2006-06-11 05:39:22 · 10 answers · asked by Amy 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The best authors,in my humble opinion are:
Agatha Christie
P.D. James
Ellery Queen
Elizabeth George
Raymond Chandler
A really good editor of thriller,mysteries is Alfred Hitchcock.
Edith Wharton wrote a book of ghost stories:The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Ambrose Bierce and Saki and Lafcadio Hearns are some aother authors that come to mind.
2006-06-11 08:10:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've really enjoyed the Steven Saylor books. I think the First one is called Roman's Blood - murder mystery in Ancient Rome. There's also the Ellis Peter Books. She wrote the Brother Cadfael series. Medieval monk solves murders in the midst of an English civil war. Very good. They're not thriller-type books, but they are certainly intriguing and a little different from your normal murder mystery books I think.
2006-06-11 06:35:04 · answer #2 · answered by Caritas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the recent past, the best thriller I've read was Hard Truth by Nevada Barr. Here's a brief synopsis:
Just three days after her wedding to Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves from Mississippi to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park, where three young girls have disappeared during a religious retreat. Two of the children emerge a month later, clad only in filthy underwear and claiming to remember nothing of the intervening weeks. The girls are traumatized but forge a bond with the pair of campers who discovered them - a wheelchair-bound paraplegic and her elderly aunt. With the reappearance of the children comes an odd and unsettling presence in the park, a sense of disembodied evil and unspeakable terror: small animals are mercilessly slaughtered and a sinister force seems to still control the girls. As Anna investigates, she finds herself caught up in the machinations of a paranoid religious sect determined to keep their secrets and the girls sequestered from law enforcement and psychiatric help.
It's one of the most chilling murder mysteries I've read anytime in the recent past. The climax literally had chills running over me. And it's nothing supernatural or anything like that. Give it a look, you will not be disappointed.
2006-06-11 05:49:41 · answer #3 · answered by Carlito Sway 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like to read true crime stories they are intriguing and more of a thrill because it really happened.Try the Scarborrow Rapist or The Girl in The Box, or read some of the ones that have been in the headlines like about Laci Peterson, The Menedez Brothers.
2006-06-11 05:45:17 · answer #4 · answered by ashlie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
2006-06-11 06:22:20 · answer #5 · answered by Lydia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My personal favourite is the Falco series (hence the name) by Lindsey Davis - crime and humour in ancient Rome.
Other than that, try Sparkle Hayter, James Patterson or Patricia Cornwell.
Happy sleuthing!
2006-06-11 05:48:12 · answer #6 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Preston and Childs, Matthew Reilly and Jack DuBrul.
2006-06-11 08:53:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know everyone talks about the DaVinci Code but it's prequel Angels and Demons is just as good and really should be read first.
2006-06-11 06:10:29 · answer #8 · answered by chiefsfan45 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with ashlie, I love true crime books. Try going to the library and going to the true crimes sections.
2006-06-11 05:48:06 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Stacy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
books by colin forbes-rhinoceros,the vorpal blade,this united state....
2006-06-11 06:58:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋