Eric Ambler
British author of suspended novels, especially spy novels, which introduced a new realism in the genre. He also worked as a screenwriter and used the pseudonym Eliot Reed...
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Crime
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Elisabeth Anglarill
Elisabeth Anglarill, nacida en Barcelona, es escritora, periodista y guionista. Tras varias obras de no ficción, Los malos muertos es su estreno como novelista.
Albert Cornelis Baantjer
He was a Dutch author of police fiction, who worked as a police officer in the city of Amsterdam. He wrote a long series of police novels that revolve around Police Inspe...
Andrea Camilleri
Italian writer, theatrical and television director and novelist. In 1994, the first novel in the series starring Commissioner Montalbano was published, making him one of ...
Javier Cercas
He is a Spanish writer, who also works as a columnist in El País. He worked for years as a university teacher in philology.
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a British Catholic writer, philosopher and journalist from the early 20th century. He cultivated, among other genres, the essay, the narratio...
Agatha Christie
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, better known by the pseudonym of Agatha Christie, was a British writer and playwright specializing in police, for whose work she was internat...
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and doctor, creator of the famous fiction detective Sherlock Holmes. He was a prolific author whose work includes stories...
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell, born Patricia Carroll Daniels, is an American mystery writer, known mainly for her series of novels starring forensic doctor Kay Scarpetta.
Lindsey Davis
He studied English literature at Oxford. Fascinated by archaeology, he is the author of the political-historical novels, set in ancient Rome, starring Marco Didio Flaco a...
Paul C. Doherty
He was born in 1946 in Middlesbrough, England. He studied history at the universities of Liverpool and Oxford where he obtained a PhD with a thesis on Edward II and Eliza...
James Ellroy
American writer, author of the novels on which the L.A. Confidential and La Dalia Negra film successes are based.
Janet Evanovich
Janet Evanovich is an American writer. He began his career writing short romantic stories under the artistic name Steffie Hall, but obtained recognition in writing Stepha...
M. J. Fernández
Prominent writer of a police novel known to have exercised medicine for more than thirty years before becoming a writer. Her parents emigrated from Spain many years ago, ...
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
Spanish novelist. Planeta 2020 Award with the novel "Aquitaine" and author of the phenomena of the "Kraken Series" and the "Trilogy of the Longevos.".
Juan Gómez-Jurado
Journalist and author of several very successful novels, translated into forty languages. "Red Queen," "Black Loba" and "White King" have become a sales phenomenon and ha...
Sue Grafton
Sue Taylor Grafton is an American writer, author of detective novels. His best known work is the series of chronological mystery novels. They are known as "the novels of ...
Dashiell Hammett
American writer of black novel, short stories and film scripts, as well as political activist. Among the most remembered characters he created are Sam Spade (The Maltese ...
Holly Jackson
Holly Jackson writes from a very young age, so much, that she finished her first, and bad, novel at age 15. He lives in London and, in addition to reading and writing, li...
P.D. James
Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL, known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective no...
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American writer known for his horror novels. King's books have been very often on the supersales lists.
Camilla Lackberg
Popular Swedish writer of police novels. His books are in Fjällbanka, a small city on the western Swedish coast, and his protagonists are the Patrik Hedström police and t...
Stieg Larsson
Swedish journalist and writer who jumped to fame after his death, with the publication of the Millennium trilogy.
Pierre Lemaitre
French writer and screenwriter, winner of the 2013 Goncourt Award with his novel "See you up there.".
Donna Leon
Professor and writer, he is known for his novels starring Venetian Commissioner Guido Brunetti, a central character of his entire work and which Donna Leon created in the...
Juan Marsé
Juan Marsé Carbó ("Juan Marsé Carbó") was a Spanish novelist from the so-called 50 generation, specifically from the so-called School of Barcelona, which involved his fri...
Pedro Martí
Diplomado en Magisterio especializado en inglés. Autor de las novelas protagonizadas por el inspector Giralt: La pieza invisible y Donde lloran los demonios (Ediciones Do...
Ibon Martín
Spanish journalist, studied Communication and Journalism at the University of the Basque Country. After graduating, he went on to work for various local media, which he c...
Alejandro Martínez Gallo
He is a Bachelor of Philosophy, Political Sciences and Education Sciences. He was an officer of the Army and head of the local police of Astorga (León) and Langreo (Astur...
Carmen Mola
Carmen Mola is the pseudonym used by three Spanish writers, who came out of anonymity in 2021 when receiving the Planet price.
Rosa Montero
Novelist and Spanish journalist, known by 'La hija del cannibal' and his series on the android "Bruna Husky.".
Jo Nesbo
Norwegian writer and musician. Leader and singer of the Norwegian rock band Di Derre and author of the novels starring Harry Hole.
María Oruña
She was a law degree for ten years as a labour and commercial lawyer. In 2015, Ediciones Destino published his first black novel, Puerto escuchando, which was translated ...
Richard Osman
Richard Thomas Osman is a comedian, producer, television presenter, English writer and the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One Pointless TV show.
Louise Penny
Canadian writer, author of the saga of which Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is the protagonist, set in the Québec.
Arturo Pérez Reverte
Spanish writer and journalist, member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2003. Former RTVE correspondent and a prominent reporter in various armed conflicts and wars, he ...
Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin is a British writer of police novel. His best known works are those starring Inspector John Rebus.
Óscar Reboiras
Oscar Reboiras is a Galician writer. He studied Journalism at the University of Santiago de Compostela and works professionally in the field of digital marketing and corp...
Dolores Redondo
Dolores Redondo is the author of the Baztan Trilogy, the most important literary phenomenon in Spanish in recent years. The three deliveries, The invisible guardian, Lega...
Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the Maisie Dobbs series, of which several titles have been bestsellers of the New York Times.