November 30, 2010 (MMD Newswire) -- Suspense Magazine is announcing The Best of 2010 List. Last year Suspense Magazine listed out the Top 10 books of 2009, however this year Suspense Magazine has changed this to breaking down the Best of List by genre.
The catagories include: Cozy, Romantic Suspense, Dark Urban Fantasy/Paranormal, Historical Fiction, Anthology, Legal Thriller, Medical Thrillers, Political Thriller, True Crime, Debut Authors, Horror, and Thriller / Suspense. Suspense Magazine did pick one book from all the ones listed in each genre as the Best Book of 2010, that honor goes to author Steven James for "The Bishop". Suspense Magazine went over thousands of books and received votes from hundreds of people to compile their list. The list is published in the December 2010 Issue of Suspense Magazine, to hit bookstores on December 1st, 2010. The electronic version of the December 2010 issue was released on November 27th, 2010.
Winners in each catagory are as follows:
Cozy
"A Nose for Justice"by Rita Mae Brown (Ballantine Books: September 2010)
"If Walls Could Talk: A Haunted Home Renovation Mystery"by Juliet Blackwell (Signet: December 2010)
"A House to Die For (A Darby Farr Mystery)"by Vicki Doudera (Midnight Ink: April 2010)
Romantic Suspense
"Original Sin"by Allison Brennan (Ballantine Books: January 2010)
"White Heat"by Brenda Novak (Mira: July 2010)
"Blood Vines"by Erica Spindler (St. Martin's Press: March 2010)
Dark Urban Fantasy/Paranormal
"Taken by Midnight"by Lara Adrian (Dell: September 2010)
"Pray for Dawn" by Jocelynn Drake (Eos: June 2010)
"Shakespeare Undead"by Lori Handeland (St. Martin's Griffin: June 2010)
Historical Fiction
"The Book of Spies"by Gayle Lynds (St. Martin's Press: March 2010)
"Stone's Fall"by Iain Pears (Spiegel & Grau: June 2010)
"The Moses Expedition" by Juan Gomez-Jurado (Atria Books: August 2010)
Anthology
"The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010" by Paula Guran (Prime Books: October 2010)
"Crimes by Moonlight - Mysteries from the Dark Side" by Charlaine Harris & Others (Berkley Hardcover: April 2010)
"First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors" by Lee Child (Forge Books: June 2010)
Legal Thrillers
"Law of Attraction: A Novel" by Allison Leotta (Touchstone: October 2010)
"Innocent" by Scott Turow (Grand Central Publishing: May 2010)
"Beyond Justice" by Joshua Graham (Dawn Treader Press: April 2010)
Medical Thrillers
"Shedrow"by Dean DeLuke (Grey Swan Press: August 2010)
"The Last Surgeon"by Michael Palmer (St. Martin's Press: February 2010)
"The Six-Liter Club"by Harry Kraus (Howard Books: April 2010)
Political Thrillers
"The Overton Window" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions: June 2010)
"The Silent Places" by James Patrick Hunt (Minotaur Books: May 2010)
"Foreign Influence" by Brad Thor (Atria Books: June 2010)
True Crime
"A Twisted Faith: A Minister's Obsession and the Murder That Destroyed a Church" by Gregg Olsen (St. Martin's Press: March 2010)
"Presumed Dead: A True Life Murder Mystery" by Henry Lee (Berkley: July 2010)
"In the Still of the Night: The Strange Dead of Ronda Reynolds and Her Mother's Unceasing Quest for the Truth" by Ann Rule (Free Press: October 2010)
Debut
"The Cold Kiss" by John Rector (Forge Books: July 2010)
"Still Missing" by Chevy Stevens (St. Martin's Press: July 2010)
"The Things that Keep us Here" by Carla Buckley (Delacorte Press: February 2010)
Horror
"Ancestor"by Scott Sigler (Crown: June 2010)
"The Book of Shadows"by Alexandra Sokoloff(St. Martin's Press: June 2010)
"Autumn" by David Moody (St. Martin's Griffin: October 2010)
Thriller/Suspense
"Velocity" by Alan Jacobson (Vanguard Press: October 2010)
"The Bride Collector" by Ted Dekker (Center Street: April 2010)
"Broken"by Karin Slaughter (Delacorte Press: June 2010)
"Torn Apart" by Shane Gericke (Pinnacle: July 2010)
"The Bishop" by Steven James (Revell: August 2010)
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