Kerrie over at Mysteries in Paradise is compiling her annual Your Best Crime Fiction Reads. Check it out; I'm positive your TBR list will grow.
I didn't do a very good job of keeping track of what I read in 2009 but I wanted to participate in Kerrie's compilation so the books below represent those that immediately sprang to mind. They are not in any order.
1a) The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson
b) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2a) Mixed Blood - Roger Smith
b) Wake Up Dead (OK, it isn't part of a series but I have to include it)
3) Fifty Grand - Adrian McKinty
4) The Rule Book - Rob Kitchin
5) Bury Me Deep - Megan Abbott
6) Bad Traffic - Simon Lewis
7) Damn Near Dead: an Anthology of Geezer Noir - Duane Swierczynski, editor
8) A Vengeful Longing - Roger Morris
9) 9 Dragons - Michael Connelly
10) Pain Killers - Jerry Stahl
I haven't read very many of these, but of those I have read (Stieg Larsson, Michael Connelly and Bad Traffic), I concur that these are all excellent books and worthy of your commendation! If you are looking for a Swedish novel for 2010, I think you might like The Vault/Box 21 by Roslund-Hellstrom, as it is pretty dark.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the Roslund-Hellstrom recommendation. I just added it to my amazon wish list.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the shout out, Mack.
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I really will have to get Fifty Grand before long!
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