Iain Pears:

I'm really starting to like Iain Pears. I already wrote about The Dream of Scipio, but I finished reading The Immaculate Deception, a novel about an art theft, sketchy government practices, and a (possibly) invaluable piece of artwork. It's really good.

It's always fun to pick authors off the shelf ocmpletely randomly and end up liking them a lot.