I was thinking about best author's the other day and I figured if someone could write a book I loved in a genre I do not like then they were probably the better author.
I'm not into fiction, but Daphne Dumarier's Jamaica Inn (1936) was a book I couldn't put down. It's set in the 1820's in Cornwall, England. Drinking, murder and mayhem, it will make you glad you are alive today and not back then.