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I'm running out of books by my favorite authors. I need some suggestions. I enjoy reading the following:

Patricia Cornwell

James Patterson

Mary Higgins Clark

Iris Johansen

What's your favorite mystery author?

Try Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie books. She's a gorgeous lit-fic writer who's done a really beautifully-written series.

I also enjoyed Colin Cotterill's books featuring Dr. Siri Paiboun, the national coroner of Laos in 1975. Great humor and a totally unexpected protagonist. Dr. Siri is retired, in his 70s, and the new communist government appoints him to be national coroner, which would be fine if he had actually performed an autopsy since medical school and if he had equipment that wasn't meant for Soviet high school chem labs.

I might also suggest Nairobi Heat by Mukoma wa Ngugi. (The son of Ngugi wa Thiongo, if that rings a bell.)

I like Elizabeth George

Fay Kellerman)

PD James

I think Faye Kellerman fits more with what you've been reading than the other two. Although Elizabeth George is excellent. Just slow, British procedural. More of a classic mystery story.

I'd add:

Jeffrey Deaver (psychological thriller / forensics)

Greg Iles (thriller)

Dan Brown if you're still the one person on earth who hasn't read him

Scott Turow (legal)

Dennis Lehane

Oh - And if you like Patterson, you'd probably like John Sanford as well.

I want to be Jack Reacher. What a serious bad ass. Lee Child

Recommendation against (unless you deal VERY well with all of the triggers you will read...) anything by Harlan Coben.

They're great books, but very hard to read on certain topics.

If like Iris Johansen you might like Kathy Reichs and Jefferson Bass.

I've gotten into the Nordic authors since Steig Larsen and there's several goods ones of those. Camilla Lackberg and Jussi Adler Olson are a couple. My sister prefers Jo Nesbo, he's okay too.

If you like crime novels, I'd highly recommend the Nikki Heat series by Richard Castle. Yes, Richard Castle is a fictional author but whoever writes the books is very good. I have all of the series so far and have the latest on pre-order. What's interesting about the books is that they parallel the events in the Castle T.V. series so if you watch you can pick out the plot elements in the stories. They're not terribly long and the story moves along at a good pace; you're not bogged down by incidentals and a lot of backstory.

Steve Berry

James Rollins

And P.J. Tracy

Tami Hoag and Lisa Gardner

What's your favorite mystery author?

Long deceased, Agatha Christie!

I began collecting her books when I was 12 -- a long, long time ago, the earlier part of the second half of the 20th century.

I have original paperbacks from the 1930s that I found on holiday in a used book store in Asbury Park, NJ. When a new book was published, my H bought it for me. When Christie died, a couple of books she had written much earlier in her life were published posthumously. She killed off Hercule Poirot, her famous Belgian detective.

These days I read Berry, Coulter, Johansen, Gerritsen, Clark, Gardner et al.

But I am now into more espionage/spy thrillers by Silva and Thor.

Try Robert Parker he wrote the Spenser novels, sue grafton can be a good read. The tv show bones is based on someone's books can't remember her name. If you use your local library do what I have done just start in the mystery section and go through tha alphabet. I have found some fun mysteries that aren't real deep easy to read in times of stress and quite funny. One I can't remember the author has titles that have birds in them, her last name starts with an a, Andrews maybe but they can be hilarious. It is a series.

If you like Patricia Cornwell, you should try Kathy Reichs. The show BONES is based off her novels (although the books are much different, and far better in my opinion!). There are 18 books (so far!) all centered around the same character, Temperance Brennan, and they are all awesome! I have read every single one! Her writing is excellent, since in real life Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist...so her attention to detail, and ability to describe crime scenes and such is truly awesome.

Also the book INTENSITY by Dean Koontz was one of the scariest books I've ever read.

Harlan Coben!

David Baldalchi and John Sandford are two of my favorite authors.

I like the old ones.

Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe.

Ellery Queen

Richard and Frances Lockridge, all their series. Start with Mr. & Mrs. North.

Most of Lawrence Block's stuff is good. His "burglar" books are funny, and the Matt Scudder books are dark. Very dark.

More modern: Laurie King's Mary Russell books. Start with The Beekeeper's Apprentice.

I'll second the John Sandford recommendation, but be aware the violence can be blunt.

Modern and comedic: Donna Andrews' Meg Langslow series.

I've just started looking at J.A. Konrath's Jack (Jacqueline) Daniels series, starting with Whiskey Sour. It looks promising.

I thought I was responding to this but it ended up being a new thread somehow. So my list is a thread labelled Thriller/Mystery authors or something like that.

I thought I was responding to this but it ended up being a new thread somehow. So my list is a thread labelled Thriller/Mystery authors or something like that.