Jeff Abbott has found success in several of the mystery & suspense subgenres. Whether whodunnits, everyman thrillers like Panic, or his action spy series featuring Sam Capra, Abbott navigates through the genre fluidly to provide thrills, kills and chills. It’s no surprise that his list was one that showed the range of the genre.
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
- The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
- A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
- The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett
- The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carre
- Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
- Gaudy Night by Dorothy L Sayers
- Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Dreadful Lemon Sky by John D MacDonald
- Beast in View by Margaret Millar
- The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
- A Dark Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
- Roseanna by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
- Green For Danger by Christianna Brand – Available on e-book from Mysterious Press.
- Shroud for A Nightingale by P. D. James
- Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
We’ll be putting up more top ten lists for the rest of the week, leading up to the unveiling of the MysteryPeople Top 100 Crime and Suspense Novels at our Fifth Anniversary Party, this Saturday, November 7th, starting at 3 PM.
