Fellow booklovers, Why do you like Crime Fiction? Which particular book got you so hooked on this genre?
Fellow booklovers,
Why do you like Crime Fiction? Which particular book got you so hooked on this genre?
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Skinners Rules – Quintin Jardine
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Rules of Prey – John Sandford
No particular book as I remember, I am over 70!!! My mother was a crime fiction addict and got through at least one book a day so it was in my blood, I was reading Agatha Christie, Marjorie Allingham, John Dickson Carr and many more at the age of 9.
Agatha Christie as a teenager probably.
@Lorraine me too
Tess Gerritsen’s ‘Harvest’ followed by her Surgeon series.
All the mysteries and crimes being solved by the famous five, secret seven, nancy drew and the hardy boys! ??
It was probably when i was around 10 years old. It was a Dutch children’s book which even got translated in English a few years ago (it’s still very dated in the English translation since the book was originally published in 1972?) They also made a tv series after the book which got a bit of a cult status here in the Netherlands?
The author is Tonke Dragt and the Dutch title is “De Zevensprong” and the English title is “The Song of Seven”. I reread it every year and i’m 42❤️
Stephen King in High school. 30 yrs ago and James Patterson not long after…now I can’t get enough!!
I found a copy of Nightmare in Pink by John D. MacDonald on my father’s bookshelves. Read it in a day. Have been hooked on crime novels ever since.
A gradual escalation from Famous Five through Mickey Spillane and so to present day.
Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie
Secret Seven, Famous Five, Nancy Drew initially. Agatha Christie gave me a love for stories with a twist.
My mother loved mysteries and passed that on to me. As a kid, I just loved watching the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. That was the start, then on to Stephen King and Dean Koontz and it grew from there.
Like so many
Proof by Dick Francis. I love the way you can try and solve the who done it but it doesn’t detract from the story.
All Dick Francis books are page-turning with great depth of characterisation. I wouldn’t read them for years because of the connection to horse racing, which didn’t interest me in the slightest, but although the books have a link to racing it is in most cases not a focus of the story. Once I’d started I couldn’t stop !
@Carole – I know. I started reading them when I was 12. My parents recommended them to me and I was hooked. I went through a Mills and Boon stage and a horror stage but decided that crime, mystery and thriller was the genre I enjoyed the most.
@Aileen Yes, my addiction started with the Secret Seven and progressed through Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie, and the rest is history.
I am a huge fan of Dick Francis, not so much Felix…
@Vicki Yes, I agree, he doesn’t have his father’s magic touch, but they are still readable and better than a lot of others.
@Carole yes very true.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes & Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot ?
Mickey Spillane…
Malcolm Hollingdrake was the first crime author I read, he is absolutely brilliant. It was like (I imagine, ha ha!) being given a shot of heroin because now I am addicted to crime fiction and can’t get enough!!
John Grisham got me started. I think…
Now you’ve got me thinking I remember a book called Murder Gone Mad, by Philip Macdonald, which made a great impression on me.
The bodies left behind by Jeffery Deaver
Dead man’s folly Agatha Christie i was about 11 years old
@Susan My first adult crime book was Christie too – Sleeping murder when I was 12. Gave me nightmares.
My mum was a big fan of Agatha Christie, I used to read her books and loved all that “oh I say, careful with that axe Eugene” stuff. Branched out to more contemporary read but still have a soft spot for AC
James Patterson along came a spider started me off ?
Me too but not the later James Patterson books
@Mary I agree–they just aren’t the same, are they?
No they don’t have the same level of suspense and characters – now feels as the books are just churned out
I would have to say John Saul and Stephen King
I bought 3 Rebus books over 20 years ago – think Hide & Seek was the first I read. I have read everything he’s written.
The queen of crime, Dame Agatha Christie! ❤
From very young reading anything i could get my hands on starting with Enid Blyton and her famous five etc, Then on to Victoria Holt and her historical novels, then saga’s and just progressing through the genre’s until i settled on my favourite, I think watching the wire in the blood series on tv, then reading the very talented Val McDermid books then Mo Hayder was the start
I read one of Tess Gerritsens books and was hooked
I started with the Margaret Yorke books and went on from there
Christie and Ngaio Marsh. Read loads as a teen.
Dead Simple by Peter James. Grabbed meat first page and couldnt put it down.
Silence of the Lambs got me hooked
Yes, agree, but I thought Red Dragon was better.
@Carole Yes thought that was good too You may be right
@Cath It’s all a matter of personal perception. One man’s meat . . .
Lawrence Sanders.
Linwood Barclay “Broken Promise”
Chris Carter Evil Mind, can’t wait for bis next book released shortly
Actually, though it read like fiction, Waumbaugh’s ONION FIELD, was based on real crimes.
James Patterson
Snowman