An Intriguing "Best Mysteries" List from Seattle ...

Congrats to Michelle Gagnon, one of the crime writers we've been excited to discover hiding in the MIRA publishing network -- her new book GATEKEEPER showed up over the holidays on this list from the Seattle Mystery Bookshop. I haven't posted many of The Lists this season, but this one is fun to run through, and we're already looking into how many of the titles are here at Kingdom Books -- in first edition of course, and mostly signed.

Fran’s Lists of Best Books of 2009

Best of local:
Robert Dugoni, Wrongful Death
Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
Yasmine Galenorn, Bone Magic
Caitlin Kittredge, Street Magic
Mike Lawson, House Secrets
Kat Richardson, Vanished
Jess Walter, The Financial Lives of Poets
Best paperbacks:
Kelley Armstrong, Made to be Broken
Kathryn Fox, Bloodborn
Michelle Gagnon, Gatekeeper
Andi Marquette, all three
Joan Opyr, From Hell to Breakfast
Best new authors:
Brett Battles – all three
Josh Bazell, Beat the Reaper
Alan Bradley, Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Derek Haas, both of ‘em
Steig Larsson – everything. Wow.
Amy McKinnon, tethered
Christi Phillps, Devlin Diary
Spencer Quinn, Dog On It
Best of the Usual Suspects:
John Connelly, The Gates
Barry Eisler, Fault Line
Gillian Flynn, Dark Places
David Hewson, Dante’s Numbers
Susan Hill, Vows of Silence
Alex Kava, Black Friday
William Kent Krueger, Heaven’s Keep
David Morrell, Shimmer
Louise Ure, Liar’s Anonymou