In the way of “best books of the year” lists, today delivers two major installments. Let’s begin with CrimeReads’ choices of 2023’s top-quality crime, mystery, and thriller novels:
• Bright Young Women, by Jessica Knoll (Simon & Schuster)
• Crook Manifesto, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
• Beware the Woman, by Megan Abbott (Putnam)
• Excavations, by Hannah Michell (One World)
• Pet, by Catherine Chidgey (Europa Editions)
• Age of Vice, by Deepti Kapoor (Riverhead)
• Everybody Knows, by Jordan Harper (Mulholland)
• All the Sinners Bleed, by S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
• Penance, by Eliza Clark (Harper)
• I Have Some Questions for You, by Rebecca Makkai (Viking)
• I’m Not Done With You Yet, by Jesse Q. Sutanto (Berkley)
• The Reformatory, by Tananarive Due (Mulholland)
• The Eden Test, by Adam Sternbergh (Flatiron)
• Every Man a King, by Walter Mosley (Mulholland)
• Sing Her Down, by Ivy Pochoda (MCD)
• The Shards, by Bret Easton Ellis (Knopf)
• The Stolen Coast, by Dwyer Murphy (Viking)
• Confidence, by Rafael Frumkin (Simon & Schuster)
• Ozark Dogs, by Eli Cranor (Soho Crime)
• Hot Springs Drive, by Lindsay Hunter (Roxane Gay)
Some readers may be skeptical of these 20 selections because they conveniently succeed in including the sophomore novel from CrimeReads editor-in-chief Murphy (just as last year’s CrimeReads picks featured his debut tale). Yet we find here a respectable mix of more traditional-style genre yarns with ambitious literary efforts, and at least a couple of works endeavoring to stretch this category’s boundaries. An extensive addendum of other notable releases from the last dozen months (which includes several duplicates) gives holiday gift-buyers still more options of what to shop for if they wish to please crime-fiction fans among their friends and family members.
Thursday, December 07, 2023
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