Our best reads in 2009 - the authors

Readers of MYSTERIES in PARADISE were invited to submit their best 10 crime fiction reads in 2009.

The rules were simple - the books could be published in any year, they just had to be crime fiction.

In the long run 56 contributors suggested 541 titles.
Of course there were many duplicates both in titles and in authors. There were over 420 unique titles, but a number of authors with more than one book.

Recently I gave you the top 26 titles.
Today's list gives you some of the authors who were mentioned more than once.

Here we have the top 8 authors: those with multiple titles.- to get into this list you had to have 4 titles or more.

16 titles

Agatha Christie
CARDS ON THE TABLE, DEATH IN THE CLOUDS, DEATH ON THE NILE, DUMB WITNESS, HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS, MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN , PERIL AT END HOUSE, TAKEN AT THE FLOOD, THE A. B. C. MURDERS, THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUIT, THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY, WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS, A POCKET FULL OF RYE, THE SITTAFORD MYSTERY

6 titles

Ian Rankin
THE BLACK BOOK, THE COMPLAINTS, THE FALLS, THE NAMING OF THE DEAD, TOOTH & NAIL, EXIT MUSIC

5 titles

Andrea Camilleri
AUGUST HEAT, EXCURSON TO TINDARI, ROUNDING THE MARK, THE PAPER MOON, THE PATIENCE OF THE SPIDER

4 titles

Louise Penny
RULE AGAINST MURDER, THE BRUTAL TELLING, THE CRUELLEST MONTH, STILL LIFE

Ann Cleeves
RAVEN BLACK, RED BONES, THE CROW TRAP, WHITE NIGHTS

Arnaldur Indridason
ARCTIC CHILL, HYPOTHERMIA, SILENCE OF THE GRAVE, THE DRAINING LAKE

Charles Todd
A DUTY TO THE DEAD, A PALE HORSE, A TEST OF WILLS, SEARCH THE DARK

Henning Mankell
FACELESS KILLERS, THE DOGS OF RIGA, THE FIFTH WOMAN, THE MAN WHO SMILED