A Good Thriller discussion

We do get new members daily, and as they introduce themselves they often say " I hope I am recommended many new authors and new books"

So let's help out, maybe name your favourite 20 authors, or/and some of your all time favourite books.

Whatever you feel you are happy to pass to new members/old members.

No self promoting... If you are good the members will pick you...

Lots of regular members all enjoy a group of authors we all follow.

Authors I know are popular to this group....

Angela Marsons
Sharon Bolton
Robert Bryndza
Karin Slaughter
Linda Castillo
Brian Freeman
Harlan Coben
Linwood Barclay
Robert Crais
Stephen King
James Patterson

Please do post more..

I enjoy all above and have my own favourites

Tom Wood
Simon Kernick
Mark Dawson
Gregg Hurwitz
Mark Greaney
Ben Coes
Chris Holm
Will Jordan
Emyln Rees
Casey Hill
Victor Methos
Tim Tigner
Mel Sherratt
Chris Ryan
Vince Flynn
Clare Mackintosh
David Baldacci
Nelson De Mille
Lee Childs

I am sure many more will be mentioned here, please do join, new members can tell us about their favourites

I tried to pare my list down to 20 but couldn't.
David Baldacci
Lawrence Block
Stephen Booth
Rhys Bowen
C. J. Box
James Lee Burke
Stephen J. Cannell
Jeff Carson
Raymond Chandler
Lee Child
Tom Clancy
Michael Connelly
Deborah Crombie
Annette Dashofy
Nelson DeMille
Earl Emerson
Linda Fairstein
Dick Francis
Chris Grabenstein
Sue Grafton
Dashiell Hammett
Jeremiah Healy
Carl Hiaasen
Ed McBain/Evan Hunter
J. A. Jance
Craig Johnson
Jonathan Kellerman
Jonathon King
Dennis Lehane
Tom Lowe
John. D. MacDonald
Margaret Maron
Archer Mayor
Toby Neal
Robert B. Parker
Ridley Pearson
Spenser Quinn
Kathy Reichs
David Rosenfelt
Hank Philippi Ryan
John Sandford
Lisa Scottoline
Martin Cruz Smith
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Will Thomas
Victoria Thompson
John Verdon
Donald E. Westlake

Angela Marsons (Kim Stone series)
William Kent Krueger (Cork O'Connor series)
Tana French (Dublin Murder Squad series)
Alexandra Sokoloff (Huntress Moon series)
Cody McFadyen (Smoky Barrett series)
Sharon Bolton (Lacey Flint series and other standalones)

Tess Gerritsen! I love Rizzoli & Isles so much

Owen Mullen

There are so many 'good' writers out there. This helps to get other recommendations.

Yes and please mention some books you have really enjoyed.

Just finished a Net Galley book (out March 8th)

The Babysitter by Sheryl Browne, I loved the book.

Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger, Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves, The Widow by Fiona Barton, Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner, and Black Water Lilies by Michel Bussi ( I thought this one was brilliant).

Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie series)
Isaac Asimov (the original version of I, Robot)
Robert Heinlein (Farmer in the Sky)
Arthur C. Clarke
Leigh Brackett
Joann Fluke (Hannah Swensen series EXCEPT Cinnamon Roll Murder and Devil's Food Cake Murder. Both are too slow)
Rita Mae and Sneaky Pie Brown (Sneaky's a pussycat)
(The Mrs. Murphy series)

Jim Butcher (The Cinder Spires/Dresden Files and Codex Alera series except Ghost Story in the Dresden Files series. Slower than molasses in February)

J.R.R. Tolkien (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of his less obvious works)
C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

Ree Drummond

Dr. Sharon Moalem ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... )

Will Hill ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8... His vampires are kick ass, not emo sparkly blood fairies; his version of Frankenstein's monster is one of the heroes and he speaks like Mary Shelley's original though he looks like Boris Karloff's version)

Michael Jecks (The Last Templar https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6... )

Lloyd Alexander (The Book of Three)

Robert S. McElvaine (Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... )

E.J. Wagner (
The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3... )

Hi,

Have picked up so many good authors from Goodreads

Angela Marsons
Sharon Bolton
Robert Bryndza
L.J. Ross
Rachel Abbott
Patricia Gibney
M. J. Arlidge
Aleatha Romig
Ann Cleeves
Ian Rankin
Val McDermid
John Marrs
Henning Mankell
Ragnar Jonasson
Celina Grace

I just discovered Erin Kelly - author of Broadchurch ( Funny that the Book came AFTER the British TV show ) Very good storytelling :)

Some who haven't been mentioned:


Rennie Airth
Ace Atkins
James R. Benn
Lou Berney
M.J. Carter
Wiley Cash
Mike Cooper
Robert Galbraith
Alex Grecian
Tarquin Hall
Joe Ide
Joseph Knox
Shane Kuhn
Peter Lovesey
David Morrell
Hakan Nesser
Peter Swanson
Will Thomas

No love yet for:
Richard Price
George Pelicanos
James Swain

(I could do 20, but I'd be repeating writers already named)

I've recently greatly enjoyed Thomas Mullen's Darktown books and Steve Cavanagh's Eddie Flynn series.

This is such a wonderful thread!

Robert Galbraith

or better known as J K Rowling...

Will be shortly starting

Patricia Gibney, have a first four in the series.


The idea is new members come here to get an idea for any new recommendations.

Steph Broadribb
Don Winslow
Joe Hill

I've heard Anne Rice's son, Christopher, is doing interesting things.

From the Booklist Reader:

10 Crime Writers I Hate (Because They’re Too Good)
by Colleen Coble

Dean Koontz

I know, I know: Most people think horror when they see the name Dean Koontz, but if you haven’t read his suspense, you’re missing out! Intensity is a nail-biting thriller with one of the creepiest serial killers you’ll ever come across—and one of the most gutsy heroines. The Silent Corner is another excellent thriller that could be all too real.

Stephen King

No one can write like King, and reading him provides a crash course in how to write. He was writing in the close third-person point-of-view when no one else even knew what that was, and he totally immerses readers in the story. Sure, he’s the king of horror (sorry), but consider The Stand: although it has supernatural elements, it’s not really horror. In fact, it’s a thriller in all meanings of the word, pitting an almost-invincible villain against ordinary people. I’ve read it well over 30 times. If you haven’t read it, get the edited version, not the bloated, “uncut” version released in 1990—you might have to buy it used. Even the king needs an editor!

Lisa Gardner

Sigh. I have a girl crush on Lisa because of her stellar writing. She can take the strands of what seem to be two different stories and wrap them up until your head is reeling and you don’t know what’s going on. The first Lisa Gardner novel I read was Touch and Go, which got me completely hooked, and I’ve been making my way systematically through all her books. I want to write like her when I grow up! Okay, she’s younger than me, which makes it so not fair.

Lisa Scottoline

Where has she been all my reading life? I’d heard her name many times—you’d have to live in a cave not to have heard of her. Somehow, I hand’t actually read her until last year, when I brought Keep Quiet on spring break with my granddaughter in Gulf Shores. In making my way through her backlist, I discovered characters who face truly hard decisions and writing that sings.

C. J. Box

Since his first novel, Open Season, I’ve loved the word-pictures Box conjures of Wyoming, a state I love (well, except in winter). My brother’s death in a freak lightning accident propelled me into writing, and Randy loved Wyoming, so I had to visit after he was killed. Standing on the parade ground at Fort Laramie, my first novel dropped into my head. So Wyoming is special to me, and Box has made it magical to millions of people.

Kathy Reichs

Oh my, the richness of her books! Through them, I’ve learned way more information about forensic anthropology than I could ever absorb. Every time I read one of Reichs’ novels, I wish I had some kind of grisly training myself. A reader can recognize an authentic voice, and she has it in spades.

Karin Slaughter

(view spoiler)[Karin, really? Why did you kill off Jeffrey Tolliver? I’m seriously mad at you and been permanently scarred by the ending of Beyond Reach. I loved him and Sara. Poor Sara will never be the same. I mean, if you were tired of writing about them, let them retire happily with their adopted baby. But no—you had to murder Jeffrey at the worst possible moment. (hide spoiler)] I’ll never get over it. And this is why you’re a master—we readers care. But that doesn’t mean I’ve forgiven you yet.

Paul Doiron

I’m a sucker for novels set in remote places with interesting characters, so naturally, I love Paul Dorion. He writes with real authenticity just like C.J. Box, plus he’s been a guide to the Maine wilderness, and you can tell. He so immerses readers in the setting that I have to have a blanket on my lap whenever I read him. I found him while researching my own Maine series and nearly threw in the towel.

Louise Penny

The master! If you can believe it, I’d never heard of her until about two years ago, when my publisher handed me a copy of The Long Way Home. She raved about Louise, and since the protagonist was male (I tend to like females protagonists), I wasn’t sure I’d like it. Her wonderful writing immerses the reader immediately, but again, I wanted to quit writing after reading her. She’s too hard on my ego!

Dana Stabenow

There’s something mysterious and magical about Alaska. I was there on a cruise and fell in love with the majesty of the place. (That’s hardly worth mentioning, I know. Dana, don’t hurt me.) I could never live in Alaska, but I can experience it vicariously through Stabenow’s wonderful novels. I love it when an author can teach me something about a setting with which I’m unfamiliar.

I like Louise Penny, and I've been meaning to start the C.J. Box series.

Dick Francis
James Hadley Chase
John Grisham
Mary Higgins Clark
Arthur Hailey
Agatha Christie
Jeffrey Archer

Keep added more

Mark Edwards
Steven Konkoly
Manning Brothers
Patricia Gibney
Carol Wyer
Will Jordan
Tom Bale

Alistair MacLean
Hammond Innes

Micky Spillane
Erle Stanley Gardener (Perry Mason)
A.A.Fair (the pseudonym of Erle Stanley Gardener writing the Cool and Lam series)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Edgar Allan Poe
Wilkie Collins

Felix Francis (continuing the Dick Francis series after his father's death).
Carter Brown
Sue Grafton
Laura Lippman

I’ve appreciated the names others have shared and look forward to checking out any number that I haven’t yet read. Here are a few of my faves in the mystery/thriller genre that I haven’t seen
mentioned previously:

Tony Hillerman
Sara Paretsky
Jussi Adler Olsen
Arnaldur Indriason
C j Tudor
Peter Hoeg (Smilla’s Sense of Snow)
Caleb Carr
Colin Dexter
Peter May
Anne Holt
P D James

Len Deighton
John Le Carre
Ian Fleming
Jack Higgins
Fredrick Forsyth

Michael Crichton
Martin Cruz Smith
Ken Follett

Love Alistair Maclean

I've just started my first book by Dorothy L. Sayers and like it.

Some popular authors I didn't enjoy but others may :
Robert Ludlum
Sidney Sheldon
Ngaio Marsh
Robin Cook

Please keeping adding.

It hopefully helps our new members

Dennis Lehane,would like to read more of him.Mystic River was great.

Recently discovered G.G.Fickling. The Honey West series looks interesting.

Adrian McKinty I love his Sean Duffy series ❤😍📚

Thanks so much for everyones' recommendations, especially Barbara and Kirsten's.

I love Andrea Mara
Mark Edwards
Lisa Jewell
Preston & Child's Pendergast series
.........
Just to name a few. Going to check out Koontz soon, can you believe I haven't read anything from him!

I will try to add to the list with some authors who may not have been mentioned so far but whose stuff I have really enjoyed...

Reed Farrel Coleman
David Downing
John Gardner
Timothy Hallinan
Jane Harper
Robert Harris
John Hart
Joe Ide
Greg Iles
Stephen Mack Jones
Joseph Kanon
Philip Kerr
Joe R. Lansdale
Abir Mukherjee
T. Jefferson Parker
S.J. Rozan
Minette Walters

I am also one of those guys who hasn't sampled Dean Koontz yet. But the feedback from the group has piqued my curiosity. :-)

Jacks Mars

Kerry J Donovan

Matt Hilton

Karin Slaughter
Willow Rose
Dean Koontz
Ted Dekker
JA Konrath
Paige Dearth
Robert R McCammon
LA Dobbs
Blake Pierce
Blake Crouch
KL Slater
Britney King
Justin Cronin
Ditter Kellen
CM Sutter
Lee Child
David Baldacci
Patricia Cornwell
Daniel Silva
Richard Bachman

Sean wrote: "Jacks Mars

Kerry J Donovan

Matt Hilton"

Thanks Sean. I'm honoured! :)

No problem

I take cash......

Sean wrote: "No problem

I take cash......"

Chortle!

Sean wrote: "Love Alistair Maclean"

Me too.

Agatha Christie
Dorothy L Sayers
Ngaio Marsh
JD Robb
Clive Cussler
Len Deighton
BA Paris
Lisa Jewell
Peter Turnbull
Rhys Bowen

Lucy Foley
Sarah Pearse
Holly Jackson

Ruth Ware!
Gillian Flynn!
Anthony Ross Davies!
All superb thriller writers!
(Just joined by the way : )

Welcome Brie

A great book series.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

J.K. Rowling

My third reading of this book. Great fantasy book and stands the test of time.
5 star reading.

Please check my review here -
https://sanjibsblogreads.blogspot.com...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Awesome topic :-) A lot of authors here are new to me, and I'm looking forward to checking them out. Thanks for sharing :-)

Here are some of my favourite authors:

Golden-Age Mystery:

1) Agatha Christie
2) Georgette Heyer
3) Nagio Marsh
4) Dorothy L. Sayers
5) Erle Stanley Gardner

Cozy Mystery:

1) Jill Churchill
2) Kate Collins
3) Leslie Caine
4) Krista Davis
5) Carolyn G. Hart
6) Julie Hyzy
7) Jenn McKinlay
8) Joanne Pence
9) Denise Swanson

Contemporary Romantic Suspense:

1) Jami Alden
2) Toni Anderson
3) Allison Brennan
4) Kylie Brant
5) Sandra Brown
6) Lisa Childs
7) Diana Duncan
8) Lena Diaz
9) Cynthia Eden
10) Kendra Elliot
11) Tee O'Fallon
12) Adrienne Giordano
13) Kay Hooper
14) Linda Howard
15) Rita Herron
16) Alexandra Ivy
17) Julie James
18) Julie Anne Lindsey
19) Melinda Leigh
20) Judith McNaught
21) Karen Rose
22) Nora Roberts
23) Amanda Stevens
24) Norah Wilson
25) Rebecca Zanetti

Contemporary Mystery Thriller with Romantic Subplot:

1) Allison Brennan
2) Kendra Elliot
3) Melinda Leigh
4) Lisa Regan
5) Leslie Wolfe

Happy Reading :-)