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Read the Edgar Award winners and nominees by saltwaterfarm
which are the best mysteries of the year and usually are not one hit wonders. T. jefferson Parker, James Lee Burke, C.J box, William Kent Krueger, Dick Francis plus a bunch of others. Even the nominees are quite good. Google it online.
I just read Bluebird by Attica Locke and Before the fall by Noah Hawley which are recent winners for best mystery. They are awesome.
I have come late to Ian Rankin and Ken Bruen but I like them.
James Lee Burke becomes tiresome after a long while but he is one of our best writers and contains the singlemost interesting side player in Clete Purcell. Much more interesting than Robert B. Parkers Hawk.
my opinion