Whose “Bests” Advice Will You Take?

The UK-based books Web site Dead Good, established in 2012 and owned by publisher Penguin Random House, has announced its favorite works of 2023 in the crime and psychological thriller categories.

Best Crime Books:
• The Secret, by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Bantam)
• The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman (Viking)
• So Shall You Reap, by Donna Leon (‎Hutchinson Heinemann)
• Everyone Here Is Lying,
by Shari Lapena (Bantam)
• The Last Goodbye,
by Tim Weaver (Michael Joseph)
• None of This Is True,
by Lisa Jewell (Century)
• The Woman Who Lied,
by Claire Douglas (Michael Joseph)
• The Year of the Locust,
by Terry Hayes (Bantam)
• The Wolf, by Samuel Bjørk (Bantam)
• The Trial, by Rob Rinder (Century)
• I Will Find You, by Harlan Coben (Century)
• No One Saw a Thing, by Andrea Mara (Bantam)
• The Dead of Winter, by Stuart MacBride (Bantam Press)
• Strange Sally Diamond, by Liz Nugent (Sandycove)

Best Psychological Thriller Books:
• None of This Is True, by Lisa Jewell (Century)
• The Woman Who Lied, by Claire Douglas (Michael Joseph)
• My Other Husband, by Dorothy Koomson (Headline Review)
• Everyone Here Is Lying, by Shari Lapena (Bantam)
• The Beach Party, by Nikki Smith (Penguin)
• The Trap, by Catherine Ryan Howard (Bantam)
• Murder in the Family, by Cara Hunter (HarperFiction)
• No One Saw a Thing, by Andrea Mara (Bantam)

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Also out with “bests” picks in a multitude of classifications is the New York Public Library. Its librarians’ choices among this year’s Crime, Mystery, and Thriller releases are:

• Against the Currant, by Olivia Matthews (St. Martin’s Paperbacks)
• Bad Kids, by Zijin Chen (Pushkin Vertigo)
• The Deep Sky, by Yume Kitasei (Flatiron)
• Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, by Benjamin
Stevenson (Mariner)
• A Guest in the House, by Emily Carroll (First Second)
• The Last One, by Will Dean (Emily Bestler)
• The Man in the McIntosh Suit, by Rina Ayuyang (Drawn and Quarterly)
• My Murder, by Katie Williams (Riverhead)
• The Nigerwife, by Vanessa Walters (Atria)
• Prophet, by Sin Blaché and Helen Macdonald (Grove Press)
• The Quiet Tenant, by Clémence Michallon (Knopf)
• Red Queen, by Juan Gómez-Jurado (Minotaur)
• The Trap, by Catherine Ryan Howard (Blackstone)
• Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q.
Sutanto (Berkley)

The Deep Sky and Prophet are science fiction/crime crossovers, while A Guest in the House and The Man in the McIntosh Suit are both graphic novel for adults.

(Hat tip to Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine.)