List of thriller writers

Main article: Thriller (genre)

This is a list of thriller or suspense novelists. Note that some of these may overlap with authors of crime, mystery or spy fiction.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

## A

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* Edward S. Aarons
* Christopher Abani
* Jane Adams
* Eric Ambler
* Gosho Aoyama
* Jeffrey Archer
* Campbell Armstrong
* Ashurbanipal
* Margaret Atwood

## B

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* Desmond Bagley
* David Baldacci
* Ashok Banker
* Iain Banks
* Linwood Barclay
* J.D. Barker
* Nevada Barr
* Earle Basinsky
* Brett Battles
* Ted Bell
* Saul Bellow
* Don Bendell
* Kenneth Benton
* William Bernhardt
* Steve Berry
* Charles Bock
* Roberto Bolaño
* Larry Bond
* Jorge Luis Borges
* Sam Bourne
* T. C. Boyle
* Gary Braver
* Andrew Britton
* Dale Brown
* Dan Brown
* Don Brown
* Sandra Brown
* Robert Gregory Browne
* John Buchan
* Christopher Buckley
* William F. Buckley Jr.
* M. L. Buchman
* Joe Buff
* Alafair Burke
* James Lee Burke
* W.R. Burnett
* William S. Burroughs
* Richard Francis Burton
* A. J. Butcher

## C–D

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* Chelsea Cain
* Tom Cain
* Brian Callison
* Ramsey Campbell
* Stephen J. Cannell
* Victor Canning
* Caleb Carr
* John le Carré
* Leslie Charteris
* Charlie Charters
* James Hadley Chase
* John Cheever
* Lee Child
* Lincoln Child
* Erskine Childers
* Agatha Christie
* Tom Clancy
* Mary Higgins Clark
* Brian Cleeve
* Harlan Coben
* Manning Coles
* Richard Condon
* Michael Connelly
* Joseph Conrad
* Robin Cook
* Stephen Coonts
* Glenn Cooper
* James Fenimore Cooper
* Patricia Cornwell
* Desmond Cory
* Jack Coughlin
* William J. Coughlin
* Harold Coyle
* Joe Craig
* Robert Crais
* Michael Crichton
* Linda Crockett
* Chris Culver
* Charles Cumming
* Clive Cussler
* Brian D'Amato
* Jordan Dane
* Jeffery Deaver
* Len Deighton
* Ted Dekker
* Don DeLillo
* Nelson DeMille
* Alan Dershowitz
* Bill DeSmedt
* P. T. Deutermann
* Graham Diamond
* Philip K. Dick
* William Diehl
* Adam Diment
* Craig Dirgo
* David Docherty
* David Dodge
* Arthur Conan Doyle
* Jack DuBrul
* Alexandre Dumas, père

## E–F

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* Umberto Eco
* C. M. Eddy, Jr.
* Barry Eisler
* J.T. Ellison
* James Ellroy
* Paul Erdman
* Jeffrey Eugenides
* Janet Evanovich
* Linda Fairstein
* Joseph Finder
* Ian Fleming
* Vince Flynn
* Ken Follett
* Allan Folsom
* Rubem Fonseca
* Frederick Forsyth
* Dick Francis
* Brian Freemantle
* Celia Fremlin
* Nicci French
* A. C. Frieden
* Alan Furst
* Frances Fyfield

## G

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* Leighton Gage
* Stephen Gallagher
* Meg Gardiner
* John Gardner
* William Garner
* Tess Gerritsen
* William Gibson
* Michael Gilbert
* Anton Gill
* Robert Goddard
* Steven Gore
* Juan Gómez-Jurado
* Sue Grafton
* Heather Graham
* Winston Graham
* Andrew Grant
* Andrew Greeley
* John M. Green
* Graham Greene
* W.E.B. Griffin
* James Grippando
* John Grisham
* Michael Gruber
* Sara Gruen
* Jan Guillou
* Elizabeth Gunn
* Andrei Gusev

## H

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* H. Rider Haggard
* Brian Haig
* Adam Hall
* Donald Hamilton
* Nick Harkaway
* John Harris
* Robert Harris
* Thomas Harris
* A.J. Hartley
* Rakib Hasan
* Monika Hausammann
* John Twelve Hawks
* Mo Hayder
* J.M. Hayes
* Victor Heck
* Joseph Heller
* Zoë Heller
* Carl Hiaasen
* Jack Higgins
* Patricia Highsmith
* Charlie Higson
* Raelynn Hillhouse
* Tami Hoag
* Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
* Homer
* Anthony Horowitz
* Geoffrey Household
* Dorothy B. Hughes
* E. Howard Hunt
* Gwen Hunter
* Jack D. Hunter
* Stephen Hunter
* Gregg Hurwitz
* Qazi Anwar Hussain
* James Huston

## I–J

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* David Ignatius
* Greg Iles
* Hammond Innes
* Ian Irvine
* Alan Jacobson
* PD James
* Steven James
* Geoffrey Jenkins
* Jerry B. Jenkins

## K–L

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* Joseph Kanon
* John Katzenbach
* Alex Kava
* Faye Kellerman
* Jesse Kellerman
* Jonathan Kellerman
* Lauren Kelly
* Simon Kernick
* Philip Kerr
* Alexander Key
* Raymond Khoury
* Laurie R. King
* Stephen King
* Rudyard Kipling
* Fletcher Knebel
* Dean Koontz
* Tim Krabbé
* Ken Kuhlken
* Ross Laidlaw
* Lori L. Lake
* Jon Land
* Stieg Larsson
* William Lashner
* John le Carré
* William Le Queux
* Stephen Leather
* Harper Lee
* Dennis Lehane
* Elmore Leonard
* Gaston Leroux
* John Lescroart
* Paul Levine
* S. E. Lister
* Robert Littell
* Robert Ludlum
* Gavin Lyall
* Gayle Lynds

## M–N

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* Jonathan Maberry
* John D. MacDonald
* Helen MacInnes
* Ian Mackintosh
* Alistair MacLean
* Norman Mailer
* Richard Marcinko
* Phillip Margolin
* George Markstein
* Stephen Marley
* Ngaio Marsh
* Faith Martin
* Somerset Maugham
* Peter May
* Ed McBain
* Charles McCarry
* Val McDermid
* Andy McDermott
* Andy McNab
* H. C. McNeile (Sapper)
* Brad Meltzer
* Deon Meyer
* Alex Michaelides
* Margaret Millar
* Mark Mills
* Zygmunt Miłoszewski
* Rick Mofina
* Aly Monroe
* Brian Moore (also under the pseudonyms Michael Bryan and Bernard Mara)
* David Morrell
* John Mortimer
* Robert Muchamore
* Marcia Muller
* James Munro
* Margaret Murphy
* Thomas F. Murphy
* Michael Nava
* Christopher Nicole
* Audrey Niffenegger
* Ingrid Noll
* Oliver North

## O–P

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* Manning O'Brine
* T. Lynn Ocean
* Michael Ondaatje
* E. Phillips Oppenheim
* Baroness Orczy
* Perri O'Shaughnessy
* Sara Paretsky
* Michael Parker
* James Patterson
* Richard North Patterson
* Stel Pavlou
* Matthew Pearl
* Ridley Pearson
* Kira Peikoff
* Hayford Peirce
* Don Pendleton
* Thomas Perry
* Ralph Peters
* James Phelan
* Christopher Pike
* Edgar Allan Poe
* Henry Porter
* Douglas Preston
* Anthony Price
* Christopher Priest
* Mario Puzo

## R

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* Ron Rash
* Ishmael Reed
* Christopher Reich
* Kathy Reichs
* Matthew Reilly
* Ruth Rendell
* Osvaldo Reyes
* Stella Rimington
* J.D. Robb
* Jeremy Robinson
* Kim Stanley Robinson
* Patrick Robinson
* James Rollins
* Santiago Roncagliolo
* Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
* David Rosenfelt
* Judith Rossner
* M. A. Rothman
* J. K. Rowling
* Greg Rucka
* Craig Russell
* Eric Frank Russell
* Chris Ryan
* Vladimir Rybakov

## S

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* Lawrence Sanders
* John Sandford
* John Saul
* Dorothy L. Sayers
* Arthur Schnitzler
* Lisa Scottoline
* Yulian Semyonov
* Gerald Seymour
* A. T. M. Shamsuddin
* Robert Shea
* Sidney Sheldon
* Daniel Silva
* Elizabeth Sims
* Desmond Skirrow
* Karin Slaughter
* Martin Cruz Smith
* Rosamond Smith
* Mickey Spillane
* Jason Starr
* Peter Steiner
* Olen Steinhauer
* Neal Stephenson
* Brooke Stevens
* Robert Louis Stevenson
* R.L. Stine
* S. M. Stirling
* Jon Stock
* Bram Stoker
* Nick Stone
* Paul Sussman

## T–W

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* Robert K. Tanenbaum
* Bernard J. Taylor
* Ron Terpening
* Josephine Tey
* James Thayer
* Craig Thomas
* Ross Thomas
* Brad Thor
* Guillermo del Toro
* Peter Townend
* Arthur Train
* Scott Turow
* James Twining
* Lisa Unger
* Andrew Vachss
* Eric Van Lustbader
* Abraham Verghese
* Jules Verne
* Barbara Vine
* Vyasa
* Edgar Wallace
* Irving Wallace
* Minette Walters
* Charlie Wells
* Morris West
* Jeri Westerson
* Donald Westlake (pseudonyms include Richard Stark)
* Dennis Wheatley
* Lionel White
* Michael White
* Stephen White
* Kate Wilhelm
* Alan Williams
* F. Paul Wilson
* Robert Anton Wilson
* Leslie Wolfe
* John Wray

## Y–Z

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* Dornford Yates
* Helen Zahavi

## See also

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* Thriller fiction
* Spy fiction
* List of crime writers
* List of mystery writers

## External links

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* International Thriller Writers (ITW) official website