When Lists Collide

Nice to see several of the Edgar candidates announced today also on my own best-of-the-year list--especially Olen Steinhauer’s superb Liberation Movements (St. Martin’s Minotaur).

Other lap-overs:

• Snakeskin Shamisen, by Naomi Hirahara (Delta Books)
• The Goodbye Kiss, by Massimo Carlotto; translated by Lawrence Venuti (Europa Editions)
• Gentleman & Players, by Joanne Harris (William Morrow)
• The Dead Hour, by Denise Mina (Little, Brown and Company)
• The Virgin of Small Plains, by Nancy Pickard (Ballantine)

Proving that if you write good, people notice.