Never Too Late to Make a Good Impression

Hmm. Let’s see, it’s January 14, 2007, and only now are some folks finally getting around to compiling their “best books of 2006” lists. Better late than never, right? Among the picks by Euro Crime contributors are Mark Billingham’s Lifeless, Christopher Brookmyre’s A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil, Ian Rankin’s The Naming of the Dead, Andrea Camilleri’s Excursion to Tindari, and Helene Tursten’s The Torso.

Meanwhile, among Crime Scene Scotland editor Russel D. McLean’s “favourite criminally influenced reads published in the last year” are: Saturday’s Child, by Ray Banks, King of the Road, by Charlie Williams, and Pegasus Descending, by James Lee Burke. McLean also lists some of the books he thinks we’d all be better off reading in 2007, including The Strangler, by William Landay, Hard Man, by Allan Guthrie, and Broken Skin, by Stuart MacBride.