Category
page 1American women mystery writers
Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short story writer (1921–1995)
Mary Higgins Clark
American author of suspense novels (1927–2020)
Nora Roberts
American romance writer
Patricia Cornwell
American novelist, journalist, biographer
Shirley Jackson
American writer (1916-1965)

Sue Grafton
American writer (1940-2017)
Gillian Flynn
American author and critic
Donna Leon
American crime novelist (born 1942)

Diana Gabaldon
American author (born 1952)

Rita Mae Brown
novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist (born 1944)
Leigh Brackett
American novelist and screenwriter (1915–1978)

Kathy Reichs
American writer and forensic anthropologist
Elizabeth George
American mystery and thriller writer

Charlaine Harris
American writer
Jane Smiley
American novelist

Karin Slaughter
American crime writer

Harley Jane Kozak
American actress and writer
Kate Wilhelm
American science fiction writer (1928-2018)
Sandra Brown
American author
Anna Katharine Green
novelist (1846-1935)
Sheri S. Tepper
American science fiction, horror and mystery novelist (1929–2016)
Megan Abbott
American writer
Phyllis A. Whitney
American writer
Janet Evanovich
American novelist
Margaret Truman
American author of murder mysteries; daughter of 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman (1924-2008)
Sara Paretsky
American author of detective fiction
Lilian Jackson Braun
American mystery writer (1913-2011)
Isabel Briggs Myers
American writer (1897–1980)
Mary Roberts Rinehart
American mystery writer (1876–1958)
Katherine Neville
American novelist (born 1945)
Laura Lippman
American detective fiction writer
Nancy Grace
American legal commentator, television host, television journalist, and former prosecutor
Rachel Caine
American author
Barbara Mertz
American novelist and Egyptologist (1927–2013)
Nevada Barr
American novelist
Barbara Hambly
American fiction writer
Jane Jensen
video game designer
Margaret Millar
American-Canadian mystery and suspense writer
Faye Kellerman
American writer of mystery novels
Linda Howard
American writer
Margaret Maron
American crime fiction writer (1938–2021)
Lisa Gardner
American author
Martha Grimes
American crime writer and literature professor

Vera Caspary
American writer (1899–1987)
Margaret Neilson Armstrong
American designer, illustrator, and author (1867-1944)

Dorothy B. Hughes
American writer (1904-1993)
Marcia Muller
American author of fictional mystery and thriller novels
Shana Alexander
American journalist (1925–2005)
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
American writer and editor

Carol Higgins Clark
American novelist (1956–2023)
Nancy Springer
American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction
Charlotte Armstrong
American writer (1905–1969)
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
novelist (1926-2003)
Carolyn Hart
American mystery writer
Dorothy Uhnak
American novelist (1930-2006)
Mignon G. Eberhart
novelist (1899–1996)
Mary Rosenblum
American novelist and short-story writer
Lisa Jackson
American romance novelist
Nancy Pickard
American writer
Carolyn Wells
American humorist, poet, writer of children's works and mystery stories (1862–1942)