|
This is a list of thriller or suspense novelists.
Note that some of these may overlap with authors of crime fiction or mystery fiction or spy fiction. Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ...
Mystery fiction is a distinct subgenre of detective fiction that entails the occurrence of an unknown event which requires the protagonist to make known (or solve). ...
The spy fiction genre (sometimes called political thriller) arose before the World War I, at about the same time that the first modern intelligence agencies were being formed. ...
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
B Desmond Bagley (1923-1983) was a UK journalist and novelist principally known for a series of best-selling thrillers. ...
David Baldacci David Baldacci is an American novelist. ...
Dale Brown is an author most famous for his military techno-thrillers. ...
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (August 26, 1875 - February 11, 1940), was a Scottish novelist and politician who served as Governor General of Canada. ...
C Brian Callison (b. ...
Victor Canning (born 1911) was a prolific British author of spy thrillers and adventure novels. ...
Lee Child (born 1954) is a British mystery writer who lives in the New York. ...
Tom Clancy Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. ...
Manning Coles is the pseudonym of two British writers, Adelaide Frances Oke Manning (1891-1959) and Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965), who wrote many spy thrillers from the early 40s through the early 60s. ...
Robin Cook, December 1997 The Right Honourable Robert Finlayson Cook usually called Robin Cook (February 28, 1946, Bellshill – August 6, 2005, Inverness), was a politician in the British Labour Party. ...
Stephen Coonts (born 1946) is an American thriller and suspense novelist. ...
Desmond Cory is a pseudonym used by British mystery and thriller writer Shaun Lloyd McCarthy between 1951 and 1991. ...
Linda Crockett- (born 1943) in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is an American author and teacher, best known for her horror, romance, and psychological thrillers. ...
Clive Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Alhambra, California) is an American adventure novelist. ...
D
E Janet Evanovich is an author born in South River, New Jersey. ...
F Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was an English author, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the childrens story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ...
Ken Follett (born June 5, 1949) is a British author of thrillers and historical novels. ...
Frederick Forsyth (born August 25, 1938) is a British author and occasional political commentator. ...
G This article concerns the British author of spy thrillers John Gardner. ...
Michael Francis Gilbert, born in 1912, is a British writer of both fictional mysteries and thrillers who writes as Michael Gilbert. ...
Sue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA) is a contemporary American author of detective novels. ...
Andrew M. Greeley (born February 5, 1928, in Oak Park, Illinois) is a Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, and prolific author. ...
W.E.B. Griffin (born William Edmund Butterworth III on November 10, 1929) is a writer of military and detective fiction with some thirty novels in five series published under that name. ...
Grishams 2005 Novel The Broker John Grisham (born February 8, 1955) is a retired attorney, American novelist and author best known for his works of modern legal drama. ...
H Donald Hamilton (born 1916) is a U.S. writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. ...
Disambiguation: for the music journalist please see John Harris (critic), and for the Cornish writer, John Harris (poet) John Harris (c. ...
Robert Harris is a British TV reporter and author, born in 1957 in the town of Nottingham. ...
Jack Higgins is the principal pseudonym of UK novelist Harry Patterson (b. ...
Raelynn Hillhouse Raelynn Hillhouse is an American novelist, expert on Central and Eastern Europe and former smuggler. ...
Stephen Hunter is an American author born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1946. ...
I Hammond Innes (July 15, 1914 – June 10, 1998) was an English author who wrote over thirty novels, as well as childrens and travel books. ...
J Geoffrey Jenkins (1920-2001) was a South African novelist born in Port Elizabeth where he wrote his first novel by the age of seventeen. ...
K Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945 in Everett, Pennsylvania) is a prolific and best-selling fiction author known primarily for his popular suspense novels. ...
Jack King is a pseudonym for a former top-secret government courier, who was privy to all the ins and outs of covert maneuvering on a global scale. ...
L John Lescroart is an American author best known for a series of legal and crime thrillers centering on the characters Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky. ...
Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was the author of 29 spy fiction novels. ...
Gavin Tudor Lyall (May 9, 1932 - January 18, 2003) was a British thriller writer. ...
Gayle Lynds is the author of Masquerade, Mosaic, and Mesmerized, and coauthor with Robert Ludlum. ...
M Alistair Stuart MacLean (April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987) was a Scottish novelist, writer of successful thrillers or adventures, the best known of which is perhaps The Guns of Navarone. ...
Brad Meltzer is an American author of several New York Times best-selling books including The Tenth Justice, The Millionaires, Dead Even, The First Counsel, and The Zero Game. ...
For the recipient of the Victoria Cross see James Munro (VC) James Munro was the pseudonym of a British writer named James William Mitchell (born 1926) who, in the late 1960s, wrote four superior spy thrillers under this byline. ...
Herman Cyril McNeile (1888 - 1937) was a British author, who published under the pseudonym Sapper. He was one of the most successful popular authors of the 1920s and 1930s; his principal character was Bulldog Drummond. ...
N Ingrid Noll is a German thriller writer. ...
O Manning OBrine, born 1915 is an Irish thriller writer and television screenplay writer. ...
P James Patterson is an award winning American author of hogwash. ...
did you mean Richard Patterson click here Richard North Patterson is an American author of fiction. ...
Ridley Pearson is a novelist, writing mostly suspense and thrillers. ...
Hayford Peirce (born January 7, 1942, Bangor, Maine) is an American writer of science fiction, mysteries, and spy thrillers. ...
Don Pendleton (December 12, 1927 - October 23, 1995) was a writer, best known for the creation of American hero Mack Bolan. ...
Q A. J. Quinnell is a pseudonymous author of thrillers. ...
R Matthew Reilly, born July 2nd, 1974 Sydney, is an Australian action thriller writer. ...
S Lawrence Sanders (March 15, 1920 – February 7, 1998) was an American novelist. ...
Although there are probably many men (maybe even women) with this name, here are a few individuals that are internationally known and could be confused with one another: John Loren Sandford (): well-known Christian author Official website Find his books on Amazon. ...
For the Canadian philosopher, see John Ralston Saul. ...
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. ...
Desmond Skirrow was a British advertising executive and writer of thrillers. ...
T Turow was featured on the cover of Time magazine in June 1990. ...
U
V
W Edgar Wallace pictured on a 1929 cover of Time Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. ...
Stephen M. White was a US Senator Stephen White is an author of the Barney Books Stephen White is the current cartoonist of UK comic character Winker Watson Stephen White is an author of thriller fiction Categories: Disambiguation ...
X
Y
Z
See also Thriller fiction, sometimes called suspense fiction, is a genre of literature that typically entails fast-paced plots, numerous action scenes, and limited character development. ...
The spy fiction genre (sometimes called political thriller) arose before the World War I, at about the same time that the first modern intelligence agencies were being formed. ...
List of crime writers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
This is a list of mystery writers: Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z —See also—External links A Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, (pseudonyms Carolyn Keene, Franklin W...
External Link |
Feeds |
Contact