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It's hard to see past Agatha Christie. There's a reason she is popular.
Other than that, I typically prefer a more classical puzzle-y golden age style whodunit, ideally without too much gore or horror, but I'm happy to read all over.
Lately I've been reading a lot of Japanese crime fiction. Keigo Higashino would probably be my pick of the bunch, so far: Malice is a great twisty story. Every chapter seems to take it in a new direction. The Devotion of Suspect X is more of a Columbo-style story, where we know what happened and it's all about the cat-and-mouse. And Newcomer is a collection of vignettes from different points of view in which the detective appears and solves some smaller mysteries while working on the main murder across the whole book.
I've also enjoyed works by Seishi Yokomizo - more of a Golden Age style, starting in the 40s - Seicho Matsumoto - police procedural - and Yukito Ayastuji - modern; Decagon House Murders is great, Mill House Murders less so (I think most mystery fans would see through it as early as I did), the third one Labyrinth House Murders was out this year in English and I haven't read it yet.
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