• The British blog Crime Fiction Lover concludes its series of “Top Five Books of 2022” postings with choices made by three of its better-known critics, Garrick Webster (aka CrimeFictionLover), Sandra Mangan (aka DeathBecomesHer), and Vicki Weisfeld. Deadly Pleasures editor George Easter rounds up all of CFL’s choices here.
• Booklist has its own opinions regarding this year’s finest crime, mystery, and thriller novels. It includes seven such releases among its 15 “Genre Fiction” picks for 2022: Wanda M. Morris’ Anywhere You Run, Adrian McKinty’s The Island, Ruth Ware’s The It Girl, Gary Phillips’ One-Shot Harry, Alex Segura’s Secret Identity, Kate Atkinson’s Shrines of Gaiety, and Chris Pavone’s Two Nights in Lisbon.
• Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, who blogs as The Little Professor, includes in her “My Year in Books” recap the following brief tribute to one of our favorite mystery writers: “Author whose willingness to make himself look terrible in fiction never ceases to amaze: Anthony Horowitz’s [Daniel] Hawthorne series.”
• Allyson K. Abbott’s A Toast to Murder? Anna Ashwood Collins’ Deadly Resolutions? Rufus King’s Holiday Homicide? Valerie Wolzein’s ’Tis the Season to Be Murdered? Who knew there were so many New Year’s Day-related mystery novels? Well, Janet Rudolph did, and in Mystery Fanfare, she lists those and dozens of additional works you can crack open thus Sunday to help kick off a joyous 2023.
Thursday, December 29, 2022
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