What is your favorite mystery book author? I am looking for some new authors.
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1) Ellis Peters, real name Edith Pargeter. Especially her Cadfael novels, which are delightful tales of crime-solving monk set in the middle ages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Pargeter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Cadfael
2) Scott Turow. He's a practising lawyer who writes fantastic legal thrillers with a mystery element. The movie Presumed Innocent is from his book. To my mind he's like John Grisham, but way way better!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Turow
http://www.scottturow.com/
3) John Le Carre. Most of his novels are spy novels, but they're nothing like the James Bond style. They're all about uncovering secrets, finding out who the double agent is, uncovering how the spy ring operates etc. The author was in the British Secret Service, and this is probably as good a look into that world as you could get. He'a also written a couple of straight murder mysteries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9
http://www.johnlecarre.com/
Also I love the classic authors, like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. But I guess you know those already!
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They both have extended family/friends: he has his old friend and police photographer Simon and Simon's wife/Lynly's old girlfriend Deborah (and daughter of his manservant); Lynly's girlfriend Helen; his siblings and their families; and his mother. Barbara has only her mother, but then gets Pakistani neighbors in a man and his young daughter. They have problems of their own, too. Then there are the police commissioner and various other people at the yard, like ambitious Detective Winston N'kata.
Settings in the books take the reader from drawing rooms to surf shops in Cornwall to crime-ridden projects and youth clubs in London to country homes of the wealthy and poor alike, to country inns and gypsy camps; even inside homes of traditional Muslim and Indian families.
The books are very well-written; the plots, characters, settings, and details plausible. You won't find yourself cringing on these accounts--just from the crimes themselves.
It's best if you start at the begining with A Great Deliverance and work your way up to the latest, because of the character development:
The 15 books have now been made into a television show currently airing in the U.K. and sometimes on PBS in the U.S.
My newest favorite series is The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith. This series is set in modern South Africa, where protagonist Precious Ramotswe opens her own agency. It's full of the life and flavor of modern South Africa. There is a major mystery running through the book, while she solves many smaller mysteries and develops her own life. We also get her backstory in the first book. Really fun and not nearly as heavy as Elizabeth George's books. She kind of reminds me of some of John Grisham in his lighter moods and inclusion of local color. This is another one the BBC has picked up for development into a TV series.
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Just read his first three books!
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Harlan Coben (http://harlancoben.com). His Myron Bolitar books are really good reads. The main character is a sports agent who solves mysteries centered around his clients.
Robert Crais (http://robertcrais.com). Most (maybe all) of his books are about Elvis Cole, an LA private eye. Fairly violent, but very well written.
Mike Carey (http://mikecarey.net). Mainly known as a comic writer, he's written four novels (of which I have read the first two) starring Felix Castor. Castor is a world-weary guy with a talent for seeing and removing ghosts. The books are set in a modern London in which the dead have risen. These are very much hard-boiled noir detective books, with an overlay of supernatural fantasy. Great reads, and I can also recommend the audio versions.
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These are all great, thanks I will check them out!
I love historical mysteries. Ellis Peters is one of my favorites!