Authors I like and which of their books I’ve read…
Celia Fremlin
1958 – The Hours Before Dawn; (Edgar Award for Best Novel, 1960) ✓
1959 – Uncle Paul ✓
1961 – Seven Lean Years (US: Wait for the Wedding)
1963 – The Trouble Makers ✓
1964 – The Jealous One ✓
1967 – Prisoner’s Base
1969 – Possession
1972 – Appointment with Yesterday
1975 – The Long Shadow ✓
1977 – The Spider-Orchid
1980 – With No Crying
1982 – The Parasite Person
1990 – Listening in the Dusk
1991 – Dangerous Thoughts
1993 – The Echoing Stones
1994 – King of the World
Collections
1970 – Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark
1974 – By Horror Haunted
1984 – A Lovely Day to Die ✓
Kent Haruf (Plainsong series)
- Plainsong ✓
- Eventide ✓
- Benediction ✓
Kent Haruf (stand-alone novels)
- The Tie That Binds ✓
- Where You Once Belonged ✓
- Our Souls at Night ✓
Frédéric Dard
(He wrote hundreds of novels, though not many have been translated!)
- The Gravediggers’ Bread ✓
- Bird in a Cage ✓
- The Executioner Weeps ✓
- Crush ✓
- The King of Fools ✓
- The Wicked Go to Hell ✓
Steve Cavanagh (Eddie Flynn novels)
- The Cross (prequel novella)
- The Defence ✓
- The Plea
- The Liar ✓
- Thirteen
- Fifty-Fifty ✓
- The Devil’s Advocate ✓
Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
1. Roseanna ✓
2. The Man Who Went Up in Smoke ✓
3. The Man on the Balcony ✓
4. The Laughing Policeman ✓
5. The Fire Engine That Disappeared ✓
6. Murder at the Savoy ✓
7. The Abominable Man ✓
8. The Locked Room ✓
9. Cop Killer ✓
10. The Terrorists ✓
Laura Lippman (stand-alone novels)
- Every Secret Thing
- To The Power of Three
- What the Dead Know (Little Sister, in the UK) ✓
- Life Sentences
- I’d Know You Anywhere (Don’t Look Back, in the UK)
- The Most Dangerous Thing
- And When She Was Good ✓
- After I’m Gone
- Wilde Lake
- Sunburn ✓
- Lady in the Lake ✓
- Dream Girl
- The Girl in the Green Raincoat (Tess Monaghan series) ✓
- Seasonal Work (short stories) ✓
Margaret Millar (stand-alone novels)
- Fire Will Freeze
- Experiment in Springtime
- It’s All in the Family
- The Cannibal Heart
- Do Evil in Return
- Vanish in an Instant ✓
- Rose’s Last Summer / The Lively Corpse
- Wives and Lovers
- Beast In View ✓
- The Soft Talkers / An Air That Kills
- The Listening Walls ✓
- A Stranger in My Grave ✓
- How Like an Angel
- The Fiend
- Beyond This Point Are Monsters
- Banshee
- Spider Webs