Josephine Tey
Pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh , a Scottish author
women mystery writers
Ruth Rendell
English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford
Donna Leon
American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy, featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti
Carolyn Keene
Pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Shirley Jackson
American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery
P. D. James
English novelist and life peer
Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley
Georgette Heyer
English novelist and short-story writer, in both the regency romance and detective fiction genres
Gillian Flynn
American writer
Miles Franklin
Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936.
She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers’ organisations