Monday, January 02, 2023

Best of the Bests

Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine editor George Easter, who kept very close track of “best crime/mystery/thriller fiction of 2022” lists during the last several months, has now tallied up the works that appeared most frequently among such picks. The top vote-getter, he found, was Don Winslow’s City on Fire (22 mentions), followed by Nita Prose’s The Maid (20), Michael Connelly’s Desert Star (18), Richard Osman’s The Bullet That Missed (16), Ian Rankin’s A Heart Full of Headstones (15), and Wanda M. Morris’ Anywhere You Run (13).

Click here to see his full accounting of last year’s top choices.

READ MORE:Favorite 2022 Debut Novels” (Stop, You’re Killing Me!); “CBTB’s Top 10 Crime Books of 2022,” by Abby Endler (Crime by the Book); “Bill’s Best of 2022 Fiction,” by Bill Selnes (Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan); “Best Crime, Mystery and Thriller Books of 2022: Ultimate List” (Mystery Tribune); “Top Ten Tuesday: My Favorite Books of 2022,” by TracyK (Bitter Tea and Mystery); “TCF’s Best Crime Fiction Books of 2022,” by Mairi R.R. Campbell-Jack (True Crime Fiction); “Our Favorite Books of 2022” (Criminal Element).

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