While the Mystery and Thriller genres have always been popular favorites, critical acclaim has, with a few notable exceptions largely eluded these authors. Mickey Spillane, author of the Mike Hammer Series, summarized the situation pretty well when he said, "I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends."
This is a large category, and I may try to divide it into separate "Mystery" and "Thriller" categories in the future, but since most mysteries are thrilling, and many thrillers are mysterious such a split would necessarily be somewhat arbitrary, and for now, at least they remain lumped together as Amazon has them.
- Albert, Susan Wittig
- Allingham, Margery
- Archer, Jeffrey
- Baldacci, David
- Bishop, Claudia
- Brown, Dan
- Burke, James Lee
- Chandler, Raymond
- Chesterton, G. K.
- Christie, Agatha
- Clancy, Tom
- Clark, Mary Higgins
- Coben, Harlan
- Connelly, Michael
- Cook, Robin
- Cornwell, Patricia
- Craig, Philip
- Crichton, Michael
- Davidson, Diane Mott
- Deaver, Jeffery
- Dickson, Carter
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Elroy, James
- Evanovich, Janet
- Fielding, Joy
- Follett, Ken
- Francis, Dick
- Gardner, Erle Stanley
- Gerritsen, Tess
- Glass, Leslie
- Grafton, Sue
- Griffin, W.E.B.
- Grisham, John
- Hager, Jean
- Harris, Charlaine
- Harris, Thomas
- Heyer, Georgette
- Highsmith, Patricia
- Hillerman, Tony
- Hunter, Fred
- Jacobs, Jonnie
- James, P.D.
- Jance, J.A.
- Kellerman, Faye
- King, Laurie R.
- King, Stephen
- Koontz, Dean
- Le Carre, John
- LeBlanc, Maurice
- LeHane, Dennis
- Leonard, Elmore
- Lescroart, John
- Ludlum, Robert
- MacDonald, John D.
- MacLean, Alistair
- MacLeod, Charlotte
- MacDonald, Ross
- Marsh, Ngaio
- McBain, Ed
- McCrumb, Sharyn
- McDermid, Val
- McDonald, Gregory
- Michaels, Barbara
- Morrell, David
- Mortimer, John
- Mosley, Walter
- Muller, Marcia
- Myers, Tamar
- Nixon, Joan Lowery
- O'Shaughnessy, Perri
- Page, Katherine Hall
- Paretsky, Sara
- Parker, Robert B.
- Patterson, James
- Pearson, Ridley
- Pendleton, Don
- Perez-Reverte, Arturo
- Perry, Anne
- Peters, Elizabeth
- Peters, Ellis
- Pronzini, Bill
- Queen, Ellery
- Rankin, Ian
- Rendell, Ruth
- Rinehart, Mary Roberts
- Ripley, Ann
- Robinson, Peter
- Rohmer, Sax
- Rucka, Greg
- Sanders, Lawrence
- Sandford, John
- Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Simenon, Georges
- Spillane, Mickey
- Stark, Richard
- Stine, R.L.
- Stout, Rex
- Truman, Margaret
- Turow, Scott
- Vachss, Andrew
- Walker, Robert W.
- Wallace, Edgar
- Wambaugh, Joseph
- Woods, Stuart
- Woolrich, Cornell
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