Showing posts with label Lawrence Block. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lawrence Block. Show all posts

09 May 2012

Best Detective Fiction Books List (and John Sandford)

In order (as of the time of this post), here is a list of my favorite detective fiction books that I have read.

01. James Lee Burke - Black Cherry Blues
02. Lawrence Block - When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
03. Michael Connelly - The Concrete Blonde
04. Michael Gruber - Valley of Bones
05. Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
06. James Lee Burke - Last Car to Elysian Fields
07. James Lee Burke - Cadillac Jukebox
08. Dashiel Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
09. Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
10. Ruth Rendell - No More Dying Then
11. Laurie King - To Play the Fool
12. Ross Macdonald - The Drowning Pool
13. Chester Himes - A Rage in Harlem

A separate listing would be books I have read by John Sandford... he is one of my favorite authors, and I have read a lot of his books. They would fall under the detective fiction genre.

John Sandford - Rules of Prey
John Sandford - Eyes of Prey
John Sandford - Mind Prey
John Sandford - Secret Prey
John Sandford - Naked Prey
John Sandford - Mortal Prey
John Sandford - Chosen Prey
John Sandford - Easy Prey
John Sandford - Certain Prey
John Sandford - Hidden Prey
John Sandford - Broken Prey
John Sandford - Phantom Prey