Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends discussion

Top Ten M/T’s

1 - The Lost Man - Jane Harper (4 votes)

2 - Neon Prey - John Sanford (3 votes)

3 - Tie: (2 votes each)
A Dangerous Man - Robert Crais
A Witch to Remember - Heather Blake
Cemetery Road - Greg Iles.
Hid From Our Eyes - Julia Spencer-Fleming
Lady in the Lake - Laura Lippman
Lost Hills - Lee Goldberg
November Road - Lou Berney
Once Upon a River - Dianne Setterfield.
Paper Son - S.J. Rozan
Raven Black - Anne Cleeves
Sworn To Silence - Linda Castillo
The Last Widow - Karin Slaughter
The Night Fire - Michael Connelly

Top Authors

1 - Tie: (6 votes each)
John Sandford
Michael Connelly
Robert Crais

2 - Tie: (2 votes each)
CJ Box
Greg Iles
Heather Blake
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Lou Berney
Louise Penny

Top Series

1 - Tie: (6 votes each)
Lucas Davenport -- John Sandford
Virgil Flowers -- John Sandford

2 - Harry Bosch - Michael Connelly (5 votes)

3 - Tie: (4 votes each)
Elvis and Joe -- Robert Crais
Inspector Gamache -- Louise Penny

4 - Lydia Chin and Bill Smith by S.J. Rozan (3 votes)

5 - Tie: (2 votes each)
Claire and Russ-Julia Spencer-Fleming
Joe Pickett
Wishcraft

Top Books, Any Genre

1 - On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (3 votes each)

2 - Tie (2 votes each)
Summer of '69 by Elin Hildebrand
Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever by Nick de Semlyen

Top NTM Authors

1 - Lou Berney (2 votes)

Bottom of the Barrel

1 - The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (2 votes)

Summary

At Dan’s suggestion I lightened the load and left off the single entries in each category. Thanks Dan for the suggestion! If anyone wants to see the full list send me a GR mail with your email address and I’ll send it to you.

Once again John Sandford tops our best author list with his Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers series. And several other old favorites on the M/T board find their way back again.

Thanks to the fourteen of us who posted our top reads (up from eleven last year): Barry, Jan O’Cat, Bonnie, Dan, Barbara, Sandi, Merrilee, Loody, Melodie, Sherry, Shomeret, Susie, Ann, and moi .

Keep up the good (reads) work and I look forward to seeing what we all read in 2020!

Thanks, Carol. As usual, a great job. Our old favorites continue to dominate.

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Top Ten M/T’s.."

Thanks for doing the work, Carol!

I’m so happy to see Lou Berney made it in three categories, both because his books are that good and because he’s a nice guy.

Thanks for all your work each year compiling the list, Carol.

Thanks so much Carol! It's always fun to see our top lists and greatly appreciate your tallying the results.

Good job, Carol!

Thanks, Carol!

Carol, do you realize how long this group has been doing this?! I think we are all getting old together. Thank you so much!!

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Top Ten M/T’s

1 - The Lost Man - Jane Harper (4 votes)

2 - Neon Prey - John Sanford (3 votes)

3 - Tie: (2 votes each)
A Dangerous Man - Robert Crais
A Witch to Remember - Heather Blake
Cemetery..."

thank you for doing this. So many ties.

Thanks, this fun every year

thanks for doing this again this year, carol! i'm curious if our "top authors" and series changes from year to year or is consistently the same.

Sherry, the “Best” lists go back to 2015 in the glossary section of Best Yearly Reads.

Dan in AZ wrote: "Sherry, the “Best” lists go back to 2015 in the glossary section of Best Yearly Reads."

thanks, dan! i actually went to the turner exhibit at mystic seaport and had lunch with carol today and we talked about that!

That sounds like a good news-bad news joke.

Dan in AZ wrote: "That sounds like a good news-bad news joke."

Psh! You know you would kill to have lunch with me and Sherry!

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Dan in AZ wrote: "That sounds like a good news-bad news joke."

Psh! You know you would kill to have lunch with me and Sherry!"

yup. barry has been lucky enough to not only have lunch with us, but dinner, too. :)