Authors I like who recently died--DickFrancis, DianaWynneJones, BMichaels/EPeters,DorothyDunnet

[bobbieinok]

Also Emma Lathen

And you?

Was really shocked and surprised to learn of their deaths.

How can we not have more adventures of Amelia Peabody? No more stories set in the racing world? Or more quirky fantasy like Howl's Moving Castle? And where is John Putnam Thatcher when we really need him (Emma Lathen)? No more worlds like The Lymond Chronicles?

[ms liberty]

1. I am brokenhearted at the loss of Barbara Mertz

Amelia Peabody & family are about my favorites ever. I'm in permanent mourning for Douglas Adams, too.

[dweller]

2. Philip Roth

😔

[Fla Dem]

3. Sue Grafton of the Kinsey Milhone Alphabet Mysteries. December 28, 2017

I know it was last December, but still within a year.

Sue Grafton, Whose Detective Novels Spanned the Alphabet, Dies at 77

Sue Grafton, a prolific author of detective novels known for an alphabetically titled series that began in 1982 with “A Is for Alibi,” died on Thursday night in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was 77.

Her daughter Jamie Clark, announcing the death on the author’s website and Facebook page, said Ms. Grafton had cancer.

With the publication of her latest book in August, Ms. Grafton’s alphabetical series had reached “Y Is for Yesterday.”

“She was adamant that her books would never be turned into movies or TV shows,” her daughter wrote, “and in that same vein, she would never allow a ghost writer to write in her name. Because of all of those things, and out of the deep abiding love and respect for our dear sweet Sue, as far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/29/obituaries/sue-grafton-dies-best-selling-mystery-author.html

[Brother Buzz]

4. Elmore Leonard

Oh, and Robert B. Parker, but I am happy to see Robert Knott continuing the Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch series.