[Your Book Activity Today - Take 8!]

Am now reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (for January Reading Circle) and Halfhead by Stuart B Macbride.

 

Would love to know what you think of Halfdead as Stuart Macbride in his other guise is one of my favorite authors

[Black Authors]

Already mentioned previously but Walter Moseley is regarded as one of the very best crime writers in the world and worthy of a space in your black authors section.

[Recommendations based on various authors, please]

If your husband enjoyed the Robert Crais Cole and Pike novels there are a wealth of very good American detective series. as a couple of examples you could try Robert B Parker's Spenser series about a private detective set in Boston or Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series about a police detective set in LA.

Another thing to try is to select the author you like on the Fantastic Fiction website and at the bottom of the author page there is a box showing which authors other users of the site have visited.

[Need crime books for present...]

As previously recommended by Chrissy I would also heartily recommend JA or Jack Kerley. Also for a British author you could try Stuart MacBride.

[Recently published GOOD crime novels]

I enjoyed the books by a relatively new Irish author Declan Hughes

 

He writes about a private detective returned from the States and I can thoroughly recommend them if you like that kind of fiction.

[The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson]

Sorry guys it must be me as almost everyone seems to love these books but I found the first one so incredibly slow and gave up halfway through. I think a book half the size would have zipped along at a much better pace but that is just my opinion and I seem to be in the minority with this author.

[Who is your favorite detective/crime fighter?]

Spenser

Harry Bosch

Lucas Davenport

Dave Robicheaux

Burke

87th Precinct Squad

Rebus

Mike Hammer

Resnick

Cole and Pike

Cliff Hardy

Lomax and Biggs

[Hello from Bedfordshire]

Thanks to everyone for the kind words of welcome.

 

 

Hello Dave! There are a lot of us crime fiction fans out here so you'll be definitely getting some recommendations on here Which authors do you like?

 

Too many to mention them all but just a sample:

 

James Lee Burke

Robert B parker

Ken Bruen

John Sandford

Andrew Vachss

James Ellroy

JA Kerley

Marshall Karp

[Hello from Bedfordshire]

Hi everyone, have just discovered the forum and am looking forward to taking part in the various discussions. I am a crime fiction fan mainly, American crime fiction preferably, so am looking forward to finding new recommendations and ideas for reading in future.

[Ken Bruen]

I am a huge fan of Ken Bruen and have read everything he has written. I particularly enjoyed his Inspector Brant series starting with A White Arrest and also the 3 books he has written for Hard Case Crime with Jason Starr.