Val McDermid

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1. Val McDermid

   Author of The Mermaids Singing, The Distant Echo, Killing the Shadows

2. Ian Rankin

   Author of Fleshmarket Close, Black and Blue, The Flood

3. Peter Robinson

   Author of In a Dry Season, Past Reason Hated, Wednesday's Child

4. Elizabeth George

   Author of A Great Deliverance, A Traitor to Memory, A Suitable Vengeance

5. Minette Walters

   Author of The Shape of Snakes, The Breaker, Fox Evil

6. Reginald Hill

   Author of Dialogues of the Dead, Pictures of Perfection, A Pinch of Snuff

7. Claire McNab

   Author of Death Down Under, Fatal Reunion, Cop Out

8. Ruth Rendell

   Author of The Babes in the Wood, The Rottweiler, A Sleeping Life

9. Mark Billingham

   Author of Sleepyhead, Lazybones, Lifeless

10. Deborah Crombie

    Author of A Share in Death, All Shall Be Well, And Justice There is None

11. Katherine V. Forrest

    Author of Daughters of a Coral Dawn, Amateur City, An Emergence of Green

12. Stephen Booth

    Author of Black Dog, Blood on the Tongue, Blind to the Bones

13. Denise Mina

    Author of Garnethill, Field of Blood, Exile

14. Karin Slaughter

    Author of Blindsighted, Kisscut, Indelible

15. Mo Hayder

    Author of Birdman, The Treatment, Pig Island

16. Ellen Hart

    Author of Hallowed Murder, Stage Fright, A Small Sacrifice

17. Stuart MacBride

    Author of Cold Granite, Dying Light, Broken Skin

18. Peter James

    Author of Dead Simple, Looking Good Dead, Not Dead Enough

19. Jaye Maiman

    Author of I Left My Heart, Someone to Watch, Under My Skin

20. Jeffery Deaver

    Author of The Bone Collector, The Empty Chair, The Coffin Dancer