Best Mysteries of 2011

I love these list of 'best' books.  There are so many books I have not read and then a lot I haven't even heard of.  My To Read List gets longer every day!!

Anyhow, here's a list from GalleyCat and a bit from the list:


Best Novel
The Ranger by Ace Atkins (Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic – Atlantic Monthly Press)
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)
1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
Field Gray by Philip Kerr Penguin Group USA – G.P. Putnam’s Sons – Marion Wood Books)

International Thriller Writers

I may have mentioned this site before, but I really like it.  Mysteries and thrillers are my favorites, so I love hearing news and forthcoming titles.  Checkout the International Thriller Writers site and the Big Thrill webzine.

Mary Higgins Clark WSJ interview

I've been reading Mary Higgins Clark forever.  Though I love Michael Connelly, Jeffrey Deaver, Patricia Cornwell, Karin Slaughter and John Sandford, sometimes I like a break from gritty reality and will read a novel by Mary Higgins Clark.
According to the Wall Street Journal, there "are some things you'll never find in a Mary Higgins Clark novel: an unmarried couple living together, a curse word, a body hacked to pieces. By today's standards, Ms. Clark's thrillers are quaint throwbacks, more in the Agatha Christie mold than the blood-curdling, titillating fare produced by best-selling writers such as James Patterson and Stieg Larsson."
The WSJ article has lots of interesting tidbits about the author.  I wonder when she will be signing books at my local Wegmans?