Who are your favorite mystery/suspense/horror authors?


My favorites are:


Dean Koontz, John Saul, and Patricia Cornwell.

Who are your favorite mystery/suspense/horror authors?


My favorites are:


Dean Koontz, John Saul, and Patricia Cornwell.


My favorites are Dean Koontz, John Saul, and Patricia Cornwell.  :) ;)

My favorites are Dean Koontz, John Saul, and Patricia Cornwell.   :) ;)



wow...someone has great taste! ;) ;D

wow...someone has great taste! ;) ;D


What can I say - they're great writers!

I also like Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - they wrote the Relic series, but they also have a lot of other great books.  They're mysteries but always with a touch of the supernatural.  GREAT stuff - I highly reccommend them.

Hawk's Top 10 Favorite Authors Of the Genres:

10. Robert Goldsborough (continued 'Nero Wolfe' after Rex Stout died)
9. Clark Ashton Smith
8. Robert Bloch
7. Ellis Peters (The 'Brother Cadfael' series)
6. Thomas Harris
5. Dorothy Sayers (The 'Lord Peter Wimsey' series)
4. J. Ramsey Campbell
3. Jack L. Chalker (The 'G.O.D.' series)
2. H.P. Lovecraft
AND! Hawk's All-Time Fave:
1. Rex Stout

I too like Rex Stout Nero wolfe mysteries.
And Dick Francis--horse racing/wine country sort of mysteries solved stories.

Who are your favorite mystery/suspense/horror authors?


My favorites are:


Dean Koontz, John Saul, and Patricia Cornwell.



My favorites are Dean Koontz, John Saul, and Patricia Cornwell.   :) ;)


My favorites are Dean Koontz, John Saul and Patricia Cornwell. 

Is there an echo in here?  LOL!!

I also like Val McDermid.

My favorites are Dean Koontz, John Saul and Patricia Cornwell. 

Is there an echo in here?  LOL!!

I also like Val McDermid.




Hee!  ;D 

I've never read anything by Val McDermid - I'll have to check him/her out.

I too like Rex Stout Nero wolfe mysteries.
And Dick Francis--horse racing/wine country sort of mysteries solved stories.


Nero Wolfe is the man to beat!

I am currently collecting every NW book I can find.
Last count, between him & Robert Goldsborough- about 50.
Total in the series: About 80 to 85.

Never cared too much for Dick Francis, but that's OK.
I also like Ellis Peters, the late authoress who did the marvelous "Brother Cadfael" series.
Though there were only 21 books in the series, they are excellent Medieval Murder Mysteries.
(I also have the book that explains about the plants in Bro. Cadfael's garden...alll honest, real plants!)

I sometimes read Patricia Cornwall but easily bore with her characters. I prefer Kathy Riechs in the forensic arena.

Also love
Linda Fairstien
Jeffrey Deaver - the master of the twist.
Sue Grafton
Nikki French (excellent at suspense).
Lynda LaPlante
Tami Hoag


In repect to suspense/mystery books written by authors where the genre is not usually associated with them - I recommend Collen McCullough's On Off and Ben Eltons The First Casualty and Past Mortem - all really gripping mysteries.

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I too like Rex Stout Nero wolfe mysteries.
And Dick Francis--horse racing/wine country sort of mysteries solved stories.


I have always enjoyed a good Dick Francis too - great writer.

I sometimes read Patricia Cornwall but easily bore with her characters. I prefer Kathy Riechs in the forensic arena.

Also love
Linda Fairstien
Jeffrey Deaver - the master of the twist.
Sue Grafton
Nikki French (excellent at suspense).
Lynda LaPlante
Tami Hoag





I enjoy Jeffrey Deaver, the last one I read was The Empty Chair.
Sue Grafton is another favorite.

I also like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. 

When I have one of my mystery series complete, I plan to start on Dorothy Sayers's "Lord Peter Wimsey" series.

I enjoy Jeffrey Deaver, the last one I read was The Empty Chair.
Sue Grafton is another favorite.

I also like Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. 


Janet rings a bell - I am sure I have some of them.

Deaver-wise I just finished the awesome The Twelth Card - so many twists.

For period novels I like Ellis Peters, Margery Allingham (Campion Novels), Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh.

Colin Dexter is good and I love Kathy Reichs. Nicci French when good is brilliant but they can be a bit hit and miss. The books are actually written by a husband and wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. 

Nicci French when good is brilliant but they can be a bit hit and miss. The books are actually written by a husband and wife team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. 


Yes that has always fascinated me - writing partnerships can be fraught with trouble !

Have you read Land of the Living. I was particularly mesmerised by it and its whole "what if" factor that seeped into my brain. Its rare for me to let a book affect me that way.

Yes that has always fascinated me - writing partnerships can be fraught with trouble !

Have you read Land of the Living. I was particularly mesmerised by it and its whole "what if" factor that seeped into my brain. Its rare for me to let a book affect me that way.
No I haven't read that one, I've read  The Red Room, Beneath the Skin, The Memory Game and Killing Me Softly.

I have re-entered a phase where H.P. Lovecraft and other associated writers have dominated my reading again.

Authors of this genre include:

H.P. Lovecraft
August Derleth
Clark Ashton Smith
J. Ramsey Campbell
Robert Bloch
Frnak Belknap Long
Robert W. Chalmers

No I haven't read that one, I've read  The Red Room, Beneath the Skin, The Memory Game and Killing Me Softly.


I loved all of them. try Land of the Living. i would love to hear your opinion of it

I have to join the Dean Koontz appreciation society - he rocks.

I also like Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs and Jonathan Kellerman.

does Raymond Chandler count as mystery?  Can't get over my love affair for Phillip Marlowe