In the past I've steered away, as much as possible, from "best of" listings because it's so hard for me to choose. But this is the first year I've had a newsletter running on the site, and given somebody has signed up I thought I should do something...  

So these are the books that have stayed with me when I ran through the list of reviews posted (so far this year) on AustCrime. In no particular order, and sorted roughly into groupings that came straight from my head...