Who are 10 CURRENT great murder mystery authors?
November 24, 2009T M asked:
I’m trying to find murder mysteries that had real research put into them. I don’t want to read stuff that is so far from reality that I lose interest. I recently read The Voice of the Violin by Andrea Camilleri. This book is teeerrrriiibbblleee. Please tell me of some great and CURRENT murder mystery authors.
Thank you.
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Lois Duncan is amazing; I’ve read many of her books. I especially liked I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Third Eye, though Down a Dark Hall, Locked in Time, etc. were okay.
Her books use lots of imagery and the conclusions are based on fact/research (especially The Third Eye and Down a Dark Hall). They only bad thing about them is that because they are so grabbing and creepy, sometimes I found it hard to sleep at night, which is why I read each book in 1-3 days (never at night!
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I’ve stopped reading her books now just because 1) I’ve become absorbed in classics, 2) I know what to anticipate in her books: foreshadowing, goosebumps, a somewhat cliffhanger conclusion, and possibly a few nights with bad dreams.
But otherwise her books are incredible; give the first two I mentioned a try! The first is like a murder mystery and in the second, babies are mysteriously kidnapped and a psychic girl has to decide whether or not to help find them…(if she decides to use her psychic skills then she might be classified as a “weirdo” forever…)
I also LOVE the Sherlock Holmes series, even though they aren’t exactly modern mysteries. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle isn’t a current mystery author, but his stories are always based on fact and quick deductions made by Holmes.
Those books are great as well!
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Lee Child!
Gotta love em.