Mystery and suspense
No matter how you like your mystery - cosy, psychological, political, legel, hard-boiled, historical - we've got a book for you.
Cosy mystery
Ellery Adams
Margery Allingham
Donna Andrews
Alan Bradley
Lilian Jackson Braun
Simon Brett
Laura Childs
Agatha Christie
Cleo Coyle
Krista Davis
Marjorie Eccles
Elizabeth Ferrars
Joanne Fluke
Anthea Fraser
Sally Goldenbaum
Alexander McCall Smith
Ngaio Marsh
Katherine Hall Page
Elizabeth Peters
Betty Rowlands
Dorothy L. Sayers
Jacqueline Winspear
Detective mystery
Linwood Barclay
Lawrence Block
Raymond Chandler
Harlan Coben
Robert Crais
Simon Kernick
Elmore Leonard
Walter Mosley
Stuart Woods
Female sleuths
Fiona Davis
Janet Evanovich
Linda Fairstein
Tana French
Sue Grafton
Kerry Greenwood
Lynda La Plante
Sara Paretsky
Psychological suspense
S.J. Bolton
Sandra Brown
Mary Higgins Clark
A.J. Finn
Gillian Flynn
Nicci French
Sophie Hannah
Paula Hawkins
Tami Hoag
Alex Kava
Jonathan Kellerman
Dean Koontz
Dennis Lehane
Gabrielle Lord
Val McDermid
Emily Maguire
Police procedural
Michael Connelly
Jeffery Deaver
Elizabeth George
Reginald Hill
P.D. James
J.A. Jance
Faye Kellerman
Jonathan Kellerman
Camilla Lackberg
Peter Lovesey
Ed McBain
Ian Rankin
Ruth Rendell
Peter Robinson
Forensic
Simon Beckett
Beverly Connor
Patricia Cornwell
Kathryn Fox
Lisa Gardner
Tess Gerritsen
Iris Johansen
Bernard Knight
Kathy Reichs
Legal mystery
Marcia Clark
James Grippando
John Grisham
John Lescroart
Lisa Scottoline
Scott Turow
Spies and politics
Jeffrey Archer
David Baldacci
Michael Brissenden
Vince Flynn
Alan Furst
Andy McNab
Stella Rimington
Daniel Silva
Martin Cruz Smith
Popular horror
Ahlborn, Ania
Ajvide Lindqvist, John
Andrews, Virginia
Auerbach, Dathan
Campbell, Ramsey
Clark, Simon
Clegg, Bill
Cronin, Justin
Dobbs, Michael
Grant, Mira
Hill, Joe
Kafka, Franz
King, Stephen
Koontz, Dean
Malerman, Josh
Poe, Edgar Allan
Rayne, Sarah
Robertson, Craig
Rice, Anne
Stoker, Bram
Tremblay, Paul
VanderMeer, Jeff
Verner, Gerald
Australian authors
Mark Abernethy
Sarah Bailey
Sydney Bauer
Michael Brissenden
Jon Cleary
Peter Corris
Garry Disher
Michael Duffy
Candice Fox
Sulari Gentill
Kerry Greenwood
Chris Hammer
Jane Harper
Adrian McKinty
Barry Maitland
P.D. Martin
Emily Maguire
Caroline Overington
Michael Robotham
Historical mystery
Bernard Cornwell
Lindsey Davis
Paul Doherty
Umberto Eco
Michael Jecks
Michael Pearce
Anne Perry
Ellis Peters
C.J. Sansom
Simon Scarrow
Peter Tremayne
Sarah Waters