
100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors
Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies
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- English
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100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors
Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies
About this book
Provide your mystery fans with background information on their favorite writers and series characters, and use this as a guide for adding contemporary titles to your collections. This book examines 100 of today's top mystery novels and mystery authors hailing from countries such as the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, South Africa, and Australia. Equally valuable to students writing research papers, readers craving new authors or more information about their favorite authors, and teachers seeking specific types of fiction to support curricula, 100 Most Popular Contemporary Mystery Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies provides revealing information about today's best mysteries and authors—without any "spoilers." Each of the accomplished writers included in this guide has established a broad audience and is recognized for work that is imaginative and innovative. The rising stars of 21st century mystery will also be included, as will authors who have won the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Susan Wittig Albert
- Donna Andrews
- Nancy Atherton
- Donald Bain
- Linda Barnes
- M. C. Beaton
- Cara Black
- Lawrence Block
- Giles Blunt
- Gail Bowen
- Rhys Bowen
- C. J. Box
- Rita Mae Brown
- Ken Bruen
- James Lee Burke
- Jan Burke
- Jim Butcher
- Laura Childs
- Ann Cleeves
- Max Allan Collins
- Susan Conant
- John Connolly
- Thomas H. Cook
- Patricia Cornwell
- Peter Corris
- Bill Crider
- Deborah Crombie
- Mary Daheim
- Barbara D'Amato
- Diane Mott Davidson
- Paul C. Doherty
- Tim Dorsey
- James D. Doss
- Carole Nelson Douglas
- Aaron Elkins
- James Ellroy
- Earl W. Emerson
- Loren D. Estleman
- Janet Evanovich
- Joanne Fluke
- G. M. Ford
- Earlene Fowler
- Margaret Frazer
- Frances Fyfield
- Elizabeth George
- Robert Goddard
- Ed Gorman
- Sue Grafton
- Sarah Graves
- Kerry Greenwood
- Robert O. Greer
- Martha Grimes
- Jane Haddam
- James W. Hall
- Parnell Hall
- Steve Hamilton
- Charlaine Harris
- Carolyn Hart
- John Harvey
- Joan Hess
- Reginald Hill
- Declan Hughes
- J. A. Jance
- Michael Jecks
- H.R.F. Keating
- Laurie R. King
- William Kent Krueger
- Joe R. Lansdale
- Donna Leon
- Jeff Lindsay
- Peter Lovesey
- Margaret Maron
- Steve Martini
- Archer Mayor
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Val McDermid
- Penny Mickelbury
- Marcia Muller
- Carol O'Connell
- Katherine Hall Page
- George Pelecanos
- Louise Penny
- Anne Perry
- Nancy Pickard
- Bill Pronzini
- Ian Rankin
- Peter Robinson
- David Rosenfelt
- C. J. Sansom
- Martin Cruz Smith
- Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Dana Stabenow
- James Swain
- Andrew Taylor
- Aimée and David Thurlo
- Peter Tremayne
- Elaine Viets
- Joseph Wambaugh
- Jacqueline Winspear
- Mark Richard Zubro
- Mystery & Detection
- Index