If you like Mysteries...
| If you like strong female leads like SUE GRAFTON, SARA PARETSY and MARCIA MULLER, try: | ||
|---|---|---|
| Linda Barnes Nevada Barr Eleanor Taylor Bland Liza Cody Patricia Cornwell Janet Dawson Susan Dunlap Linda Fairstein Carolina Garcia-Aguilera Leslie Glass |
Linda Grant Karen Kijewski Laurie King Sarah Lovett Margaret Maron Lee Martin Lia Matera Carol O'Connell Lillian O'Donnell B. J. Oliphant Abigail Padgett |
Thomas Perry Sandra West Prowell S. J. Rozan Sandra Scoppettone Julie Smith Dana Stabenow Judith Van Gieson Mary Willis Walker Valerie Wilson Wesley Gloria White |
| If you like female leads in a lighter or more domestic vein, try: | ||
| Lydia Adamson Susan Wittig Albert K.K.(Katherine) Beck Carole Berry Lillian Jackson Braun Dorothy Cannell Meg Chittenden Jill Churchill Susan Conant Mary Daheim Diane Mott Davidson Dianne Day |
Jo Dereske Carole Nelson Douglas Janet Evanovich Anne George Jacqueline Girdner Jean Hager Charlaine Harris Caroline Hart Sparkle Hayter Sue Henry Joan Hess Wendy Hornsby |
J. A. Jance Virginia Lanier Charlotte Macleod Sharon McCrumb Marlys Millhiser Katherine Hall Page Nancy Pickard Gillian Roberts Lora Roberts Sarah Shankman Kathy Hogan Trocheck Valerie Wolzien |
| If you like the English police mysteries of MARTHA GRIMES or ELIZABETH GEORGE, try: | ||
| Catherine Aird W. J. Burly Deborah Crombie Clare Curzon Colin Dexter E. X. Ferrars Frances Fyfield |
Carolyn Graham Ann Granger John Harvey Reginald Hill Kay Mitchell Janet Neel Sheila Radley |
Ruth Rendell Peter Robinson Dorothy Simpson Susannah Stacey June Thompson Peter Turnbull Margaret Yorke |
| If you like the classic English mystery similar to AGATHA CHRISTIE and DOROTHY SAYERS, try: | ||
| Margery Allingham H.C. Bailey Anthony Berkeley Nicholas Blake Christianna Brand Leo Bruce V.C. Clinton-Baddley Sarah Caudwell |
John Dickson Carr Edmund Crispin Freeman Wills Croft R. Austin Freeman Cyril Hare Michael Innes Elizabeth Lemarchand Ngaio Marsh Phillip MacDonald |
Patricia Moyes John Rhode/Miles Burton Josephine Tey Henry Wade Patricia Wentworth Sara Woods |
| If you like REALLY FUNNY, try: | ||
| Robert Barnard Jill Churchill Janet Evanovich |
Carl Hiaasen Charlotte Macleod William Marshall |
Joyce Porter Donald Westlake R. D. Wingfield |
| If you like the standard private eye novel in the style of HAMMETT and CHANDLER, try: | ||
| Neil Albert Lawrence Block Robert Crais James Crumly Earl Emerson Loren Estleman Stephen Greenleaf Gar Anthony Haywood Jeremiah Healy |
Richard Hoyt Robert Irvine Dennis Lehane Michael Z. Lewin Arthur Lyons John D. MacDonald Ross MacDonald Walter Mosley |
Robert B. Parker Bill Pronzini Les Roberts Alan Russell James Sallis Walter Satterthwait Jonathan Valin Stephen Womack |
| If you like male leads of the amateur persuasion such as DICK FRANCIS, you might like: | ||
| Jeff Abbott Leo Axler Simon Brett Harlan Coben Elizabeth Daly William DeAndrea |
Michael Dibdin Aaron Elkins Kinky Friedman Jonathan Gash Parnell Hall David Handler |
Stuart Kaminsky Emma Lathen William Marshall A. J. Orde Justin Scott William Tapply |
| If you like the tough crime novels of JAMES LEE BURKE and ELMORE LEONARD, try: | ||
| Lawrence Block Frederic Brown James M. Cain Robert Campbell Robert Ferrigno Joe Gores |
James W. Hall Faye Kellerman Jonathan Kellerman Paul Levine Ed McBain Michael McGarrity |
Ridley Pearson Gary Phillips Ross Thomas Minette Walters Donald E. Westlake Randy Wayne White |
| If you like gritty (and often unpleasant) such as JAMES ELROY or JIM THOMPSON, try: | ||
| Thomas Adcock Jerome Doolittle David Goodis Thomas Harris |
David Lindsay John Sandford Steven Solomita Andrew Vachss |
David Wiltse Charles Willeford Cornell Woolrich |
| If you like lawyer books along the lines of SCOTT TUROW and JOHN GRISHAM, try: | ||
| Steve Martini |
Richard North Patterson |
Grif Stockley |
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