ARLA’s authors shine on “Best of 2015” round-ups across the web.
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The New York Times Top Books of 2015: “haunting…a suspenseful, beautifully constructed book with scenes as stirringly valedictory as a chorus of ‘Danny Boy.’ This is Mr. Lehane at his most sublime.”
The New York Times Sunday Book Review‘s list of 2015’s Best Crime Novels: “What are the holidays without some mobsters gathered round the Yule log? Dennis Lehane continues his epic saga of a family of Boston cops.”
GQ‘s picks by Don Winslow: “One of the great sagas in crime fiction. Joe Coughlin’s march toward moral and personal destruction is inevitable, and yet Lehane makes you wish it were otherwise, even as he takes you there.”
BADLANDS and ENDANGERED
Both of C.J. Box’s 2015 bestsellers make southflorida.com’s list: “Badlands deftly explores an area under siege by its own progress, inhabited by well-rounded characters shaped by their environs and their own moral codes. Endangered continues Box’s clear-eyed approach to balancing environmental and human issues in compelling plots.”
USA Today‘s mystery round-up: “The Granite Moth confirms that [Erica] Wright, an editor at the prestigious literary magazine Guernica, has a very promising second career on her hands.”
Myfanwy Collins scores a rave review on this blogger’s Top Ten Favorite Books of 2015: “Anyone who thinks that a YA book can’t be a significant literary achievement would do well to read this and realize how very wrong they were about their reading biases.”
Happy Holidays to all!
