Top 10 U.S. Crime Writers

     Well, the verdict is in...I have a list of the top ten U.S. crime writers in front of me, thanks to reading Southern Review of Books, a choice reading site of mine.  Would you like to know who they are?  Just look at this list (without the bo-koo millions they make) from top dog to number ten:

1. John Grisham (did you have any doubt?) wrote such famous books as The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Confession,
2. Dan Brown, writer of The Da Vinci Code,
3. Patricia Cornwell, Port Mortuary,
4. Robert Ludlum, the Bourne series,
5. Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park,
6. Michael Connelly, The Fifth Witness,
7. Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs,
8. Elmore Leonard, Road Dogs,
9. Ed McBain, the 87th Precinct series, and
10. James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia.

     I didn't have time or space to list all the other great books they've written.  I'll let you go to our Pines System and check on the books we have here in the library.
     And while I'm at it, maybe you'd like to know who the top ten U.K. crime writers are.  Look at this list:

1. Ian Fleming, writer of the Bond series and (yea!) Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
2. Agatha Christie, the Miss Marple series and the H. Poirot series,
3. Jeffrey Archer, Honor Among Thieves,
4. Jack Higgins, Day of Reconing,
5. Ken Follett, Fall of Giants,
6. Dick Francis, Crossfire,
7. Ruth Rendell, the Inspector Wexford series,
8. Lee Child, the Jack Reacher series,
9. Ian Rankin, Exit Music, and
10. Alexander McCall Smith (my favorite!), the #1 Ladies Detective Agency series.

     Oh, there are just so many good books to read.  Remember, you don't have to go out and buy these books to read them.  We've got tons of them here at the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library.  Just bring in your library card and take home a stack of scarey crime stories to read.  Guaranteed to raise the hair on the back of your neck!
(Source: http://www.anvilpub.net/)