I love crime, just wondering who your favourite crime writer is and their best book you have read?!
I love crime, just wondering who your favourite crime writer is and their best book you have read?!
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Stuart macbride Simon kernick Chris Carter
arthur conan doyle of course !
Louise Penny . Not only does her detective solve crimes, but she also teaches a valuable lesson about art, music, or social problems. Her characters are endearing, flawed, and eccentric and the detective Armand Gamache is brilliant. She has just completed the 13th book in the series which take place in the mythical village of Three Pines and in Montreal, Canada. The first novel is Still Life in which we meet the characters who appear in the entire series.
My most recent would be Kimberley Chambers and Mandasue Heller, my older favs Stuart MacBride, Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and by older I mean I have read them for years
P.D. james
Mark Billingham and Simon Kernick
I love tana french starting with in the woods. I’m reading it now about 65% in. So far great
Jo Nesbo
My recent favourite two have been The Doll’s House by Tania Carver, and One By One by Chris Carter. I highly recommend both of them.
My favourite crime is Arson.
Stuart Mcbride
Anne Rule
I love Tess Gerritsen .
The Stranger Beside Me by Anne Rule
I have enjoyed the two books written by the author of the Harry Potter books. Her name is right out of my head at the moment. Both books are great and follow a down and out private detective to solve crimes. If you are interested, I will look up the names of the books.
No Nesbo and lars Kepler. Great Scandinavian crime writers
J. K. ROWLING X
Peggy you mean JK Rowling! x
Jeffrey Deaver … Harlan Coban .. Linwood Barclay and of couse the brillant Chris carter … also Karin Slaughter … all will give you a great read
SIlkworm?
Thanks for all your comments everybody, i will have a good read now!
What @Chana said!
Yes, another good foreign writer is Hans Koppel.He wrote. .she’s never coming back, really good book. X
He is Swedish, Hans Koppel .x
Mo Hayder Birdman, Val McDermid The Mermaid Singing and I agree with Amanda, Hans Koppel She’s Never Coming Back
Good isn’t it Jackie x
Amanda it is very good, have you read You’re Mine Now by Hans Koppel, it’s another good one
No-one has mentioned James Patterson. I used to devour his books. Easy to read and short chapters. I’m more eclectic in my books now. But they were very good.
Susan Hill
dci banks books by peter robinson good
lisa gardner is very very good
No I haven’t ,Jackie, but will look out for that one. Thank you. X
I love crime but was looking at the synopsis for The Crucifix killer by Chris Carter. Are his books very gruesome?
Yes they are @Lorna. I love his books but I don’t mind reading gore (not so good at watching it on screen though).
Ugh guys! This is like putting out coke in front of an addict. I love mysteries and thrillers and now I can’t wait to download your suggestions on to my iPad. Mercifully, I’ve read a few of them already.
I loved getting all these book names. Thank you so much
The Girl Who Played With Fire …great series ..
Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, Michael Connelly, David Baldacci (his Will Robie and King and Maxwell series), Lee Child
Karen Rose and all of the above too
Karin Slaughter is one of my favorites!
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Patricia Cornwell : all that remains
Michael Connelly, Jo nesbo and Peter James
Jeffrey Deaver, Jo Nesbo, Stieg Larsson, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Henning Mankell, Kathy Reichs, Peter James, and my latest favourite, Peter May. ☺
And Harlan Coban.
Harlan Coben has a new book coming out that looks great (next week in the US). I love Tana French’s books too
How could I have forgotten Elizabeth George?! She is wonderful!
I love Michael Robotham and also Graham Masterton for horror/crime Am reading his new one Taken for Dead at the mo 🙂
I’ve got so many but 2 new authors are Thea Hartley and James Carol. Mel Comley is very good too.
All of the above!
Oh, I forgot! If you like your mysteries quirky, I can highly recommend the Bryant & May series by Christopher Fowler.