Time for me to reflect on the best mysteries and thrillers of 2022; see what you think…
Favorite New Sleuth: Nita Prose – The Maid (seriously conscientious but slightly “different” maid solves murder in her swanky hotel)
Favorite Cozy Mystery: Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman (elderly friends dig into cold cases from a Florida retirement community)
Favorite Action/Suspense Novel: Sierra Six by Mark Greaney (The Gray Man, a legend in the covert world, recognizes a ghost from years ago)
Oddest Enjoyable Mystery: Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian (In a clinical study at a DC college, one of the psychopathic students is murdered. Narrator is in the study)
Favorite Espionage: Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Daniel Silva (a retired Gabriel Allon tackles an art thief case all across Europe)
Favorite Noir: Five Decembers by James Kestrel (1940 Pearl Harbor detective who journeys to Japan during murder investigation)
Favorite Performance by an Old Pro: Desert Star by Michael Connelly (Bosch and Ballard solve their last case together??)
Favorite International Mystery: The King Arthur Case by Jean Luc Bannalec (Brittany, France, is the setting for these cozies with Commissaire Dupin)
Favorite Thriller: Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone (Narrator’s husband goes missing while vacationing in Lisbon)
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