• Crooked Seeds, by Karen Jennings (Hogarth)
• Wild Houses, by Colin Barrett (Grove)
• One of Our Kind, by Nicola Yoon (Knopf)
• Shanghai, by Joseph Kanon (Scribner)
• Ordinary Human Failings, by Megan Nolan (Little Brown)
• Guide Me Home, by Attica Locke (Mulholland)
• Butter, by Asako Yuzuki (Ecco)
• Havoc, by Christopher Bollen (Harper)
• What Doesn’t Kill Us, by Ajay Close (Saraband)
• Black River, by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Vertigo)
Several of my personal preferences from 2024 are found in the “Notable Selections” section of CrimeReads’ end-of-year feature, among them Francis Spufford’s Cahokia Jazz (Scribner), Chris Whitaker’s All the Colors of the Dark (Dutton), Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods (Riverhead), and Nicholas Meyer’s Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell (Mysterious Press).
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This top-11 picks list comes from Mystery Tribune magazine:• Alter Ego, by Alex Segura (Flatiron)
• Think Twice, by Harlan Coben (Grand Central)
• Graveyard Shift, by M.L. Rio (Flatiron)
• Pony Confidential, by Christina Lynch (Berkley)
• Blind to Midnight, by Reed Farrel Coleman (Blackstone)
• The Woman Who Lied, by Claire Douglas (Harper)
• The Expat, by Hansen Shi (Pegasus Crime)
• Butter, by Asako Yuzuki (Ecco)
• The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels, by Janice Hallett (Atria)
• Smoke Kings, by Jahmal Mayfield (Melville House)
• Lilith, by Eric Rickstad (Blackstone)
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And let us turn our eyes, as well, to the choices made by Craig Sisterson, the organizer of New Zealand’s Ngaio Marsh Awards and a reviewer for Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. His 16 favorites include Tom Baragwanath’s Paper Cage (Knopf), Kellye Garrett’s Missing White Woman (Mulholland), James Lee Burke’s Clete (Atlantic Monthly Press), Charity Norman’s Home Truths (Allen & Unwin UK), and Eryk Pruitt’s Blood Red Summer (Thomas & Mercer).READ MORE: “Best Mysteries & Thrillers of 2024,” by Lauren Shade (Novel Suspects); “Best Mystery Audiobooks of 2024” (Spotify).
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