Barry Forshaw writes: From Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell to talents of the present, we managed to get in a hell of a lot of excellent crime writers in the Great Crime Fiction Debate, while touching on some contentious subjects. As promised, here is a list of the books we enthused about – both those currently published and those which are forthcoming. There are a host of other books that Maxim Jakubowski, Paul Burke and I discussed which aren’t in the list below; If you want to see the complete Great Crime Fiction Debate, it is available on catchup now at: crowdcast.io/e/the-great-crime-fiction
Barry Forshaw’s Best of Year so far:
The Mist by Ragnar Jónasson (trans. Victoria Cribb)
Burnt Island by Kate Rhodes
Hi Five by Joe Ide
Broken by Don Winslow
The Last Protector by Andrew Taylor
The Dead Line by Holly Watt
Black 13 Adam Hamdy
Most looking forward to:
S.A. Cosby/Blacktop Wasteland
Rhiannon Ward/The Quickening
Stuart Turton/The Devil and the Dark Water
Grave’s End by William Shaw
The Shadow Friend by Alex North
The Dirty South by John Connolly
The Less Dead by Denise Mina
Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Paul Burke’s Best of Year so far:
Bent Joe Thomas
Black 13 Adam Hamdy
Your House Will Pay Steph Cha
The Coldest Warrior Paul Vidich
Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor
Wild Dog Serge Joncour
Most looking forward to:
The House of Lamentations SG MacLean
A Double Life Charlotte Philby
The Thursday Murder Club Richard Osman
Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man Edward Wilson
The Big Chill Doug Johnstone
Maxim Jakubowski’s Best of Year so far:
Emily St John Mandel/The Glass Hotel
Silvia Moreno-Garcia/Untamed Shore
Liz Moore/Long Bright River
Chris Whitaker/We Begin at the end
Lawrence Block/Dead Girl Blues
Most looking forward to:
S.A. Cosby/Blacktop Wasteland
Rhiannon Ward/The Quickening
Stuart Turton/The Devil and the Dark Water
William Hjortsberg/ Angel’s Inferno
Steve Cavanagh/ 50/50
Also recommended:
Cry Baby by Mark Billingham, Little, Brown (hbk)
The Englishman by David Gilman, Head of Zeus (hbk)
Grave’s End by William Shaw, riverrun (hbk)
The Lies You Told by Harriet Tyce, Wildfire (hbk)
If Looks Could Kill by Olivia Kiernan, riverrun (hbk)
Never Forget by Michel Bussi, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (hbk)
Oranges and Lemons by Christopher Fowler, Doubleday (hbk)
The Resident by David Jackson, Viper (hbk)
The Untameable by Guillermo Arriaga, MacLehose Press (hbk)
The Lying Room by Nicci French, Simon & Schuster (pbk)
Shed No Tears by Caz Frear, Zaffre (pbk)
The Storm by Amanda Jennings, HQ (pbk original)
Arkhangel by James Brabazon, Michael Joseph (hbk)
Dance of the Serpents by Oscar de Muriel, Orion (hbk)
Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough, HarperCollins (hbk)
Eight Detectives by Alex Pavesi, Michael Joseph (hbk)
Final Cut by S J Watson, Doubleday (hbk)
Imperfect Women by Araminta Hall, Orion (hbk)
The Innocent Dead by Lin Anderson, Macmillan (hbk)
The Less Dead by Denise Mina, Harvill Secker (hbk)
Midnight at Malabar House by Vaseem Khan, Hodder & Stoughton (hbk)
The Silver Collar by Antonia Hodgson, Hodder & Stoughton (hbk)
Still Life by Val McDermid, Little, Brown (hbk)
Three by D A Mishani, riverrun (hbk)
End of Summer by Anders de la Motte, Zaffre (pbk)
All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny, Sphere (hbk)
The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves, Pan Macmillan (hbk)
Hermit by S R White, Headline (hbk)
The Kingdom by Jo Nesbo, Harvill Secker (hbk)
The Night of the Flood by Zoe Somerville, Head of Zeus (hbk)
The Old Enemy by Henry Porter, Quercus (hbk)
Savage Kiss by Roberto Saviano, FSG Books (hbk)
Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith, Sphere (hbk)
City of Margins by William Boyle, No Exit Press (pbk original)
The Dilemma by B A Paris, HQ (pbk) (hbk in Jan.)
Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh, Orion (pbk original)
The March Fallen by Volker Kutscher, Sandstone Press (pbk)
Stone Cold Trouble by Amer Anwar, Dialogue Books (pbk original)
Box 88 by Charles Cummings, HarperCollins (hbk)
Betrayal by Lilja Sigurdardottir, Orenda Books (pbk original)
The Dead of Winter by Nicola Upson, Faber (hbk)
