There you have it – the best crime novels of 2019, as chosen by crime authors! Which one is your favorite? The past twelve months have been an absolute treat for crime and thriller fans. Lead detective Matthew Venn is a brilliant, complex character and the story is riveting. Do read it. To start, I believe any decent suspense novel must have a clever, twisty plot. She’s a writer at the top of her game and this was another fabulous read. Craven’s follow-up to his smash hit debut, The Puppet Show, is a delicious mix of crime, mystery and forensic pathology. Irish Bestsellers 6th June 2020 There are few writers who have Jane’s knack of making the environment leap off the page. Jenna has to clear her name, save her baby then find the real killer and do it all from behind bars. This is what you’d get if you took apart an art-heist novel, a domestic noir, and a coming-of-age story and put all the pieces together at off-kilter angles: a smart, startling, vivid book about the intricacies of family relationships and how we shape our own identities. For me, I think the novel that really had me up all night, wanting to read it at every moment – with my breakfast, in the bath – was The Turn Of The Key by Ruth Ware. It’s a wild, often laugh out loud funny ride, and there are few authors today who can hold a candle to Heron’s combination of fantastic characterisation, beautiful prose, twist of plot and wry sense of humour. I love crime books that do something original with the genre, and Jamie Mason always does. Please note: Moderation is enabled and may delay your comment being posted. I absolutely loved it. I’m also fascinated by the way in which a previous generation shapes the next one. This is one of those books that stays with you for weeks after you’ve finished reading it. Very dangerous people come looking, lives carefully rebuilt after the heist start to unravel, and Carly has to find new sides of herself in order to keep herself and her family alive. The way she writes about the landscape, the isolation, and the hardship of trying to make a living off the land, all adds to the sense of foreboding. It’s a very intriguing and original story about a family being taken over from within by some overstaying houseguests. 2019 was a feast of crime novels for me, and it’s so hard to choose from all the delicious novels I read. At the same time Venn must revisit his own troubled past, bringing the investigation inexorably closer to home. From folklore to fairy tales, storytelling is a staple of Irish culture. I love it when two timelines collide and when connections between multiple stories and characters gradually reveal themselves. This might not be the first novel to focus on a character jailed for a crime they did not commit but the big twist here is that the innocent party is a woman and she is pregnant. It’s tough to choose one among so many fabulous books, but I’m going to go for Someone We Know by Shari Lapena. It’s been another great year for crime fiction, and for crime fiction written by women, which is especially gratifying. There’s something about near neighbours and quirky domestic setups that always grabs me. I’m a sucker for stories about dysfunctional families and this one really fit the bill. But within a few pages I’d cast aside any doubt and was swept away completely by this confident, glittering, dark and gripping story of a newly married couple finding themselves inadvertently embroiled in an international crime cartel whilst on holiday in Bora Bora. Irish Bestsellers 13th June 2020 As things continue to ease—shops re-opening, people returning to work—the charts are becoming more normal. 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