While Amazon has revealed their best mysteries and thrillers of 2017 quite early, other sites, magazines, and newspapers have published their 2017 favorites in the genre as well. Here are the top lists of the mysteries and thriller genres. New York Times Best Crime Novels of 2017 The Thirst, by Jo Nesbø (published by Knopf)…
Here we are, once again, at the end of a year that brought us many joyful moments of reading. Amazon is the first to come out with their best mystery and thriller books for 2017. Some of my favorite authors are included in this list, such as Greg Illes, Daniel Suarez, John Grisham, Michael Connelly,…
Here is a look back at the books that left the strongest impression on me this year. At the beginning of the year I added a Goodreads reading challenge to read 100 books in 2016. It is now the end of the year, and lo and behold, the number of books I’ve read so far…
With 2016 ending in little over a month, book sellers like Amazon and magazines including Publisher’s Weekly, Washington Post, The Strand Magazine and others are hurrying to post their top pics in the crime mystery genre for this year. It is exciting both for authors and their readers to see who will make the top…
Listing the best mysteries of 2015 is part of a long tradition of ‘best books in year x’ started by bloggers, commercial entities like Amazon and various book magazines online. The year 2015 is nearing its end and Amazon has already published its own best books list with so far 21 great mystery/thriller and suspense…
My goal for this year was to read 100 books (although not all of them were mysteries). I’m on track for this goal with just a couple more left to catch up to before the year ends. I’ve got to say 2014 was a great year for reading some awesome books. I’ve met many new…
Amazon has just released their Best Books Of The Year picks in Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Romance, Cookbooks, Children’s books, and more book categories. There are some wonderful books chosen with Tart’s The Goldfinch being selected as #1 overall (congratulations Donna!). The author is well known for her novel The Secret History, which…