Here’s a (partial?) list of what I read last year:

  • Midnight Lullaby by James D. F. Hannah **** (way too many typos, but still a good story/character)
  • Foster by Claire Keegan *****
  • Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon *****
  • Better the Blood by Michael Bennett *****
  • My Sister’s Grave by Robert Dugoni ****
  • The Hunt by Kelly J. Ford ****
  • The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster *****
  • Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown *****
  • The Nightmare Man by J. H. Markert *** (didn’t really like the characters; too many monsters at the end)
  • Code of the Hills by Chris Offutt *****
  • Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott ****
  • None Without Sin by Michael Bradley ****
  • The Ranger by Ace Atkins *****
  • All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby *** (disappointing after Razorblade Tears; wonderful human truths from the author, but the fiction/mystery needed better editor; I’m aware this is a minority opinion–about the book, not the author)
  • The Good Ones by Polly Stewart ****
  • Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner ****
  • Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger ****
  • The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias ****
  • Pickard County Atlas by Chris Harding Thornton *****
  • Scorched Grace by Margo Douaihy *****
  • A Visit from the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan ****
  • Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red by Harry Kemelman *****
  • Ozark Dogs by Eli Cranor ****
  • The Grass Dancer by Susan Power *****
  • Real Bad Things by Kelly J. Ford ****
  • Killin’ Time in San Diego, the Bouchercon Anthology 2023 ****
  • The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Goff *****
  • Black Card by Chris L. Terry *****
  • Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks *****
  • Even as We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle ****
  • Shutter by Ramona Emerson ****
  • Where We Belong by Madeline Sayet ****
  • Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko *****
  • Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden *****
  • Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty ****
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens ****

There might be others. But that seems like enough.

I guess I could say that I’ve read my new novel Streets of Nashville several times through the year.