Nominations open -- February 2024 group reads: Your favorite mystery, crime, thriller book of 2023

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Did you have a book you absolutely loved in 2023 and want to share with others? Here is your chance. Please nominate your favorite mystery, crime, thriller book from 2023.

Please remember: nominating your own books is not allowed.

[Christine]

I hardly found any appealing books in 2023. So I pass this time.

[CBRetriever]

it doesn't look like I bought too many books published in 2023 in the mystery genre except for books that are way deep in the series except for this one:

A Winter Grave by Peter May which looks to be a futuristic mystery. So I guess I'll nominate it:

By contrast, melting ice sheets have brought the Gulf Stream to a halt and northern latitudes, including Scotland, are being hit by snow and ice storms. It is against this backdrop that Addie, a young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station, discovers the body of a man entombed in ice.

The dead man is investigative reporter, George Younger, missing for three months after vanishing during what he claimed was a hill-walking holiday. But Younger was no hill walker, and his discovery on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven, is inexplicable.

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Christine wrote: "I hardly found any appealing books in 2023. So I pass this time."

that is a shame, really. Nothing at all?

[Randy]

Nancy, do you mean solely books published in 2023, or books you read in 2023 regardless of year of publication?

[Alexandra]

Blood in the bayou

[Maddy]

Mines was “I Kill Killers” by S.T. Ashman. I had great reads all year thanks to so many recs. This book though I felt had me hooked from the beginning and that ending has me anxiously waiting for book #2. New author and published in 2023. :)

[Julianne]

Death in the Family by Tessa wegert

[Alexandra]

The inmate and ward D

[Judy]

Randy wrote: "Nancy, do you mean solely books published in 2023, or books you read in 2023 regardless of year of publication?"

Yes that is my question as well

[Kathy]

Christine wrote: "I hardly found any appealing books in 2023. So I pass this time."

Christine wrote: "I hardly found any appealing books in 2023. So I pass this time."

Wow!

[Monica Garcia]

The Last Flight by Julie Clark

[Riley]

The Locked Door by Freida McFadden or The silent patient by Alex Michaelides

[Nancy, Co-Moderator]

Randy wrote: "Nancy, do you mean solely books published in 2023, or books you read in 2023 regardless of year of publication?"

Any book you loved in 2023. It doesn't have to have been published in 2023.

[Chaldees]

Local Woman Missing By: Mary Kubica

[Randy]

Thanks, Nancy.

[heyysamara]

The Silent Patient had my vote. Thanks, Nancy!

[Katyayini]

Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

[Jessica]

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

[Marty]

Sometimes I Lie; by Alice Feeney
A great read

[Suzy]

I'll nominate Chenneville by Paulette Jiles.

[Debbie]

The housemaid by freida McFadden

[Eva]

I may be late to the party, but since I read it last year: The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward.
Had it at (IMO), and was a bit in a page turner but also a book that kept me googling about the topic for weeks

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[Vanessa]

Do no harm by Jack Jordan. I read it in record time, couldn’t put it down.

[Meshawn]

Those Girls by Chevy Stevens

[Laura S.]

I finished "The One" by John Marrs. It's brilliant! I highly recommend.

[Phoebe]

Hidden Pictures

[Laura]

Northwoods by Amy Pease

[Christine]

Nancy wrote: "Christine wrote: "I hardly found any appealing books in 2023. So I pass this time."

that is a shame, really. Nothing at all?"

I finally found "The Lie Maker" by Linwood Barclay. I love his thrillers since 2008 and checked a few days ago if he wrote any new books (I don't like the modern books with tons of podcasts, e-mails, cell phones and way too much technology on every page which bores me to death) and he did.
I'm on page 120 and it's so thrilling!

[Scott]

I would like to nominate my novel Saving Thomas, which was a 2023 Finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award, a 2022 Finalist for the Chanticleer Murder & Mayhem Award, and made the 2022 Short List for the Goethe Award for Recent Historical Fiction. Thank you for your consideration.

[Angelina]

Scott wrote: "I would like to nominate my novel Saving Thomas, which was a 2023 Finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award, a 2022 Finalist for the Chanticleer Murder & Mayhem Award, and made the 2022 Sho..."

You can’t nominate a book you wrote that’s against the rules.

[Angelina]

2023 was not a good year for books I’ve read and I’ve checked and not one decent mystery. Hope to read something better that someone else nominates.

[Christine]

I nominate Never Lie by Freida McFadden

[Christine]

Angelina wrote: "2023 was not a good year for books I’ve read and I’ve checked and not one decent mystery. Hope to read something better that someone else nominates."

I feel the same. From year to year there are less compelling books.

[Alexis]

I have just gotten back into reading recently so I haven’t read much but I just finished one that I had started Christmas morning after my husband gifted me a kindle, it’s called Hidden in Lies by Robert J Walker

[sara]

I would like to nominate No Exit by Taylor Adams, The Silent Patient by Alex Michealides, and A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham.

These were my top 3 thriller/mystery books I read in 2023. No Exit is very fast paced, engaging, and reads like a movie. I will be honest and say I finished this book in one sitting it was so captivating!

The Silent Patient is an excellent psychological thriller. The narrator is interesting and the surprise twist at the end had me gasping!! Flicker in the Dark was a slower read but definitely got my mind turning a few times.

[Aaliya xx]

The Visitor by Lee Child :) x

[Diane]

I would like to nominate the M L Rose series of books. The Arla baker is set in London, the characters and places come to life the authors stories of murder

[Hastings75]

Everyone in my Family has Killed Someone.

[Adrian]

The Two-Penny Bar by Georges Simenon

[Sylvia]

I read so many good ones in 2023! My top favourite thrillers I read (my absolute favourite genre) were The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding, Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney, On A Quiet Street by Seraphina Nova Glass, Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister, and probably my absolute favourite was The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth (literally could not put that one down!). I’m currently reading The Housemaid by Frieda McFadden and it’s really good as well. And started The Silent Patient on my audiobooks app!

[Sylvia]

Almost forgot another one I read in 2023 which I loved was The Therapist by B.A. Paris!

[Christi]

Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger or Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

[Nicole Goodson]

The Drowning Woman by Robyn Harding was probably one of my favorites I read in 2023.

[Storm Bay]

Diane wrote: "I would like to nominate the M L Rose series of books. The Arla baker is set in London, the characters and places come to life the authors stories of murder"

I second this one.

[Tasha]

The Racketeer by John Grisham

[Jack]

Hi everyone, I'd like to nominate:

10 Seconds After impact by Jack Thorpe: A high octane action packed crime thriller, a chilling story of Daring criminals, and diabolical modern day terrorism

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2ZN8HXV

[Marty]

I also recommend Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris. I read this a couple of years ago, and still think about it.

[Christi]

Marty wrote: "I also recommend Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris. I read this a couple of years ago, and still think about it."

Definitely one to remember!

[Liz]

Really enjoyed The Last Passenger by Will Dean (a little less crime and more thriller though!)