Mysteries and Thrillers

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What are your favorites?

[angnshaun]

Anything by Blake Crouch

The Bone Collector - Jeffrey Deaver
Painless - Derek Ciccone
Sick - Brett Battles
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith (This may be like Millenium Trilogy for some people... its a bit slow)
Eileen Reed Series - Bonnie Ramthun
Anything by Karin Slaughter

The early Alex Cross Series - James Patterson

The Body Finder Series - Kimberly Derting (YA)

The Abbey - Chris Culver
The Value of Life & To Kill or not to Kill - Andy Crowson

[BravoBravo]

None. I like to sleep at night.

[dorothyinAus]

May 16, 2012 20:54:00 GMT -5 vino said:

What are your favorites?

I read mainly mysteries.

My favourite series are:

Boris Akunin's Erast Fandorin
Susan Wittig Albert's China Bayles
Rita Mae & Sneaky Pie Brown's Mrs Murphy
Ashley Gardner's Captain Lacey
Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher
Kate Ross' Julian Kestrel (I am so sad there are only 4!)
Victoria Thompson's Gaslight Mysteries

I also really enjoy Marian Babson's mysteries, and Mary Stewart's thrillers, but those aren't really a series as such.

I agree with the previous poster about Child 44. It's definitely worth reading, but it can be a bit slow. I have the other books in the series, but have not begun them yet.

I am also working my way through Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries, as well as Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey. And I am prepping to tackle Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe series -- though I have heard many of those as audio books on family car trips.

I am serious mystery fan, as evidenced by the fact that my cat was named Wimsey after Lord Peter and had a teddy bear named Archie after Archie Goodwin in the Nero Wolfe series.

I tease my mother that I come by my love of mysteries naturally. My middle name is from a character in Dell Shannon's Luis Mendoza mysteries.

[charlatti]

Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache series. The first few aren't as good, but you can easily skip those (unless you just can't read out of order). I started with #7, then #6, then read the others in a kind of random order.

Agatha Christie

Tana French (though hers are hit or miss for me)

Kate Atkinson, for a sort of literary mystery. Be warned that she doesn't make friends with semicolons until the more recent books.

[Kahlua9]

In Death series by JD Robb (Nora Roberts)
Rizzoli and Isle series by Tess Gerritsen
Bones series by Kathy Reichs
ditto on Alex Cross series by James Patterson
Maggie O'Dell series by Alex Klava
early Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell
Alex Cooper series by Linda Fairstein
Eve Duncan series by Iris Johansen

All of the books I listed are about cops/detectives and medical examiners. Guess I need to branch out.

[amyb2332]

I like the Alex Delaware books by Jonathon Keller man.

[harmony11]

Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell - I haven't been keen on the last 3-4 of them though.
Early Alex Cross by James Patterson
Lisa Jackson
Iris Johansen
Catherine Coulter

[alithebride]

Ian Rankin's inspector rebus series is excellent!!