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There is a lot of discussion about diversity and reading authors that are not white and male and although personally I am all about the book itself and not who wrote it or their identifying characteristics, I have found that I do read a great deal of female authors. I believe that this is because the mystery/crime/detective fiction genre has such an extraordinary bounty of these talented females. So with all that being said, how many of these female authors have you read?

Author - Sample Work

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Margery Allingham - More Work for the Undertaker & The Tiger in the Smoke

Ngaio Marsh - Light Thickens & Overture to Death

Caroline Graham - The Killings at Badger’s Drift

Dorothy L. Sayers - The Nine Tailors

Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places

S.J. Bolton - Sacrifice

Mo Hayder - Poppet

M.C. Beaton - The Quiche of Death

P.D. James - The Private Patient

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Tana French - In the Woods

Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr. Ripley

Camilla Lackberg - The Ice Princess

Margaret Millar - Beast in View

Mary Roberts Rinehart - The Circular Staircase

Donna Tartt - The Secret History