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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She has sold over two billion books worldwide and has been translated into over 45 languages. Read More

Jilliane Hoffman

Queen of the pyschological thriller, Jilliane Hoffman has first hand experience of being at the frontline of complex criminal investigations. She's a former Assistant State Attorney Read More

Jack Higgins

Read exclusive extracts from Jack's latest Sean Dillion thrillers The Wolf at the Door and A Darker Place Read More

Ngaio Marsh

Killer Reads presents one of the Queens of the Crime Wrting Golden age, New Zealand's finest Ngaio Marsh Read More

Faye Kellerman

Faye Kellerman has been writing page turning crime novels featuring Peter Decker for more than twenty years and has a legion of fans the world over. Working for the LAPD, Decker has dealt with his fare share of grisly crimes over the years and Blindman’s Buff is arguably one of… Read More

Michael Crichton

He has sold more than 150 million books, and his books have been translated into thirty-six languages and thirteen have been made into films. He is also the creator of the television series ER. He is the only person to have had, at the same time, the Number One book, movie and TV show in the United States. Read More

Jon Stock

Jon Stock is currently Weekend editor of the Telegraph. He is the author of two novels, 'The Riot Act' and the 'Cardamom Club', and is also a columnist with The Week magazine in India. Related news - http://killerreads.wpengine.com/a-note-from-the-editors-desk/ Read More

James Steel

Writer and journalist James Steel is the author of the recently published December. An utterly compelling and thrilling ride through the new ‘European cold war’. He has very kindly filled in the Killer Reads  author questionnaire… Killer Reads: When did you start writing? James Steel: I first put pen to paper roughly ten years… Read More

Desmond Bagley

Desmond Bagley was one of a group of writers including Alistair MacLean and Jack Higgins who contributed greatly to the modern concept of action thrillers. Read More

Charles Cumming

Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. Educated at Eton, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1994 with First Class Honours in English Literature. The Observer has described him as “the best of the new generation of British spy writers… Read More

Sam Bourne

Sam Bourne is a pseudonym for Jonathan Freedland, an award-winning journalist and broadcaster who writes a weekly column in the Guardian, as well as a monthly piece for the Jewish Chronicle. He also presents BBC Radio 4’s contemporary his… Read More

John Drake

Having trained as a biochemist to the level of post-graduate doctorate, John Drake realised he wasn’t much good at science. In 1975, he got a job with ICI Pharmaceuticals in drug registration and licensing, before ending up in the TV production unit. it was here that John found his most… Read More