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He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", [5] who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel" [1] and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. [4] His book The Last Good Kiss has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years." [6]
If you have a crime, a question, and someone looking for answers, then you've got a mystery. Our all-time favorites include whodunits, horror novels, police procedurals, and more.
Everett, whose acclaimed 2001 novel Erasure was turned into the Oscar-nominated 2023 film American Fiction, is a modern literary star and James is another lacerating, smart novel. (Mantle) (Mantle ...
The Hammett Prize is awarded annually by the International Association of Crime Writers, North American Branch (IACW/NA) to a Canadian or US citizen or permanent resident for a book in English in the field of crime writing. Established in 1991, [1] it is named after crime-writer Dashiell Hammett. [2]
This is a list of crime writers with a Wikipedia page. They may include the authors of any subgenre of crime fiction, including detective, mystery or hard-boiled.Some of these may overlap with the List of thriller authors.
USA TODAY’s Books Reporter read 50 books this year. Here are the stories that stuck with her the most in 2024, including "Intermezzo" and "James."
P.D. James and Peter Lovesey win a record three Silver Daggers. James also won the most Silver Daggers as the author who never won a Gold Dagger. Colin Dexter is the only writer to win both two Silver and two Gold Daggers. Ruth Rendell has won the Gold Dagger a record four times. She is also the only one to win the award under different names.
1. The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood. Genre: Science Fiction Books in series: Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, MaddAddam While Atwood is best known for her feminist masterpiece, The ...