So many!!!
Dorothy L. Sayers
PD James
Sue Grafton
Nevada Barr
Margaret Maron
Ian Rankin
Colin Dexter
Henning Mankell
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Nicolas Freeling
Janwillem van de Wetering
John D. MacDonald
and that’s not including thriller and spy novels. Or writers I only know through TV shows, like Andrea Camilleri, who wrote the Inspector Montalbano mysteries.
Yeah, I overdid it.
@Chakolate Oh, please do!
I need to get back to reading more books instead of stuff on the internet. I’ll check out Louise Penny.
BTW, I forgot Tony Hillerman, and someone who I think he inspired, Margaret Coel.
Old timey, with no explicit blood & gore (or sex), then Agatha Christie is hard to beat.
More modern, (with lots of explicit B, G, & S), then Stieg Larsson (the Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc.) and even his successor (David Lagercrantz) in the series are top-notch.
At least the first four of the series can be read for free from archive.org
Laurie R. King
Tough choices-I pick Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe and others).
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
@lonocat Right? Such a weird omission!
Dorothy L. Sayers, but I do also love Gladys Mitchell.
I’m more a triller, mystery, suspense like Harlen coben or James Patterson.
Louise Penney. Her characters, even the duck, are excellent
@Chakolate I was going to pick her too.
oh no
Franklin w. Dixon
@Mehlachi I’ve never heard of him. What do you like about his books?
So many!!!
Dorothy L. Sayers
PD James
Sue Grafton
Nevada Barr
Margaret Maron
Ian Rankin
Colin Dexter
Henning Mankell
Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
Nicolas Freeling
Janwillem van de Wetering
John D. MacDonald
and that’s not including thriller and spy novels. Or writers I only know through TV shows, like Andrea Camilleri, who wrote the Inspector Montalbano mysteries.
Yeah, I overdid it.
@Kyeh What a lovely list. If you don’t mind (or even if you do, really) I’m going to steal it
@Chakolate Oh, please do!
I need to get back to reading more books instead of stuff on the internet. I’ll check out Louise Penny.
BTW, I forgot Tony Hillerman, and someone who I think he inspired, Margaret Coel.
@Kyeh Penney’s books do stand alone, but to get the best out of them, read them in order.
@Chakolate Thanks. I always do read series in order!
Ross MacDonald… our yellow lab is named Archie after Lew Archer
Also, just finished the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters… not the best ‘mysteries’ but beautiful writing
@lehigh Also Donald J Sobol for adolescent me
@lehigh The writing style is great and there is also a nice historical background with each.
No Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade, on the list?
Old timey, with no explicit blood & gore (or sex), then Agatha Christie is hard to beat.
More modern, (with lots of explicit B, G, & S), then Stieg Larsson (the Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc.) and even his successor (David Lagercrantz) in the series are top-notch.
At least the first four of the series can be read for free from archive.org
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780857055538/page/n9/mode/2up
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Ngaio Marsh deserves a mention in here… one of the great pioneers of the genre along with Agatha Christie.
@OnionSoup Oh, yes!