Sunday, December 13, 2020

Ayo Hands Down Her Decisions

Further adding to our inventory of “best crime novels of 2020” lists, here comes Shots critic and blogger Ayo Onatade with a very fine top-12 pile of her own. Among her choices:

The Law of Innocence, by Michael Connelly (Orion)
Like Flies from Afar, by K. Ferrari (Cannongate)
The Less Dead, by Denise Mina (Vintage)
City of Spies, by Mara Timon (Bonnier Zaffre)

Separately, Onatade remarks on her favorites from “an eclectic range of non-fiction crime books.” Those include Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World, by Dr Mark Aldridge (HarperCollins); Cover Me: The Vintage Art of Pan Books, 1950-1965, by Colin Larkin (Telos); Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History, by Susanna Lee (John Hopkins University Press); and Southern Cross Crime, by Craig Sisterton (No Exit Press).

Hmm. It seems I missed reading a few good books this year …

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