Crime/mystery fiction
This readers’ guide lists authors who commonly write crime and mystery fiction. Many more books with a crime/mystery theme can be discovered in the district libraries’ collections. We suggest:
- a browse of the fiction shelves looking for a green sticker or Sherlock Holmes hat sticker for mystery /crime stories or on the spine of the book.
- a search of the library catalogue. In "Advanced Search'; select 'subject' by clicking on the down arrow under 'keyword', then type in 'mystery.'
- searching for characters by name e.g. Adam Dalgliesh, Temperance Brennan, Miss Marple, Alex Cross, Eve Dallas, Dalziel and Pascoe, Kay Scarpetta etc
- searching on the 'Literature Resource Centre' and 'Books and Authors' database on the library website to discover more authors or title of interest. Both of these let you search by genre, also themes, time periods, etc.
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Detective/private investigator
- Aird, Catherine
- Brett, Simon
- Brookmyre, Christopher
- Chandler, Raymond
- Child, Lee
- Christie, Agatha
- Cross, Amanda
- Crais, Robert
- Crumley, James
- Ferrigno, Robert
- Friedman, Kinky
- Green, Christine
- Holt, Hazel
- Johnston, Paul
- Joseph, Alison
- Lehane, Dennis
- Lewis, Roy
- Moyes, Patricia
- Muller, Marcia
- Nadelson, Reggie
- Norman, Geoffrey
- Paretsky, Sara
- Pelecanos, George
- Radley, Sheila
- Rendell, Ruth
- Ross, Jonathan
- Simpson, Dorothy
- Staincliffe, Cath
- Womack, Steven
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Legal/financial
- Arnold, Catherine
- Dias, Dexter
- Fairstein, Linda A.
- Gardner, Erle Stanley
- Grisham, John
- Margolin, Phillip
- Martini, Steve
- Patterson, Richard North
- Woods, Sara
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Police work
- Adams, Jane
- Aird, Catherine
- Armstrong, David
- Ashford, Jeffrey
- Bannister, Jo
- Barnard, Robert
- Battison, Brian
- Beaton, M. C.
- Bolitho, Janie
- Burke, James Lee
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Butler, Gwendoline
- Cleeves, Ann
- Curzon, Clare
- Dexter, Colin
- Dibdin, Michael
- Eccles, Marjorie
- Fraser, Anthea
- Freeling, Nicolas
- George, Elizabeth
- Gosling, Paula
- Graham, Caroline
- Granger, Ann
- Grimes, Martha
- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia
- Hill, Reginald
- Hillerman, Tony
- Hunter, Alan
- Jardine, Quintin
- Jonathon Kellerman
- Kernick, Simon
- King, Laurie R.
- La Plante, Lynda
- Leon, Donna
- McBain, Ed
- McGown, Jill
- Maron, Margaret
- Marsh, Ngaio
- Masters, Priscilla
- Melville, James
- Melville, Jennie
- Moore, Harker
- Neel, Janet
- O’Connell, Carol
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Pearson, Ridley
- Penny, Louise
- Rankin, Ian
- Rendell, Ruth
- Robinson, Peter
- Ross, Jonathan
- Scholefield, Alan
- Simenon, Georges
- Staynes, Jill
- Thomson, June
- Todd, Charles
- Turnbull, Peter
- Wainwright, John
- Wood, Ted
- Wright, Eric
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Historical
- Chisholm, P. F.
- Clynes, Michael
- Cook, Judith
- Davis, Lindsey
- Doherty, Paul
- Gregory, Susanna
- Harrison, Ray
- Jecks, Michael
- Knight, Alanna
- Knight, Bernard
- Lake, Deryn
- Linscott, Gillian
- Pearce, Michael
- Perry, Anne
- Peters, Ellis
- Robb, Candace
- Saylor, Steven
- Sedley, Kate
- Todd, Marilyn
- Tremayne, Peter
- Wishart, David
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Humorous
- Babson, Marian
- Braun, Lilian Jackson
- Brett, Simon
- Edwards, Ruth Dudley
- Hiaasen, Carl
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Thomas, Paul
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General crime writers
- Black, Cara
- Brown, Sandra
- Clark, Mary Higgins
- Coben, Harlan
- Cole, Martina
- Cornwell, Patricia
- Deaver, Jeffery
- Edric, Robert
- Ferrars, Elizabeth
- French, Nicci
- Gerritsen, Tess
- Grafton, Sue
- Greeley, Andrew M.
- Greenwood, Kerry
- James, Bill
- James, P. D.
- King, Jonathon
- McDermid, Val
- Mankell, Henning
- Nadel, Barbara
- Parker, Robert B.
- Patterson, James
- Pennac, Daniel
- Pickard, Nancy
- Pilkington, John
- Quick, Amanda
- Reichs, Kathy
- Robb, J. D.
- Truman, Margaret
- Vine, Barbara
- Walters, Minette
- Westlake, Donald E.
- Yorke, Margaret
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