Looking for new author recommendation

[Ranger17]

For those who read ebooks via a Kindle (or Kindle app) and enjoy action/thrillers, some good ones to check into:
LT Ryan
CG Cooper
Jason Kasper
Brian Shea
Among others who can write some seriously entertaining books and series that tend to be more available electronically over bound books in a library system. Though some may be in there depending on locations.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Greg Iles

Dick Francis/Felix Francis

Nelson Demille

Tony Hillerman/Anne Hillerman

 

[amazingflapjack]

a vote for robt. crais

 

[Doug627]

James Lee Burke.

 

[rkittine]

There are many authors that I have a full collection of all their books. Michael Connelly, WEB Griffen, Baldacci, Grisham, Silva, Ludlum (though not the new ones since he died) etc.

This is about 1/3 of the books I have in my house in Sag Harbor and there is an equal amount in my apartment in Manhattan. I read a lot.

 

[Old&Retired]

Try the Jake Grafton series by Stephen Coonts. Begins with "Flight of the Intruder"

 

[Texas Star]

Try the Jake Grafton series by Stephen Coonts. Begins with "Flight of the Intruder"

Oh, good call! And see the movie, too.

The author was a real Naval aviator who flew the plane his hero did.

 

[Texas Star]

There are many authors that I have a full collection of all their books. Michael Connelly, WEB Griffen, Baldacci, Grisham, Silva, Ludlum (though not the new ones since he died) etc.

This is about 1/3 of the books I have in my house in Sag Harbor and there is an equal amount in my apartment in Manhattan. I read a lot.

Good Lord! You have more books than I do! I've never met anyone else who has.

 

[Watchdog]

Joe R. Lansdale

I bought Mucho Mojo when it first came out. Then followed it up with The Two-Bear Mambo and Bad Chili. Then I went back and found the first one that featured Hap and Leonard...Savage Season.

Then for some reason, I drifted away from Lansdale. But coincidentally, the other night I was looking for something to read and pulled Mucho Mojo off the shelf. Read/finished it in two nights, enjoying it as much as I did the first time I read it.

I just looked at his website and discovered there are ten novels featuring Hap and Leonard, four novellas, and three short stories!!

So I might drift back to Lansdale and his East Texas style of mayhem.

 

[Watchdog]

L. A. Requiem is my favorite of Crais' books, as well as my favorite of the Cole series. Interestingly enough, it was also the first of Crais' books I read.

Now that I look back on it, I think L. A. Requiem was the first one by Crais that I read!

 

[mtgianni]

Raymond Chandler will set you back in dialogue but are great reads. One example I like is "That was rarer than a fat postman". You need to remember it was written when a postman grabbed a mail bag and walked all day long.

 

[turnerriver]

Tana French writes very suspenseful novels about Irish homicide detectives, secondary characters reappear in subsequent books as the primary detective. Very entertaining reading.
I used to read James Ellroy, I just read his latest, This Storm. He's not to everyone's taste but I like him.
Regards,
turnerriver

 

[S42N8]

James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet. The quintessential hard boiled L.A. crime fiction.
Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon series - Mossad, with art.
Bill Bryson's Notes From A Small Island...will educate, amuse and hook you on history. Subsequent books are different flavors, but will teach things!
Christopher Moore - absurdist fiction, and different from book to book. The Stupidest Angel is a good starter.
Nelson DeMille's John Corey series - police thrillers with snark
Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger series - military thrillers crossed with Fringe science
John Sandford's Prey series...and the Virgil Flowers spin-off series. Cop fiction with a serious side of characters.(Sorry... you read these!)
Elmore Leonard: if for nothing else, Raylan Givens.
Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island)

Of the above recommendations, James Lee Burke, hands down. A Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and Guggenheim Fellow. Serious chops, that.

 

[fordson]

If you like naval fiction, then the penultimate is the Patrick O'Brian series of 20 books starting with "Master and Commander". It'll take you awhile to get thru them, but you'll enjoy every minute of the read.
If 20 books are too long, then Alexander Fullerton's "Nicholas Everard" series of 9 books might work. It follows Sir Nicholas Everard from WWI Midshipmen to WWII Destroyer Flotilla Commander.
If nine books is still too much, then try John Biggins series of four books, "A Sailor of Austria". Set in WWI, it's the adventures (and misadventures) of Otto Prohaska as he becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire. It's quite entertaining.

 

[Rudi]

Nelson DeMille is another great writer.

 

[Kanewpadle]

William J Johnstone - Western and survivalist type books
Thomas A Watson - survivalist

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I will proffer one: Jack Higgins

 

[Jeff423]

If you like naval fiction, then the penultimate is the Patrick O'Brian series of 20 books starting with "Master and Commander". It'll take you awhile to get thru them, but you'll enjoy every minute of the read.
If 20 books are too long, then Alexander Fullerton's "Nicholas Everard" series of 9 books might work. It follows Sir Nicholas Everard from WWI Midshipmen to WWII Destroyer Flotilla Commander.
If nine books is still too much, then try John Biggins series of four books, "A Sailor of Austria". Set in WWI, it's the adventures (and misadventures) of Otto Prohaska as he becomes Official War Hero No. 27 of the Habsburg Empire. It's quite entertaining.

Thanks, I've read all 20 Of O'Brian's books as well as the Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell, but I need to check out Fullerton and Biggins.

 

[johngalt]

The Alex Cross series by James Patterson is excellent.

 

[doublesharp]

Bill Goodman writes a good book. I met Bill 20 years ago at National Gun Day. Sold him several high grade guns over the next 16 years and we became pals. He sells high end antique guns on the internet mostly and he also writes fiction. I've read both of his books and liked them, especially the first, Desert Sundays. If you should want to buy the paperback book, he sells them cheaper on his website and will sign them.

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Bill's website
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