Mystery International

If you’ve seen the movies Gone, Baby Gone, Shutter Island, or Mystic River you’ve experienced the work of one of the most promising mystery/thriller novelists emerging on the scene today: Dennis Lehane. He is in fact the author of ten novels:

• Moonlight Mile
• A Drink Before the War
• Darkness, Take My Hand
• The Given Day: A Novel
• Prayers for Rain
• Gone, Baby, Gone
• Sacred: A Novel
• Boston Noir
• Mystic River
• Shutter Island

Lehane has also authored a collection of short stories published as Coronado Stories (P.S.) which are said to be (more…)

If you’re looking for a concise list of what some consider to be the “best” crime novels of all time, then look no further. Crime Writers’ Association (a membership of over 450 authors of published crime novels) compiled just such a list back in 1990, and while it may not be as current as some would like, following are the top 25 of the association’s top 100 listing. It’s fun to see where you stand in your reading and where you might need to fill a few gaps! Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time (1951) Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (1939) John le Carr: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963) Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night (1935) Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca (1938) Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely (1940) (more…)