Ruth Rendell. Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; born 17 February 1930), is an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.[1] Rendell’s best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, is the hero of many popular police stories, some of them successfully adapted for TV.
But Rendell has also generated a separate brand of crime-fiction that explores deeply into the psychological background of criminals and their victims, many of them mentally afflicted or otherwise socially isolated. This theme is developed further in a third series of novels, written under her pseudonym Barbara Vine. Early life[edit] Rendell was born Ruth Barbara Grasemann in 1930, in South Woodford, London. Rendell met her husband, Don Rendell when she was working as a newswriter. Developing the thriller genre[edit] Jo Nesbø. Early life[edit] Nesbø was born in 1960 and grew up in Molde.
He graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics with a degree in Economics and Business Administration. Nesbø worked as a freelance journalist and a stockbroker before he began his writing career.[1] Career[edit] Nesbø is represented by the Salomonsson Agency. The Harry Hole series[edit] The series follows Harry Hole, a tough detective working for Crime Squad and later with the National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos) who struggles with alcoholism and works on solving crimes in authentic locations in Oslo and elsewhere, from Australia to the Congo Republic. The Doctor Proctor series[edit] Follows the story of Doctor Proctor, a crazy professor waiting for his big break, his next-door neighbor Lise and her peculiar friend Bulle.
Peter Steiner. Martin Cruz Smith. G. M. Malliet. Ian Rankin (Insp. Rebus) Larry Niven. John Scalzi. Charles Todd (Insp. Ian Rutledge) Martin Walker (Bruno, Chief of Police) Qiu Xiaolong (Insp. Chen) Christopher Moore (author) Christopher Moore (born January 1, 1957)[1] is an American writer of comic fantasy.
He was born in Toledo, Ohio.[1][2] He grew up in Mansfield, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University and Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. An only child, Moore learned to amuse himself with his imagination. He loved reading as a child, and his father brought him plenty of books back from the library every week. He started writing around the age of twelve, and realised that this was his talent by the time he was 16, and he began to consider making it his career.[3] According to his interview in the June 2007 issue of Writer's Digest, the film rights to Moore's first novel, Practical Demonkeeping (1992), were purchased by Disney even before the book had a publisher. As of June 2006, Moore has been living in San Francisco, after a few years on the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Larry McMurtry. Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas.[1] He is known for his 1975 novel Terms of Endearment, his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, a historical saga that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana, and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain.
Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries and both the films of Terms of Endearment and Brokeback Mountain won Academy Awards. Early life[edit] Henning Mankell. Life and career[edit] After living in Zambia and other African countries, Mankell was invited to become the artistic director of Teatro Avenida in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique.
He now spends at least half the year in Maputo working with the theatre and writing. Recently he built up his own publishing house (Leopard Förlag) in order to support young talents from Africa and Sweden. He is married to Eva Bergman, daughter of Ingmar Bergman. On 12 June 2008, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of St Andrews in Scotland.[2] Mankell was set to work on a screenplay for Sveriges Television about his father-in-law, the famous movie and theatre director Ingmar Bergman, during 2010, on a series produced in four one-hour episodes. In January 2014 Mankell told in public that he had been diagnosed with cancer.
Donna Leon (Commissario Brunetti) Martin Limon (Bascom & Sueno) Stieg Larsson. Erik Larson. Philip Kerr (Bernie Gunther) Steven Hunter (Bobby Lee Swagger) Tony Hillerman. W. E. B. Griffin. Elizabeth George (Inspect. Lynley) Alan Furst. Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch) Lee Child (Jack Reacher) Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe) James Lee Burke (Dave Robicheaux) Colin Dexter (Inspector Morse) Andrea Camilleri (Inspector Montalbano) Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs)