Hodgepodge 215/365 - Edgars

I am always in the market for good reading recommendations, and I always like mysteries, so here is the list of Edgar nominees and winners for 2017—for future reference:

Best Novel

The Ex by Alafair Burke
Where It Hurts by Reed Farrel Coleman
Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin
Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

Best First Novel

Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry
Dodgers by Bill Beverly
IQ by Joe Ide
The Drifter by Nicholas Petrie
Dancing with the Tiger by Lili Wright
The Lost Girls by Heather Young
 
There are other categories, including Short Story, Juvenile Young Adult, Critical/Biographical, Fact Crime. But just an old-fashioned mystery is a good enough start for me.

Oh here's another list, from Booklist—just because:

Top 10 Crime Novels

The Boy Who Escaped Paradise by J. M. Lee
Celine by Peter Heller
Dark Side of the Moon by Les Wood
Darktown by Thomas Mullen
Dr. Knox by Peter Spiegelman
Let the Devil Out by Bill Loehfelm
Razor Girl by Carl Hiassen
Revolver by Duane Swierczynski
Since We Fell by Dennis Lehane
What We Become by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Best Crime Fiction Debuts

The Dry by Jane Harper
The Girl Before by Reno Olsen
IQ by Joe Ide
Little Deaths by Emma Flint
Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boyland
My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry
Shadow Man by Alan Drew
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper
Three Years with the Rat by Jay Hosking
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon