After reading TAKEN last year, I discovered I really like Robert Crais' books. I'm a little late to the fan party, I know--the man has written a good bookshelf full of mysteries.So I picked up his recent release, SUSPECT. The book opens with a chapter written from a military K-9 dog's perspective; I was choked up by page ten... As a writer, it left me in awe. Don't we all wish we could write that powerful of a story?
How about you, readers and writers? Which author do you admire?
Fleur, I enjoy reading books from nearly all genres except romance and one of my favourites is spy/espionage fiction, especially the very conservative thrillers by the late Craig Thomas. They have none of the glamour associated with, say, a Tom Clancy novel but the elderly Kenneth Aubrey of British Intelligence is a very realistic and grounded intel op whom I have grown rather fond of over the years.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever read any of Craig Thomas' work. It's going on my list :-)
ReplyDeleteStephen King. J.K. Rowling. Though it might be closer to "worship" than "admire."
ReplyDeleteI loved King's book on the Kennedy assassination. Brilliant. Still not a Potter fan--maybe someday :-)
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