Friday, December 05, 2008

Top of the Times

The Los Angeles Times has posted its selection of the “best crime fiction and mysteries” published in 2008, put together by blogger-critic Sarah Weinman. That list includes: The Dawn Patrol, by Don Winslow; Finding Nouf, by Zoë Ferraris; Child 44, by Tom Robb Smith; and A Carrion Death, by Michael Stanley.

For the complete rundown, click here.

Meanwhile, I spot only three crime-fiction works on The New York Times’ list of “100 Notable Books of 2008”: The Finder, by Colin Harrison; A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carré; and When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson. A paltry showing, indeed. All of the Times’ selections can be found here.

2 comments:

Keith Raffel said...

Richard Price's Lush Life should count as crime fiction, shouldn't it, Jeff? And it was on the NY Times list.

J. Kingston Pierce said...

A case could be made for that, yes.

Cheers,
Jeff