Mystery/Thriller Authors
The "Reading/Listening/Watching" thread got me thinking about my current favorite Mystery/Thriller authors. Here's some of mine: James Lee Burke (Dave Robicheaux Novels) Lee Child (Jack Reacher...
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Orville Carver wrote:I have NOT seen the Spies of Warsaw on BBC. Didn't even know about it. I'll check it out for sure when I can get to on Netflix (doesn't seem to be up on the U.S. Netflix yet)....
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Thanks for the Thompson rec. I'll look into the first Inspector Vaarla novel, looks right up my alley!
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Finished reading the Bat and Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo. I was wondering if it is best to go on to Redbreast or skip around with the Harry Hole series?
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Hit the library today and picked up:All the Flowers are Dying - Lawrence BlockThe Gods of Guilt - Michael Connelly and36 Yalta Boulevard - Olen Steinhauer
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Hopefully I can get back to it before end of July.August 5 and haven't touched it since that last post...Watched Spies of Warsaw the past 2 nights. Very enjoyable. Thanks for the notice that it...
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Recent reads: Max and Angela trilogy by Ken Bruen and Jason Starr - Crass, over the top pulp from Hard Case Crime. Started out pretty good, but limped to the finish line at the end. Overall I'd give...
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Had a business trip last week, and as usual I read on the plane. So I got through:The Man Who Went up in Smoke by Sjowall and Wahloo - It was solid, but I guess I wasn't in the mood for a police...
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I blazed through the Scudder novels, Kyrilson. Uniformly excellent. Looking forward to seeing the film adaptation of A Walk Among the Tombstones soon. The Hole novels get MUCH better as the series...
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kyrilson wrote:Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn - Going against the grain here as it seems like a lot of people liked this book. I didn't. All of the characters were very unlikable, and the plot is very...
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Don't know if any of y'all read Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, but my story "Pill Bug" is the lead story in the March issue, which should be hitting your shelves or mailboxes in the next week or...
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Bump! Thanks, jhalbright, for providing the link to this thread. For those of you just tuning in, a discussion on a CoIC thread on Darwyn Cooke's Parker adaptations veered into a discussion of...
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HE's crime/JD books and novels are pretty good. Web of The City was entertaining, but I also suggest Memos From Purgatory, Gentleman Junkie and The Deadly Streets. I'd probably classify Spider Kiss in...
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A little farther afield from the noirish crime fiction, but has anyone read anything by Rex Miller? I'm intrigued by his work featuring Chaingang (I see that Centipede Press has re-released Slob, but...
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Perhaps only loosely related to the thriller genre, but so far I'm loving Max Barry's Lexicon and I imagine many board members would too.
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I just stumbled acrossStark House Noir Classics, a roman noir publisher of which I was not previously aware, and picked up its imprint of Gil Brewer's two-fer A Devil for O'Shaugnessy/The Three-Way...
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Bump from July. I recently watched the Justified TV series (see Watch TV thread for more info on that), so I decided to read the books from which the character Raylan Givens originated.Fire in the...
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bumping for self interest.... Had a flight to DC and back yesterday, so, as per my normal MO, I read a book. This time around, I chose Joe Lansdale's Hap and Leonard Two Bear Mambo, having read Bad...
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