FAVOURITE CRIME AUTHORS

I enjoy reading books by karin slaughter, they are bit grim but good.

Carl Hiaasen
Tony Hillerman
Peter May
Frank Gardner
Stieg Larsson (The girl with the dragon tattoo books)
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Peter Robinson

Michael Connelly very good at American detective stuff

Robert Goddard at British mysteries

Steve Cavanagh I have just started reading Thirteen it's good.

You might like AA Dhand books. I used to listen to Phil Williams book review and he was on.

James Patterson
Mary Higgins Clark
John Grisham
Dashiell Hammett
Seichō Matsumoto
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Thank you, I knew chit chatters would help!

I have already reserved three books from the library. It is going to take me a while to order more, but it will be a labour of love   This is what i do now, I order books in order from the library.  It only costs 60p each and most of the time they have got the books I want.

Hey annie, I'm just here for a few minutes, hope you are doing well.

Can't believe no one's put up Archer.

Hey mouse, how ya doin?.

OK dude, you alright?

I'm fine, foxy, how are you?  I think you have left already!

Actually I'm doing great thanks annie, just don't come on here much anymore.

Yes mouse, great,

Thanks again for the suggestions.  Keep them coming

My favourites fo crime and thrillers:-

Jeffrey Deaver
Michael Connelly
Robert Crais
Lee Child
Harlan Coban
Lynwood Barclay
Peter Robinson

Slightly more thriller than crime - Daniel Silva.

And I'm deeply ashamed to admit this but I'm a bastard for a Lynda La Plante.

Michael Connoly

Annie, I help out in a local charity bookshop (the only work I do now is voluntary work). Why not buy books from as little as 50p from your local charity shops in addition to reserving them from the library?

Jonathan Kellerman
P D James
Ruth Rendell
Colin Dexter
Agatha Christie
Lilian Jackson Braun
Harlan Coben

Annie, you might try Tami Hoag ( Ashes to Ashes is a good un))

ANDREW HALE, HELEN ADU, HELEN FOLASADE ADU, STUART MATTHEWMAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-SHfpm5Bxk

The John Milton series by Mark Dawson
The Cleaner/J.Quinn series by Brett Battles
The C.T. Ferguson series by Tom Fowler
The Palm Beach series by Tom Turner
The Travelers series by Michael King
The Jarvis Mann series by R Weir
The Porter series by R.A.McGee
The Virgil Jones series by Thomas Scott
The Harry Starke series by Blair Howard

Jo Nesbo

Gerald Seymour

Again, thanks everyone so  much  

Keep them coming as I am sure that others would like suggestions and we can keep this thread for future reference.

Lee Ho Fooks, I used to buy books from charity shops and would do it again, as you say it would work out the same moneywise, but it takes too long to sort through loads of books to find the ones I want.  I like getting them from the library as I can order a whole series in order, like I will be doing with the suggestions below.

I loved Dorothy Sayers when I was young..Lord Peter Whimsey and his butler Bunter.

But you must have read them years ago Annie, I have no new suggestions, I apologise

The Inspector Lynley books by Elizabeth George and the Inspector Rebus books by Ian Rankin are very good, far better than the subsequent tv versions.

i think what this topic proves Annie - within reasonable doubt is that Chit Chat is full of deviously minded individuals

Fred Vargas
Herbert Lieberman
Francis Durbridge
Joseph Wambaugh

afternoon Dunlaying my good man.  I could have choked DT the other day

Cara Hunter.

I don’t read many crime books. I prefer Phycological thrillers.

If you fancy something with a Scots flavour ,and who doesn't, the Inspector Rebus novels by Ian Rankin are brilliant, earlier one's are best. Just finished 'The Terracotta Dog'by Andrea Camiller , Italy's top crime writer, lots of dark humour in there, and a good insight into the Italian mentality.

My spellchecker actually gave that spelling of psychological

^^ Annie the length of time to locate and the sorting through are the real benefits of my "system". The return to the shop, when read, of your "investment" is a given.

Badjoe
If you fancy something with a Scots flavour ,and who doesn't, the Inspector Rebus novels by Ian Rankin are brilliant, earlier one's are best.

Yes, my favourite is ‘The mysterious case of the Scots bottling the referendum”.

I love the Robert Goddard books. Any other similar authors out there? Mysteries based mostly across a number of years. Thanks.

Aug 4, 2019 -- 5:30PM, Johnny_Mustang wrote:

Badjoe If you fancy something with a Scots flavour ,and who doesn't, the Inspector Rebus novels by Ian Rankin are brilliant, earlier one's are best.Yes, my favourite is ‘The mysterious case of the Scots bottling the referendum”.

I'll waft something Scots flavoured under your nose son, my fu@*ing fist

Not sure of the authors name but one who came up with the trilogy that is the last three Conservative Party manifesto's . Three wonderful works of fiction in which the crime was carried out by not one but two villains called Cameron and May who evaded justice and lived happily ever after on the proceeds .

Jacinda Arden she was a policy adviser to tony Blair now that's crime writing

Frederick Forsyth's books are a good read. Think he's retired now though.

Elmore Leonard

James Lee Burke

Robert Wilson

Val Mcdermid

Ben Sanders

Peter Corris

James Ellroy

Chris Carter books are good ,psychological thrillers they are ,but still a crime book ,they are a good read.

Ngaio Marsh is worth a try . Old fashioned but the writing is clear and economical .

CJ Sansom..Shardlake series..Hunchback lawyer detective during Henry VIII reign..all books are excellent.

Edgar Allan Poe. I loved reading the Auguste Dupin features, the first detective in crime fiction.

jeez giggity; that's going back a bit, & here's me thinking Raymond Chandler was a tad outdated

1841 The Murders In The Rue Morgue was first published. Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on Auguste Dupin, the master of observation.

A Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket was a great read too Bap. A remarkable story of later coincidence, which needs no explaining to a well read man as yourself.

Cj Sansom Shardlake series 7 books written between 2003-2018..First one Dissolution.
All bestsellers and 5 star rated..if you are interested in Tudor history and crime fiction then you won't be disappointed

Nantucket; there's a nam to conjure with , Mac as is The Grampus

Jumper3 suggested Robert Goddard and I took his advice . Jolly good yarns .

I will add Bernard Minier to the list .

Try reading books by M.J.Trow He has 2 good series Kit Marlow stories which are a combination of history and fact
and the"mad max"  nothing to do with the film and nothing remotely like it.Max is a schoolteacher who somehow seems to get involved in murders
Bits of humour too  "It is pizza for class 7ff lunch today  Watching them eat is like like watching a row of tumble dryers at the launderette

Thank you all so much for the recommendations