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hi.. I love reading crime fiction. Wonder if anybody out there does too? My favourites include Jo Nesbo, Patricia Cornwell, James Lee Burke and many more. Be good to learn about others that I haven't come across....
 
Michael Connelly.....The Harry Bosch books.
Not so much the Mickey Haller.

Quite liking Tess Gerritsen Tess too.
 
I've always enjoyed Lisa Gardner books.
 
I find I can never get into it, tried Cornwell and Bosch but within a couple of books I found myself thinking this story is the same as the last one and gave up.
 
Cg_Girl said:
Yup another Gerritsen fan here too
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To be honest I'm new to her. I only started reading her books when I realised Rizzoli & Isles were her characters.
 
viv1969 said:
To be honest I'm new to her. I only started reading her books when I realised Rizzoli & Isles were her characters.
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Ah yes I quite enjoyed watching those too, Id read her books first so got quite excited to see who they'd got to play the characters
 
Cg_Girl said:
Ah yes I quite enjoyed watching those too, Id read her books first so got quite excited to see who they'd got to play the characters
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Were they as you'd imagined?
I hope you weren't as disappointed as me when I saw that Cruise the dwarf was playing Jack Reacher!! :eek:
 
viv1969 said:
Were they as you'd imagined?
I hope you weren't as disappointed as me when I saw that Cruise the dwarf was playing Jack Reacher!! :eek:
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Yes they were pretty much, think the actors worked well together.... Jack reacher was a huge let down...why on earth get a short pretty boy to play him?!!

Gremlin said:
(y) He's got a new book in the series out in May, can't wait
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One author I never tire of reading :)
 
My wife really likes R J Ellory. On her recommendation I've read a couple of his crime novels and really enjoyed them.
 
Cg_Girl said:
Yes they were pretty much, think the actors worked well together.... Jack reacher was a huge let down...why on earth get a short pretty boy to play him?!!


One author I never tire of reading :)
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Adam Baldwin would have been my choice.
 
Have recently enjoyed.

Jussi Adler-Olson
Sheila Quigley
and am currently reading
Angela Marsons
 
viv1969 said:
Adam Baldwin would have been my choice.
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He was the first actor who came to mind when I read the books.
Crime writers I'd recommend - Jo Nesbo, Micheal Connolly, Ian Rankin and Stuart MacBride.
 
A couple that haven't been mentioned.

John Connolly: his Charlie Parker books are very good, they've got a bit of a supernatural vibe.

Stuart MacBride. His Logan Macrae books are superb, quite dark at times but with lots of black humour. He's my favourite crime writer at the moment. (On the other hand, his Ash Henderson stories are awful, IMO).

Elmore Leonard. He's written various books that have been turned into film scripts: Get Shorty, Jackie Brown, 3:10 to Yuma. His crime novels are great, his characters are always well observed and believable.
 
Ian Rankin, Michael Connolly, John Connolly, James Ellroy. All excellent.
 
I like Jeffrey Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme series and, slightly less, his Kathryn Dance series, the latter which I read because the characters cross over each others' series and I like that. It's nice reading all his books in order and following the characters' relationships and friendships.

His plot twists are great, although, after you've read four or five books, they start feeling a bit formulaic, but still good stories, I guess. I do dislike his annoying habit of contracting words in all his dialogues every single chance, but I suffer through them for the sake of the stories. :P
 
James Ellroy's trilogy beginning with 'American Tabloid' and flowed by 'Cold Six Thousand' and 'Bloods a Rover' is a masterpiece.

Anything by Scott Turow is excellent (Presumed Innocent), his courtroom based novels blow Grisham out of the water.

The Birmingham (UK) based writer RJ Ellory has written some superb American crime novels too, 'A quiet belief in angels' being the most well known but not his best, 'City of Lies' is very good.
 
Stuart Macbride

From his "About" page

Stuart MacBride was born in Dumbarton, but ran away to join the circus at the age of nine, where he specialised in wrestling bears for money (Going on to represent Great Britain at the Atlanta Olympics). In 1975 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his revolutionary work on Irn-Bru, then went on to create the world’s biggest ball of bellybutton lint. In 1989 he joined the secret intelligence service, but was later invalided out due to a back injury sustained while performing a reverse-overhead-piledriver on a grizzly bear. Now confined to his pyjamas, Stuart fritters away his time writing crime novels set in Aberdeen and lying to journalists.

*ahem*

Or at least, that’s the version of events I gave Trend Magazine. They published it too…
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Ian Rankin another good one along with Robert Crais and Michael Connolly already mentioned.
 
Cg_Girl said:
Yup another Gerritsen fan here too
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I am reading some of hers at the moment via our e-library here in Buckinghamshire. Like all crime fiction series a suspension of disbelief is necessary as too much happens to one or two characters over time! Enjoyable and entertaining (in a bloodthirsty way).

Anthony.
 
Overexposed said:
Peter James's Roy Grace series is well worth a read!
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a definite +1. I used to live in Lancing which is just the other side of Shoreham to Brighton, so know the area passably well (Brighton = aspects of misspent youth and all that).

Great that there is a new one out soon...

Anthony.
 
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Cg_Girl said:
Yes they were pretty much, think the actors worked well together.... Jack reacher was a huge let down...why on earth get a short pretty boy to play him?!!
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I believe Tom Cruise bought the film rights because he was so impressed by the books; but I agree with your sentiments entirely.

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For something a little different consider Boris Akunin's crime novels featuring his character 'Erast Fandorin'.

They're translated from Russian, the first one in the series is 'The Winter Queen' and all excellent 'Boy's Own' style novels, think Sherlock Holmes meets James Bond!
 
viv1969 said:
Yeah, he's pretty good isn't he?
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Titus Welliver plays Harry just as I envisioned him as a character, brilliant. One of the only series I have ever loved the whole performance, start to finish. In fact as a show there seems to be no weaknesses by any of the supporting roles either. Not much grabs me these days when it comes to police drama but this has. I do hope it continues! well worth the Prime fee just for this alone imho.


Sorry back to the printed word....(y)
 
C.J Samson and The Shardlake Series.

I used to like the Ed Mcbain 87th precinct series too, but I do prefer British crime fiction, such as Ian Rankin, Andrew Pepper, Peter Robinson to name but a few.
 
LASTOLITE said:
Titus Welliver plays Harry just as I envisioned him as a character, brilliant. One of the only series I have ever loved the whole performance, start to finish. In fact as a show there seems to be no weaknesses by any of the supporting roles either. Not much grabs me these days when it comes to police drama but this has. I do hope it continues! well worth the Prime fee just for this alone imho.


Sorry back to the printed word....(y)
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I wasn't completely convinced with Titus Welliver although I haven't read the books its just he seemed to walk as though he wore a girdle :)
 
As others.. Ian Rankin - Rebus is the man

Also

Ed McBain (Evan Hunter) and both his 87th Precinct Mysteries and his Matthew Hope series.

The 87th Precinct series was often cited as the foundation of the Hill Street Blues TV franchise.
 
Ian Rankin - good once he found his feet after the first few books.
Stuart MacBride - the Logan Macrae books are ridiculous, completely implausible, and I loved them!
Peter James - I got through one Roy Grace book, with a struggle, and gave up. Awful.
James Lee-Burke - Dave Robicheaux books. The later ones are a bit over the top, but I enjoy the Louisiana settings and the characters.
Mark Billingham - Tom Thorne novels. Good.
Stephen Leather - the early books are great, the 'Spider Shepherd ones aren't up to much, and the Jack Nightingale 'occult' stories are just silly.
Colin Dexter - Morse. The very best of all, as far as I'm concerned. The TV series was excellent too, unlike the 'Lewis' sequel.

All in my very humble opinion of course :D
 
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