anyone recommend any murder or mystery books (fiction)?
no horror, no fantasy,
a bit of thriller is ok.
thnx
- yum.lollypop
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April 7th, 2009 at 12:07 am
Anything by Agatha Christie.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:40 am
i have good ones! there called Daddy’s Little Girl and All Around The Town by Mary Higgins Clark. they are really good!
April 10th, 2009 at 6:17 am
James Patterson is quite thrilling. Sadly, his books have become set in a pattern, but it’s a thrilling pattern. Worth reading. He has an Alex Cross series (Along Came a Spider) and Women’s Murder Club (1st to Die).
Any book by Mary Higgins Clark is good. My personal favorites by her are “No Place Like Home” “A Stranger is Watching” and “All Around the Town”.
Janet Evanovich is fun, sassy, and suspenseful. Her Stephanie Plum series begins with “One for the Money.”
Any author is a good pick.
April 11th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Definitely James Patterson’s books and also Tami Hoag’s thrillers. The Alibi Man is one of my favorites.
You should also try The Book of Joby by Mark Ferrari. It may look intimidating, but it is SO good!
April 11th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
anything by john grisham
April 12th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Charlaine Harris is good to try.
NOT the Sookie Stackhouse books but
murder mystery books she wrote before
the supernatural stuff.
The Lily Bard mysteries begins with
Shakespeare’s Landlord.
She has another series called the
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries starting with
Real Murders.
If you like a mystery with a little bit of a
twist try her Harper Collins books
- they begin with Grave Sight.
There are a couple of complete lists about her
if you look on amazon! Plus lots of other
recommendations in the same category.
Good Luck
April 13th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
One of the most creative mysteries that I have ever read is a French novel (translated into English, of course) called “Death from the Woods” by Brigitte Aubert. It’s about a paraplegic who is also blind and mute, and can only move her right pinky… and then children start telling her about murders in her neighborhood. It was fun!
Also… an older book called “Daddy” by Loup Durand about a child genius in WWII being hunted by the Nazis. That was a great book.
Enjoy!
April 16th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I agree with Loz. Agatha Christie’s mysteries are all great. I would recommend her play The Mousetrap and her novels like And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Moving Finger, Sleeping Murder, Murder on the Orient Express and others. Basically, I’ve enjoyed every novel of hers I’ve read.
I also really love Mary Higgins Clark’s novels like Where are the Children? and Loves Music, Loves to Dance and All Around the Town and others. I’ve never read one of her mysteries that I didn’t enjoy.
I would also recommend Catherine Coulter’s FBI mystery series which starts with The Cove. This story is about this idyllic, little town filled with charming and friendly people (mostly older) which is such a nice spot for a pleasant vacation…except for one tiny problem: tourists who visit seemingly disappear off the face of the earth.
I absolutely love all the romantic suspense novels of both Phyllis A. Whitney and Mary Stewart (and most of Victoria Holt’s - except for her very last one). They are really good and enjoyable stories. Some by Phyllis Whitney are Black Amber, The Ebony Swan, Sea Jade, Window on the Square; some by Mary Stewart are Nine Coaches Waiting, Airs Above the Ground, My Brother Michael, Touch Not the Cat.
Steve Martini writes really good courtroom drama mysteries like Undue Influence and The Judge.
If you like reading about the Medieval period, Ellis Peters wrote a really good Brother Cadfael mystery series with titles like A Morbid Taste for Bones, The Virgin in the Ice, A Bloody Field By Shrewsbury and The Pilgrim of Hate.
I also enjoy Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mystery stories like And Be A Villain, Assault on a Brownstone and Fer-De-Lance.
Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a great series of Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries like The Five Red Herrings, Murder Will Advertise, Gaudy Night and Strong Poison.
If you enjoy some thrillers, I’d recommend the very fast-paced thrillers by Vince Flynn (Term Limits) and Frank Peretti (The Oath).
If you like Jane Austen, I’d recommend Stephanie Barron’s Jane Austen mystery novels starting with Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor. They are very unique mysteries, written as though Jane Austen was writing in her diary (and they sound like Jane Austen). The stories themselves are really good, too.
If you want something very unique, I’d recommend The Thursday Next mystery series by Jasper Fforde starting with The Eyre Affair. Imagine a world with literary detectives, a villain that can kidnap fictional characters and bring them into the real world, and the ability to jump into various works of fiction.
There are many more I like, but hopefully this will help.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:37 am
I dont really like mystery novels, I dont usually enjoy them. But I really like Sandra Brown novels. Her books are easy reads and they are just a lot of fun. My favs are The Crush, Mirror Image, and Fat Tuesday. Ive read all her mystery novels and they all were pretty good.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:48 am
Try some Ruth Rendell, and for something older than that, Patricia Highsmith. They are the psychological thriller kind of stuff. I love them.
April 21st, 2009 at 10:15 pm
-Always Six O’Clock by Phoef Sutton! Awesome read. You won’t be disappointed!
-And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Well, really anything by Agatha Christie.
-Cradle and All by James Patterson
Well, probably anything by him too! EXCEPT, he writes in a series about a girl named Alex Cross. Be careful not to pick one of those up as you would probably be confused.
-Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult. A wonderful mystery.
-The Monopoly Factor by Robert L. Saunders
EDIT: Can’t believe I forgot this one!
-A Cry In The Night by Mary Higgins Clark
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:40 pm
well i really like the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore
umm… try H.I.V.E by Mark Walden
hope that helped
have fun reading
April 25th, 2009 at 9:38 am
Agatha Christie is good, but A C Doyle is even better. The Sherlock Holmes stories are free online, and can be described as “CSI: London 1890″
Jim,