List your 10 current favorite authors..

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. I like your list!

My personal favorites:

Susan Hill--mystery series set in a small English cathedral town that seems remarkably like Wells
Peter Robinson--Yorkshire cop relocated from London
Arnaldur Indridason--police procedurals set in Iceland
Ruth Rendell--wide variety of stories with psychological twists, also the Inspector Wexford series
James Lee Burke--Dave Robicheaux, Cajun retired cop
Faye Kellerman--mysteries featuring a couple who are Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles
Reginald Hill--the Dalziel and Pascoe series
Colin Cotterill--mysteries set in Laos
Peter James--a new discovery--mysteries set in Brighton
James Church--mysteries set in North Korea

Honorable mention: Val McDermid, Deborah Crombie, Elizabeth George, Louise Penny, Karin Fossum, Miyuki Miyabe, Dana Stabenow, Jacqueline Winspeare, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Charles Todd, Ann Cleeves, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, John Sandford (because of the Minnesota connection), William Kent Krueger (another Minnesota author), Andrew Taylor.

All of these are authors whose latest works I look for when I visit my friendly and knowledgeable local mystery bookstore, Uncle Edgar's.

On the whole, I like the Brits when it comes to mysteries. They tend to have more psychological and sociological depth than most American mysteries. I used to read cozies, but I no longer bother.