List of thriller writers

This is a list of thriller or suspense novelists.Note that some of these may overlap with authors of crime, mystery or spy fiction.

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A

* Edward S. Aarons
* Jane Adams
* Eric Ambler
* Campbell Armstrong

B

*Desmond Bagley
*David Baldacci
*Ted Bell
*Don Bendell
*Andrew Britton
*Dale Brown
*Dan Brown
*John Buchan

C

*Brian Callison
*Ramsey Campbell
*Victor Canning
*Lee Child
*Lincoln Child
*Tom Clancy
*Mary Higgins Clark
*John le Carré
*Agatha Christie
*Brian Cleeve
*Manning Coles
*Robin Cook
*Stephen Coonts
*Desmond Cory
*Michael Crichton
*Linda Crockett
*Clive Cussler

D

*Jordan Dane
*Len Deighton
*Graham Diamond
*David Dodge
*Jack DuBrul
*Jeff Doyle

E

*Barry Eisler
*Paul Erdman
*Janet Evanovich

F

*Ian Fleming
*Vince Flynn
*Ken Follett
*Dale Ford
*Frederick Forsyth
*Rubem Fonseca
*Celia Fremlin
*Nicci French

G

*John Gardner
*Tess Gerritsen
*Michael Gilbert
*Sue Grafton
*Andrew Greeley
*W.E.B. Griffin
*John Griffiths
*John Grisham
*Michael Gruber (author)
*Elizabeth Gunn
*James Fredericks

H

*Donald Hamilton
*John Harris (writer)
*Robert Harris
*Thomas Harris
*A.J. Hartley
*J.M. Hayes
*Victor Heck
*Jack Higgins
*Qazi Anwar Hussain
*Qazi Mahbub Hussain
*Raelynn Hillhouse
*Rakib Hasan
*Geoffrey Household
*Gwen Hunter
*Stephen Hunter
*Shawkat Hussain

I

*Hammond Innes

J

*PD James
*Geoffrey Jenkins

K

*Alex Kava
*Lauren Kelly
*Simon Kernick
*Raymond Khoury
*Dean R. Koontz
*Jack King
*Tim Krabbé

L

*John LeCarre
*John Lescroart
*Robert Ludlum
*Gavin Lyall
*Gayle Lynds

M

*Alistair MacLean
*Richard Marcinko
*Peter May (writer)
*Ed McBain
*Kenneth McKay
* H. C. McNeile (Sapper)
*Brad Meltzer
*Margaret Millar
*David Morrell
*James Munro
*Margaret Murphy

N

*Ingrid Noll

O

*Perri O'Shaughnessy
*Manning O'Brine
*T. Lynn Ocean

P

*James Patterson
*Richard North Patterson
*Stel Pavlou
*Ridley Pearson
*Hayford Peirce
*Don Pendleton
*Twist Phelan
*Mark Phillips
*James Phelan
*Edgar Allan Poe
*Douglas Preston

Q

*A. J. Quinnell

R

*Christopher Reich
*Kathy Reichs
*Matthew Reilly
*Jim Roberts
*Jeremy Robinson
*Patrick Robinson
*James Rollins
*Hasan Khurshid Rumi
*Craig Russell
*Vladimir Rybakov

S

*Lawrence Sanders
*John Sandford
*John Saul
*Dorothy L. Sayers
*A. T. M. Shamsuddin
*Sidney Sheldon
*Desmond Skirrow
*Rosamond Smith
*Robert Louis Stevenson
*Jason Starr
*Nick Stone
*Lisa Scottoline

T

*Cheryl Kaye Tardif
*Bernard J. Taylor
*James Thayer
*Craig Thomas
*Scott Turow
*James Twining

U

*Lisa Unger

V

*Andrew Vachss

W

*Edgar Wallace
*Michael White
*Stephen White
*Morris West

Y

*Dornford Yates

ee also

*thriller fiction
*spy fiction
*List of crime writers
*List of mystery writers

External links

* International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) at http://www.internationalthrillerwriters.com