Recently, NPR listeners voted on their favorite thrillers of all time. One member of the advisory panel for the Top 100 Killer Thrillers project was very impressed with their choices, saying “The vast majority of these are very good books or classics…Thomas Harris, Dennis Lehane, Patricia Highsmith—this audience knows good writing.”

We at ARLA certainly agree! Three of Dennis Lehane’s books made the list, putting him in third place with Michael Crichton and Stieg Larsson, behind only Lee Child and Stephen King!