 | From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £0.01 This was the first Cornwell book I read and I was hooked - instantly!
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 | Split Second (Maggie O'Dell Novels) by Alex Kava
Buy used from: £0.01 I stumbled across this writer by accident and rushed out to buy her other novels - immediately!
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 | Ice Station by Matthew Reilly
Buy used from: £0.01 Highly improbable action scenes but what an andrenaline rush!
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 | The Stand (The Complete and Uncut Edition) by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 What a craftsman! What a tale! I enjoyed this book enormously.
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 | Needful Things by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 Mr King gets several mentions. He is a master of his craft - I read this tome several times
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 | Christine by Stephen King
Buy used from: £0.01 I read this one as a schoolgirl and it made an impression on me that I have never forgotten discovering this writer
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 | Thinner by Richard Bachman
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 This is the one that got me hooked on Stephen King!
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 | Tripwire: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.00 What can I say? Jack Reacher is my kind of guy and Lee Child is some writer!
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 | Killing Floor by Lee Child
Buy new: £4.08 / Used from: £0.01 The pages were turned so quickly on this book I thought I was in the middle of a hurricane!
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 | The Visitor: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
Buy new: £4.01 / Used from: £0.01 Another great book from a great British writer. I enjoy all of Lee Child's offerings enormously
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 | The Keep by F. Paul Wilson
Buy used from: £1.91 Amazing book, amazing series. I read this book and rushed out to buy the others written by this author - so will you!
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 | Nightkill by F. Paul Wilson
Buy new: £23.95 / Used from: £0.60 Yes, Repairman Jack. One of the most fleshed out tough good guys I have ever encountered.
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 | The Touch by F. Paul Wilson
Buy used from: £0.01 One of the best books I have ever read - and I have read many, many thousands! Try this writer - you will like!
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 | Birdman by Mo Hayder
Buy used from: £0.01 I was really gripped by this book, the first I had read by this author; but not the last
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 | Abel's Daughter by Meg Hutchinson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Something different to my usual but I was struck by how well this author writes.
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 | Watchers by Dean Koontz
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 If you are into horror please buy this book. I was sucked in and no food was cooked, dishes washed...you get the picture!
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 | Lightning by Dean Koontz
Buy new: £6.24 / Used from: £0.01 Extraordinarily good book. I have given this book to friends to read and bought it again several times to re-read it myself!
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 | Strangers by Dean Koontz
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.00 Mr Koontz does it again. He can weave several storylines amongst some of the best developed charaterisations I have ever come across.
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 | The Ladykiller by Martina Cole
Buy used from: £0.01 The first book I read by Martina Cole and I think it is her best
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 | Relics by Shaun Hutson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Shaun Hutson's efforts of late have sometimes been overly violent but this one gripped me from start to finish. Violent? Yes, but not gratuitous.
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 | Death Day by Shaun Hutson
Buy used from: £0.01 I can only make room on this list for one more of Mr Hutson's offerings and this is it. I could not put it down
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 | Our Kid by Billy Hopkins
Buy used from: £0.01 Another change. Billy Hopkins tells a story with skill and sensitivity. I found myself veering between laughter and tears - and back again - as I read this. I cried again when I finished it!
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 | The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 Amazing! Tess Gerritsen reminds me of early Patricia Cornwell. A superb writer
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 | Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
Buy used from: £1.64 It was hard to decide which of Jeffrey Archer's novels to include on this list. I have selected the one that made the biggest impression on me
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 | The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 What self-respecting list would be complete without a Sidney Sheldon novel? A dark, exciting writer.
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