Brits write better historical fiction (e.g. Lindsay Davis, Barbara Cleverly, Ellis Peters etc.).|||Ed McBain has no peer on this side of the pond, nor does Michael Connolly, but the strange thing is that the British female crime-writers are better than their American counterparts - Sue Grafton excepted, but then she is a one-off|||I still disagree on this. Here are more examples of truly superb Brit crime fiction: Peter Dickinson, Reginald Hill, Colin Dexter, Minette Walters. These are superior to most and the equal of any American crime writer.
btw, I'm not a Brit, I'm American!
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|||I agree|||I agree totally.|||"dead men are heavier than broken hearts"...love it, think you're right x|||Yes, but I think it's because what we in the US think of as contemporary crime novels are considered by British to be coarse and rude. Even when they are writing novels set in the present day, the language and behavior sometimes seem quaint and old-fashioned to the US reader. Not to mention they don't embrace gun culture as heartily as we do, giving a totally different feel to their fiction.|||I say rubbish. Ever heard of Ian Rankin, Ruth Rendell or P.D. James??
But I'll grant the Brits may well do historical crime fiction better.|||I totally agree with you
they are great
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good luck|||Definitely agree. James Elroy and Elmore Leonard write the best crime fiction anywhere. In fact I read more US fiction now than anything else; it is almost invariably of a very high standard.|||I may love Tami Hoag (US) but you can't beat Ian Rankin - if only the man could write as fast as I read....
how many of each have you read?|||Americans don't write much historical crime because we are such a young country. Our history during the days of Sherlock Holmes focuses more on the Gold Rush, Civil War, and Westerns. A crime written during that era is not listed as a crime novel so much as a western. Edgar Allen Poe is considered to be the father of the crime detective.
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