detective writers. Books: The Most Interesting Detectives in the World

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Stig Larson

For forty years, the mystery of the disappearance of a relative haunts the aging tycoon, and now he makes the last attempt in his life - he entrusts the search to journalist Mikael Blomkvist. He takes on a hopeless case more in order to distract himself from his own troubles, but soon realizes that the problem is more complicated than it seems at first glance. How is the old incident related to the murders of women that happened in different parts of Sweden?

Red rivers. Jean-Christophe Grange e

A small university town in the Alps is engulfed in horror: monstrous crimes follow one after another. The police find mutilated corpses either in a crevice of rock, or in the thickness of a glacier, or under the roof of a house. Detective Nyeman decides to stop this savagery at all costs, but, pursuing the criminal, he discovers more and more victims ...

Call of the Cuckoo. Robert Galbraith

When an infamous top model falls to her death from the snow-covered balcony of her penthouse, everyone thinks it's suicide. But the girl's brother cannot accept this conclusion and turns to the services of a private detective named Cormoran Strike. Strike went through the war, suffered physically and mentally; his life is going downhill. Now he expects to close at least a financial gap, but the investigation turns into an insidious trap.

Leviathan. Boris Akunin

In the fashionable quarter of Paris, the British collector Lord Littleby and the entire staff of the mansion are murdered with particular cruelty. A unique golden figurine of the Indian god Shiva and one of the painted Indian shawls were stolen from the famous collection of oriental rarities. The case begins to investigate the detective of the Parisian prefecture Gustave Gauche. In the hand of the slain, he discovers the emblem of the golden whale. As it turns out, this is the emblem of the miracle ship Leviathan.

Murder on the Orient Express. Agatha Christie

Poirot rides the luxurious Orient Express and, as always, finds himself embroiled in a puzzling story. The body of a man was found in the first class compartment in the morning. At the same time, the train was stopped on the way by snowdrifts and cannot move. Poirot will have to unravel the situation in which the killer could be any of the respectable passengers. Only brilliant talents and the unsurpassed logic of the great detective can help solve the crime.

Angels and Demons. Dan Brown

Illuminati. An ancient mysterious order, famous in the Middle Ages for its fierce struggle with the official church. A legend from a distant past? Perhaps ... But - why then is the symbol of the Illuminati carved on the chest of a scientist killed under mysterious circumstances? A specialist in symbolism invited from Harvard and his partner, the daughter of the murdered man, begin their own investigation - and soon come to incredible results ...

A weed wrapped around the executioner's bag. Alan Bradley

“In the still waters there are devils” - this proverb accurately characterizes the eccentric family that lives in the old Buckshaw estate. A father turned on stamps, a crazy aunt and two sisters: a hypocrite and a blue stocking - how do you order a young detective to have fun in such a company? The investigation into the ridiculous death of a visiting puppeteer reveals other gloomy secrets that no one has remembered for a long time - a great pastime.

Moonstone. Wilkie Collins

"Moonstone" is Wilkie Collins' most famous and, without a doubt, best book. This wonderful work organically combines the features of a classic detective story, adventure and adventure novel, and a fascinating story immediately captures the reader and keeps in suspense until the last page.

Sweetness on the pie crust. Alan Bradley

The last representatives of an aristocratic family live in the old English estate of Buckshaw - the eccentric Colonel de Luce and his three daughters. In the summer of 1950, the viscous swamp of rural life is disturbed by incredible events: the murder of a stranger and the arrest of a colonel. While the older daughters, as well-bred English ladies should, are crying into their handkerchiefs, the younger, eleven-year-old Flavia, is delighted: at last something has happened in her life!

Flemish board. Arturo Perez-Reverte

“Flemish Board” is an intellectual detective, paradoxical and multifaceted. The novel fascinates with the movement of action from one temporal and cultural layer to another, with a dizzyingly twisted plot. In the world of antique dealers and collectors, an old painting is the key to unraveling the brutal crimes that take place today, and for every lost piece in a chess game, a human life is paid.

Silkworm. Robert Galbraith

After the disappearance of Owen Quine, his wife turns to private investigator Cormoran Strike. Believing that her husband is simply hiding from his family, as has happened more than once, Leonora Quine instructs Strike to find the fugitive and return him to the bosom of the family. But during the investigation, Strike realizes that the situation is much more serious than Leonora thinks. Owen Quine took with him the manuscript of a new novel, where he exposed very famous and influential people in an unsightly light.

Smoked herring without mustard. Alan Bradley

The last representatives of an aristocratic family live on the Buckshaw estate - Colonel de Luce and three daughters. While the colonel is feverishly looking for ways to save the family from ruin by selling off the stamp collection and family silverware, the two older daughters, Ophelia and Daphne, play the Inquisition with the younger one, but Flavia is not up to games, the young detective is busy with another investigation. On the territory of Buckshaw, a gypsy fortune-teller who has set up camp in the forest is attacked, and Flavia finds a corpse.

Disappeared. Gillian Flynn

Everything was ready for the celebration of the anniversary of married life, when one of the heroes of the occasion disappeared. There were traces of a struggle in the house, blood that was clearly trying to be erased - and a chain of "keys" in a game called "treasure hunt"; a smart and incredibly inventive wife arranged it every year for her adored husband. And it seems that these "keys" - the notes she posted - provide the only chance to shed light on the fate of the disappeared.

If tomorrow comes. Sydney Sheldon

A gripping melodrama novel about the incredible robberies that a humble former bank employee commits after she herself becomes a victim of the New Orleans mafia. She fights with scammers by their own methods and constantly outplays them, receiving, however, from this not only moral, but also quite tangible material satisfaction.

Dead swell. Johan Teorin

One day, a very thick fog descended on the secluded island of Öland, which happened infrequently - only a few times a year. And it was on this day that a little boy, Jens Davidsson, went out of his grandfather's house for a walk and got lost. In a haze as white as milk, he met a man in a dark coat who introduced himself as Niels Kant. He took the boy by the hand and promised to take him home. Since then, Jens has not been seen again, as well as the man in the coat, who, according to the police, died long before these events ...

A lady in a car, with glasses and a gun. Sebastian Japriso

This blonde is the most beautiful, the most deceitful, the most sincere, the most stupid, the most stubborn, the most restless of all known heroines. The lady runs away from the police and repeats all the time that she is not crazy ... However, those who see her do not think so. At the gas station, she injured her hand. To top it off, she has no money with her. It seems that no matter where she ends up, they can harm her in some way, that no matter where she runs away, she cannot be left alone, free from what she knows, from what she hides ..

I speak from the tomb. Alan Bradley

An incredible event breaks the pastoral idyll of the pretty English village of Bishop's Lacey. A team of archaeologists arrives to make the discovery of the century, to excavate the tomb of Saint Tancred. This alone is already enough to provide food for gossip for a hundred years to come. But in the place where the tomb of the saint is supposed to be, they find a rather fresh corpse of a local handsome organist ... for the investigation, as usual, the eternal nightmare of the local police Flavia de Luce is zealously taken - a curious rogue.

Passenger. Jean-Christophe Grange

An encounter with an amnesiac patient leads psychiatrist Matthias Frere to a horrific discovery: he has the same "passenger without luggage" syndrome. Over and over again, he loses his memory and creates a new personality from the fragments of the past. To find his true "I", he will have to go through all his former incarnations. Frere is pursued by mysterious killers in black, the police are chasing him, convinced that he is the serial maniac who committed terrible murders imitating ancient Greek myths ...

Silence of the Lambs. Thomas Harris

Dr. Hannibal Lecter is a brilliant psychiatrist, but the world can only feel safe as long as he is behind the steel door of solitary confinement in a maximum security prison. Dr. Lecter is a killer. He is a foodie. Clarice Sterling is an FBI Academy cadet. She is susceptible to someone else's misfortune, and this is what determines all her actions. Fate forces the heroes to work together in the case of capturing Buffalo Bill, the most dangerous maniac killer.

Mystery river. Dennis Lehane

Three imaginary police officers drive up to three little friends, Sean, Jimmy and Dave, who are mischievous on the street, and take away the weakest and defenseless of them, Dave, in their car. A few days later, the boy runs away from the kidnappers and returns home, but this story leaves a scar in the soul of each of its participants and, twenty-five years later, brings them together again in a monstrous nightmare.

Thirteenth story. Diana Setterfield

Margaret Lee works in a second-hand bookshop. She prefers Dickens and the Brontë sisters to modern times. Margaret is all the more surprised when she receives an offer from the writer Vida Winter to become her biographer. And now, in front of Margaret, who found herself in the walls of a gloomy, haunted mansion of the past, a gothic story of twin sisters unfolds, which in a strange way echoes her personal story ...

Anna and Sergey Litvinov are the golden feathers of a domestic detective. That says it all. We only add that the plot is built around the heroine already known to readers - Varvara Kononova, an employee of a secret special service who studies everything strange and unknown (our answer to the X-Files). Together with her lover, psychic Danilov, the beautiful girl is resting in the Black Sea resort. Everything is quiet and peaceful, the sea, the beach, churchkhela... And suddenly the base of peaceful vacationers is stormed by special forces. Then everything is as we like: a chase, intellectual duels and fistfights, and in the finale - the solution of the most burning secrets of the recent past...

Quote from the book:

You deftly put them both down,” Zubtsov said calmly from the back seat. Danilov did not answer. And the retiree continued: - I'm impressed. Of course, I met guys like you, and the best ones, but you are good even against their background.

What have you done?! Varya grabbed her head. - Why did you have to do this? - like all women, she could not help but drank her lover - but in this situation, one cannot but agree, there was something for that. Alexei, clenching his teeth, was silent, only rushing at a speed of one hundred and fifty. She continued, “Get off the track. Now we are definitely wanted.

I know it myself,” Danilov muttered.

Bachelor Sparrows: A beautiful fairy tale did not work out

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"Universal Conspiracy"

Tatyana Ustinova's latest detective story begins with a trip to the planetarium. Marusya, a twenty-four-year-old girl, a teacher of French, goes out of boredom to look at the stars. In the company of a friend Grisha. They accidentally meet with the scientist Yuri Fedorovich, who has been following UFOs for a long time. And it seems to be a little "coo-coo". But he warns that humanity will soon die in a terrible catastrophe. A meteorite will fly in or worse. While the couple admires the constellations in a dark room, the scientist is killed. Who? How? Why? And what about the catastrophe - to wait or not to wait ... The investigation will be interesting, and Ustinova's special, textured language draws you in from the first page. Recommended for long flights and trips, because until you finish reading, you are unlikely to come off.

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Grandfather believes that he is a member of a sect. In the sect of admirers of alien civilizations! Well, all sorts of knights of the Ninth Gate, worshipers of the god Chronos, worshipers of the Moon in the Seventh House! Grandfather says this is unforgivable obscurantism. Especially for an educated person. Our Yurets is educated, but rubbish.

How - rubbish?

Usually. Just a bad guy, that's all. Margoshka brought to the handle. I thought it only happened in Victorian novels! Well, when the villain harasses the beautiful Brunnhilde in order to take possession of her castle, land and the legacy of the late father. But Yurets is nothing, and in our time he coped quite well.

His wife is dead?! Marusya asked in astonishment.

All of this did not go through any gates. Yuri Fedorovich Basalaev, crazy - or not crazy, who knows! - a scientist, a connoisseur of alien civilizations, a funny man with a disheveled beard and burning eyes, is actually an evil monster ?!

Lorak pushed Baskov into the pool at Emin's party

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"Art requires sacrifice"

There are three detectives in the book at once, and everything is about love. Stas Babitsky devoted many years to journalism, conducted his own high-profile investigations, often at the risk of his life. Therefore, the heroes of his works are so realistic, recognizable. Ordinary people doing terrible things. A neighbor hangs a birdhouse in the yard. Nothing suspicious. But what if he is the maniac who kills passers-by with a sniper rifle? A young actor is rehearsing the role of Othello, but is he capable of strangling his traitorous wife? Read and find out.

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Will he really allow Lyudmila to marry his businessman or deputy, but it doesn’t matter who ... All you have to do is come up and say: I love you! Does he love? Or not? Ruslan did not yet know the exact answer, approaching the girl. She silently exhaled a thin puff of smoke. He silently held out the bouquet.

That's for me? - feigned surprise, although joy sparkled in his eyes. - Thanks.

She leaned forward to kiss his cheek. And then, no, a second earlier, there was a strange sound. As if a string had broken on that huge balalaika. Lyudmila fell, and out of surprise Ruslan did not hold her back. He fell to his knees, clutching his limp body, breaking roses that suddenly turned red. And the blood continued to flood the dress. Ruslan was waiting for the next bullet to go to him. The brain even threw a spell suitable for the occasion: our father, like thou ... But he whispered something completely different:

Love you. Love you!!!

But there was no shot.

Baranovskaya: I knelt in front of Andrei and roared

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Detectives are one of the most popular book (and not only) genres. Some readers undeservedly consider detective works to be "easy" reading, good only for passing the time. But fans of this genre know that detective stories are not only fascinating reading, but also an opportunity to put their logical and deductive abilities into practice. There is nothing more exciting than trying to solve the main intrigue of a detective novel and guess the name of the criminal. We bring to the attention of readers the best detective books - a rating of the most fascinating works of the detective genre, compiled according to the reviews of readers of major Internet resources.

Cormac McCarthy

Opens the ranking of the best books-detective novel Cormac McCarthy No Country for Old Men. The book is written in the genre of a cruel bloody parable. Vietnam War veteran Llewellyn Moss finds himself at the site of a bandit showdown while hunting antelope in the mountains of West Texas. He finds corpses and a suitcase with a huge amount - two million dollars. Yielding to temptation, he takes the money. The hunt begins for Moss - Mexican bandits and the cruel hired killer Anton Chigur are following in his footsteps.

Based on the novel, the Coen brothers filmed the thriller of the same name, which received 4 Oscars.

Stig Larson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson ranks 9th in the ranking of the best detective books.

Stieg Larson is a Swedish writer and journalist who wrote only three novels in his life, which are very popular. He died of a heart attack at the age of 50, never seeing the publication of his first book.

In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist is made a lucrative offer by an industrial magnate to solve the mystery of the disappearance of his great-niece. She disappeared 40 years ago, and the industrialist is sure that the girl was killed by someone from the family. The journalist takes up the case not because of money, but to distract himself from problems. He soon realizes that the disappearance of young Harriet is connected with the murders of women that occurred at different times in Sweden.

It is interesting: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is one of Stephen King's 10 favorite books.

Boileau - Narcejac

Novel "The one that was gone" Boileau - Narsezhak ranks 8th in the ranking of the best detective books. This is the story of a husband who, under the influence of his mistress, kills his wife, but soon begins to experience pangs of conscience.

"The One Who Wasn't" is a psychological novel, the tension in which grows with each page read. The authors of this classic detective story managed to create the illusion that the reader is completely immersed in the events unfolding in the book.

James Patterson

Patterson's books have repeatedly become bestsellers, and he himself is one of the best-selling writers in the world. Alex Cross, the protagonist of a whole series of books by Patterson, enjoys a special love of readers. In the detective thriller Kissing the Girls, a forensic psychologist is on the trail of a serial killer nicknamed Casanova, who has kidnapped and murdered several young women. Cross has his own important reason to find a maniac - in the hands of Casanova is his niece.

Frederick Forsythe

In 6th place in the ranking of the best detective books is the novel Frederick Forsythe "The Day of the Jackal". The first book of the writer made him famous - a political detective about the attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle instantly became a bestseller. According to the plot of the novel, an extremist organization hires a killer under the pseudonym "Jackal" to destroy the President of France. The French authorities receive information that a professional is involved in the assassination attempt, about whom nothing is known, except for his pseudonym. An operation to find the Jackal begins.

Interesting fact: Forsyth was an MI6 (British Intelligence Service) agent for 20 years. His manuscripts were read at MI6 so that the writer would not inadvertently give out confidential information.

Dashiell Hammett

Novel Dashiell Hammett "The Maltese Falcon", one of the classics of world literature, ranks 5th in the ranking of the best detective books.

Private detective Sam Spade takes on the investigation at the request of a certain Miss Wonderly. She asks to find her sister, who ran away from home with her lover. Spade's partner, who was accompanying the client to meet her sister, is found murdered, and Sam is suspected of committing the crime. It soon turns out that the figurine of the Maltese falcon is involved in the case, for which many are hunting.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle- on the 4th line in the ranking of the best detective books. All novels about Sherlock Holmes investigations are read in one breath and it is difficult to name the best of them. A Study in Scarlet is the first book dedicated to the great British master of the deductive method.

Victorian England. Due to financial constraints, retired military doctor John Watson shares an apartment in London with another gentleman, Sherlock Holmes. The latter is full of mysteries, and his activities, as well as strange visitors, suggest to Watson that his flatmate is a criminal. It soon turns out that Holmes is a detective who often advises the police.

Boris Akunin

The third place in the ranking of the best detective books is occupied by the first novel from the cycle of works about Erast Fandorin Azazel by Boris Akunin. Twenty-year-old Erast Fandorin serves in the police as a simple clerk, but dreams of a career as a detective. The strange suicide of a student, witnessed by the protagonist, gives him a chance to show his abilities in investigating this complicated case.

Thomas Harris

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris ranks second in the ranking of the best detective books. The novel brought the writer great popularity. This is the second book about Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant forensic psychiatrist and cannibal.

Clarice Starling, an FBI cadet, receives a task from her superiors - to involve Hannibal Lecter, a dangerous criminal and an excellent forensic psychologist, in cooperation.

The novel was filmed in 1991 and received 5 Oscars in the most prestigious categories.

Agatha Christie

Each of the novels of the English writer is a masterpiece, but "Ten Little Indians" is distinguished by a particularly gloomy atmosphere. A small island, ten guests invited by the mysterious owner of the mansion, and murders that are exactly the same as a children's rhyme, acquiring an increasingly sinister meaning with each new victim.

The novel has been filmed several times.

I made a list of your tips, it turned out to be very solid and, apparently, promising a lot of pleasure.

For those who, like me, love detective stories, I'll post it here. I would be glad if these tips are useful not only to me.

So:

1. Donald Edwin Westlake "Cursed Emerald". A masterpiece!) Sometimes you want unpredictability from a detective. None of the Donald Westlake novels I've read have been able to say, "Oh, I knew it!" or "Well, how else!" or "Yes, who would have doubted!".
http://lib.aldebaran.ru/author/uyestleik_donald/uyestleik_donald_proklyatyi_izumrud/
http://lib.ru/DETEKTIWY/UESTLEJK/
Fool died...
Dude - in consumption ...
2. J. Simenon - a series of books about Commissar Maigret. I read it just when I was very interested in detectives.
3. Erle Stanley Gardner with his hero lawyer Perry Mason. Gardner is great.
4. Wilkie Collins - "Woman in White", "Moonstone".
5. Neyo Marsh is quite a detective, but there are funny moments. Maybe not a detective in the modern sense, but it made an impression :)
6. Gorgeous J. Dickson Carr. If you find Karr, start with the Emperor's Snuffbox. Magnificent thing. That's class, that's class.
7. D. Francis
8. A. Christie
9. A. Conan Doyle
10. S. Japriso. "Lady with glasses and a gun in a car" (just high-class) and "Trap for Cinderella" (no worse, but different in atmosphere). "Killer Summer", "Goodbye Friend" - a delight. "Women's Favorite" and "Running Hare Through the Fields"
"The Executioner" is a detective story for a non-sleazy lover.
11. B. Akunin
12. Rex Stout - delicious! real jam.
13. Carter Brown - brash, brazen, humorous and very American style a certain number of years ago (Lieutenant Wheeler is a kind of Dr. House, only serving in the police))
14. Mickey Spilein,
15. D.H. Chase
16. Gaston Leroux. A little boring, IMHO.
17. Headley
18. Maurice and his Arsene Lupin.
19. John Le Carré "Our Game"
http://www.ingushetiya.ru/history/nasha_igra/
20. Dashiell Hammett
http://mydetectiveworld.ru/hemmet.html
21. Perez-Reverte - not militants with elements of a rebus
22. Victor Canning, Passed Pawn.
23. Probably also Ellery Queen. I've only read a couple of books, but my impressions are positive.
24. Chesterton
25. Alistair McLean
26. Jerzy Edigey
27. From modern Russian Malyshev. Especially her early stuff.
28. Priestley - Blackout in Gretley. You can call it a military detective.
29. Have you read Patricia Wentworth? She wrote somewhat earlier than Agatha Christie. Wentworth has a funny detective: Miss Silver is an old maid, a former governess.
30. Charles Snow - a great detective "Death under sail"? This is a very worthy detective. http://lib.ru/INPROZ/SNOW/snow.txt
31. Nora Roberts - not a classic, but something nice. There is a reflection.
32. Chandler, http://www.lib.ru/DETEKTIWY/CHANDLER/
33. Eksbrayya, http://publ.lib.ru/ARCHIVES/E/EKSBRAYYA_Sharl "/_Eksbrayya_Sh..html
34. Andras Totis, http://lib.ru/DETEKTIWY/TOTIS/
35. Ross Thomas, http://lib.aldebaran.ru/author/tomas_ross/
36. Penticost http://lib.ru/DETEKTIWY/PENTIKOST/
37. Boileau-Narsejac. "The one that was gone." And other books too.
38. Alistair McLean
39. Yu. Semenov - why not political detectives?
40. Robert Ludlem
41. Try reading Lillian Brown's The Cat Who. There are about 20 very cute classic detectives, I love them.
42. If you like historical detectives - a series of novels by Ellis Peters about Cadfael's brother.
43. There is a wonderful Phyllis Dorothy James - this is no longer a historical detective, but an ordinary one.
44. Ed McBain is a good cop novel.
45. Patricia Cornell - gloomy and naturalistic, but generally not badly written.
46. ​​Josephine Tay "Daughter of Time", etc.
47. Margaret Allingham
48. Dorothy Sayers - almost English. classic;
49. Georgette Heyer
50. Elizabeth Peters - a bit of a lady-adventure-humorous
51. Of ours, I liked Elena Afanasyeva "ne-bud-duroy.ru" and the sequels, but this is not quite a detective story.
52. Robert van Gulik is a classic detective from stylized medieval China. Super.
53. Richard Stark
54. "Conspiracy of the Papers" by David Liss. I highly recommend it to you, it's amazing. a solid English novel, but also very good as a detective story.
55. Umberto Eco "The Name of the Rose" - a medieval detective, there is both psychology and mysticism.
56. Rebecca de Mornay - psychological detectives from English life in the 19th century.
57. Valeria Verbinina - a series about the agent of the Russian empire Amalia. The action takes place in the 19th century, the heroine is a very charismatic person. There are already about ten books, but what they are good for is that each has its own genre. There is a thriller, there is an ironic, gothic and hermetic detective, there is a western, there is a treasure hunt detective. And in many of the books there are different narrators, so that the familiar heroine appears from the words of other characters - a very interesting effect.
58. From the modern detective story, I do not miss the books of Olga Tarasevich (Artifact Detective series) and Maria Briker (Reality Detective series). Tarasevich builds plots on cultural themes and biographies of famous people of the past ("The Weeping Angel of Chagall", "The Curse of Edvard Munch" - about artists, "Deadly Aroma No. 5" - about Coco Chanel and her famous perfumes). Two tenses are combined in detective stories - the crime in the present is intertwined with the events of the past and the life history of famous people. I still read her books as a cultural guide - biographies simply come to life in them, and it is written very excitingly about the work of artists or a fashion designer. Bricker's plots are quite famously twisted and the characters are very colorful.
59. Chesterton
60. E. Po
61. Forsythe
62. I advise Henning Mankel to everyone. If he made me, not a detective lover, read book after book, then this is a worthy author!
63. Well, and Benakvista and Pennak (stories about Mr. Malosen).
64. Fred Vargas and Jean-Christophe Grange - amazing French detectives. Both write very psychologically, do not come off. But Vargas is more refined, with humor, and Grange has more shocking details and hints of mysticism (but everything turns out to be more prosaic).
65. Eugene Pepperow, one of the most pleasant masters of the short detective story. I advise.
66. Victoria Platova to the list. All things except "Death in fragments of a meben vase", "Nubian cross", "Dance of Lakshmi". That's not her.
67. Mary Higgins Clark One of the best-selling detectives in America and practically unknown in Russia.
68. James Patterson.
69. Were there Weiners? How could it be without them?! Well this is our classic detective!
The most famous and read most often (and most loved):
"Visit to the Minotaur", "The Cure for Fear", "The Noose and the Stone in the Green Grass" and so on.
70. Ellery Queen. Also a classic of the genre.
Here you can read his things: http://www.2lib.ru/getbook/6251.html
"Sanatorium of death". I really liked it.
71. Anton Chizh and his "Divine Poison". This is an absolutely amazing book! It's a pity that little is known about her. In my opinion, one of the best Russian detectives over the past five years.
72. Gregory McDonald, Fletch series. Masterpiece!
73. Elizabeth George with her magnificent, dare I say it, series about Inspector Linley and Sergeant Havers. .
74. Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus series.
75. Jeffrey Deaver and his books about Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs.
76. Natalia Solntseva, modern author of mystical detective stories:) http://www.solntseva.com/
77. S. Rodionov, "Long business" - Soviet detective. Super!
78. Gregory Macdonald
79. Elmore Leonard.
80. There is also a good Scottish detective - Ian Rankin.
81. And my aunt writes well about maniacs (but painfully naturalistic, for an amateur) - Val McDermit.
82. Elizabeth George with her magnificent, dare I say it, series about Inspector Linley and Sergeant Havers. It's strange that she wasn't named.
83. Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus series.
84. Jeffrey Deaver and his books about Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs.
85. Another very popular guys in the West - Jeffrey Deaver
86. Michael Connelly
87. Lee Child
88. Harlan Coben
89. David Baldacci
90. Popular aunts - Cathy Reichs
91. Karyn Slaughter
92. Joanna Khmelevskaya. Everything is red. What the dead man said. Ancestral wells.
Although sometimes her works are called an ironic detective, she has nothing in common with Dontsova, or with all other "ironic detectives". There is a humorous wrapper, but at the core there is a real classic detective story.
Panya Vanya can be found here -
http://lib.ru/DETEKTIWY/HMELEVSKA/
93. Lev Sheinin "Notes of the Investigator". The author is painfully ambiguous, but in fact it is a detective story. Although I would rather consider it from a historical standpoint - as another look at the USSR.