Favorite Reads of 2016 (So Far)

The reason that I labeled this post "My Favorite Reads of 2016 (So Far)" is because due to unforeseen circumstances I lost a couple of months reading time in 2016, and there are some books published in 2016 that I know I would have put on this list if the year hadn't run out before I read them.  I think that this year is going to require an addendum sometime early in 2017, after I've managed to read those 2016 books that got caught in the year-end crunch.  However, I did enjoy a great reading year with the books I did read.  So, here are sixteen books from 2016 that I absolutely loved from beginning to end, heavy with series' books, but some spectacular stand-alones, too.  

 
I Let You Go by Claire Mackintosh 

















       The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake by Terry Shames

                                                          Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye 

                                                              
The Murder of Mary Russell by Laurie R. King                        

                            

 The Woman in Blue by Elly Griffiths      

 

                      

                                           Walleye Junction by Karin Salvalaggi 

 Quiet Neighbors by Catriona McPherson 

                                                            

          

    Heart of Stone by James Ziskin

   

                                                 Crowned and Dangerous by Rhys Bowen 

A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny 

                                              
                                Coffin Road by Peter May 

                                   The Queen's Accomplice by Susan Elia MacNeal 

Murder in Containment by Anne Cleeland 

                              Smoke and Mirrors by Elly Griffiths 

                                                     Say No More by Hank Phillippi Ryan 

Darktown by Thomas Mullen