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Peter David has a nice touch with transitions.
Timothy Zahn really knows how to string together multithreaded tales.
Some of Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens' early non-Star Trek stuff is great at that page-turning-never-ease-the-tempo style.
Nathaniel Hawthorne rocks at droning on endlessly memorized by the cadence of his own sentences.
It kind of depends on what you want to learn. I would never really point someone to an author and say "write like them". On the other hand, on a technique by technique basis, there are authors who really nail a little something and are worth really soaking in.
For example, every writer should spend a few hours studying at the George Lucas school of dialogue in case they are ever in a real life ticking time bomb scenario and need info from an enemy combatant fast.
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