Crime
Crime and Mystery This list covers over a century of crime, mystery and espionage writers from Wilkie Collins, whose novel The Moonstone is widely regarded as being the first mystery novel in English, to Patricia Cornwell and Minette Walters who are both current favourites.
If you want to write your own mysteries try Forensic Artist.
Paul Adam
Bronte Adams
Ted Allbeury
Margery Allingham
Eric Ambler
Evelyn Anthony Jeffrey Archer
Marian Babson
Jennifer Bacia
Desmond Bagley
David Baldacci
Linda Barnes
Robert G. Barrett
Jean Bedford
Nicholas Blake
Lawrence Block
Lilian Jackson Braun
James Lee Burke
James M Cain
Victor Canning
Patricia Carlon
Melissa Chan
Raymond Chandler
Leslie Charteris
James Hadley Chase
G K Chesterton
Agatha Christie
Mary Higgins Clark
Jon Cleary
Lisa Cody Wilkie Collins Michael Connelly
John Connolly
Patricia Cornwell
Peter Corris
John Creasey
Amanda Cross
Denise Danks
Dorothy SalisburyDavis Lindsey Davis
Marele Day
Jeffrey Deaver
Len Deighton Colin Dexter
| Garry Disher
Arthur Conan Doyle
Susan Dunlap M G Eberhart
Marjorie Eccles
James Ellroy
Janet Evanovich Elizabeth Ferrars
Ian Fleming
Ken Follett
Frederick Forsyth
David Manning Foster
Antonia Fraser
Earl Stanley Gardner
Jonathan GashSusan Geason
Elizabeth George
Michael Gilbert
Sue Grafton
Linda Grant Lesley Grant-Adamson
Kerry Greenwood
Carolyn G Hart
Ellen Hart
Joan Hess
Carl Hiaasen
Jack Higgins
Patricia Highsmith Reginald Hill
Tony Hillerman
John Buxton Hilton
Tami Hoag
Geoffrey Household
Anne Infante
Hammond Innes
Michael Innes
Charlotte Jay
H R F Keating
Faye Kellerman Jonathan Kellerman
Karen Kijewski
Lynda La Plante
Emma Lathen
James Leasor
| John Le Carre
Donna Leon Peter Lovesey
Ed McBain
Helen MacInnes
Claire McNab
Barry Maitland Margaret Maron
Ngaio Marsh
Lee Martin
Lia Matera
David Owen
Robert B. Parker
T. Jefferson Parker
Sara Paretsky
James Patterson
Richard North Patterson
Anne Perry
Elizabeth Peters
Ellis Peters
Nancy Pickard
Ian Rankin
Kathy Reichs
Ruth Rendell
Jennifer Rowe
Dorothy L Sayers
Sarah Shankman
Dell Shannon
Georges Simenon
Gillian Slovo
Josephine Tey
Arthur Upfield
Andrew Vachss
Barbara Vine
John Wainwright
Hannah Wakefield
Marilyn Wallace
Minette Walters
Jean Warmbold
Dave Warner
Barbara Wilson
Sara Woods
Peter Yeldham
Margaret Yorke |