If you love crime fiction and you haven’t made J.
Kingston Pierce’s blog a daily destination, change that now. I
can’t adequately detail how many interesting articles, interviews, and books I’ve
discovered simply by making Rap Sheet a part of each day. It’s terrific. In one
of the latest posts, Pierce presents the challenge of naming your Top 10
favorite crime fiction books from 2004-2013 (originally posed to him by Brian Lindenmuth of Spinetingler Magazine). Oh, what a tangled web we
weave. It is an impossible task, but I managed to compile a list after some
serious pruning and shearing. My faves are:
The
Double, by George Pelecanos
Triptych,
by Karin Slaughter
Standing
in Another Man's Grave, by Ian Rankin
Down
River, by John Hart
Little
Green, by Walter Mosley
The
Professionals, by Owen Laukkanen
The
Poacher's Son, by Paul Doiron
Power
Play, by Joseph Finder
The
Tin Roof Blowdown, by James Lee Burke
Angel
Baby, by Richard Lange
Check out some others at the Rap Sheet blog:
