Russell Ash - Author of among many other works, the best-selling Top 10 of Everything series. Sadly, Russell died unexpectedly in the summer of 2010 but his website is still up and his widow, Caroline, has taken on the mantle of The Top 10 Of Everything from the 2012 edition

Mark Bego - "The Prince of Pop Music Bios" has just published his 50th book, a biography of Billy Joel

Mark Billingham - His Tom Thorne is one of fiction's great detectives

Wensley Clarkson - He can turn his hand from showbiz to true crime even more easily than I can

Andrew Gross - After working with James Patterson, Andy has branched out on his own with some great novels

Susan Hill - Her Simon Serailler crime novels are brilliant, well-crafted tales

Peter James - I have only read his Roy Grace crime novels but have all his others (I think) and cannot wait to get stuck in

Paul Johnston - His series about Matt Stone is terrific.

Dennis Lehane - The Kenzie-Gennaro series of five books is just simply fantastic

Wendy Leigh - Biographer and ghostwriter extraordinaire

James Patterson -  His books are page turners - particularly the Alex Cross and Women's Murder Club series - and, if by chance, you don't like a particular Patterson book there will be another long shortly