James Patterson et al

I love the David Baldacci books Wyllow.
I used to like Lee Childs Jack Reacher books but like James Patterson I think his earlier books were better before he too started co-writing.
I also enjoy Karen Rose, Karin Slaughter and Lynda La Plante.

Those last 3 writers - I haven't tried the first two, on the list.

Baldacci "writes women" very well, I find.

I first bought a JP book @20yrs ago and loved it. Swiftly purchased and read more JP books. Ended up with nearly every book! Loved The Women’s Murder Club and the Private series. The Alex Cross books were my favourite. Have now donated most of the JP books to the local charity shop.

I did too, to the local volunteer run library where they were glad to have them, as they were in good condition. Becuase for me they weren't really "Read again" books. I gave them quite a lot, as I had a had a thriller reading period but found some too dark:
I kept the David Baldacci and the Lee Child's (Reacher).

what else were "keepers?" Well, the Ladies no 1 Detective Agency, and a writer I think is one of the best detective crime thrillers, which is the Louse Penny series, " 3 Pines".

I'm a huge fan of the Alex Cross books. Also love Lee Child's Reacher books. Other authors I like include Jeffrey Deaver and Chris Carter. I've also read some David Baldacci books which I also enjoyed

I also liked Louise Penny's Gamache books. And while we're on the subject of collaborations, I enjoyed her collaboration with Hillary Clinton.

Susan56 I used to love Karin Slaughter's books as well but I read one of her more recent ones and it was vile. Certainly put me off reading any more of her books. I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination but this book relied on sexual and incest themes. The story veered from one set of disturbed individuals to another, not enjoyable at all.

Discovered by chance ‘The Puppet Show’ by M W Craven. It has won a major book award and had so many 5 star ratings on Amazon I thought I would try it. I can’t put it down. Rather grizzly at the beginning but after that it has kept me loving the diverse characters and very clever storyline.

I definitely haven’t read that one sodapop and don’t want to.It sounds absolutely horrendous.

That’s the latest Slaughter book I think sodapop. I read to the end but reluctantly. I hoped it might redeem itself, it didn’t, I found it unnecessarily distasteful

NanKate

Discovered by chance ‘The Puppet Show’ by M W Craven. It has won a major book award and had so many 5 star ratings on Amazon I thought I would try it. I can’t put it down. Rather grizzly at the beginning but after that it has kept me loving the diverse characters and very clever storyline.

M W Craven's books are great, especially the Washington Poe series.

I love the Washington Poe series as well ViceVersa although the last one was a bit different.

The early ones are quite good, the later ones, not so.