Here are the names of women writers highlighted by bloggers in the Sisters in Crime 25th Anniversary Book Bloggers’ Challenge. (By the way, it’s not too late to join, The deadline is “whenever.”) Linked names go to blog posts; the names in bulleted lists are writers who are in some way similar. Thanks to all those who have participated – we’ve come up with a long and varied list!
Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (Carolyn Keene)
- Dorothy Sayers
- Ngaio Marsh
- Carol O’Connell
- Frances Fyfield
- Jennifer McMahon
- Cornelia Read
M. C. Beaton (pseudonym of Marion Chesney) (more than once) (and yet again)
Zenith Jones Brown (aka David Frome and Leslie Ford)
- Denise Mina
- Helene Tursten
- Aline Templeton
Karin Fossum (more than once) (and yet again)
- Ruth Rendell
- Karin Alvtegen
- Dorothy B. Hughs
- Denise Mina
- Margaret Maron
- Jennifer McMahon
- Karin Alvtegen
- Camilla Ceder
- Diane Janes
Dorothy Gilman (more than once)
- Mari Jungstedt
- Elaine Viets
- Liza Marklund
- Barbara Vine
- Diane Janes
- Morag Joss
- Yrsa Sigurdardottir
- Minette Walters
- Liza Cody
Katherine Howell (more than once)
Lene Kaaberol and Agnete Friis
- Sara Paretsky
- Liza Marklund
- Abigail Padgett
- Carol Schmurak
- Elly Griffiths
- Sisal Jo-Gazan
Asa Larsson (more than once) (and yet again)
- Karin Alvtegen
- Karin Fossum
- Laura Lippman
- Stef Penney
- Camilla Ceder
- Kersten Ekman
- Dana Stabenow
- Asa Larsson
- R. J. Harlick
Lucy Beatrice Malleson (aka Anthony Gilbert and other pseudonyms)
- Denise Mina
- Alex Carr / Jennie Siler
- Asa Larsson
Ellis Peters (Edith Pargeter) (more than once)
- Teresa Solano
- Donna Moore
- Leigh Redhead
Evelyn Piper (pseudonym of Mary Modell)
Dell Shannon (pseudonym of Elizabeth Linington)
- Mary Logue
- Yrsa Sigurdardottir
- Leena Lehtolainen
- Jessica Mann
- Esther Verhoef
- Yaba Badoe
- Aly Monroe
- Jacqueline Winspear
- Andrea Maria Schenkel
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What a great list! I’m bookmarking this post. Shockingly tardily, I am nearly at the end of this challenge – one more to go, I think!
Maxine, you are the most prolific of posters – in general, but particularly for this challenge. this list would be half its length without your contributions. I’m in awe of your knowledge of the genre.
Shout-out to Bernadette, Jose Ignacio, and all the others who participated for compiling such an international list..
Actually, I did 3 SinC25 posts in addition to the one mentioned here:
http://elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/search/label/SinC25
Of course! I should have remembered that. I will add them into this post. I lazily thought Google would uncover all the posts for me (in place of a memory that works) but it wasn’t as obliging as I’d hoped. Thanks for alerting me, and sorry for the leaky memory.
Ditto on the great list, which I’m bookmarking and will return to many times as I look for more women authors to enjoy.
Isn’t “Miranda James” a pseudonym for Dean James?
Liz
Er … you’re right. Well, he fooled us! Good catch.