This year's best
crime fiction debuts kept us entertained and on the edges of our seats as if they were authored by seasoned pros.
That's because the tenth entry in our top 10, Bill Beverly's Dodgers, forms a kind of bridge, it being the only title to appear on both the year's top 10 crime novels and our top 10
crime fiction debuts — a rare double, as those who follow these annual lists will know.
Khan held nothing back with
her crime fiction debut, The Unquiet Dead (2015), a complex and powerful mystery that introduced detectives Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty.
Not exact matches
When Wes Anderson's feature
debut Bottle Rocket was released just two years after Pulp
Fiction, the market had been saturated with cool, quirky, independent
crime films, most of them trying to be the next Quentin Tarantino.
Britain's
Crime Writers» Association is gearing up for another round of the Debut Dagger competition, its annual search for the best unpublished English - language crime fiction n
Crime Writers» Association is gearing up for another round of the
Debut Dagger competition, its annual search for the best unpublished English - language
crime fiction n
crime fiction novel.
South African author Sally Andrew makes her
fiction debut with the first in a new
crime series.
Of the remaining 9, though, there is only one first novelist, Alice LaPlante, who garners the treasured Mystery Showcase daily double by landing on both our top 10 and best
crime -
fiction debut lists.
Last week my
debut novel ranked as high as # 11 on Amazon's Best Selling
Fiction in the Thriller /
Crime category.
Confronting
crime, race, and coming - of - age, this searing
crime -
fiction debut features rich, multidimensional characters and remarkable prose.
I always love finding out what an author's research process is, so when I learned that writer Ingrid Thoft actually attended and graduated from the University of Washington private investigator program, I simply had to see how that helped her pen her
debut crime fiction novel, Loyalty.
Suspenseful and thrilling, and featuring a compelling new hero, The Drifter is an exciting
debut from a fresh voice in
crime fiction.
Winner of the 2015 BookBrowse
Debut Novel Award From a remarkable new voice in Southern
fiction, a multigenerational saga of
crime, family, and vengeance.
The Dime by Kathleen Kent Kent may be known for her historical
fiction, but her
crime debut is sure to leave readers hoping she sticks with the genre.
A bright new talent makes her
fiction debut with this first entry in a delicious
crime set in rural South Africa - a flavorful blend of The # 1 Ladies Detective Agency and Goldie Schulz series, full of humor, romance, and recipes and featuring a charming cast of characters.
Finn's
debut is this year's only winner of the coveted Booklist daily double — a slot on both our top 10 and
crime -
fiction debut lists.
I'm a
crime fiction and thriller author from London, England and my
debut novel, The Watcher, was inspired by London, and by what can happen when sexual obsession, violence, emotional neglect, and madness collide.