{"id":1209,"date":"2013-11-19T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2014-11-20T15:52:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T23:52:07","slug":"best-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/best-of-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year, I separated my choices into categories \u2013 there are some returning favorites, a book that stood out as an instant classic, some great sophomore efforts, and some new authors to the list. I couldn\u2019t keep myself to 10 \u2013 there are a lucky 13 titles here.\u00a0 All in all, a great year for reading.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also included picks from readers.\u00a0 As always, these titles are 15% off for the month.\u00a0 (Please contact us in order to receive the discount.) \u00a0<\/em>Happy reading \u2013 here\u2019s to some great reads in 2014!<\/i><\/p>\n

Best of the Year<\/b><\/h3>\n

Ordinary Grace<\/i>, William Kent Krueger, Atria, $24.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn those final days New Bremen for me had a different feel\u2026 It seemed as if the town and everything in it was already a part of my past.\u00a0 At night sometimes I tried to reach out and grab hold of what exactly I felt toward the place but everything was hopelessly tangled\u2026 I\u2019d been a child there and had crossed the threshold, perhaps early, into young manhood.\u201d<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

Kent Krueger\u2019s masterwork is set in 1961 small town Minnesota, told through the eyes of 13 year old Frank.\u00a0 As a reader, you\u2019re seeing events unfold as he understood them at the time.\u00a0 The writing makes the whole book seem like a remembered dream of childhood, though not always a good dream.\u00a0 What makes this book especially memorable is that while it\u2019s about terrible loss, it\u2019s also about the way people deal with terrible losses.\u00a0 There\u2019s a passage toward the end of the book \u2013 you\u2019ll know it when you get to it \u2013 that left me sobbing as well as dog-earing the pages so I could go back and read them again.\u00a0 It\u2019s that kind of transcendent moment that, as a reader, you live to discover, and I imagine as a writer, you live to be able to convey. Buy a copy of this book for everyone and anyone who means anything to you.\u00a0 I hate to use the word special, but this book is special.\u00a0 I\u2019ve read it twice and am already looking forward to revisiting it a third time.\u00a0 Whether or not you\u2019re interested in coming of age stories, or 1961 Minnesota, it simply doesn\u2019t matter, as the emotional truth of this novel is timeless.<\/p>\n

Old Favorites<\/b><\/h3>\n

Let it Burn<\/i>, Steve Hamilton, Minotaur, $24.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is something Detroit had always been known for, of course.\u00a0 Devil\u2019s night, the night before Halloween, when people would come from literally all over the world to watch the city burn… Now it was like the whole city just said, all together… Let it burn.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

I thought Steve Hamilton couldn\u2019t get any better, but he does, with this incredibly timely book about the deterioration of Detroit.\u00a0 Alex returns to his old home town and relives memories of his shooting and his partner\u2019s death on the news that the shooter is being released from prison.\u00a0 A tightly wound, beautifully constructed novel that is heartbreaking while being far from sentimental, now kind of a Hamilton trademark. To be so on top of his game this deep into a series is very impressive \u2013 and makes for great reading.<\/p>\n

The Book of Killowen<\/i>, Erin Hart, Scribner, $26.00.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the same peat that preserved bog butter, wooden roads, all those ritual sacrifices.\u00a0 Ten thousand years, that\u2019s how long it had lain in a suspended state in the bottom of a bog, and now it was being disturbed, for what?\u00a0 Beauty treatments whose effects were at best transitory.\u00a0 The impossible quest for youth.\u00a0 She thought of all the endangered bogs and suddenly began to feel guilty for enjoying the fruits of such exploitation.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

This lovely book is a kind of spiritual meshing of Agatha Christie \u2013 for plot \u2013 and P.D. James, in that the setting and characters are as richly captured as any in a James novel.\u00a0 The fourth in Hart\u2019s fine Nora Gavin series, The Book of Killowen<\/i> finds Nora and Cormac back in Ireland and back in another bog, this time on the trail of an ancient bog man as well as a much more recent one.\u00a0 Like the bogs of Ireland that Hart chooses to write about, her stories are richly layered creations right down to two, not one, bodies found on top of another in the trunk of a car.\u00a0 The combination of history, scholarship and a mystery tricky enough for Dame Agatha herself also has a sense of real emotion and place that are all Hart\u2019s own.\u00a0 This is great armchair travel as well as a deeply satisfying read, delivered by one of the very best traditional mystery writers at work at the moment.<\/p>\n

How the Light Gets In, <\/i>Louise Penny, Minotaur, $25.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFor days, weeks, months… she\u2019d known.\u00a0 Monsters existed.\u00a0 They lived in cracks in tunnels, and in dark alleys, and in neat row houses.\u00a0 They had names like Frankenstein and Dracula, and Martha and David and Pierre.\u00a0 And you almost always found them where you least expected.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Louise Penny has hit a pinnacle of popularity, respect and adoration among her fans that makes it almost impossible to rationally judge her books.\u00a0 I think is a good one though, with Gamache at odds with the department, back in Three Pines, and struggling with Beauvoir\u2019s ongoing addiction.\u00a0 There\u2019s also a matter of corruption that goes as high as possible in the police and government, as well as a mysterious friend of Myrna\u2019s.\u00a0 It\u2019s a conspiracy novel that forces old connections to be tested, which I think is Penny\u2019s main concern.\u00a0 What\u2019s distinctive here is the growing power and originality of this writer\u2019s voice, which happens to be a very particular and enjoyable one.<\/p>\n

Through the Evil Days<\/i>, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Minotaur, $25.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe snow was falling thick and fast, fat wet flakes that covered the windshield between swipes of the wipers, so that his eyes seemed to be blinking in and out of focus: tire tracks, white spatter, mailboxes, white spatter, hemlocks, white spatter, carports, white spatter.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Can I just say \u2013 yay?\u00a0 I\u2019m delighted to have Episcopal priest Clare and her new husband, police chief Russ, back at last, enjoying possibly the world\u2019s most uncomfortable honeymoon.\u00a0 It\u2019s the middle of an ice storm, they\u2019re stuck in an isolated if beautiful cabin, and there\u2019s a missing 8-year-old girl who will die without her medication if she\u2019s not found. The police department is trying to function without Russ.\u00a0 This is a race against the clock thriller with Spencer-Fleming\u2019s trademark: incredibly rich and varied characters.\u00a0 She keeps throwing curveballs at Clare and Russ, and as always, they weather them (if there\u2019s a better definition of marriage, I\u2019m not sure what it might be).\u00a0 A wonderful, and welcome, return of a beloved series.<\/p>\n

Spectacular Sophomores<\/b><\/h3>\n

Bitter River, <\/i>Julia Keller, Minotaur, $25.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAll three looked anxious, uncomfortable, as if they weren\u2019t quite certain what to do or how to be.\u00a0 Motion was their preferred state, action was how they defined themselves, and this interval \u2013 the standing and waiting \u2013 was unusual.\u00a0 It made them feel clumsy, pointless.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Julia Keller\u2019s first novel was a knockout, and the second book in the series, set in Appalachia, may even be better.\u00a0 She brings an amazingly assured voice to her storytelling, reminiscent very much of Sharyn McCrumb\u2019s classic ballad novels.\u00a0 American mystery writing \u2013 to my biased mind \u2013 doesn\u2019t get much better than the mix of grit, setting, rich characters and sheer storytelling power Keller brings to her work.\u00a0 Central character Bell Elkins, the local prosecuting attorney, is missing her daughter who has moved away to live with her father, dealing with a new boyfriend, and trying to solve the murder of the hometown golden girl.\u00a0 Her most trusted ally, Sherriff Nick Fogelsong, is doing things off the grid, and Bell feels very much on her own as the town quite literally falls apart around her.\u00a0 In this novel, Keller is examining all the fierce permutations of love, and how the ties of family and kinship can either help or hinder you in the world. As in her first novel, her central question becomes, what would you do for love?\u00a0 Along with a great story, she gives you plenty to think about.<\/p>\n

Crooked Numbers<\/i>, Tim O\u2019Mara, Minotaur, $24.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTeachers know.\u00a0 We only have these kids for a short time.\u00a0 We throw a whole bunch of knowledge at them and hope more sticks than falls away.\u00a0 They have no idea what life\u2019s going to bring, so our job is to prepare them the best we can, and then we let them go.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

I loved O\u2019Mara\u2019s first book, Sacrifice Fly, <\/i>and I think I love this one even more.\u00a0 His main character is Brooklyn teacher (now Dean) Raymond Donne, who used to be a cop, but thanks to an injury sustained on the job is now a teacher.\u00a0 Though he\u2019s not technically a private eye, he functions like one, in both books getting involved in cases involving students.\u00a0 In this book, a promising student has been found dead and his mother asks Raymond to help raise the publicity profile so the police will take a closer look.\u00a0 Very strong elements in this series are the Brooklyn-specific setting and the school setting \u2013 O\u2019Mara brings real life experience to his storytelling. In a sophomore effort, I always hope not just for a continuation of what made the first book special, but for a deepening and expansion of what\u2019s been started.\u00a0 O\u2019Mara delivers.<\/p>\n

New to the List<\/b><\/h3>\n

Behind the Shattered Glass<\/i>, Tasha Alexander, Minotaur, $24.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis, Emily, goes beyond bad manners… One cannot have gentlemen falling down dead in the library, especially on an eighteenth-century Axminster carpet!\u00a0 It is entirely ruined; there is no possibility that the bloodstain will come out\u2026What would your father say?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

This book is about the most fun you can have \u201cbetween the covers.\u201d \u00a0In Alexander\u2019s eighth novel featuring Lady Emily, she\u2019s at last come home with her husband and twins to Anglemore in the British countryside. Interrupting a weekend dinner party, a neighboring marquess falls into the library, dead.\u00a0 The unraveling of the mystery, with detective work being done both by Emily and her delicious husband, Colin, takes an upstairs\/downstairs approach, with part of the story being told through the eyes of a maid.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t put it down and was sad when it was over \u2013 what better reading experience could there be?<\/p>\n

Seven for a Secret<\/i>, Lyndsay Faye, Putnam, $26.95.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI met him before his mother\u2019s residence in the spun-sugar February dawn, sunlight pale as an oyster shell and the dull little sparrows trilling pleasantries to one another from the naked treetops.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Lyndsay Faye\u2019s voice is remarkable, and remarkably compelling.\u00a0 She\u2019s also a great storyteller.\u00a0 She recreates the world of 1840s New York City with real energy and verve, and as a reader, you feel you are right along with new \u201cCopper\u201d Timothy Wilde, a member of the brand new NYPD.\u00a0 Faye\u2019s first novel centered on child prostitutes; this one, her second, centers on the dreadful practice of slave catching and takes a hard look at all the different forms abolitionists took at the time, as well as at the politics that controlled the situation.\u00a0 This is an immersive read \u2013 you\u2019ll look up and be startled you aren\u2019t actually in 1840s New York.\u00a0 There are surprises, plot twists, wonderful characters, heartbreaks and some small redemptions that make this novel one of the reads of the year.<\/p>\n

Pagan Spring<\/i>, G.M. Malliett, Minotaur, $24.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe slice of Nether Monkslip in his view was of a classic village whose roots predated recorded history, a place that had survived centuries of wars and feuds and conspiracies largely because it had managed to go unnoticed.\u00a0 It was… a mix of styles pleasing to the eye and just managing to avoid the chaotic.\u201d\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

I enjoyed the first two books in this series featuring vicar Max Tudor very much.\u00a0 The first, Wicked Autumn, <\/i>was a pitch-perfect tongue-in-cheek send-up of a British village mystery; the second, Fatal Winter, <\/i>adjusted the tone somewhat so that the book read slightly darker than the first.\u00a0 In this third novel, just like Goldilocks on her third try, Malliett seems to have gotten things \u201cjust right.\u201d\u00a0 Balancing Max\u2019s new love life with the murder of an obnoxious new member of the village of Nether Monkslip, Max again helps out the local inspector in sorting out various village entanglements, connections and alliances (he\u2019s a former member of MI5).\u00a0 Malliett hits her stride in this book, matching the tone of the novel with the setting \u2013 not too light, not too dark, and she\u2019s paced this book perfectly. This is a totally enjoyable read in every way.<\/p>\n

Deadly Harvest<\/i>, Michael Stanley, Harper Collins, $14.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day that he came to work, he was grateful that the detectives had their offices at the foot of Kgale Hill \u2013 a wild enclave with the city lapping around its base\u2026as he squeezed himself out of his old Land Rover in the narrow parking bay, he could enjoy the wildness of the hills above him and hear distant calls from the baboons.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve enjoyed all the Detective Kubu novels set in Botswana, but this is my favorite, as the pair of writers behind \u201cMichael Stanley\u201d keep getting better and better as they go along.\u00a0 This heartbreaking tale finds the fat, cheerful, food-loving, essentially lazy and brilliant Kubu on the trail of a witch doctor.\u00a0 As always, the combination of African culture with a great story and wonderful characters proves irresistible.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a pretty heartbreaking story, even though there\u2019s a nice balance of light and dark within its pages.\u00a0 One of the more refreshing reads of this, or any, year.<\/p>\n

The Midwife\u2019s Tale<\/i>, Sam Thomas, Minotaur, $24.99.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe smiles that lit their faces when they caught sight of her will stay with me for the rest of my days.\u00a0 I saw joy and love, of course, but also a trace of sadness, for they knew that they might never see their daughter again… To say farewell to one\u2019s child is a terrible thing.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

While most historical novels can\u2019t really claim title to \u201czippy\u201d, this one does, as along with being a professor, Mr. Thomas is also a very able novelist, with the novelist\u2019s concerns of plot, character and setting.\u00a0 He takes the reader on a gripping tour of 1644 York as seen through the eyes of midwife Bridget as she tries to save the life of her friend Esther, sentenced to death for poisoning her nasty husband.\u00a0 Mr. Thomas not only ably gets inside the head of his female protagonist, but delivers a full and painful picture of what it meant to be a woman in 1644. Hard to put down and hard to forget \u2013 this is a terrific first novel.<\/p>\n

Death and the Olive Grove<\/i>, Marco Vichi, Pegasus, $25.00.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs he crushed the fag-end in the ashtray, a big, sluggish fly landed on his wrist.\u00a0 It was fat and black, with hairy legs.\u00a0 The inspector held his hand still, so it wouldn\u2019t fly away, and so he wouldn\u2019t feel alone.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

This has been one of our favorite handsells of the year \u2013 an Italian novel that can happily be read by those folks who love Andrea Camilleri but have already read his books.\u00a0 Set in 1964 Florence, Inspector Bordelli tears around in his rattle-y VW beetle, terrifying his assistant, a Sicilian named Piras.\u00a0 While Piras\u2019 thinking is straightforward and linear and Bordelli\u2019s is complex and operatic, they share a passion for justice.\u00a0 In this novel they are trying to solve a string of deaths involving young girls.\u00a0 While that\u2019s a heavy topic and the book certainly has its dark side, it also has its cosmic, life-affirming side, one where Bordelli ponders cooking, washing machines, why he hates Nazis, love, and spaghetti.\u00a0 He writes like a poet wearing dark glasses.<\/p>\n

Also Recommended<\/b><\/h3>\n

Though it\u2019s for kids, adult mystery writer Chris Grabenstein\u2019s foray into YA territory has yielded an instant classic, Escape from Mr. Lemoncello\u2019s Library; <\/i>Ellen Hart\u2019s always excellent Jane Lawless series has another winner in Taken by the Wind; <\/i>Loren D. Estleman takes an artful look at gangster life in The Confessions of Al Capone; <\/i>Elly Griffith\u2019s excellent A Dying Fall<\/i> features lots of Cathbad; <\/i>Theresa Schwegel\u2019s suspenseful boy-and-his-dog story, The Good Boy,<\/i> is hard to put down;\u00a0<\/i> S.J. Bolton\u2019s scary and memorable Lost<\/i> sticks with you; <\/i>Denise Swanson\u2019s terrifically entertaining Murder of a Stacked Librarian <\/i>is a deft handling of a long awaited wedding; <\/i>and I welcomed the arrival of the energetic and enjoyable Susan Elia MacNeal \u2013 I especially enjoyed Princess Elizabeth\u2019s Spy. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Reader\u2019s Picks<\/b><\/h3>\n

Commonalities here: Louise Penny; Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J.K. Rowling; William Kent Krueger; Lyndsay Faye; Alan Bradley; Simone St. James; Susan Elia MacNeal; Anna Lee Huber; and Barbara Ross\u2019 <\/i>Clammed Up.<\/i>\u00a0 I have a soft spot for librarians, and librarians sending in their picks have an asterisk after their name.<\/i><\/p>\n

Marty Cignetti, <\/b>Ace Assistant:\u00a0 Ordinary Grace, <\/i>William Kent Krueger; The Woman Who Wouldn\u2019t Die, <\/i>Colin Cotterill; The Gods of Gotham, <\/i>Lyndsay Faye; Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol, <\/i>Giles Brandreth; and A Man Without Breath, <\/i>Philip Kerr.<\/p>\n

Patti O\u2019Brien*<\/b>, Tucson: How the Light Gets in, <\/i>Louise Penny; The Gods of Gotham, <\/i>Lyndsay Faye; Deed of Murder, <\/i>Cora Harrison; Princess Elizabeth\u2019s Spy & His Majesty\u2019s Hope, <\/i>Susan Elia MacNeal; The Sleeping Partner, <\/i>Madeleine Robbins; Eleven Little Piggies, <\/i>Elizabeth Gunn; The Yard, <\/i>Alex Grecian; Leaving Everything Most Loved, <\/i>Jacqueline Winspear; The Sound of Broken Glass, <\/i>Deborah Crombie; Bad Blood, <\/i>Dana Stabenow.<\/p>\n

Kathy Fannon*<\/b>, Washington, MI:\u00a0 How the Light Gets in, <\/i>Louise Penny; A Bitter Veil, <\/i>Libby Fischer Hellmann; In the Bleak Midwinter, <\/i>Julia Spencer-Fleming; Lucky Bastard, <\/i>Deborah Koontz; Ordinary Grace, <\/i>William Kent Krueger.<\/p>\n

Carla Bayha<\/b>, Ann Arbor:\u00a0 Clammed Up, <\/i>Barbara Ross; Topped Chef, <\/i>Lucy Burdette.<\/p>\n

Larka Karian, <\/b>Ripon, WI: Leave the Grave Green, <\/i>Deborah Crombie.<\/p>\n

Ariel Zeitlin Cooke*, <\/b>Montclair, NJ: The Talented Mr. Ripley, <\/i>Patricia Highsmith; Busman\u2019s Honeymoon, <\/i>Dorothy L. Sayers; The Beekeeper\u2019s Apprentice, <\/i>Laurie R. King; and \u201cMy favorite new one was the last Sookie Stackhouse, Dead Ever After.\u00a0 <\/i>It was a thunderously satisfying conclusion to one of my favorite series.\u201d<\/p>\n

Linda Kimmel,<\/b> Ann Arbor: Speaking from Among the Bones, <\/i>Alan Bradley; How the Light Gets in, <\/i>Louise Penny; Behind the Shattered Glass, <\/i>Tasha Alexander; The Book of Killowen, <\/i>Erin Hart; A Dying Fall, <\/i>Elly Griffiths; An Inquiry into Love and Death, <\/i>Simone St. James; Mortal Arts, <\/i>Anna Lee Huber; Etiquette and Espionage, <\/i>Gail Carriger (YA title).<\/p>\n

Vicki Kondolik*, <\/b>Ann Arbor: Speaking from Among the Bones, <\/i>Alan Bradley; The Anatomist\u2019s Wife, <\/i>Anna Lee Huber; Out of Circulation, <\/i>Miranda James; A Killing in the Hills, <\/i>Julia Keller; His Majesty\u2019s Hope, <\/i>Susan Elia MacNeal; How the Light Gets In, <\/i>Louise Penny; The Cuckoo\u2019s Calling, <\/i>Robert Galbraith; An Inquiry into Love and Death, <\/i>Simone St. James; Nickeled and Dimed to Death, <\/i>Denise Swanson; and The Sign of the Weeping Virgin, <\/i>Alana White.<\/p>\n

Via Facebook<\/i><\/b>:<\/i><\/p>\n

Jeffrey Marks<\/b>, Cincinnati:\u00a0 Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense,<\/i> Sarah Weinman (editor).<\/p>\n

Bob Cunningham<\/b>: Brilliance, <\/i>Marcus Sakey.<\/p>\n

Lauren LaRocca<\/b>: How the Light Gets in, <\/i>Louise Penny.<\/p>\n

Meg Mims<\/b>: Clammed Up, <\/i>Barbara Ross.<\/p>\n

Michele Claro Dancer<\/strong>: The Cuckoo\u2019s Calling, <\/i>Robert Galbraith; The Last Word, <\/i>Lisa Lutz.<\/p>\n

Peg Herring<\/b>: The Secret Keepers, <\/i>Kate Morton.<\/p>\n

Jim Graham<\/b>: Then We Take Berlin, <\/i>John Lawton.<\/p>\n

Nancy Andrews<\/b>:\u00a0 How the Light Gets in, <\/i>Louise Penny; Storm Front, <\/i>John Sandford; The Kill List, <\/i>Frederick Forsyth; W is for Wasted, <\/i>Sue Grafton.<\/p>\n

Colleen Moore<\/b>: How the Light Gets in, <\/i>Louise Penny.<\/p>\n

Jackie Jenkins<\/b>: The Cuckoo\u2019s Calling, <\/i>Robert Galbraith.<\/p>\n

Linda Chudej<\/b>: The Beautiful Mystery, <\/i>Louise Penny; Hercule Poirot\u2019s Christmas & Curtain, <\/i>Agatha Christie; Murder is Binding, <\/i>Lorna Barrett; Scone Cold Dead, <\/i>Kaitlyn Dunnett; A Cookbook Conspiracy, <\/i>Kate Carlisle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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