Recommendation for mystery writers

[meowmix at Vancouver]

I love Lee Child and Zoe Sharp, any similar writers out there I should read?

Thanks for your help and happy holidays

[Fire Tiger]

On Dec 21, 10:30 pm, meowmix at Vancouver wrote:
> I love Lee Child and Zoe Sharp, any similar
> writers out there I should read?

What sub-genre of mysteries do they write?

As for authors that mystery writers should read, I recommend the
classics. Learn from the best. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, Agatha
Christie, and Rex Stout. They weren't so successful by accident or
dumb luck. I have just recently finished reading all of them and am
now in pursuit of other great authors to read. So far I have had
little luck but the search continues.

Scott Jensen

[jimbairn]

Barry Eisler's JOHN RAIN books.

JimB

[ell...@webtv.net]

Withou a doubt, Ed McBain, a genius at keeping a (50 year) series fresh,
wtih each book an original, and many with multilayered and finely
entwined story lines. One of his later books, 'Romance,' is a tour de
force that interweaves reality and a Broadway ply so cunningly that you
are sometimes caught short thinking you're in "reality" or the plot of a
play.
Absolutely dazzling.

Ellen

[Fire Tiger]

On Dec 23, 9:45 pm, ell...@webtv.net wrote:

> Scott Jensen wrote:
> > As for authors that mystery writers should read, I recommend the
> > classics. Learn from the best. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, Agatha Christie,
> > and Rex Stout. They weren't so successful by accident or dumb luck. I
> > have just recently finished reading all of them and am now in pursuit of
> > other great authors to read. So far I have had little luck but the
> > search continues.
>

> Withou a doubt, Ed McBain, a genius at keeping a (50 year) series fresh,
> wtih each book an original, and many with multilayered  and finely
> entwined story lines.

Okay. I did an inter-library loan for the first in the 87th series
("Cop Hater") and I'll see how it goes. :-)

Scott Jensen