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I loved Precious Thing by Colette McBeth, I love the twists and turns of a good thriller and no love scenes!

Love reading thrillers. Something to get your teeth into. As to favourites, that changes regularly after reading another!!

I tend to prefer earlier crime thrillers. For my Scottish Sixth Year Studies English exam, I wrote a dissertation on the development of the detective story, starting with Wilkie Collins, Dorothy Sayers and Harry Kelmelman right up to novels of the seventies.

When my fellow students were analysing (and agonising over) melancholic poetry, I was having the time of my life in class, reading detective novels.

I love thrillers. I’m particularly fond of Jo Nesbo books like the Snowman

I absolutely love thrillers! My favourites thriller authors are James Patterson, Karin Slaughter and Stephen King.

I just love the thrill you get from reading the novels, being on the edge of my seat and getting completely immersed in the characters and stories.

Linda La Plante Although I must admit if I read something frightening it tends to prey on my mind.

I don't often read murder stories but I did enjoy The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. My reading tends to be more Maeve Binchy style.

I'm a Lynda La Plante reader. I find her books brilliant and enjoy every single page. ?

I'm currently reading Sleeping in the ground by Peter Robinson. I love reading and then watching the series on TV.

I have only just discovered the amazing author Val Mcdermid and what an impact she has made, opening up a new landscape of reading adventures for me. The challenge of trying to work out the nature and intention of the characters makes for a real page-turner experience. "Broken Ground" is the last book I read and the plot, linking events in the closing days of WWII over the years to the present day, with characters you could touch are proof of the
skilful storytelling genius, Val Mcdermid.

My favourite crime novel is anything by Val McDermid. I read crime and thrillers because it is a puzzle I can hopefully solve before the end. I do read all kinds from cosy mysteries to scary psychological thrillers.

Love thrillers set during the War. Also Dick Francis about the horse racing world. Also Wilbur Smith.

I like Lee Child's books but my favourite is Michael Connelly and Bosch which I have been reading for over 20 years.

I'm not sure whether I have a favourite book but I certainly have favourite authors. I have read most of Karin Slaughters books from the Grant County Series through to Will Trent & some stand alone ones, I have read all of Jo Nesbo books &I do enjoy the Jack Reacher series although I'm not sure if they are classed as Crime/Thriller. I read Amazon free books each month on the lookout for new authors in this genre. I love trying to work out 'who did it' & usually when you get down to the last 100 pages the pace picks up & I can't put a book down until I know the villian & how they did it.

My favourite crime writer has to be Agatha Christie, I have so many of hers I like but 'the mirror cracked' is one of my favs.

My favourite book is Past Caring by Robert Goddard. It is two stories in one book and both are gripping. It's one of those books you are desperate to know what happened and especially why. The characters are beautifully drawn and so very human. I have read it several times and is one of my go to holiday books. It still engrosses me every time.

I like any book by Chris Carter, he has a degree in psychiatry. A student at John Hopkins university, the youngest and by all accounts the cleverest that they have had. His thesis was made into a book, which students in this field are still taught from.
With a profile like this, he is all of the way there as a writer.
He has written about six or more books so far, each one is excellent, if like me your enjoy reading about how the phsyco serial killer mind works.. Of course there are a lot of other authors, who’s books I love reading , Including Karen Slaughter, Marc Billingham, Peter James, early James Patterson, ‘Along came a spider’, four blind mice, his books then were - off the wall- with characters totally bizarre, and unpredictable. I could go on all day about books I like , so I had better stop now.. But I am sure you have my genre.

love Agatha Raisin books although television version is rubbish - first description of Agatha is totally different from tall blonde on TV. Also like JDRobb's books Don't know what I would have done during this "lock down" without my books!

I have never read any Karen Slaughter books so this would be a good time to get into murder mysteries. They sound intriguing from start to finish.

It may be a rather niche area of crime but I have really enjoyed all the George Smiley books by John Le Carré. They are so well-written with developed characters populating a murky world.

Ann Cleeves - currently enjoying The Long Call as its set near where I live.

I am a huge fan of crime/thriller novels starting from reading Agatha Christie back in the day. Now love anything by Tess Gerritson or Ian Rankin or the like. One of my recent favourite reads was the Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. Very cleverly plotted and complex...

My all time favourite has to be Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn..the first time I picked it up I just couldn't put it down and I've re-read it several times since. I always enjoy a good thriller as it takes me away for a while from my oh-so-stressful role as a full time carer to my very disabled 80 year old brother into a different world, albeit a bit of a gruesome one sometimes!

Alex Gray with ‘Glasgow kiss’. Love reading about my city and its underbelly .....a side of my hometown that fortunately I don’t ever experience but I’m not so naive that I don’t know it exists!

I love a good thriller particularly psychological ones. There are so many great ones so its hard to choose a favourite. I love a lot already mentioned on the thread including Girl with the dragon tattoo, early James Patterson and Lee Child although I'm not so keen on some of the collaberations they do. Having read The Sentinal, Jack Reacher has definitely lost his punch. I'm ashamed to say I have not read any Karin Slaughter yet but she is definitely on my list.