By Theresa de Valence
Posted on 31 March 2018
Readers of DorothyL listserv posted the memorable books read in 2017. The count represents the number of times each title was included. Below are the thirty-seven most-cited titles. All but one title, The Question of the Absentee Father, are available in the regional catalog, although Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly is only available in the regional catalog as downloadable audiobook. Minnesota’s own William Kent Krueger is absent from this year’s list, but the Minnesota mother-daughter writing team, P.J. Tracy, make an appearance with Nothing Stays Buried. For the seventh year in a row, a Louise Penny title was the highest vote-getter.
Glass Houses by Louise Penny  (17 votes)
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz  (12 votes)
The Dry by Jane Harper  (11 votes)
The Chalk Pit by Elly Griffiths  (10 votes)
Garden of Lamentations by Deborah Crombie  (9 votes)
Sleeping on the Ground by Peter Robinson  (8 votes)
An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock by Terry Shames  (7 votes)
In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen
The Seagull by Ann Cleeves
Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connelly
Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves  (6 votes)
Dead, To Begin With by Bill Crider
Earthly Remains by Donna Leon
Fools’ River by Timothy Hallinan
In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear
IQ by Joe Ide
Police at the Station and They Don’t Look Friendly by Adrian McKinty
Another One Goes Tonight by Peter Lovesey  (5 votes)
Duplicity by Ingrid Thoft
Let the Dead Speak by Jane Casey
Midnight Riot (British title: Rivers of London) by Ben Aaronovitch
Nothing Stays Buried by P.J. Tracy
The Late Show by Michael Connelly
The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
Twelve Angry Librarians by Miranda James
Where the Dead Lie by C.S. Harris
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman  (4 votes)
Badlands by C.J. Box
Dead Woman Walking by Sharon Bolton
Gone Gull by Donna Andrews
Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
Old Bones by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Racing the Devil by Charles Todd
Rather Be the Devil by Ian Rankin
Song of the Lion by Anne Hillerman
The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
The Question of the Absentee Father by E. J. Copperman & Jeffrey Cohen
