Who are some good suspense authors?

Answer 1

If you're talking about American writers i still admire the 18-19C authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving but what i like most is Edgar Allan Poe.
Today I'll go for John Grisham and Dan Brown.

Answer 2

The door to december by Dean Koontz. has some great suspense.A psychiatrist's daughter was kidnapped by her ex-husband years ago. When the daughter is finally found, the real fight begins. One by one the people who held her captive become mysteriously tortured and killed. Everyone is afraid the young girl will be next.

The mystery unravels as to what happened to the young girl while she was kidnapped. The young girl, Melanie, is unable to speak, but her mother soon learns that the young girl went through extreme torture as her father used her for a rat in his experiments.

Read both Odd thomas and Forever odd by Dean Thomas.These books are about Odd Thomas who see dead people and is compelled to solve crimes.

Also try Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum.Forget the movie.The book is the real article."The Bourne identity" is the story of a man without a past, rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by some fishermen. He is very ill, and his body has suffered the impact of many bullets. The man is taken by the fishermen to a doctor in a nearby island, who helps him to recover physically and mentally. Our protagonist doesn't remember who he is, but with the help of the doctor he finds some clues he doesn't like too much. He only knows for certain some things, for instance that his face has been altered by plastic surgery, that he knows a lot about firearms and that he carried on him a microfilm that contains the code to an account of four million dollars.

In the Swiss bank where the account is he also finds a name: Jason Bourne. But... is he Jason Bourne?. He cannot remember, and if it were for quite a few people, he won't. From the moment he leaves the island onwards, our man without a past will be followed, and attacked. He doesn't understand why, but he reacts in order to stay alive. Add to this already interesting mixture a woman he takes as a hostage, Marie, a number of assasins (including the most famous assassin in the world, Carlos), and the possibility that he is, as a matter of fact, also an assassin, and you will understand why this book is so good. The main character will be hunted all throughout the book not only by the "bad guys", but also by the "good" ones (mainly agents from the USA Government). You won't be able to stop reading this book, and you will find yourself asking aloud to nobody in particular "who on earth is this man?" and "what started this whole mess"?.
Warning:A character gets raped.

Answer 3

Patricia Cornwell
Tami Hoag

Answer 4

A lot of people like Mary Higgins Clark, Michael Crichton, Ian Fleming

Answer 5

Dan Brown is good. James Patterson is my favorite, although he write mysteries but they do have a twist ending, which is always a payoff. Michael Connelly is very readable too. And Thomas Harris (he writes the Hannibal Lecter books) is always a good read!

Answer 6

Dan Brown and James Patterson.

Answer 7

Hey Kevin, crash has asked for the author's name not the books'. anyway crash try Agatha Christie and Sidney Sheldon.

Answer 8

Links to Edgar Allan Poe's work.

http://www.poestories.com/links.php

Study Guides & Summaries of Edgar Allan Poe Stories.
The following brief summaries are designed to quickly give readers an idea of what each story is about. Find something of interest then take a trip into Poe's imagination...

Summaries are listed in alphabetical order, by story title:

http://www.poestories.com/summaries.php

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/poestories/

http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-caskamontillado/

Edgar Allan Poe Study Guides

Annabel Lee..
The Masque of the Red Death

The Black Cat
The Pit and the Pendulum

The Cask of Amontillado
The Premature Burial

The Conqueror Worm
The Raven

The Fall of the House of Usher
The Tell-Tale Heart

Ligeia
To Helen


http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/#PoeStudy

Literature Summaries by Edgar Allan Poe

http://litsum.com/author/edgar-allan-poe/

The Sesquicentennial of the
DEATH OF EDGAR ALLAN POE:

A Commemoration

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/poe/

The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

http://www.awerty.com/usher2.html

http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/usher/

http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-fallhouseusher/

The Fall of the House of Usher Summary

http://litsum.com/fall-of-the-house-of-usher/

CLASSICS:

•The Tell-tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
•The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
•The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
•The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe
•The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
•The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
•The Sphinx by Edgar Allan Poe
•The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe
•The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

http://www.twilightharbor.com/moonmistress/

Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, England.

Answer 9

JD ROBB AKA Nora Roberts

Answer 10

sidney sheldon

jack higgins

tom clancy

berlin manansala