Lists of Bests: The Rap Sheet's "One Book Project: Underappreciated Crime, Mystery & Thriller Fiction" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/37408 This list was compiled by The Rap Sheet (http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/), a blog devoted to crime fiction. They asked over 100 "crime novelists, book critics, and bloggers...to choose the one crime/mystery/thriller novel that they thought had been most unjustly overlooked, criminally forgotten, or underappreciated over the years." To read their comments (and discover who chose which books) go here: http://therapsheet-onebook.blogspot.com/. _The list is alphabetical by title._ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:25:17 GMT en-us 0 50 115 50 0 About the Author: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1332 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1332"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060932171.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Colapinto</div> Anatomy of a Murder http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1819663 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1819663"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000BHHB6S.01-A34BGT9FQIAQY3._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47379623_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Traver</div> Any Cold Jordan http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821949 <div id="position">3</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Bottoms</div> Before I Die http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821952 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821952"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01F5YN05DTL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lionel White</div> Big City, Bad Blood: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2464822 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2464822"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061128678.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sean Chercover</div> Blackburn: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2796681 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2796681"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11xtqSFZcbL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bradley Denton</div> The Black Mass of Brother Springer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1697315 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1697315"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1930997353.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Ray Willeford</div> Blood Marks http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/765276 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bill Crider</div> Bodies are Dust http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821959 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P.J. Wolfson</div> Bodies Electric http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1516864 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1516864"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312979665.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056431154_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Harrison</div> The Bridge of Sighs: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6169 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6169"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312302452.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Olen Steinhauer</div> The Burnt Orange Heresy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2764173 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Willeford</div> California Fire and Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2664741 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2664741"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0804116113.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Winslow</div> Castles burning (A Jacob Asch mystery) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821969 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821969"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/11yoDC4FRtL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arthur Lyons</div> The Caves of Steel (Robot Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335448 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2335448"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0586008357.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isaac Asimov</div> The Chill http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19068 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19068"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679768076.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465013_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ross Macdonald</div> Citizen Vince: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1205944 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1205944"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060989297.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jess Walter</div> A Clod of Wayward Marl http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2512683 <div id="position">18</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rick DeMarinis</div> Coffin's Got the Dead Guy on the Inside http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821974 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821974"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01TEQ9G0BTL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Keith Snyder</div> Cotton Comes to Harlem (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11241 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11241"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0394759990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1100863110_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Chester Himes</div> Crow in Stolen Colors (Alaska Panhandle Mysteries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821975 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821975"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01D1KZW89PL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marcia Simpson</div> Daddy Cool http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2792642 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donald Goines</div> A Darker Place http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16099 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16099"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553578243.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurie R. King</div> The Dark Fields http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88125 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88125"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1582342245.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Glynn</div> Dark Ride (Dark Ride) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008684 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1008684"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312962665.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056431082_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kent Harrington</div> The Deadly Percheron http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830355 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/830355"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1933618108.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Franklin Bardin</div> The Depths of the Forest (Eurocrime series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2081090 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2081090"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1900850656.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eugenio Fuentes</div> The Distance : A Crime Novel Introducing Billy Nichols http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/761049 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/761049"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0743214439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Eddie Muller</div> Don't Cry for Me : A Mystery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2527975 <div id="position">29</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Campbell Gault</div> The Doorbell Rang (The Rex Stout Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/264123 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/264123"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553237217.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056455470_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rex Stout</div> Dover Beach http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821987 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Bowker</div> Drama City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216937 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216937"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316608211.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Pelecanos</div> Early Autumn http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/411638 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/411638"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0440122147.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Parker</div> Eight Million Ways to Die (Matt Scudder Mystery) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969446 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/969446"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0752837001.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lawrence Block</div> An Embarrassment of Corpses http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821996 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2821996"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/0174AE1XCSL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alan Beechey</div> Every Dead Thing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17703 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17703"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/067102731X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Connolly</div> Fast One http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2782996 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2782996"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01HSD9MKTRL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Cain</div> The Fiend in Human : A Novel (Edward Whitty, 1) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6078 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6078"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0312282842.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John MacLachlan Gray</div> Finding Maubee http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2528100 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. H. Z. Carr</div> The FRANCHISE AFFAIR http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/365810 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/365810"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684842564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Josephine Tey</div> Fugitive Moon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1208234 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1208234"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0812522591.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ron Faust</div> Funeral in Berlin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/836035 <div id="position">42</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Len Deighton</div> Get Carter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/493204 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/493204"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0749001216.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ted Lewis</div> Gramercy Park http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1737264 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1737264"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/031230997X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057189616_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paula Cohen</div> The Guards: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6287 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6287"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312320272.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1108515375_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ken Bruen</div> Gun Before Butter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2133708 <div id="position">46</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nicolas Freeling</div> Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71556 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71556"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156028972.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> Hard Rain Falling http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1844063 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don Carpenter</div> The Havana Room http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2575941 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2575941"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000IY0BH0.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39055630_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colin Harrison</div> High Tide http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2822022 <div id="position">50</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by P. M. Hubbard</div>