Friday, January 19, 2007

When Lists Collide

Nice to see several of the Edgar candidates announced today also on my own best-of-the-year list--especially Olen Steinhauer’s superb Liberation Movements (St. Martin’s Minotaur).

Other lap-overs:
Snakeskin Shamisen, by Naomi Hirahara (Delta Books)
The Goodbye Kiss, by Massimo Carlotto; translated by Lawrence Venuti (Europa Editions)
Gentleman & Players, by Joanne Harris (William Morrow)
The Dead Hour, by Denise Mina (Little, Brown and Company)
The Virgin of Small Plains, by Nancy Pickard (Ballantine)
Proving that if you write good, people notice.

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