My favorite mystery authors are:
Ruth Rendell - I want to read the rest of this series
The Vault (Chief Inspector Wexford Series #23)
Carolyn Hart
Death on Demand (Death on Demand Series #1)
P D James
Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh Series #1)
Agatha Christie (of course)
Sad Cypress (Hercule Poirot Series)
Laura Lippman
Clare O'Donohue
Double Cross (Someday Quilts Series #3)
Louise Penny
A Trick of the Light (Armand Gamache Series #7)
Erik Larson
Rebecca Cantrell
A Trace of Smoke (Hannah Vogel Series #1)
Julia Spencer Fleming
In the Bleak Midwinter (Clare Fergusson Series #1)
Beth Groundwater
Michael Palmer
Jo Nesbo
Lois Winston
Assault with a Deadly Glue Gun
Lorna Barrett
Murder Is Binding (Booktown Series #1)
Rosemary Harris
Pushing Up Daisies (Dirty Business Series #1)
Kristin Hannah
Mary Kennedy
Sara Waters
Carlos Ruiz Zafron
I'm going to start with the authors whom I read in my formative years(i.e. Junior High, between the ages of 12--14). Nancy Drew I read somewhat earlier, plus I also read Agatha Christie and Victoria Holt during this period. But my real fave was Rex Stout, his famously fat detective Nero Wolfe, and I was more than a bit in love withWolfe's awesome sidekick, Archie Goodwin.
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All of the Nero Wolfe books are great, but this is my most favorite, because it brings Nero out of the brownstone, in order to look at some Black Orchids(hence the title of the book). Of course, this being a typical Stout NW mystery, there's a murder right at the Flower Show, and Archie is actually the one who committed the murder(inadvertently of course). Nero solves the murder with his usual flair, and there's a great denounment in his fumigating room where Archie finally gets permission to get physical with Inspector Cramer!
Mystery (Alex Delaware Series #26)
I love this Alex Delaware series. I have read them all. I love the characters and the stories. He is one of my favorites.
I also love Faye's books. I have read all of this series too. I love the characters of Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus. They are very reliable and the mysteries are really good.
Flash and Bones (Temperance Brennan Series #14) I am reading this book now. I love the show Bones and I love these books. I like Temperance and I reallly like the murder cases she solves.
10th Anniversary (Women's Murder Club Series #10) I have read all of this series. I really like these women and I like the murder mysteries.
I am going to read this book. I have read all of this series. I really like Kinsey Milhone. She is a great character and I like the murder mysteries.
Relic (Special Agent Pendergast Series #1)
I have enjoyed the series put out by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Special Agent Pendergast).. It is a mystery that is also a little fantasy (though they usually tie it to something explainable (barely, and far stretch).. Agent Pendergast has a intriguing personal background that unravels a little in each book, and is a little fantasy too.. In fact I alway found the book a little dry the first few chapters until this charactor walks in then he lights up the book, and all the othe charactors that deal with him..
I was a little disappointed with the last I read, "fevor dreams", because it kind of made Pendergast and the mystery more realistic..
I enjoy mystery, a little fantasy, and history.. Especially either time travel fantasy, or mystery where it is a very cold case that forces figuring out the history of the time the crime was committed. But I do like other well written intriguing mysteries.
moose_tracker wrote:
Relic (Special Agent Pendergast Series #1)
I have enjoyed the series put out by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (Special Agent Pendergast).. It is a mystery that is also a little fantasy (though they usually tie it to something explainable (barely, and far stretch).. Agent Pendergast has a intriguing personal background that unravels a little in each book, and is a little fantasy too.. In fact I alway found the book a little dry the first few chapters until this charactor walks in then he lights up the book, and all the othe charactors that deal with him..
I was a little disappointed with the last I read, "fevor dreams", because it kind of made Pendergast and the mystery more realistic..
I enjoy mystery, a little fantasy, and history.. Especially either time travel fantasy, or mystery where it is a very cold case that forces figuring out the history of the time the crime was committed. But I do like other well written intriguing mysteries.
I read the first couple books in this series and really liked them. I have some of the more recent ones in my to-be-read pile.
maxcat wrote:
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce Series #1) I like the Alan Bradley Flavia De Luce series starting with Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. I was inspired when he visited the Mystery Forum not long ago and have asked my daughter for the rest of the series.
I think this series gets better and better. The most recent one is a great Christmas read!
becke_davis wrote:
maxcat wrote:The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce Series #1) I like the Alan Bradley Flavia De Luce series starting with Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. I was inspired when he visited the Mystery Forum not long ago and have asked my daughter for the rest of the series.
I think this series gets better and better. The most recent one is a great Christmas read!
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows (Flavia de Luce Series #4)
I agree, maxcat and becke. I really got a kick out of the first book, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, ( In fact, I've been re-reading it)and I was hooked on Flavia from then on. I've just started to read the latest in the series, I am Half-Sick of Shadows, and it looks to be Flavia at her best. Moose tracker, you don't have to read the books in sequence to enjoy them. Heaven knows, I've started lots of mystery series in the middle or even towards the end, but where ever you do start, when you finish reading all four books, it would be a good idea to go back and read them in order. You'll pick up a lot more tidbits and history about Flavia and her family if you do.
optic_i wrote:
becke_davis wrote:
Thanks to you all, I have a stack of Ann Granger books in my TBR pile. Maybe I'll have time to read them over the holidays.
I would love to read more Ann Granger books in e books for Nook, I hope she can send more across the pond !
Optic - Check out the Got Books? thread. When I finish reading books (new and used) I share a lot of them with you all. When I finish the Ann Granger books they'll go into future Got Books? shipments.
