As usual, I have lots of favorites out of the 82 books I read this past year. Here are some of the best.
Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye
A Flame in the Wind of Death by
Jen J. Danna with Ann Vanderlaan
City of Darkness and Light by Rhys
Bowen
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches
by Alan Bradley
The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths
Murder in Retribution by Anne Cleeland
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by
Gabrielle Zevin
Palisades Park by Alan Brennert
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie
Ford
The Day She Died by Catriona
McPherson
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow
Rowell 
Bone Dust White by Karin
Salavaglio
A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon
(S.J.) Bolton
The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata
Massey
The Lewis Man by Peter May
Written in My Own Heart’s Blood by
Diana Gabaldon
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
To Dwell in Darkness by Deborah Crombie
Truth Be Told by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Two Parts Bloody Murder (coming out in 2015)
Death with All the Trimmings by
Lucy Burdette
The Zig Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths
(coming out in U.S. in 2015)
A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by
Catriona McPherson
