Publishers Weekly just published its “Best Books 2011” edition.  Five of our picks topped the Mystery/Thriller category.  Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson, A Simple Act of Violence by R. J. Ellory, Field Grey by Philip Kerr, The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman, and A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny dominate the list of nine selected books.  By any measure, five of nine is a respectible showing.  We still have signed copies of these titles in stock . . . but hurry, once the word gets out they’ll be gone.

– John