What are some good crime novels?

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Permalink Reply by Gerald Harvey Peckinpah on May 24, 2009 at 8:33pm

I suggest you look into the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child, the Easy Rawlins saga by Walter Mosley,
Laura Lippman's earlier work, perhaps some Elmore Leoanrd after that, and then, if you can
jive w/ all that, I highly recommend you start to dig into the works of Richard Price,
George P. Pelecanos, & Dennis Lehane.

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Permalink Reply by SkaOreo on May 24, 2009 at 8:57pm

Thanks. I definitely will look into these films.

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Permalink Reply by Gerald Harvey Peckinpah on May 24, 2009 at 9:07pm

My utmost apologies. I misspelled one of the author's names.
It's Elmore Leonard, not Elmore Leoanrd...

Also, I forgot to mention one other writer which I think should fit your criterion.
George V. Higgins is that very author. Hope all that helps.

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Permalink Reply by Red Raven on May 24, 2009 at 9:01pm

Hey there,

I find books by Karin Slaughter and Patricia Cornwall to be quite interesting.

Not sure if this is of any use.

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Permalink Reply by Guy Behind The Guy (Age 86) on May 25, 2009 at 4:04pm

Being from the UK, I'd recomend three favs of mine right off the bat. Ian Rankin. Mark Billingham and Val Mc Dermid

I started off reading crime fiction by Ian Rankin's Rebus series and I can't say enough good things about Rankin or his grumpy creation of an old school cop.

Val Mc Dermid, is the female author behind the Wire In the Blood series, whose main character is criminal profiler Dr Tony Hill. If you don't mind the graphic scenes fof violence that these books tend to carry, then you might enjoy them.

Mark Billingham writes the DCI Tom Thorne novels. Similarties to Rebus have been made many a time, but the only diffrence here is that the books are set in London. Rebus is Edinburgh. And once you read a Thorne novel, you see that there is a diffrence.

American wise. Jeffery Deaver. Harlan Coben. Tess Gerritsen. James Patterson.But his most of his recent Alex Cross books are very stale, which is a shame as his early Cross books are a cracking read.

Hope that helps.

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Permalink Reply by Porter on May 26, 2009 at 6:55am

Homicide: A year on the killing streets - David Simon

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Permalink Reply by Gerald Harvey Peckinpah on May 26, 2009 at 8:59pm

Excellent suggestion. Although, that's a true-crime, journalistic narrative piece rather than a novel.
But, a superb literary work of the latter 20th century, nonetheless...

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Permalink Reply by wormer on June 7, 2009 at 9:19am

My one and only Number One crime novels are the series about Sherlock Holmes. The second place for me are series of books about Amelia Sachs, and Lincoln Rhyme by Jeffery Deaver(the first book of the series "The Bone Collector" was adaptated into a movie of the same name, starring Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington). And also "Ten little indians" by Agatha Christie is very good.

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