Child
Harlen Coben
Kathy Reichs
Janet Evanovich
Mark Billingham
Dennis Lehane
Robert Crais

I love that description - contemporary cosy!

I've read a few of these but not all. I'm off to do some researching on Amazon with all these ideas! Keep them coming...

Thanks

your name makes me think "for the wings of a dove"

sorry... no help on crime- about the one area I don't read.

your name makes me think "for the wings of a dove"

sorry... no help on crime- about the one area I don't read.

Oh- Fred Vargas is good (french female in translation)

Kathy Reichs has a new one out at the moment, 206 Bones

BingumyAndThob - my name comes from a childhood nickname, but I see what you mean!

I like all the authors on Sidge's list, plus

Michael Connelly
Steve Hamilton
John Sandford

Sue Grafton
Henning Mankell

CHRISTOPHER BROOKMYRE. There is no-one else. Unless you count Ian Rankin's Rebus series, but Brookmyre is funnier while still being exciting, although Rankin is more classic and writerly in the detective genre.

My favorite crime writers are

Dick Francis
Harlen Cobin
Jonathan Kellerman
Alexander Mccall Smith
Josephine Tey
Stephen White

Have you tried Phil Rickman? They're a bit different - about an Anglican (female) priest who is an exorcist so they all have a supernatural element but are good mysteries too - I love them - and I've also read the ones you mentioned. The other one I would recommend is Stephen Booth.
Happy reading!

I love the Ann Cleeves books set in the Shetland islands (White Bones, Red Nights, Raven Black), and Barbara Nadel has two great series, one set in modern Istanbul and one in World War II London.

For historial crime, the Ariana Franklin books are wonderful.

I don't like a lot of gore, but crime novels can be great at creating atmosphere.

I second Sue Grafton & Mark Billingham (interesting note - Mark Billingham is an ex stand-up comedian. A lot of his characters have the same surnames as comedians. It's fun spotting them).

Iain Pears - 'an instance of the fingerpost', not just a gripping read but fascinating and satisfying in so many ways.

Feel quite evangelical about it!

Elizabeth George, for the original Inspector Lynley. They are roughly 1.56 million x better than the TV series.

Anne Perry - Victorian detectives. Plus, you have the added bonus of knowing she was the Kate Winslet girl in the film Heavenly Creatures!

C J Sansom
Jill Paton Walsh has some great crime
Susannah Gregory
Janet Neel
Susan Moody
Kate Ellis
Robert Barnard

Not english, but good

Dorothy Gilman
Nevada Barr

I'd second Jill Paton Walsh,Phil Rickman and Janet Neel,and I've just read two by Elly Griffiths,which I really liked in spite of them being written in the present tense!

Also Kelley Armstrong's Nadia Stafford books.

Thank you for so many suggestions! These are great.
I've just been and ordered a load of books from Amazon Marketplace, trying out some of your suggestions. (Spent too much money...shh).
Thanks again.

Just discovered Chris Simms and Maureen Carter. Not too heavy so ideal for holidays.

Has anyone mentioned Stuart MacBride? - gritty, and can be slightly graphic, but funny, and good sense of place (Aberdeen)

Denise Mina - Garnethill Trilogy - great main character.

John Harvey, - Frank Elder series, Resnick series etc.

Catriona Macpherson - 1920s Scotland. Dandy Gilmour is a great heroine.

Second Phil Rickman and Stuart MacBride.