I love a good mystery. This post will be part of an ongoing series, featuring some of my favorite mystery authors.
No such list would be complete without the inimitable P.D. James. The undeniable mistress of British crime drama, James has written dense, complicated novels about murder for the last five decades. Her primary series features investigator Adam Dalgliesh, the reserved Detective Inspector of Scotland Yard who writes poetry when not solving murders. If you are just embarking on your journey with James, there is no better place to start with one of the early novels, such as Death of an Expert Witness. I also love the two mysteries featuring private detective Cordelia Gray: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull beneath the Skin.
Subgenre: British whodunit, literary detective fiction
The one thing I like better than discovering new writers on my own is finding out what my fellow mystery lovers are reading. Please leave a comment to recommend your favorites or, even better, write up a quick recommendation for your fellow readers!
P. D. James is a great writer. I recently read “Original Sin” about a murder and death in a small book publishing firm. Full of mystery and suspense, the reader is left wondering who the murder is until the last few pages, as it the novel connects to the French Resistance during World War II, and the the Jewish Holocaust. A great read, and I am reading for more of P.. D. James