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A Reader's Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers

If you've read all there is to read by one or more of these authors, search the list for other writers who specialize in Crime and Mystery.

Legal Thrillers
Dexter Dias
Linda Fairstein
Philip Friedman
Mark Gimenez
John Grisham
Greg Iles
John Lescroart
Phillip Margolin
Steve Martini
Brad Meltzer
Richard North Patterson
Lisa Scottoline
Scott Turow

Mark Gimenez

Psychological Suspense
Karin Alvtegen
Belinda Baeur
Alex Barclay
Linwood Barclay
C. J Box
Hilary Bonner
Lee Child
Harlan Coben
Sarah Dunant
Gillian Flynn
Nicci French
Frances Fyfield
Patricia Highsmith
Gregg Hurwitz
P.D. James
Jesse Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman
Andrew Klavan
J. Wallis Martin
Julie Parsons
Ruth Rendell
Barbara Vine
Minette Walters
Laura Wilson
Margaret Yorke

Jesse Kellerman

Romantic Suspense
Beverly Barton
Sandra Brown
Mary Higgins Clark
Tami Hoag
J.D. Robb
Nora Roberts

Private Eye Novels
Lawrence Block
Raymond Chandler
John Connolly
Robert Crais
Loren D. Estleman
Dashiell Hammett
Chester Himes
Declan Hughes
Arlene Hunt
Ross MacDonald
Walter Mosley
Sara Paretsky
Robert B. Parker
Karen Rose
Alexander McCall Smith
Mark Timlin

Sara Paretsky

Female Sleuths
Ingrid Black
Martina Cole
Natasha Cooper
Stella Duffy
Sue Grafton
Sparkle Hayter
Lauren Henderson
Alex Kava
Lynda La Plante
Val McDermid
Denise Mia
Marcia Muller
Michelle Spring

Comic Crime
Colin Bateman
Simon Brett
Christopher Brookmyre
Janet Evanovich
Kinky Friedman
Carl Hiaasen
Elmore Leonard
Elizabeth Peters
Mike Ripley
Simon Shaw
Donald Westlake

Elmore Leonard

Military/Political Thrillers
Ted Allbeury
David Baldacci
Francis Bennett
Dale Brown
Dan Brown
Tom Clancy
John Creed
Len Deighton
Vince Flynn
Alan Furst
Reg Gadney
Robert Goddard
Stephen Leather
John Le Carre
Robert Littell
Glenn Meade
Brad Meltzer
Richard North Patterson
Michael Ridpath
James Rollins
Daniel Silva

Robert Wilson

Brad Meltzer

Cop Novel/Police Procedural
Mark Billingham
Benjamin Black
Stephen Booth
Andrea Camilleri
Michael Connelly
Colin Dexter
Michael Dibdin
Karin Fossum
Tana French
Lisa Gardner
John Harvey
Reginald Hill
Tony Hillerman
Graham Hurley
Peter James
Quintin Jardine
H.R.F. Keating
Faye Kellerman
Simon Kernick
Philip Kerr
Frank Lean
Donna Leon
Peter Lovesey
Stuart MacBride
Ed McBain
Brian McGilloway
Henning Mankell
Jo Nesbo
James Patterson
Ridley Pearson
Ian Rankin
Peter Robinson
John Sandford
R.D. Wingfield

Jo Nesbo

Psychochillers
John Connolly
Thomas Harris
Dennis Lehane
James Patterson
John Sandford

Medical Thrillers
Paul Carson
Robin Cook
Tess Gerritsen
Ken McClure
Michael Palmer

Tess Gerritsen

Sports Mysteries
Dick Francis
John Francome
Lyndon Stacey

Hard - Boiled Crime
Nicholas Blincoe
Ken Bruen
James Lee Burke
Lee Child
Michael Connelly
James Crumley
Jeffrey Deaver
James Ellroy
James W. Hall
Carl Hiaasen
Matt Hilton
Gene Kerrigan
Joe R. Lansdale
Dennis Lehane
Elmore Leonard
David Lindsey
Jefferson T. Parker
George Pelecanos
Richard Price
Bill Pronzini
Derek Raymond
Richard Stark
Andrew Vachss

Matt Hilton

Cosy Corner- Traditional Whodunnits
Catherine Aird
Agatha Christie
Deborah Crombie
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Elizabeth George
Caroline Graham
Ann Granger
Martha Grimes
Ngaio Marsh
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Simpson

The Forensics
Patricia Cornwell
Meg Gardiner
Mo Hayder
Kathy Reichs
Karin Slaughter

Meg Gardiner

Historical Crime
Lindsey Davis
P.C. Doherty
Susanna Gregory
Philip Kerr
Janet Laurence
Iain Pears
Anne Perry
Ellis Peters
C.J. Sansom
Steven Saylor
Marilyn Todd
Peter Tremayne

See also 100 Masters of Crime

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