# Recommend me some decent crime novels?

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**Created:** [September 19, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-some-decent-crime-novels/510759 "2009-09-19T23:29:02Z")\
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Another Robert Crais fan here. It’s funny, I never see or hear any other mention of him, no write-ups, no movie adaptions. I’ve been rereading his books on my Nook so it’s great to meet other fans.

Michael Connolly and Ian Rankin are the two I recommend most often. You can’t go wrong with their books.

I don’t think anyone has mentioned **Dick Francis** –only up to the mid-80s books though and certainly not the ones co-written with his son.

**Sue Grafton** ’s Kinsey Milhorne series is similar, in that both authors have a spare writing style. Sometimes overly elaborate plots and double- and triple-twist endings are just too much.

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