As you scroll down this page, you'll find an alphabetical list of the Page Erwin's favorite mystery writers as well as interesting links in the following categories: Fun Mystery Sites, Writers' sites and Writer's Resources.

Fun Mystery Sites . . .

www.womeninworldhistory.com - Go to this site for a full listing of historical mysteries with women sleuths.

www.mysterywriters.org - The official website of Mystery Writers of America, an organization for mystery writers and fans alike.

www.sistersincrime.org - promotes the work of women mystery writers and has a large membership of both men and women, authors and fans.

www.sincne.org - If you live in New England and are either a fan or a writer, check out "The Scarlet Letter." It's a great chapter of Sisters in Crime and the site has good listings of events and books by members.

Writers' Sites...

www.archermayor.com - Archer Mayor is a death investigator for Vermont's Chief Medical Examiner, a deputy for the Windham County Sheriff's Department, a volunteer firefighter and the EMT captain of his local rescue squad and still manages to write 17 books in the Joe Gunther series of police novels! Fascinating guy, great writer.

www.erinhart.com - Hart delves deep into the history and traditions of the Irish midlands in her spellbinding novels. Great site with interesting links to a glossary and pronunciation guide to her characters' names, Irish traditional Music and Irish Archaeology sites.

www.louisepenny.com - Louise Penny gives her readers well-wrought mysteries set in rural, southern Quebec. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Quebec, is called to the idyllic village of Three Pines to investigate. Compelling descriptions of both characters and place. 

www.juliaspencerfleming.com - The small town of Miller's Kill in upstate New York provides the setting for the skillfully written mystery series featuring police chief Russ Van Alstyne and the Reverend Clare Fergusson. Spencer-Fleming plenty of suspense and sexual tension to keep the pages turning.

Ross and Carolyn’s Eighty Favorite Mystery Writers

Barr, Nevada - all park ranger books except for the one at the Fla prison.
Bittner, C. Rosann - "Where Heaven Began"
Bloel, Michelle - "The Second Glass of Absinthe"
Bothwick, J.S. - "My Body Lies Over the Ocean"
Bowen, Rhys - "Oh Danny Boy and the sequel"
Burke, James Lee - all
Burke, Alafair, (J.L.’s daughter) - anything
Buckley, Willian F. - any of his spy mysteries
Butler, Gwendolyn - old favorite, all the British Coffin series.Child, Lee - "One Shot"
Coel, Margaret - all
Connelly, Michael - all
Cornwell, Patricia - early ones
Coulter, Catherine - "The Edge"
Delinsky, Barbara - "Lake News"
Doss, James D. - Thought provoking Native American mysteries
Dunning, John - "Two O’Clock Eastern Wartime" (WW II)
Fleming, Julia Spenser - all
Flora, Kate - "Liberty or Death"
Frasier, Margaret - Medieval, all
Frazier, Anne - "SleepTight"
Gautreau, Norman - "Searoom"
George, Elizabeth George - absolutely everything
Gerritson,Tess - the first three
Grimes, Martha - all
Haddam, Ruth - "And One to Die", and all the rest
Hart, Erin - "Lake of Sorrows"
Hillerman, Tony - all, esp. Skin Walkers
Henry, Sue - The Jesse Arnold series
Indridason, Arnaldur - Iceland), esp. "Jar City"
Ironside, Elizabeth - "Death in the Garden"
James,P.D - (All)
Kanon, Joseph - "Los Alamos"
Kellerman, Jonathan - "The Web"
King, Louise - "Folly"
Kirkpatrick, Jane - "No Eye Can See"
Knox, Elizabeth - "Billie’s Kiss"
LeHane, Dennis - "Shelter Island"
Leon, Donna - all about Venice, all fifteen.
Linsley, Clyde - all
Lovesy,  Peter - all his WW II mysteries
Mayor, Archer - all, set in VT, esp. "The Ragman’s Memory"
McCrumb, Sharon - light reading about the Southern mtns.
McGerrity, Mike – all except "Everyone Dies"
Menkel, Henning – Swedish, all
Mitchell, Kirk – "Skyman Falling"
Moyers, Patricia - "Twice in a Blue Moon"
Noyer, Albert - all his 5th. Century mysteries
Parker, Ann - "Silver Lies"
Parker Robert B. - "Sea Change"
Patterson, James - all
Peale, Cynthia - "Murder at Burton’s Bower"
Peck,  Richard - "Dead Pawn"
Penny, Louise - (Canadian) "Still Life"
Perry, Anne - all
Peters, Ellis - still viable, Cadfael series
Polisar, Lisa - "The Ghost of Mary Prairie"
Rankin, Ian - all, esp. ""The Naming of the Dead"
Reichs, Cathy - the early ones
Rendell, Ruth (aka Barbara Vine) - all the Inspector Wexford Series
Robb, Candace - all in the Owen Archer Series, esp. "The Lady’s Chapel"
Sebold, Alice - "Lovely Bones"
Shreve, Anita - "Light on the Snow"
Spears, Jacqueline - "Maisie Dobbs and Birds of a Feather"
Thompson, Victoria - "Murder on Marble Row"
Thurlo, Aimee and David - only their early ones
Todd, Charles (mother/son team) - absolutely everything!
Tracey, P.J. (mother/daughter team) - "Monkey Wrench"
Truman, Margaret - absolutely everything
Turlow, Scott - all
Tursten, Helene - (Swedish) all Inspector Hess mysteries
Vine, Barbara (aka Ruth Rendell) - thrillers, esp. "The Blood Doctor"
Walters, Minette - all
DeWettering, Janwellen - (Dutch)"The Blonde Baboon" and "The Rattle Rat"
White, Ann – "Secrets Dark and Deep"
White, Stephen - (psychologist) all his Boulder, CO mysteries
Wilson, John Morgan - "Blind Justice" and all the Justice series
Woods, Stuart - all, esp. "Black Orchid"
York, Margaret - all her historical mysteries

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