If You Like... Mysteries

If you like strong female leads a la SUE GRAFTON, SARA PARETSY and MARCIA MULLER, try:
Linda Barnes Nevada Barr Eleanor Taylor Bland Liza Cody Patricia Cornwell Janet Dawson Susan Dunlap Linda Fairstein Carolina Garcia-Aguilera Leslie Glass	Linda Grant Karen Kijewski Laurie King Sarah Lovett Margaret Maron Lee Martin Lia Matera Carol O'Connell Lillian O'Donnell B. J. Oliphant Abigail Padgett	Thomas Perry Sandra West Prowell S. J. Rozan Sandra Scoppettone Julie Smith Dana Stabenow Judith Van Gieson Mary Willis Walker Valerie Wilson Wesley Gloria White
If you like female leads in a lighter or more domestic vein, try:
Lydia Adamson Susan Wittig Albert K.K.(Katherine) Beck Carole Berry Lillian Jackson Braun Dorothy Cannell Meg Chittenden Jill Churchill Susan Conant Mary Daheim Diane Mott Davidson Dianne Day	Jo Dereske Carole Nelson Douglas Janet Evanovich Anne George Jacqueline Girdner Jean Hager Charlaine Harris Caroline Hart Sparkle Hayter Sue Henry Joan Hess Wendy Hornsby	J. A. Jance Virginia Lanier Charlotte Macleod Sharon McCrumb Marlys Millhiser Katherine Hall Page Nancy Pickard Gillian Roberts Lora Roberts Sarah Shankman Kathy Hogan Trocheck Valerie Wolzien
If you like the English police mysteries of MARTHA GRIMES or ELIZABETH GEORGE, try:
Catherine Aird W. J. Burly Deborah Crombie Clare Curzon Colin Dexter E. X. Ferrars Frances Fyfield	Carolyn Graham Ann Granger John Harvey Reginald Hill Kay Mitchell Janet Neel Sheila Radley	Ruth Rendell Peter Robinson Dorothy Simpson Susannah Stacey June Thompson Peter Turnbull Margaret Yorke
If you like the classic English mystery similar to AGATHA CHRISTIE and DOROTHY SAYERS, try:
Margery Allingham H.C. Bailey Anthony Berkeley Nicholas Blake Christianna Brand Leo Bruce V.C. Clinton-Baddley Sarah Caudwell	John Dickson Carr Edmund Crispin Freeman Wills Croft R. Austin Freeman Cyril Hare Michael Innes Elizabeth Lemarchand Ngaio Marsh Phillip MacDonald	Patricia Moyes Anne Morice John Rhode/Miles Burton Josephine Tey Henry Wade Patricia Wentworth Sara Woods
If you like REALLY FUNNY, try:
Robert Barnard Jill Churchill Janet Evanovich	Carl Hiaasen Charlotte Macleod William Marshall	Joyce Porter Donald Westlake R. D. Wingfield
If you like the standard private eye novel in the style of HAMMETT and CHANDLER, try:
Neil Albert Lawrence Block Robert Crais James Crumly Earl Emerson Loren Estleman Stephen Greenleaf Gar Anthony Haywood Jeremiah Healy	Richard Hoyt Robert Irvine Dennis Lehane Michael Z. Lewin Arthur Lyons John D. MacDonald Ross MacDonald Walter Mosley	Robert B. Parker Bill Pronzini Les Roberts Alan Russell James Sallis Walter Satterthwait Jonathan Valin Stephen Womack
If you like male leads of the amateur persuasion such as DICK FRANCIS, you might like:
Jeff Abbott Leo Axler Simon Brett Harlan Coben Elizabeth Daly William DeAndrea	Michael Dibdin Aaron Elkins Kinky Friedman Jonathan Gash Parnell Hall David Handler	Stuart Kaminsky Emma Lathen William Marshall A. J. Orde Justin Scott William Tapply
If you like the tough crime novels of JAMES LEE BURKE and ELMORE LEONARD, try:
Lawrence Block Frederic Brown James M. Cain Robert Campbell Robert Ferrigno Joe Gores	James W. Hall Faye Kellerman Jonathan Kellerman Paul Levine Ed McBain Michael McGarrity	Ridley Pearson Gary Phillips Ross Thomas Minette Walters Donald E. Westlake Randy Wayne White
If you like gritty (and often unpleasant) such as JAMES ELROY or JIM THOMPSON, try:
Thomas Adcock Jerome Doolittle David Goodis Thomas Harris	David Lindsay John Sandford Steven Solomita Andrew Vachss	David Wiltse Charles Willeford Cornell Woolrich
If you like big lawyer books (BLBs)** along the lines of SCOTT TUROW and JOHN GRISHAM, try:
Steve Martini	Richard North Patterson	Grif Stockley
REALLY GOOD WRITERS that we feel have been undeservedly neglected in recent years:
Anthony Berkeley Nicholas Blake Christianna Brand Fredric Brown	Howard Browne Michael Gilbert Margaret Millar Phillip MacDonald	Joyce Porter Ross Thomas Rex Stout Colin Wilson

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If You Like... Mysteries