Book Sense Picks for January

Book Sense, an arm of the American Booksellers Association, announces their picks for the best books of January 2005. Here are the crime fiction titles that made the cut:

• THE COLD DISH, by Craig Johnson (Viking, $23.95, 0670033693)
• OUT: A Novel, by Natsuo Kirino (Vintage, $12.95 paper, 1400078377)
• ENTOMBED: A Novel, by Linda Fairstein (Scribner, $26, 0743254880)
• REVOLUTION NO. 9: A Novel, by Neil McMahon (HarperCollins, $15.95, 0060529180)
• VALLEY OF BONES: A Novel, by Michael Gruber (Morrow, $24.95, 0060577665)
• THE VANISHED HANDS, by Robert Wilson (Harcourt, $25, 0151008418)