Ayo’s Assortment

Let us take just a moment out from the self-indulgent exercise of revealing our critics’ “favorite crime fiction of 2022” lists to note that the talented Ayo Onatade, Shots contributor and principal author of its Shotsmag Confidential blog, this morning released her own picks of 2022’s “best.” The following 12 books are featured:

• Bad Actors, by Mick Herron (John Murray)
• The Devil Takes You Home, by Gabino Iglesias (Headline)
• Three Assassins, by Kotaro Isaka (Vintage)
• The Skeleton Key, by Erin Kelly (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Confidence, by Denise Mina (Vintage)
• Blue Water, by Leonora Nattrass (Profile)
• Breaking Point, by Olivier Norek (Quercus)
• Secret Identity, by Alex Segura (Flatiron)
• The Spirit Engineer, by A.J. West (Duckworth)
• City on Fire, by Don Winslow (HarperCollins)
• A History of Treason: The Bloody History of Britain Through the Stories of Its Most Notorious Traitors, by Chris Day, Daniel Gosling, Neil Johnson, and Euan Roger (John Blake) — non-fiction
• The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators, by Martin Edwards (HarperCollins) — non-fiction

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Elsewhere in the world of British book blogging, Crime Fiction Lover is slowly revealing its reviewers’ 2022 top-five choices. It began with picks from Paul Burke, moved on to those from Michael Parker (aka RoughJustice), and today posted the selections of Erin Britton.

There are still more to come.