Psychological mysteries
Here the accent is not on the crime and its detection, but on the criminal. Among the authors specializing in this type of novel are:
- Peter Abrahams
- Jane Adams
- Alex Barclay
- Robert Barnard
- Nevada Barr
- Mark Billingham
- Lawrence Block
- Edna Buchanan
- James Lee Burke
- Lee Child
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Thomas H Cook
- Michael Connelly
- John Connolly
- Patricia Cornwell
- Robert Crais
- Michael Dibdin
- Jeffery Deaver
- Earl Emerson
- Linda Fairstein
- Joy Fielding
- Brian Freeman
- Nicci French
- Frances Fyfield
- Lisa Gardner
- Julie Garwood
- Elizabeth George
- Tess Gerritsen
- Mark Gimenez
- James Grippando
- Jane Haddam
- Sophie Hannah
- Thomas Harris
- Patricia Highsmith
- Tami Hoag
- Kay Hooper
- Linda Howard
- P.D. James
- Iris Johansen
- John Katzenbach
- Alex Kava
- Andrew Klavan
- William Landay
- Laura Lipmann
- Phil Lovesey
- Philip M Margolin
- Patricia Macdonald
- Brian McGrory
- Michael Marshall
- Mark Mills
- Richard Montanari
- Ed O'Connor
- Barbara Parker
- T. Jefferson Parker
- James Patterson
- Ridley Pearson
- Thomas Perry
- Scott Phillips
- Sarah Rayne
- Kathy Reichs
- Ruth Rendell
- Karen Robards
- Michael Robotham
- M. J. Rose
- John Sandford
- James Siegel
- Karin Slaughter
- Peter Moore Smith
- Rosamond Smith
- Andrew Vachss
- Barbara Vine
- Minette Walters
- Stephen White
- Kate Wilhelm
- Margaret Yorke






