Book Sense's Best of 2004

Book Sense, an arm of the American Booksellers Association, announces their picks for the best books of the year. Here are the crime fiction titles that made the cut:

THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
AMAGANSETT: A Novel, by Mark Mills
SKINNY DIP: A Novel, by Carl Hiaasen
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, by Mark Haddon
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: A Maisie Dobbs Novel, by Jacqueline Winspear
BY A SPIDER'S THREAD, by Laura Lippman
CALIFORNIA GIRL: A Novel, by T. Jefferson Parker
THE EXILE, by Allan Folsom
PRINCE OF THIEVES: A Novel, by Chuck Hogan
RIFT ZONE, by Raelynn Hillhouse
SKINNY-DIPPING: A Novel of Suspense, by Claire Matturro

I'm particularly pleased to see Raelynn's book on there. She's a first-time author and I think she shows a great deal of promise.

(Ordinarily I link these things up to Amazon, but out of respect for the ABA, I won't in this case.)