who are some big name thriller writers.

I might watch it after i have read more of the books and know its something for me. Plus i dont wanna spoil myself so if i dig the book series i will watch the tv series after im done with the 20(yeesh) books.

Im no stranger to brit cop shows, seen alot of them.
 
In the most recent TV series/season (the only one I've watched), I recognised the book from which one of the episodes had been derived; not a big deal, you might think, except that all it had in common with the book was the list of character names. Even then, murderers had become victims and vice versa. I suppose I shouldn't complain: two plots for the price of one.
 
Yeah if they dont make the original story look bad by making their version bad/horrible then its alright.
 
OK, threadjacking here in order to veer this thread temporarily back to the topic it was posted for. :D

Not really a big name thriller writer - yet, but I'm sure one day he will be - A.J. Hartley.

Has two books out so far - "The Mask of Atreus" and "On the Fifth Day". He's taken the route of having them published straight to mass market size, so they're affordable to all. Very good, lots of action, and he does a good job of not giving his climaxes away until they actually climax. Plus, his topics are very unconventional, compared to what a lot of thriller writers are writing these days.

I've recommended them elsewhere, and I'm recommending them here.

Now back to your regularly scheduled threadjack. :p
 
Hehe :D


You are a thriller fan? Do you read crime?

The last thriller i read was Da Vinci Code,didnt exactly make me hot for the genre. Mostly i like spy and crime/noir.
 
Hahahaha Judge Dee sounds fun!!


Edit: Monk sounds interesting too with the hole memory lost thing..... the author is a convicted murderer thats just wow.....
 
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Connavar of Rigante said:
Hehe :D


You are a thriller fan? Do you read crime?

The last thriller i read was Da Vinci Code,didnt exactly make me hot for the genre. Mostly i like spy and crime/noir.
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If you're talking to me, then yes, I am a thriller fan - but only if they're good thrillers (there's lots of crap ones out there). I read quite a variety of genres.

As for The Da Vince Code, I think you found one of the crap ones to cut your thriller-reading teeth on. Haven't read it myself, since A LOT of the people I know who read thrillers have told me that it was really badly written.

I'd give James Patterson, or the Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child novels a try if I were you.

I'm not quite sure what authors are classified as "Crime" writers, you'll have to make some suggestions. I do read police procedurals and like them very much. I'm quite active on Michael Slade's message board - they (Michael Slade is a pen name for the collaborative team of Jay Clarke and his daughter Rebecca at the moment) write novels that fit into the category of police procedural horror novels. Although the last two "Swastika" and "Kamikaze" have been more in the vein of strictly police procedural.

A warning though, Slade's novels can be pretty brutal and bloody in spots.

I used to read spy novels, such as Ludlum, Le Carre, Deighton, Fleming, Follett, Flannery, Hagberg, etc., but haven't read one in quite some time.
 
murphy,

It definately has an horrific element to it - what with it having a monstrous beast lurking about in a museum, killing people, but it definately fits into the Thriller mode as well.

(I don't think I've given anything away that you haven't probably already read in amazon.com's synopsis section.)

In Relic, you'll get your first encounter with Agent Pendergast, probably their most favourite character amongst readers. People are quite ticked off that they cut his character from the film made of the book. (It's not that great of a film.)

FYI. Their third book "Reliquary" is a sequel to "Relic". And "Brimstone", "Dance of Death", and "Book of the Dead" make up what is called The Diogenes Trilogy.

My top three favourite books of theirs are actually non-Pendergast novels. My top five are as follows:

1. The Ice Limit
2. Riptide (currently being made into a film)
3. Thunderhead
4. Relic
5. Reliquary

My least favourite is "Mount Dragon". It's a medical thriller, and I'm not really a big fan of medical thrillers.
 
Relic sounds interesting. Is it supernatural or horror thrillers? The hole series like that?

I love those specially thanks to some tv shows i have seen.
 
Riselka said:
murphy,

My top three favourite books of theirs are actually non-Pendergast novels. My top five are as follows:

1. The Ice Limit
2. Riptide (currently being made into a film)
3. Thunderhead
4. Relic
5. Reliquary

My least favourite is "Mount Dragon". It's a medical thriller, and I'm not really a big fan of medical thrillers.
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I like how you have those ranked. I find the Pendergast novels rather tiresome after a while. That being said, I like The Cabinet of Curiosities the best of those. I have the final two of the Diogenes trilogy and have not read them as of yet. I see they have new a Pendergast novel in the bookstores right now.

I did not know Riptide was going to be a movie. I look forward to that. Ice Limit would make a good film also, IMHO.
 
The Cabinet of Curiosities is definately the best of what I consider to be Pendergast novels. I say that, because even though technically he plays a part in both Relic, and Reliquary, it's not as much of a solo effort as in the novels starting with Cabinet of Curiosities.

I agree that The Ice Limit would make for a fantastic film. I wish they'd write a sequel to it. I have the feeling that, if they did write one, it would probably have Pendergast in it, since they included the Eli Gwinn character from The Ice Limit, in the plotline for Brimstone. I kind of think the idea there was to make it easier to put Pendergast in any sequel they did eventually write. It's no big secret that there are A LOT of people who would like to see a sequel to the book.

As for their new book, The Wheel of Darkness, several people on Slade's message board have expressed major disappointment in it.

Connavar of Rigante:

The P/C books that I would put into the horror thriller category are:

Relic
Reliquary
Riptide (sort of)
Thunderhead (sort of)
The Cabinet of Curiosities
Still Life With Crows
and The Diogenes Trilogy (Brimstone, Dance of Death, Book of the Dead)

Mount Dragon, as I've said, is more of a medical thriller, and The Ice Limit is a really good techno-thrillerish, action yarn with a roller-coaster of climaxes at its end.

And, Lincoln Child's solo effort Utopia is a pretty good read too. But Douglas Preston's The Codex - not so much. I haven't read any of their other solo books.
 
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I have not read The Codex, but have read Utopia and Deep Storm by Child, and Preston's Tyrannosaur Canyon. The characters in those books just don't seem to resonate for me. I think they develop characters better as a team, though I have no idea how they write together.

Tyrannosaur Canyon would classify as a thriller, you have scientists and black ops operatives. Deep Storm is actually a science fiction thriller. Decent stories but lacking memorable dialogue or engaging characters.

If there is a sequel to The Ice Limit, I hope they leave Pendergast out of it.
 
Musky said:
If there is a sequel to The Ice Limit, I hope they leave Pendergast out of it.
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Amen to that! :D

But, I'm afraid he probably will play a part in it since apparently their publisher wants Pendergast, Pendergast, and more Pendergast out of them.

Over on their unofficial EZBoard forum, most of the talk is centred around Pendergast, and Pendergast-related things in the General Discussion section. They've even gone so far as to coin the term "Pendergasms" for one of the threads. :eek: It's why I don't participate there as much as I used to - just not much to talk about with everyone lusting after the guy since I don't feel the same way about his character.

I really wish they'd co-write another non-Pendergast novel, but from what I understand, the next couple of books are still going to be Pendergast novels. :(

I've got a copy of Tyrannosaur Canyon, just haven't gotten around to reading it yet. One of the women on Jack Whyte's forum has said that she enjoyed it a lot more than The Codex. I've seen the odd mass market of Death Match show up in stores but I keep hoping the hardback will show up in Publisher's Overstock - I hear it's quite good - Deep Storm, not so much. Even some of the people on their message board have said they were a bit disappointed with it.

My sister-in-law has read Douglas Preston's non-fiction book Jennie, and she really enjoyed it. Maybe I'll give it a try some day.
 
Speaking about thrillers im reading Jeffrey Deaver's Garden of Beasts. A Noir thriller/historical fiction thriller. Its very interesting so far.


Its about a Hitman getting caught in a trap by US Navy and getting a choice going to rot in prison or go to Berlin in 36 olympic and kill Ernst commander for rearmenent for Hitler.

I like the way he paint up the state of Berlin in the shadow of Hitler and his kind.

Pretty good choice for my first Deaver book.
 
I've got Deaver's The Vanished Man, and The Stone Monkey. Haven't gotten around to reading them yet, but I hear he's very good - someone on the Preston/Child board recommended his stuff.

Speaking of Deaver, we found this coincidence that Slade pointed out kind of interesting over on the Michael Slade board a while back.

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I contacted Deaver through his website about it, and he contacted me back telling me he'd talk to his publisher and see what they had to say about it. Never heard back from him though.

I just kind of wonder whether there was any unwritten rule regarding duplication of use of source artwork for more than one book. I just think that if I were an author, I probably wouldn't be too pleased with the situation. Slade never let on how he felt about it though.
 
Riselka said:
I've got Deaver's The Vanished Man, and The Stone Monkey. Haven't gotten around to reading them yet, but I hear he's very good - someone on the Preston/Child board recommended his stuff.

Speaking of Deaver, we found this coincidence that Slade pointed out kind of interesting over on the Michael Slade board a while back.

I contacted Deaver through his website about it, and he contacted me back telling me he'd talk to his publisher and see what they had to say about it. Never heard back from him though.

I just kind of wonder whether there was any unwritten rule regarding duplication of use of source artwork for more than one book. I just think that if I were an author, I probably wouldn't be too pleased with the situation. Slade never let on how he felt about it though.
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that's interesting! How much control does an author have over the book cover, I wonder?

I'd give Deaver the benefit of the doubt; he may not have seen Slade's book... but his publisher obviously copied the cover.
 
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