Other good authors.

[alisonsarah]

I enjoy the books by james patterson and Harlan coben and also John grisham those mentioned writers are very talented at their skill so is Ian! they know how to interweave words and how to make the story seem like a real situation.

[lee]

Try Graham Hurley's books set in portsmouth,very good

[BillH]

Well, I think all my favourite authors have been mentioned already, but have you tried Gerald Seymour ? I know they are not the same style but make excellent reading in the spy/terrorist genre.

[Wiganer]

Try Graham Hurley's books set in portsmouth,very good

Have just started reading "The Take" and its seems good, Michael Connolly is a recurring name and I have enjoyed the Harry Bosch adventures a lot, I do like a good US yarn and the similarities with Bosch and Rebus are there to be savoured, GM Ford is another American who had me turning the pages and going crinkly in an eventually lukewarm bath!

Will definitely check out the writers mentioned in this thread that are new on me.

[anne hargreaves]

Hi
Re your comments on Michael Connelly. I totally agree and at the moment I have started to read all his books in order.
Not all Harry Bosch but all equally good. Would recommend anyone wishing to complete their collections of favourite authors to try play.com as books are as little as £1.99 secondhand in good condition. I have completed a couple of collections and had excellent service.
Anne

[Quinny]

Stuart Macbride is the next up and coming author, his books are fantastic.

I've read all the Harry Bosch series and think the last few have been not up to scratch....although his other novels have been excellent.

Been reading Frost as well excellent reads.

[renbergs]

Being from Sweden I have to recommend a swedish writer: Henning Mankell. Read his book series about Kurt Wallander! But read them in chronological order. Wallander and Rebus have a lot in common, without getting too similar.

I also enjoy a lot of british writers and beside Rankin's Rebus I really like R.D. Wingfield's novels about Jack Frost. Pity he only wrote 6 of them. I like the TV series about Frost, but I think the book character is superior!

[george1953]

Coming from Nottingham I obviously like John Harvey but also, like others recommend Peter Robinson.No-one (I think) has suggested Mark Billingham.

[Thunder Badger]

Val McDermid is one of my fave authors and I also like the Jardine 'Oz Blackstone' novels, even tho' I don't rate him as high as M'sieur Rankin. What is it about Scots writers & crime?
Michael Connelly is also high on my list, but one author I can highly recommend is the American Robert B. Parker. His style of PI novels is similar to Raymond Chandler, so much so that Chandler's widow asked him to complete a unfinished novel of her husband's, 'Poodle Springs'.

[desconhecido]

There are many good recommendations already. Two American writers not mentioned are John Katzenbach and John Sandford.

Katzenbach doesn't have a recurring character and each of his novels is different in style and tone from the others. But, all his novels are very well written and the plots are uncommon. Some may find Katzenbach a touch dark. Four novels by Katzenbach that should satisfy the mystery/crime fiction fan: State of Mind, the Analyst, Madman's Tale, and the Wrong Man. Someone is neglecting his website as it doesn't seem to mention the most recent of his novels.

John Sandford (real name: John Camp), like Katzenbach and Michael Connelly (of the Harry Bosch novels) is a former journalist. He's most known for a series of about 20 novels with the recurring character Lucas Davenport, a character that should please any Rebus fan. His writing is very good, very wry.

I don't think anyone mentioned Minette Walters. I'm not sure I'm a fan, but her books deserve consideration.

Another American of note is Dennis Lehane. Particularly good are Mystic River and Shutter Island. Lehane also has a series of novels featuring a couple Boston detectives, but they are mostly too cute for my taste.