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Any Patricia Cornwall Scarpetta book. Thriller/Crime on the whole, tense, gripping, unputdownable

As a family we have loved the thriller genre, one of my favourites is Clive Cuddler, I cannot put his books down! Wonderful escapes whisking me around the globe!

I love crime thrillers , my all time fav author has to be Val McDermid, who wrote the wire in the blood series which was also shown on TV with Robson Green. I like gritty thrillers, but they must be realistic, with good characters. I have recently got into Cara Hunter, have found all her books to be brilliant storylines. Throughout the first lockdown I read all f the Mo Hayder - Jack Caffrey series, quite chilling and got me hooked!

Anything by Ruth Rendall ! Great writer. Also Agatha Christie. Love to be kept on the edge of my seat. Trouble is I often can't wait to see what happens next so end up going to bed far too late.

I enjoy thrillers because they are exciting and absorbing. My favourites are the Inspector Brodie series by Kate Atkinson.

Thrillers and murder stories are definitely my genre of books! I have just finished reading The Catch by T M Logan which was excellent, but I do love Ian Rankin, Val Mcdermid and Nicci French to name a few! Would love to win this prize!

I enjoyed the Brodie Jackson series by Kate Atkinson. The characters and plot lines are a little more quirky than most thrillers/detective novels.

One of my favourites is The Stranger Beside Me about the serial killer Ted Bundy.I especially like true story thrillers.Some of them you couldnt make up.

I too enjoy a "series" like Sue Grafton - and also enjoy the Rebus series - but I like feeling I am in Edinburgh.

So many good authors around nowadays. I love a good crime thriller. I especially like some of the more traditional investigations where its all good old fashioned detective work. I'm Scottish and there are some fab authors whose stories are based round the areas in Scotland where I grew up. Just love reading about all my old familiar haunts. Just finished reading Val McDermids most recent, set in Fife.

I also like Linda La Plants stories there so gripping you can't put the book down till you've got to the end, we all need a bit of escapism and these are it.

My choice is Dead Water by Ann Cleeves. I like to try and work out the outcome before I read it.

Val McDarmid, Still Life. She's a brilliant writer.

Love a thriller. I have recently started reading novels by Jane Harper. - The Dry, The Lost Man, Force of Nature and The Survivors. They are set in Australia, have sympathetic characters, great storylines and brilliant surprise endings.

HI this does change from year to year but the latest I loved was The family upstairs, Lisa Jewell as it is a psychological thriller with multiple parallel story lines. I was gripped from start to finish and I loved how it ended with a few last minute twists to fulfil me.
I love having to guess to the very end and I love thrillers that are not predictable.

I love crime books! I recently read The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist which was really good!

A new favourite is Shari Lapena -her book The Coue Next Door is a real page turner , and a mention for a real classic - Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levington.

Couple Next Door !

Just couldn't choose between my two favourites Behind Closed Doors by B A Paris and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, I just love it when everything on the surface seems normal then things begin to unravel and the tensions rise and you can't predict the outcome.

My love of thrillers and especially murder stories started when I was in my early teens with Agatha Christie - my Mum had a large collection of them and I read them on the bus on the way to school. I have especially enjoyed over time Kate Atkinsons' books and Susan Hill's but a couple of years ago I went to a talk given by a panel of crime writers, including Val McDermid and Elly Griffiths both of whom I'm ashamed to say I hadn't read! I had the chance to speak to Elly after the talk and she singed one of her books for me. A little later a friend gave me a Val McDermid book and now I'm hooked! So my favourite just has to be the most recent one that has had me awake until the early hours reading it, so this has to the 'Wire in the Blood' - like I said I came to her rather late!!

Crime/Thriller is my favourite genre, I have read so many good ones over the years that it is difficult to choose one. However, I must admit that Jeffery Deaver's Broken Window stands out with the killer's sininster use of data mining (time to rip up those loyalty cards!).

Now I am going to go through all the other replies to get some recommendations.

Just finished No Time To Cry by James Oswald. This was selected for me by library staff as we have not been allowed in to choose our own books and this was a riveting read. I will be trying more of his books in the future

any by Dorothy koomson. I never work it out as the twist at the end is always so clever

Do love Karin Slaughter novels but also novels by Kathy Reichs.
Was given several of her books which aren’t my normal genre but are now “ can’t put them down” favourites

I absolutely love the Inspector Montalbano books by Andrea Camilleri. There are about 27 of them so if you enjoy the first, there are plenty to try. The Sicilian setting is mouthwatering as are his lunches! The characters become friends of the reader and the stories are very inventive and clever. There is enough humour without losing the whole idea of a detective story. Salvo Montalbano is flawed but ultimately his good sense of justice prevails.
I like reading thrillers because they challenge you as well as provide an entertaining read.