Yeah, I know you’ve all been on tenterhooks, wondering which crime novels I most enjoyed this year. So here it is: the list of my favorite crime reads for 2008. They’re not necessarily books published this year, but all were new to me.
In no particular order:
Money Shot by Christa Faust
Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler*
Mafiya by Charlie Stella
Paying for It by Tony Black
Miami Purity by Vicki Hendricks
Cross by Ken Bruen
Provinces of Night by William Gay
Yellow Medicine by Anthony Neil Smith
The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli
Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell
Dust Devils by James Reasoner
Rilke on Black by Ken Bruen
Don’t ask me to pick one absolute favorite. I can’t do it.
Of course, I’ll probably read five or six more books before December 31st. Libby Fisher Hellman’s Easy Innocence, George Pelecanos’ Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go and Ken Bruen’s Once Were Cops are on the top of my TBR pile. So the “favorites” list might still grow.
You got a problem with that?
*Okay, so Go-Go Girls... is not a crime novel. However, it is chock full of funny, violent Gischlerian goodness and you ought to read it. You’ll like it. Or else.
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4 comments:
I feel like I'm letting down. I read a lot, but the only ones on your list I've read is Go-Go Girls and Yellow Medicine.
I do have Money Shot, Cross, and Miami Purity in my TBR pile, which is about to sink the house.LOL!
I don't know how I left off Dust Devils. I really enjoyed that one.
Dust Devils was great. I hadn't read any of Reasoner's stuff before.
If you plan your TBR pile just right, you can use it to shore up any sagging timbers.
Yeah, baby!
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