Who is your favorite author?

[Danna]

I have many "favorite" authors... depending on my moods>>>
Reginald Hill (Dalziel & Pascoe series), R. D. Wingfield (Inspector Frost), Ann Rule (true crime), Charlotte MacLeod, Anne George, Ruth Rendell... the list goes on and on.
Right now, though, I would have to say my current book is by my (current) favorite author... Jill McGown

 

[Blindsided]

Ludlum

 

[pontalba]

Henning Mankell, James Lee Burke, Sue Grafton, Mary Roberts Rinehart, some Agatha Christie, Some Anne Perry, the Russell/Holmes ones of Laurie R. King, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ellery Queen, and now I've discovered Elmore Leonard. I thought I didn't care for him, but when I found out he wrote 52 Pickup I decided I did like him after all.

Anyhow, that's all I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[Libra]

Ludlum

So I guess you have read Road to Gandolfo?:whistling:

 

[pontalba]

Can't believe I forgot Lawrence Block.

 

[-Carlos-]

Ernest Hemingway


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Truman Capote

John Steinbeck


Shirley Jackson

I also enjoy Marilynne Robinson and Kazuo Ishiguro among others.


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[pontalba]

im taking a poll and would like to ask who your faverite crime thrillers and mystery writers are!!

AB, they're asking about crime writers only.

 

[-Carlos-]

AB, they're asking about crime writers only.

:sad: I'm not into crime novels. :sad:

 

[Blindsided]

So I guess you have read Road to Gandolfo?:whistling:

What's your problem?

 

[Chasing_Strange]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, Thomas Harris, Tami Hoag, Charlaine Harris, and a little Mary Higgins Clark.

 

[Jeremy82]

Fav Author

I would have to say Micahel Lewis, ahead of Tom Clancy.

 

[nonfiction]

def Lee Child would be my fav

 

[Flossie]

PD James is my favorite mystery writer, but I also enjoy the stories that O.Henry wrote about criminals.

 

[mysteryworm777]

Wendy Corsi Staub. She writes psychological thrillers that make my blood go cold.

 

[Lucifer]

There are some whom I like but no one beats Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

[Caligrl1111]

Mystery Writers.. for me it's

James Patterson and or Lisa Gardner. Jessica Inclan has a series called Believe that IMO is more mystery than "Romance" and the bookstores try to put her books under that category.

 

[sunflower]

Katherine Mansfield and William Trevor

Katherine Mansfield and William Trevor are my favorite authors. I write short stories, so naturally I'm going to love great short story writers and these are two of the best.

 

[claudibee]

Barbara Vine and Robert Goddard, amongst others (and I still love Morse).

 

[Gabrielle Ray]

Too true. Katherine Mansfield's work is criminally over-looked these days, although Oxford Classics have a volume of her best out.

 

[Peder]

I can't help thinking of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight as a great single mystery by my favorite author, Vladimir Nabokov. No bodies, no weapons, no blood, just a great search for a mysteriously missing brother, wonderfully written.

Each is one-of-a-kind, both author and book.