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Crime books

[(Anonymous)]

I really want to get into reading crime novels but I've no idea where to begin! I'd prefer ones that have "unique" or interesting murders, though I'd also love a good heist story! Believable plot twists that you don't see coming are my favourite kinds of stories.

Any suggestions for authors/books?

Re: Crime books

[(Anonymous)]

I'd just like to recommend Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christy (on the classic tip) and Donald E Westlake for something not from the 30s (and also more a heist type of thing; the Dortmunder books are particularly fun)

Re: Crime books

[(Anonymous)]

Lector Hannibal trilogy

Re: Crime books

[morieris]

Flower Net and Dragon Bones are part of the same series. Admittedly, I have yet to read them, but everything else I've read by the author is engaging.

Re: Crime books

[dreemyweird]

Chesterton! ...although "believable plot twists" is not exactly about him. His crimes always have complicated psychological pretext, it's not like "the murderer banged his victim with an iron pan and dragged them to the basement in order to hide the body from his wife", it's more like "the murderer banged his victim with a huge silver cross, because he felt like they deserved symbolical justice for cheating on their wife with an Asian, thus betraying their culture and people".

Agatha Christie's seconded; Rex Stout - I love him for his descriptions of food (but the crimes are also good).

I do suspect that you already read Conan Doyle.

Also a somewhat more obscure stuff (read: MUCH more obscure stuff) - a trilogy "The Patient's Eyes"-"The Night Calls"-"The Dark Water". Features Conan Doyle and his mentor Joseph Bell, the/a model for Sherlock Holmes. Events are fictional, but wonderfully tied with the historical ones. Grim Victorian atmosphere comes as a bonus.

Re: Crime books

[mekkio]

Get your hands on the Jack Taylor novels by Ken Bruen. (Starting off with The Guards then The Killing of Tinkers.) He does crime noir set in Galway, Ireland. (How many crime series can you say are set in Ireland?) The murders are brutal and never dull. Plus, the lead character is a kicked out cop turned PI who is God's punching bag in the series. Everything happens to him. His friends are murdered, he gets beat up to within an inch of his life, he loses body parts and he is also an alcoholic junkie. He is such a mess.

I can not recommend it enough.

Re: Crime books

[dethtoll]

Warren Ellis has a couple books out that I found are really good. "Crooked Little Vein" probably doesn't match your criteria but it's one of the funniest things I've read in months. "Gun Machine" is a much more serious work, but I think it suits your parameters much better.

For classic authors I'd recommend Raymond Chandler; James Ellroy is a good choice for more recent works, many of them set in 1940s Los Angeles.

Re: Crime books

[dreemyweird]

Yes, Chandler! His Marlowe is one of these rare human detectives. Usually they're either angels or fucked up geniuses. (not that I mind)

Re: Crime books

[loracarol]

Would you mind a non-fiction book about "unique" murders?

Edit misread your comment, looks like you're looking for fiction, sorry!

Re: Crime books

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP, but would you mind telling me what that book is anyway? Sounds right up my alley. =D

Re: Crime books

[loracarol]

YES. Yes I can! :3

The first one is "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York", which is all about poison the Jazz Age. The second one is "The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements" which is more about the periodic table in general, but has some cool poison things too. :D

Re: Crime books

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Okay, I've checked them out and they both sound amazing. Also, they're both available at my favourite library! *beams* Guess I know what I'll be checking out this week when I head there~ Thank you so much for the recs!

Re: Crime books

[loracarol]

Yay! I really hope you enjoy them~

Re: Crime books

[(Anonymous)]

In the same vein: if you haven't already read it, there's Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, about the career (coinciding with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition) of H. H. Holmes, America's first urban serial killer.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! Non-fiction is fine too, sorry! Anything that's an engaging read <3 (i already read your reply to the other anon so that's ok!)

Re: OP

[loracarol]

I thought they were~ The Poisoner's Handbook moreso then The Disappearing Spoon, but I am also fascinated by the jazz age, so there was more in the background of TPH that I liked, whereas TDS kind of jumped around location wise. (Still love that book, though.)

I hope you like them! It doesn't only talk about the murderous applications of poisons; TPH also discusses the effects of CO2 on the human body, and how they figured that out (as cars were just becoming A Thing, and thus they had bodies that had not yet been too badly affected by CO2, and bodies that had), and it talks about how they figured out the blood alcohol measurement rubric- in the middle of the prohibition!

...I really like this book. :D

Re: Crime books

[(Anonymous)]

I'd recommend Minette Walters' books. They're (quite) disturbing, but very well written psychological crime thrillers. They're all stand alone as well, so each one has completely different characters and crimes, which I appreciate in a market saturated with multiple book series. I'd start with The Ice House, her first, to see if you like her style. (Quite a few of her books have been turned into BBC miniseries as well, including The Ice House, which stars a young Daniel Craig as the detective, so you could even check that one out and at least enjoy the eye candy if you don't like the story...)

Re: Crime books

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't read any of them but my mum loves C. J. Sansom's Shardlake series. They're set in the 16th century and quite popular? That's pretty much all I know about them.