The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

Hi, I'm Anthony, I live in the (not so) sunny UK and I love thrillers!

Initially, as a child, I got drawn in by Ian Fleming then Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz, Dan Simmons and many many more authors started to fire up my imagination....

But then, the pot just seemed to dry up... All the action-adventure thriller books became either medieval/religious Dan Brown clones or SAS/War-hero clones or Fleming (Bond) clones...

So, with nothing to read, I had a crack at writing my own and fifteen years later it's done and I'm still looking for something to fill the gap in my reading portfolio that Crichton has left behind...

I'd be really grateful for any recommendations?? Who else should I try?! Cheers AB

Hi Anthony. I tend to the cozies, so I'll leave the recommending to the other members of the group. Welcome and best of luck with your book. (Love Andrea Camilleri, however. They have been translated into English, so you might give them a try.)

Thanks for the welcome, Hayes... Lots of similarities on our book lists and if you like "cozies" then I think you'll enjoy Odd Thomas when you get to it. I also just posted a review of Savage Run by C.J.Box - his Joe Pickett murder-mysteries are great fun... Am off now to check out Andrea Camilleri...! Cheers.

You might try matthew rielly and James Rollins. You might like Steven James particulalry the "Patrick Bowers files" The Pawn,The Rook,The Knight,The Bishop,The Queen: A Patrick Bowers Thriller. All of these are availible on Kindle or paperback.

For something that may be a bit different, there is the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike books by Robert Crais and the Jack Reacher stories by Lee Childstarting with Killing Floor.

Welcome Anthony. You'll get lots of good recommendations here so hang on to you TBR list.

While not exactly a thriller I've been enjoying the John Russel series by David Downing set in Berlin at the start of WW II.

Thanks Hugh. Thanks Donna. :) I really appreciate the pointers. Hmmm... James Rollins...? Now then, that Sigma Series looks intriguing!

It starts with Sandstorm. They are best when read in order.

:) Thanks Hugh... On my to-read's...

Heres a good one The Snowman

Your welcome... and it's availible on Kindle! Over here anyway.

do read The Snowman. It gave me the chills, and it's not easy for me. Or, "Three Seconds", this one gripped me from the beginning and never let go.

Thanks Carmen and ???!!!, my 'better half' has been on at me to try Jo Nesbo too... but I still feel like I'm missing something to fill the Crichton gap in my reading portfolio... Someone who can forge stand-alone, subject based, engaging thrillers. (Ian M. Banks does it for Sci-fi, I've got loads of different crime fiction characters to dip into when I feel the whodunnit need (Rebus, Pickett, et al), various novelists deliver this in a 'general fiction' / non-thriller sense (e.g. The Curious Incident, The Book Thief, etc), Dean Koontz is a bit hit and miss (so I've kind of gone off him a bit), Dan Brown had a great idea but I felt the delivery was weak (Angels & Demons and then the immortally flawed Da Vinci Code) and then he just went into regurgitate mode... maybe I'm just barking... but every time I see a series I'm not excited that the writer will really do the business for me...) :) I'm really grateful for the suggestions though! Thank-you!