Attaining Amazon’s Approval

The latest in a recent series of “best crime and mystery fiction of 2022” lists comes from mega-retailer Amazon. I’ve read a few of these 20 books, and thought most of them quite respectable (although I found The Violin Conspiracy to be disappointing).

• City on Fire, by Don Winslow (HarperCollins)
• The Maid, by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
• Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)
• The Golden Couple, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
(St. Martin’s Press)
• The Lies I Tell, by Julie Clark (Sourcebooks Landmark)
• The Hacienda, by Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
• The Overnight Guest, by Heather Gudenkauf (Park Row)
• The Violin Conspiracy, by Brendan Slocumb (Anchor)
• Lavender House, by Lev A.C. Rosen (Forge)
• Shutter, by Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)
• Hidden Pictures, by Jason Rekulak (Flatiron)
• What Happened to the Bennetts, by Lisa Scottoline (Putnam)
• The Housemaid, by Freida McFadden (Grand Central)
• Anywhere You Run, by Wanda M. Morris (Morrow)
• All Good People Here, by Ashley Flowers (Bantam)
• The Butcher and the Wren, by Alaina Urquhart (Zando)
• Carolina Moonset, by Matt Goldman (Forge)
• Bleeding Heart Yard, by Elly Griffiths (Mariner)
• Forsaken Country, by Allen Eskens (Mulholland)
• Winter Work, by Dan Fesperman (Knopf)

Winslow’s City on Fire, the first novel in a new trilogy, also appears on Amazon’s 10 “Best Books of 2022” roll.

(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare.)