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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 31, 2019 17:32:18 GMT
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Post by cooly44 on Aug 31, 2019 23:19:41 GMT
I will take those authors under advisement, having read every Agatha Christie book ten times.
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Post by hi224 on Sept 1, 2019 7:31:03 GMT
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Post by Morgana on Sept 1, 2019 9:03:23 GMT
I haven't read any books by Margaret Millar, but I've read books by Rendell and Tey. I particularly loved The Daughter of Time and Miss Pym Disposes, the latter for an ending I never saw coming.
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Post by louise on Sept 1, 2019 15:15:19 GMT
Ngaio Marsh is quite good, and so is Patricia Wentworth. I like Alan Hunter's George Gently books, especially the earlier ones. Josephine Tey is okay, though personally I think Brat Farrar is her best book. I was going to suggest Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy books, but then I saw the article said 'no misogyny' and Lovejoy is about as misogynistic as they come. None of these authors is as good as Agatha Christie though, she stands alone.
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Post by theravenking on Sept 8, 2019 21:19:04 GMT
To me Peter Lovesey is the only current crime writer who matches Christie´s ingenuity in plotting.
Margaret Millar is an interesting writer, but I always found her books rather depressing, although Fire Will Freeze is a fun take on the And Then There Were None- style close-circle mystery. Probably the closest she ever came to telling a traditional whodunit.
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Post by alfromni on Sept 16, 2019 10:16:46 GMT
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Sept 16, 2019 16:15:21 GMT
I love the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, I've already preordered the new books in the series on Amazon UK because I don't want to wait for their release in the U.S., I've also preordered the Ruth Galloway series and the Stephens & Mephisto series by Elly Griffiths from Amazon U.K.
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Post by alfromni on Sept 16, 2019 20:41:49 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 16, 2019 23:25:25 GMT
My Mum has been reading a few Francis Duncan books. He wrote at the same time as Christie and a lot of his books were reissued recently.
She says they’re good.
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Post by alfromni on Sept 16, 2019 23:47:16 GMT
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Post by cooly44 on Sept 27, 2019 0:59:14 GMT
What about Ngaio Marsh? I came across her book Grave Mistake and I’m really enjoying it. I intend to get my hands on others.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Sept 27, 2019 10:11:34 GMT
I just finished reading 2 books by Ruth Ware, The Woman in Cabin 10 and The Death of Mrs. Westaway, they both had good character development, I would recommend them as substitutes for Agatha Christie (no as good but still compelling).
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