Friday, December 06, 2024

Ranked, Rated, and Refined

Didn’t I just say there are “top crime fiction of the year” picks popping up all over? Two more selections were added to the mix yesterday. This first one comes from BOLO Books blogger Kristopher Zgorski, and begins with what his “overall favorite novel of the year”:

What You Leave Behind, by Wanda M. Morris (Morrow)
All the Colors of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker (Crown)
The Dancer, by Óskar Guðmundsson (Corylus)
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies, by Catherine
Mack (Minotaur)
The Grey Wolf, by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
Hall of Mirrors, by John Copenhaver (Pegasus Crime)
I Dreamed of Falling, by Julia Dahl (Minotaur)
A Very Bad Thing, by J.T. Ellison (Thomas & Mercer)
What Happened To Nina? by Dervla McTiernan (Morrow)
Who to Believe, by Edwin Hill (Kensington)

Top Debuts of the Year:
The Busy Body, by Kemper Donovan (John Scognamiglio)
You Know What You Did, by K.T. Nguyen (Dutton)
Voyage of the Damned, by Frances White (Mira)

Read all of Zgorski’s about these titles by clicking here.

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Australian reviewer Jeff Popple, a contributor to Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine, serves forth his own 13-strong rundown of preferred crime novels and thrillers from the last dozen months.

Crime Novels:
Midnight and Blue, by Ian Rankin (Orion)
The Mercy Chair, by M.W. Craven (Constable)
The Waiting, by Michael Connelly (Orion)
Shadow City, by Natalie Conyer (Echo)
Don’t Let the Devil Ride, by Ace Atkins (Morrow)
Tipping Point, by Dinuka McKenzie (Harper Collins)
Witness 8, by Steve Cavanagh (Headline)
The Creeper, by Margaret Hickey (Penguin)

Thriller Novels:
Look In the Mirror, by Catherine Steadman (Quercus)
The Instruments of Darkness, by John Connolly (Hachette)
Black Wolf, by Juan Gómez-Jurado (Macmillan)
The Enigma Girl, by Henry Porter (Quercus)

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