There is nothing like a good whodunit to get you so involved in a book that you forget to sleep. Rarely is the person you think is guilty, the one who really is guilty. It takes a special kind of writer to be able to write a mystery, because if you think about, they have to write the book, knowing the whole time who in fact did the crime and not give it away to the reader.
    In 2008, 15 novels leapt into the top honors, selling more than many other. Here is the list of those top 15 and unlike my other top 10 list, with very few surprises:

1. Small Crimes, by Dave Zeltserman
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland
3. The Chinaman, by Friedrich Glauser, translated from the German by Mike Mitchell
4. Death Vows, by Richard Stevenson
5. The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved, by Judith Freeman
6. The Likeness by Tana French
7. Duma Key by Stephen King
8. The Bodies Left Behind  by Jeffery Deaver
9. Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain
10. The Dirty Secrets Club (Jo Beckett) by Meg Gardiner
11. The Fifth Floor by Michael Harvey
12. The Black Tower by Louis Bayard
13. The Cold Spot by Tom Piccirilli
14. Blackman’s Coffin: A Sam Blackman Mystery (Sam Blackman Mysteries) by
Mark de Castrique
15. Anything by:
          • James Patterson
          • John Grisham
          • Tony Hillerman
          • Michael Connelly
          • Mary Higgins Clark
          • Carol Higgins Clark

I love mysteries more than any other genre, so tell me about your favorite so I can check it out.