The Best Crime Authors in the World and Why They’re so Good
Natasha Orme on what makes a crime novel “unputtdownable” (or not!). I’m currently writing one myself, but with a seriously metaphysical twist (KRISHNA’S COUNSEL)…i call it “a novel of obsession and illumination”…been on quite a journey with this one already, and still working to make it as good as I can. All I can say is that while writing a crime novel is bloody hard work, its also a whole lot of fun! (Thanks for sharing, Chris Graham!)
Who would you say are the best crime authors of the day? If I asked you to write down 5 names, I think I could probably guess most of them:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
P.D. James
James Patterson
Patricia Cornwall
You might even have some other well-known names on there: Peter James, Erica Spindler, Mo Hayder, Lee Child, Stephen Leather, Ruth Rendell, Mark Billingham, Tess Gerritsen, Karin Slaughter, Martina Cole, Ian Rankin, Val McDermid. Seeing some familiar names there are you? If you don’t recognise at least half of those names, I suggest you take the time to Google them, and if you can only claim to have read maybe one of these authors then you should probably reconsider your reading pile.
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