Gran’s first in the Claire DeWitt series was a shot of adrenaline straight into the arm of private eye fiction, a gleefully strange, esoteric, sometimes hallucinatory new rendition of a beloved genre. _ Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, by Sara Gran _ The Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade For now, here are our choices for best crime novels of the decade. Over the coming days, we’ll also be looking at the best crime fiction series of the decade and the rising voices of crime literature. Crime fiction is growing and evolving all the time, and we’re constantly discovering new veins of the literature to read, new authors to appreciate. Many worthy books were left off this list some of them are listed below in our Notables selection, while others will have to live to be recommended another day. And finally, in an effort to combat recency bias, and because we have a full slate of “best of 2019” content coming soon, we more or less excluded books that came out within the last calendar year from consideration. We also selected crime and mystery books that seemed to adhere to the basic structure of the genre and continue its traditions, rather than literary works masquerading as noirs. But we asked our editors to consult as many outside readers as possible-including the most adamant readers in our crime fiction community, aka the CrimeReads core audience-and to also take into special consideration those books that had a lasting, formative influence on the genre and its authors. Ranking books is inherently, incredibly subjective. The task we set ourselves was, at the outset, more or less impossible. Four, crime and mystery books are increasingly global, activist, female, diverse, and hard to pigeonhole into any particular subgenre.īefore you you dive into the book selections, a few notes on the process. Three, traditional mysteries are back-and they’re being read by millennials. Two, there are fewer cops and pros solving crimes, and more amateurs and Hitchcock-style every-people thrust into investigations of everyday mysteries. One, the remarkable rise of the psychological thriller heralds a shift from “stranger danger” thrillers to acknowledging that harm often lurks at home (or at work). Some trends surfaced as we made our choices, and they’re worth noting.
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