#MurderEveryMonday: Mysteries from Authors Best Known for Their Non-Mysteries

Murder Every Monday was created by Kate @ Crossexamining Crime and @ArmchairSleuth. Put simply, the plan is for readers to take a photo of a crime fiction book (novel or short story collection) which meets a given week’s theme criteria and to then share it online, using the hashtag #MurderEveryMonday.

This week's theme is:

Cover for a mystery written by an author who is more famous for having written non-mystery stories

Benjamin Black is pseudonym of John Banville, an Irish novelist who has won a lot of literary awards, 2005 Booker Prize is among them. We know him mostly as a literary fiction author with beautiful prose, and I have just found out last year that he also wrote mystery. Here's my review.

Susan Scarlett is the pseudonym of Noel Streatfeild, who was best known for her children's books. Scarlett also wrote several romance books (lately re-printed by Dean Street Press), but she only wrote one (unfortunately) mystery, which I liked! Here's my review if you're interested.

I don't think this one need explanation, but in case you haven't known yet, Robert Galbraith is the pseudonym of J.K. Rowling, who's famous with the Harry Potter universe.

Have your read any of them? Which cover(s) do you like most?

If you want to participate, here's the list of the weekly theme: