Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

2013 TOP M/T's

1. Suspect - Robert Crais (5 votes)

2. Tie: Through the Evil Days (Julia Spencer-Fleming) and Unseen by Karin Slaughter (4 votes each)

3. Tie: Doctor Sleep (Stephen King) and Never Go Back (Lee Child) (3 votes each)

4. Tie: (2 votes each)
How the Light Gets In - Louise Penny
Last to Die, Tess Gerritsen
Let it Burn - Steve Hamilton
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Storm Front, John Sandford
The Beautiful Mystery - Louise Penny
The English Girl - Daniel Silva
The Famous and the Dead - T. Jefferson Parker
The Likeness - Tana French
Widow's Tears - Susan Wittig Albert

5. Honorable Mention (1 vote each)
12th of Never, James Patterson
A Conspiracy of Faith - Jussi Adler-Olsen.
A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness.
A Place of Execution - Val McDermid.
A Potion to Die For, Heather Blake
A Serpent's Tooth, Craig Johnson
Aunt Dimity and the Lost Princy, Nancy Atherton
Bad Blood (Kate Shugak #20) Dana Stabenow
Before I Go To Sleep- sj watson
Black Box - Michael Connelly
Blood Oath - Christopher Farnsworth
Broken Harbor Tana French
CJ Box: Breaking Point
Critical Mass - Sara Paretsky
Dark Places Gillian Flynn
David Baldacci:The Hit
Death of the Mantis, Michael Stanley
December’s Thorn by Phillip Depoy (Appalachian thriller)
Deeply Odd by Dean Koontz
Defending Jacob - William Landay. Narrated by Grover Gardner.
Dove Season-Johnny Shaw
Down Cemetery Road-Mick Herron
Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3) Tana French
Fonduing Fathers - Julie Hyzy
Ghost Dance, Mark Sullivan
Gods of Guilt, Michael Connolly
Hard Row by Margaret Maron
Heart of Ice - PJ Parrish
Her Last Scream, Jack Kerley
In the Woods - Tana French. Narrated by Stephen Crossley.
Into the Darkest Corner-Elizabeth Haynes
It Happens in the Dark (Kathleen Mallory, #11) Carol O'Connell
Joyland - Stephen King
Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs #10 Jacqueline Winspear
Let Me Go-Chelsea Cain
Low Country Bombshell by Susan Boyer
Morgue Drawer Four-Jutta Profijt (audio read by MacLeod Andrews)
Northwest Angle-William Kent Krueger
Norwegian by Night-Derek B. Miller (audio read by Sean Mangan)
Painting The Darkness-Robert Goddard
Poisoned Prose, Ellery Adams
Popped Off, Jeffrey Allen
Prince of Thieves-Chuck Hogan
Shadow of the Alchemist by Jeri Westerson
Silken Prey - John Sandford
Six Year by Harlan Coben
Thankless in Death by JD Robb
The Black Box, Michael Connelly
The Black Dahlia, James Elroy
The Bloomsday Dead-Adrian McKinty
The Chatham School Affair-Thomas H. Cook
The Faithful Spy, Alex Berenson
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
The Gods of Guilt- connelly
The Good, the Bad, and the Witchy, Heather Blake
The Hanging Tree-Bryan Gruley
The Intercept by Dick Wolf
The Killing Game, Jack Kerley
The Panther- demille
The Pardon- grippando
The President's Vampire - Christopher Farnsworth
The Sound and the Furry, Spencer Quinn
The Twelve - Justin Cronin.
Throttle - Joe Hill and Stephen King
Tin Roof Blowdown, James Lee Burke
Touch & Go- lisa gardner
Transfer of Power, Vince Flynn
Vanishing Act - Thomas Perry.
W is for Wasted by Sue Grafton
When Will There Be Good News - Kate Atkinson
While Drowning in the Desert, Don Winslow
Wrath of Gods, John Connelly

Love the list, thanks! Currently reading Suspect! Will be adding several to my lists.

LizH wrote: "Love the list, thanks! Currently reading Suspect! Will be adding several to my lists."

me, too~ thanks, carol~

You did not do this right. You put down the books you like and say we liked them. Go back to the year I did the compilation, you'll see.

Uh-huh.

Barry wrote: "You did not do this right. You put down the books you like and say we liked them. Go back to the year I did the compilation, you'll see."

Thanks, Carol. Great work and interesting lists. A big round of applause is deserved: CLAP CLAP CLAP.

Thanks for your work compiling all the various year end lists, Carol.

I just used an audible credit on Suspect and am looking forward to an entertaining listen.

Thanks Carol, good job.

thanks carol I know I was bad by not doing a list but never seened to get around to doing it.

Thank you Carol!

Thanks, everybody, it was interesting to do. And Dan, thanks for the clap. {snicker}

Wow! I love this list! I am going to have to highlight the ones I haven't read yet and add them to the teeming tbr piles - THANK YOU dear Carol!!!

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Thanks, everybody, it was interesting to do. And Dan, thanks for the clap. {snicker}"

{Sigh}

Thanks for all your work in compiling these. Now, more than ever, I have too many books to read and too little time.

Just got back home, you did a great job Carol. Thanks

Welcome home, Merrilee!