I need a new favorite author

[debilorrah]

David Grace A Death in Beverly Hills. Free for kindle. I just finished it.

 

[SallyF]

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Opa, you and I like the same authors. Have you tried C.J. Box's Joe Pickett series, and the Nevada Barr Anna Pigeon series? Pickett is a game warden and Pigeon is a National Park Service ranger, but they both get involved with various murders in their jurisdictions. The Nevada Barr books are especially interesting, because they're each set in a different park. Another good series is by Steve Martini; his main character is a lawyer named Paul Madriani. I haven't tried Steve Berry, but I'll look him up based on your recommendation. Happy reading.

 

[peepacheep]

I almost forgot Stuart Kaminsky's Inspector Porfiry Rostinkov series. For stand alone novels James Duncan's 'The River Why', (or The River ?) and The Brothers K.

 

[debilorrah]

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Opa, you and I like the same authors. Have you tried C.J. Box's Joe Pickett series, and the Nevada Barr Anna Pigeon series? Pickett is a game warden and Pigeon is a National Park Service ranger, but they both get involved with various murders in their jurisdictions. The Nevada Barr books are especially interesting, because they're each set in a different park. Another good series is by Steve Martini; his main character is a lawyer named Paul Madriani. I haven't tried Steve Berry, but I'll look him up based on your recommendation. Happy reading.

I love all these authors too and I have never heard of CJ Box. Martini books are awesome!!!!

 

[Opa]

Another author I thoroughly enjoy is James Lee Burke is books are about a cop in Louisana Dave Robicheaux. Burke's real life daughter is named Alifair after his characters daughter. She is an excellent author in her own right.

Also I've read everything by Greg Iles. I like how he develops his charactors and his using a minor character in one book as the protagonist in the next.

 

[jtbrown]

Great thread, have to print it, I find an author, series I like and then devour their books and feel like my best friend just moved away and I have nothing left to read! I have downloaded tons of samples on my kindle from this thread, thanks. Orson Scott Card is a favorite of mine, although his latest stuff to me isn't as smooth as his Alvin Maker and Enders series, but still like them. Dan Brown is great but i am through with those til he writes more. Kelly Armstrong is my guilty pleasure book, silly vampires and witches and werewolves and I LOVE it! Terry Goodkind is an author I found through cheap kindle books and I really liked it, of course the Eragon series was great. I also went through the Stephanie Plum novels and am sad I am out for now, real fun. Tony Hillerman was good mystery mixed with southwest Indian lore but I'm through with those too. I lean towards sci fi/fantasy with it's constant good versus evil undertone, also like mysteries. I see I am not alone, great suggestions, thanks!

 

[nop169]

Robert Jordan wheel of time series is excellent as mentioned by others

Bodie Thoene the zion legacy are a christian based/historical series that inspire. Excellent writer.

Anything by Barbara Kingsolver

Anything by Joyce Carol Oats

You may even like the Ashes series by William Johnson - military after shtf type - original books were great but now mass produced and only mediocre.

 

[3goodeggs]

Years ago, I went back and read all of the classics that I thought I read, but had not. They are inexpensive too. Dickens, Hardy, Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Crane. oh. and Sinclair Lewis. I adore him. If you are religious skip Elmer Gantry, It will bother you. Babbitt, Main Street. Still current today as 100 years ago.
I still haven't been able to force my way through Moby Dick, though. I get to the ''call me Ishmael" bit and fall asleep.

 

[Carrie Lynn]

Have you read, Still Life with Chickens?
It's an easy read, I came across it at my library when I was searching books on chickens.
It was a fun story about a woman with a daughter starting over after a divorce. She moves to a cottage and decides to keep backyard chickens.
It was so funny to read her references to BYC and My Pet Chicken. I could definitely relate to her experiences
as a new owner of chicks! She even referenced her online BYC mentor, Wes from Texas.
Sorry, don't recall the author's name.

 

[Peaches Lee]

Not sure if it's been mentioned but how about Piers Anthony and his Xanth series. They are fantasy adventures with magic, dragons, ghosts, mytholigical creatures. I'm not much of a reader but I thought these books were good and funny. My favorite is Centaur Isle.