OK. If we are talking even from our childhood I’ll go with the Beanie Malone books by Lenora Mattingly Weber. I’d love to have a copy of that series.
For the present, I’d like to list Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta, but I have to hold my nose when I read them because Cornwell has such an obvious homo agenda in her books.
In that case, I guess my most recent favorite is Vince Flynn. I love Mitch Rapp.
Holy Cow! Tom Swift Books!!!!!
I must have read 20 of them when I was growing up!