I've seen others have already mentioned George R R Martin and Diane Duane, who I'll second, but what about...
Katherine Kerr - Deverry (http://www.deverry.com/deverry.html) series Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth (http://www.terrygoodkind.com/Truth.php) series James Patterson (mostly writes crime / mystery type fiction - although his latest is, shockingly, Mills and Boon-esque!) The Lake House (http://www.jamespatterson.com/chapters/lakehouse_pro.html), which is fairly fantasy-based. James Clemens (http://www.jamesclemens.com/), the Wit'ch series (Banned and the Banished - 5 books), which are engrossing once you get past the apostrophe-itis.
I've found that a lot of people I know with similar tastes in fantasy to myself have enjoyed a lot of crime/murder mystery authors - in particular ejde, beckyl and myself are pretty much consistently enjoying the same books.
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Date: 2005-07-04 02:48 pm (UTC)Katherine Kerr - Deverry (http://www.deverry.com/deverry.html) series
Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth (http://www.terrygoodkind.com/Truth.php) series
James Patterson (mostly writes crime / mystery type fiction - although his latest is, shockingly, Mills and Boon-esque!) The Lake House (http://www.jamespatterson.com/chapters/lakehouse_pro.html), which is fairly fantasy-based.
James Clemens (http://www.jamesclemens.com/), the Wit'ch series (Banned and the Banished - 5 books), which are engrossing once you get past the apostrophe-itis.
I've found that a lot of people I know with similar tastes in fantasy to myself have enjoyed a lot of crime/murder mystery authors - in particular