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Posted by Jai Narayan on November 26, 2004, at 18:09:25
please anyone who reads detective novels...by women.
Please let me know who you think is good.
I am rapidly going through the authors.
Jai
Posted by alexandra_k on November 26, 2004, at 18:48:51
In reply to mystery writers....women preferably, posted by Jai Narayan on November 26, 2004, at 18:09:25
Is the best! But I have read them all myself :-(
Still, its probably been long enough so that I could read most of them again, and now I might actually have a chance to figure out who did it!
My other fav is all the Sherlock Holmes stuff. Not a female author, but brilliant regardless.
Posted by Jai Narayan on November 27, 2004, at 8:42:26
In reply to Agatha Christie » Jai Narayan, posted by alexandra_k on November 26, 2004, at 18:48:51
What are you reading now for fun?
Jai
Posted by gnepig on November 28, 2004, at 17:37:21
In reply to mystery writers....women preferably, posted by Jai Narayan on November 26, 2004, at 18:09:25
Have you read any of Sandra Brown's later works?Patricia Cornwell is also good if you like medical stuff (she is a real medical examiner)
Posted by alexandra_k on November 28, 2004, at 23:21:38
In reply to Re: Agatha Christie, posted by Jai Narayan on November 27, 2004, at 8:42:26
Well... it depends on what you mean by 'fun'.
I haven't read any novels or anything like that for probably a couple of years now (latest Harry Potter book was an exception), but anything that isn't thesis related is fun in a way...
I am still reading "Freedom Evolves" and "Synopsis of Psychiatry" and I am dying to get the psychotherapy books that gg suggested. But I can't have fun in the traditional sense (and even in the avoidance of thesis sense) until the darn thing is done now...
Patricia Cornwell is great, I'd reccomend her too :-)
Posted by Racer on November 30, 2004, at 13:41:56
In reply to mystery writers....women preferably, posted by Jai Narayan on November 26, 2004, at 18:09:25
Short list:
Sharyn McCrumb -- interesting, American, lots of character development, funny books (the Elizabeth MacPherson books) and serious books (the Ballad Novels) and comical books ("Bimbos of the Death Sun"), well written.
Elizabeth George -- continuing characters, well written, good if somewhat obscure mysteries.
Ellis Peters -- historical setting, medieval forensics, quite fascinating, well worth reading.
Elizabeth Peters -- it's actually Barbara Michaels writing under another name, Egyptian setting, comical series, WOMAN detective at the turn of the last century.
Josephine Tey -- dated but good, well written, best is "Daughter of Time"
Patricia Cornwell is good, although she's not a medical examiner.
Martha Grimes -- the Richard Jury novels are my favorite, although she's become rather more grim as time goes on.
Anne Perry -- interesting woman, good books, well written, historical settings, two sets -- Thomas and Charlotte Pitt in the 1880s, and William Monk in the 1860s. Very well worth reading, both sets.
That's as many as my brain can come up with now. Enjoy.
Posted by gnepig on December 1, 2004, at 10:48:42
In reply to Re: mystery writers....women preferably, posted by Racer on November 30, 2004, at 13:41:56
You say Patricia Cornwell isn't a medical examiner? Why then is she the Chairman of the Board for the Viriginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine? I want to keep my facts straight, so please correct me if I am wrong.
Posted by alexandra_k on December 1, 2004, at 17:17:06
In reply to Re: mystery writers....women preferably, posted by Racer on November 30, 2004, at 13:41:56
> Anne Perry -- interesting woman, good books, well written, historical settings, two sets -- Thomas and Charlotte Pitt in the 1880s, and William Monk in the 1860s. Very well worth reading, both sets.
Oh, she is a Kiwi :-) Has anybody seen the film "Heavenly Creatures"? It is a New Zealand film based on actual events. The basic notion is that Juliette (aka Anne Perry) and Pauline form a special relationship (which leads to a p-doc thinking it is unhealthy in the homosexual sense) and the ending occurs when they both bash Pauline's mother over the head with the old brick in the stocking trick as they mistakenly believe that this act will enable them to remain together. This was when they were around 16.
It is actually a very moving and well done film. A tragic tale indeed. Because they committed the crime they both ended up in jail. They were eventually released on the condition that they never see each other again.
A reporter made the Anne Perry - Juliette link quite a while back and there was a feature on some documentary type program.
Pauline seems to have retained her anonymity, however, and actual photographs had an uncanny resemblance to one of my old Biology teachers (which was a topic of great speculation when we were 14. Very unlikely though).
What is interesting is that they developed their own fictional historical world of make believe together - and Anne Perry has gone on to continue this theme in her historical novels.
Just in case you (or anyone else) was interested and didn't know...
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