Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Suspense Magazine Best of 2010 List

Suspense Magazine announces Best of 2010 List:

This year Suspense Magazine breaks down their Best of List by genre. Winners in each catagory are as follows:

Cozy
A Nose for Justice by Rita Mae Brown (Ballantine Books)
If Walls Could Talk: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery by Juliet Blackwell (Signet)
A House to Die For by Vicki Doudera (Midnight Ink)

Romantic Suspense
Original Sin by Allison Brennan (Ballantine Books)
White Heat by Brenda Novak (Mira)
Blood Vines by Erica Spindler (St. Martin's Press)

Dark Urban Fantasy/Paranormal
Taken by Midnight by Lara Adrian (Dell)
Pray for Dawn by Jocelynn Drake (Eos)
Shakespeare Undead by Lori Handeland (St. Martin's Griffin)

Historical Fiction
The Book of Spies by Gayle Lynds (St. Martin's Press)
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears (Spiegel & Grau)
The Moses Expedition by Juan Gomez-Jurado (Atria Books)

Anthology
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 by Paula Guran (Prime Books)
Crimes by Moonlight - Mysteries from the Dark Side by Charlaine Harris & Others (Berkley Hardcover)
First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors by Lee Child (Forge Books: June 2010)

Legal Thrillers
Law of Attraction: A Novel by Allison Leotta (Touchstone)
Innocent by Scott Turow (Grand Central Publishing)
Beyond Justice by Joshua Graham (Dawn Treader Press)

Medical Thrillers
Shedrow by Dean DeLuke (Grey Swan Press)
The Last Surgeon by Michael Palmer (St. Martin's Press)
The Six-Liter Club by Harry Kraus (Howard Books)

Political Thrillers
The Overton Window by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)
The Silent Places by James Patrick Hunt (Minotaur Books)
Foreign Influence by Brad Thor (Atria Books)

True Crime
A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church by Gregg Olsen (St. Martin's Press)
Presumed Dead: A True Life Murder Mystery by Henry Lee (Berkley)
In the Still of the Night: The Strange Dead of Ronda Reynolds and Her Mother's Unceasing Quest for the Truth by Ann Rule (Free Press)

Debut
The Cold Kiss by John Rector (Forge Books)
Still Missing by Chevy Stevens (St. Martin's Press)
The Things that Keep us Here by Carla Buckley (Delacorte Press: February 2010)

Horror
Ancestor by Scott Sigler (Crown)
The Book of Shadows by Alexandra Sokoloff(St. Martin's Press)
Autumn by David Moody (St. Martin's Griffin)

Thriller/Suspense
Velocity by Alan Jacobson (Vanguard Press)
The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker (Center Street)
Broken by Karin Slaughter (Delacorte Press)
Torn Apart by Shane Gericke (Pinnacle)
The Bishop by Steven James (Revell)

Suspense Magazine is a monthly publication and also produces a bi-weekly radio show at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/suspensemagazine

2 comments:

Shane Gericke said...

This is a brilliant list, Janet. But I might be slightly prejudiced :-) Thanks for running it!

Shane Gericke, TORN APART

Anonymous said...

(Clearing of throat.) Likewise, I'm sure.

Charlaine Harris