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My first "real" book in English - after I finished all Simplified Editions that were available in my town library was a detective story by Dick Francis.
His English is very easy to understand, books are fast paced and well written, Mr. Francis does not use complicated words, idioms, he does not "play" with language. He simply tells a good story.
I borrowed book by Dick Francis from a sheer desperation, because there were no more simplified editions, and the last one - The Call of the wild by Jack London proved to be unreadable by a mere beginner.
Only much later I have realized how lucky I was. Had it been, for example, Thomas Harris, I might have abandoned my attempts to improve my English by reading fiction.
Another excellent candidate is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
And now that I think about it, books by Dan Brown are written in an easy-to-comprehend-for-a-beginner English.
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