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Crime Writers

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    #62
    girl2
    Registered Users Posts: 654 ✭✭✭girl2


    I love Harlan Cobens stuff, anyone read anything of this?

    Also there's an Irish writer Alex Barclay who I thought was good.


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    #63
    smilerxxx
    Registered Users Posts: 472 ✭✭smilerxxx


    Just added john Connelly to my must read list. I have to recommend Mark Gimenez, I stumbled on one of his books and I loved it. I'm just waiting on the last one of his I haven't read to come back in at the library. The colour of law is the first one.
    He's a john grisham lawyer type but I prefer him.


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    #64
    DFD
    Registered Users Posts: 670 ✭✭✭DFD


    I love John Connolly, can't wait for his new book. Working my way through Michael Connolly in the meantime, Harry Bosch is brilliant.
    Karen Rose's books aren't bad.


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    #65
    vepyewwo
    Registered Users Posts: 255 ✭✭vepyewwo


    I would definitely recommend Jo Nesbo, a Norwegian author. He seems to always be compared with Stieg Larsson but he is a much better writer and his Harry Hole series are some of the best crime fiction books I've read for ages, real pages turners and an interesting central character.

    One of the books in the series- The Snowman- is being made into a film directed by Martin Scorsese.


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    #66
    fly_agaric
    Registered Users Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    Pantsface wrote: »
    Only recently introduced to this genre. Do you read any crime / thriller books? Having read books by the following: Val McDermid / Jo Nesbo / Michael Connelly / John Connelly etc. Am always suitably disturbed by their story - creeps me out

    What makes them write this stuff? Are they talented, or are they physcos?
    Pugins wrote:
    Don't like John Connolly at all.

    Of the list of writers have only read Connolly & Connelly. What John Connolly writes seems closer to fantasy-horror with crime/investigation backdrop - we have very ott serial killers, other crazy characters of all sorts and several supernatural elements not normally present in crime fiction afair.

    Maybe the question is more appropraite for that sort of thing than more realistic crime fiction without the elements in John Connolly books.


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    #67
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    AH -> Books discussion


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    #68
    DFX2011
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭DFX2011


    a must read for me is stuart macbride.. really addictive and dark humour..start off with cold granite and you will be hooked...

    stephen leather is another addictive author especially the dan shepherd series


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    #69
    Lector
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭Lector


    If you're talking about Irish crime writers who avoid Oirishness, then you have to include the likes of Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes and Stuart Neville. And for humour in your crime, Colin Bateman is pretty good, especially his No Alibi books


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