FOUND ONLINE:: BEST CRIME NOVELS  10 best crime novels of 2007.

1. BIG CITY, BAD BLOOD by Sean Chercover – I said it when I first reviewed
it: This was the book to beat. Chercover is a writer to watch and I can’t
wait for his second novel.

2. DUST DEVILS by James Reasoner – It was really hard to put this book in
the No. 2 slot, since it was the equal of BIG CITY. Reasoner came back to
the crime genre with guns a-blazin’.

3. QUEENPIN by Megan Abbott – What can I say that’s not already been said
about the talented Ms. Abbott’s writing? Out of her three books, this is
the one everyone should grab first to see that this broad can write.

4. COOL CAT by Dan Leissner – This novel is what the movie GRINDHOUSE tried
so hard to be: a total throwback to the exploitation genre. It’s books like
this that you’ll only hear about here. Screw that highbrow garbage that
people pretend to read.

beating babushka review5. STEALING THE DRAGON / BEATING THE BABUSHKA by Tim
Maleeny – Hopefully, this pair of books is just the start to his Cape
Weathers series. Plus, my father is a fan.

6. THE ELECTRIC CHURCH by Jeff Somers – The best dystopian future with
killer robots book of 2007!

7. LOOSE ENDS / ABOVE GROUND by Don Easton – How much is fiction and how
much is fact went through my mind with these books, since Easton pointed
out the subtle differences from what he did in real life as an undercover
Mountie. That makes him the second coolest Canadian right after Neil Young.

8. NO TIME FOR GOODBYE by Linwood Barclay – In a break from his character
series, Barclay takes a huge step in his writing to come up with a truly
great thriller, and one that leaves you guessing.

9) THE NEW DESTROYER: GUARDIAN ANGEL / THE NEW DESTROYER: CHOKE HOLD by
Warren Murphy and James Mullaney – Remo Williams is back in old-school
action style. None of this talking squid crap.

10. great reissues - Lawrence Block’s Tanner series, THE BEST OF THE
DESTROYER, Stark House Press … yeah, I’m taking the easy way out with this
one. But if I listed these separately, we’d have a Top 25 list.

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