Mystery and Thriller Authors
- Peter Abrahams
- Douglas Adams
- Jane Adams
- Patrick H Adkins
- Elizabeth Adler
- Jerry Ahern
- Paco Ahlgren
- Joan Aiken
- Susan Wittig Albert
- Bryony Allen
- Margery Allingham
- Madelyn Alt
- Steve Alten
- Eric Ambler
- Mary Kay Andrews
- Matilde Asensi
- Isaac Asimov
- Nancy Atherton
- Lori Avocato
- Deb Baker
- S. H. Baker
- David Baldacci
- Robert Barnard
- Lorna Barrett
- L.L. Bartlett
- M. C. Beaton
- Charles Benoit
- Ron & Janet Benray
- Peter Blauner
- Lawrence Block
- Sam Bourne
- Ray Bradbury
- Kathy Brandt
- Lilian Jackson Braun
- Elizabeth Bright
- Carl Brookins
- Christopher Brookmyre
- Dan Brown
- Rita Mae Brown
- Wanda E Brunstetter
- Julia Buckley
- Emma Bull
- Mark Burnell
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Andrea Camilleri
- Aifric Campbell
- Chester D. Campbell
- Truman Capote
- Stephen L. Carter
- John Case
- Raymond Chandler
- G. K. Chesterton
- Lee Child
- Laura Childs
- Agatha Christie
- Tom Clancy
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Mary Jane Clark
- Jane K. Cleland
- Judy Clemens
- Harlan Coben
- Jeffrey Cohen
- Martina Cole
- Wilkie Collins
- Michael Connelly
- Robin Cook
- Patricia Cornwell
- Douglas Coupland
- Joseph Cowley
- Cleo Coyle
- Robert Crais
- Michael Crichton
- Lonnie Cruse
- Jennifer Crusie
- Clive Cussler
- Spencer Dane
- Diane Mott Davidson
- Lindsey Davis
- Marele Day
- Marquis de Sade
- Jeffery Deaver
- Nelson Demille
- Peter Dickinson
- Garry Disher
- Deborah Donnelly
- Eileen Dreyer
- Alice Duncan
- Carola Dunn
- Dorothy Dunnett
- Francis Durbridge
- Doranna Durgin
- Umberto Eco
- James Ellroy
- Janet Evanovich
- Jimmie Ruth Evans
- Barbara Ewing
- Linda Fairstein
- Monica Ferris
- Jasper Fforde
- Ian Fleming
- Earlene Fowler
- Kathryn Fox
- Dick Francis
- Antonia Fraser
- Shelly Fredman
- Nicci French
- Tana French
- John Galavan
- Alton Gansky
- Anne George
- Elizabeth George
- Michael Gilbert
- Hal Glatzer
- Glen David Gold
- Alan Gordon
- Sue Grafton
- Caroline Graham
- Graham Greene
- Susannah Gregory
- Lois Greiman
- Zane Grey
- Martha Grimes
- John Grisham
- Michael Gruber
- Carolyn Haines
- Karen Hall
- Dashiell Hammett
- Cyril Hare
- Karen Harper
- Thomas Harris
- Robert Heinlein
- Dee Henderson
- David Hewson
- Georgette Heyer
- Patricia Highsmith
- Reginald Hill
- Tami Hoag
- Robin Hobb
- Kay Hooper
- Terry Hoover
- Lindy S. Hudis
- Joris-Karl Huysmans
- Roberta Isleib
- Shirley Jackson
- Dean James
- P.D. James
- Pamela James
- Iris Johansen
- Sahr Johnny
- Jeanne Kalogridis
- Brian Kavanagh
- Mary Jean Kelso
- Harry Kemelman
- Claire Kilroy
- Alice Kimberly
- Laurie R King
- Stephen King
- Dean Koontz
- Jon Krakauer
- Vicki Lane
- RD Larson
- Victoria Laurie
- John le Carre
- Stephen Leather
- Maurice Leblanc
- Debra Lee
- Dennis Lehane
- Lyn LeJeune
- Donna Leon
- Elmore Leonard
- Paul Levine
- Brian Lewis
- Laura Lippman
- David Liss
- Peter Lovesey
- Robert Ludlum
- Ed Lynskey
- John D. MacDonald
- Patrick Mackeown
- Molly MacRae
- Henning Mankell
- Irene Marcuse
- Javier Marias
- Jeffrey Marks
- Ngaio Marsh
- Francine Mathews
- Charles McCarry
- Val McDermid
- Patrick McGrath
- G. A. McKevett
- Deon Meyer
- China Mieville
- Maryann Miller
- Alan Mills
- David Mitchell
- John Mortimer
- Walter Mosely
- Michael Murphy
- Magdalen Nabb
- Tom Neale
- Andrew Nugent
- Chuck Palahniuk
- Ellen Pall
- Orhan Pamuk
- Edith Pargeter (aka Ellis Peters)
- Robert B. Parker
- Sandra Parshall
- James Patterson
- Richard North Patterson
- Louise Penny
- Lewis Perdue
- Elliot Perlman
- Elizabeth Peters
- Ellis Peters (Ellis Peters is a pen name; please see "Edith Pargeter")
- Cathy Pickens
- Jodi Picoult
- Neil Plakcy
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Michael Prescott
- Douglas Preston
- Ellery Queen
- Ian Rankin
- Cornelia Read
- Kathy Reichs
- Matthew Reilly
- Anne Rice
- Mike Ricksecker
- Steven Rigolosi
- Nora Roberts
- Peter Robinson
- Lee Roddy
- James Rollins
- S. J. Rozan
- Jed Rubenfeld
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- R. A. Salvatore
- John Sandford
- C. J. Sansom
- Tom Savage
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Ken Scott
- Kitty Sewell
- William Shatner
- June Shaw
- Carole B. Shmurak
- Anita Shreve
- Georges Simenon
- Ginger Simpson
- Murray Sinclair
- Edith Skom
- Karin Slaughter
- Cordwainer Smith
- Martin Cruz Smith
- Lemony Snicket
- Julia Spencer-Fleming
- Richard Stevenson
- Mary Stewart
- Bram Stoker
- Rex Stout
- Theodore Sturgeon
- Denise Swanson
- Leann Sweeney
- Robert K. Tanenbaum
- Peter Temple
- Josephine Tey
- Jim Thompson
- William Trevor
- S. S. Van Dine
- Jack Vance
- Jules Verne
- Salley Vickers
- Minette Walters
- Sarah Waters
- Janice Weber
- H.G. Wells
- Patricia Wentworth
- Edward Whittemore
- Sharon Wildwind
- Charles Willeford
- Connie Willis
- David Wolstencroft