Thursday, December 29, 2022

A Cache of Criminality

• 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.

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