James Lee Burke – ‘The Tin Roof Blowdown’, ‘Rain Gods’, ‘In the Moon of Red Ponies’, ‘Heartwood’, ‘Sunset Limited’ and many, many more
James Ellroy – ‘LA Confidential’, ‘The Big Nowhere’, ‘The Black Dahlia’
Carl Hiaasen – ‘Stormy Weather’, ‘Sick Puppy’
Elmore Leonard – ‘Get Shorty’, ‘Fire in the Hole’, ‘Freaky Deaky’, ‘Rum Punch’
Cormac McCarthy – ‘No Country for Old Men’
Ed McBain – ‘Fat Ollies Book’, ‘Candyland’
Jim Thompson – ‘The Grifters’, ‘The Killer Inside Me’
Patricia Highsmith – ‘Strangers on a Train’, ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’, ‘Ripley’s Game’
Dennis Lehane – ‘The Drop’