This is a tough one.
It's a toss up between John Sanford and Thomas Perry.
The Kellarmen one's I've read have been good.
Almost four years later, and still read the same authors...Am I predictable, or what? Not really!
Found the Janet Evanovich numbered series a lot of fun. Harlan Coben left an impression in my bookshelves as well. Turned back to an old favorite, Mr. Frederick Forsyth, still awesome how he masters the pageturner-power.
Do you have any new, or old for that matter, No.1 crime-writer you want to tell us about.
I looked up something similar an amazon last night. "Read my book""No, read mine!", and so on. Boring.
However, since we have a lot of talentede writers here, point me in the right direction, if you please.
Too many to list, really, but here are a few:
Martha Grimes
Jan van der Wettering
Heron Carvic
Anne Perry
Ellis Peters
Rex Stout
Georges Simenon
Patricia Highsmith wasn't mentioned yet, I love her writing!
I like Sanford, and Lawrence Block
Add James Lee Burke to the list. The descriptive writing and casual violence are incredible.
John Dunning is also at the top of my authors list.
Don't know John Dunning, will look for him right away. Thanks, rog!
read Rex Stout, till it became a cult favorite
I just started Janet Evanovitch's "Ten Big Ones" Its the first of hers Ive read and it was reccomended because of its descriptions of New Jersey.
Tony Hillerman has always been fun because you learn some Navajo
Elmore Leonard-what can I say? I read "The Hot Kid" last week. Actually I downloaded it and mp3-d around like some brat kid listening to I-tunes.
I liked the last three books I've finished recently, all different in style - a Henning Mankell, a Jesse Kellerman, and a new writer to me, Miyuki Miyabe.
Haven't read Simenon or Janwillem van de Wetering or PD James in decades, but liked them back then.
I'm partial to "cozies". I'm in the middle of Marne Davis Kellogg's Wyoming murders. She's no slouch on spreading bodies around.
http://stopyourekillingme.com/K_Authors/Kellogg_Marne-Davis.html
An all time favorite of mine is English writer, Elizabeth Mackintosh who wrote under the name of Josephine Tey. She passed in 1952.
I read several of Dick Francis' novels when I was younger. I first discovered them abridged in Reader Digest.
I also recommend Jonathan Gash for his Lovejoy books. The BBC did a series that came to PBS, which is why I discovered the books, but it doesn't make Lovejoy quite the downtrodden cad the books do.
I just finished a Sanford book and my wife has a P. Cornwall that I haven't read yet.
It's always kinda fun when I see posts from myself that I've completely forgotten about and I agree -- it's like, oh, hi self, nice choice!
Anyway, one that I'd add is Dashiell Hammett. We've been watching "Thin Man" movies and enjoying them a lot, reminded me that I tore through all of his books in a matter of weeks in college and loved 'em.
Yesterday I ordered Peter Hoeg's Smell's Sense of Snow.
Fifty cents (plus P&H) from Amazon second hand.
Noddy24 wrote:Yesterday I ordered Peter Hoeg's Smell's Sense of Snow.
Fifty cents (plus P&H) from Amazon second hand.
I think you mean Smilla's Sense of Snow... I think you'll like it.
He also wrote "The Woman and the Ape" which is great read.
parados wrote:I read several of Dick Francis' novels when I was younger. I first discovered them abridged in Reader Digest.
I also recommend Jonathan Gash for his Lovejoy books. The BBC did a series that came to PBS, which is why I discovered the books, but it doesn't make Lovejoy quite the downtrodden cad the books do.
I just finished a Sanford book and my wife has a P. Cornwall that I haven't read yet.
I agree with your comment about Lovejoy - that's often the case, isn't it? Although I thought John Thaw did an excellent representation of Morse.
I have a read a number of Dick Francis' books but they are too formulaic for my tastes now. It's always the same.
John Thaw as Morse was wonderful!
Yeah, we lost a good one when he died.
