A partial and entirely subjective list of my favourite writers
In these pages, you will find all my favourite women mystery writers. It’s an eclectic and entirely subjective list. We will probably disagree - if so, feel free to tell me!
Linda Barnes
Josephine Bell
Pamela Branch
Christianna Brand
Joanna Cannan
Vera Caspary
Sara Caudwell
Agatha Christie
Lisa Cody
Patricia Cornwell
Amanda Cross
Elizabeth Daly
Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson
Lindsay Davis
Sarah Dreher
Helen Eustiss
Katherine Farrer
Elizabeth Ferrers
Mary Fitt
Arianna Franklin
Antonia Fraser
Celia Fremlin
Katherine V Forrest
Patricia Highsmith
Anthony Gilbert (Lucy Malleson)
Sue Grafton
Anna K Green
PD James
Emma Lathen
Hilda Lawrence
Ngaio Marsh
Helen McCloy
Val McDermid
Denise Mina
Marion Millar
Margaret Miller
Anne Morice
Marcia Muller
Gladys Mitchell
Baroness Orckzy
Barbara Paul
Joyce Porter
Sara Paretsky
Ellis Peters
Ruth Rendell
Craig Rice
Dell Shannon
Nancy Spain
Maj Sjowall
Sara Sheridan
Lesley Thomson
Josephine Tey
Dorothy Uhnak
Nicola Upson
Hannah Wakefield
Carolyn Wells
Patricia Wentworth
Mary Wings
Barbara Wilson
Ellen Wilkinson
Ethel Lina White
Elizabeth Woodcraft
Eve Zaremba
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