Publishers Weekly's Best Mysteries of the Year

[Naomi Hirahara]

They are:

Songs of Innocence (Richard Aleas)

The Cloud of Unknowing (Thomas Cook)

American Detective: An Amos Walker Mystery (Loren D. Estleman)

The Commission (Michael Norman)

The Collaborator of Bethlehem (Matt Benyon Rees)

The Water's Lovely (Ruth Rendell)

The Snow Empress (Linda Joh Rowland)

Person of Interest (Theresa Schwegel)

Kept (D.J. Taylor)

Also under the fiction category include:

The Tin Roof Blowdown (James Lee Burke)

Body of Lies (David Igantius)

What the Dead Know (Laura Lippman)

Surveillance (Jonathan Raban)

The Secret Servant (Daniel Silva)

Beyond Reach (Karin Slaughter)