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2008 Titles by Popularity - Best of DorothyL

By Theresa de Valence - Posted on 07 February 2009

There were 850 unique titles submitted in the Best Of 2008 Books on DorothyL. 226 titles received 2 or more votes, which are listed below.

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I Shall Not Want - Spencer-Fleming, Julia	19
Hell Hole - Grabenstein, Chris	16
In The Woods - French, Tana	16
The Brass Verdict - Connelly, Michael	13
The Cruellest Month - Penny, Louise	13
Friend Of The Devil - Robinson, Peter	11
Touchstone - King, Laurie R.	11
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (orig '05) - Larsson, Stieg	10
Where Memories Lie - Crombie, Deborah	10
A Carrion Death - Stanley, Michael	9
Another Man's Moccasins - Johnson, Craig	9
Red Knife - Krueger, William Kent	9
Winter Study - Barr, Nevada	9
An Incomplete Revenge - Winspear, Jacqueline	8
Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption - Fate, Robert	8
Death Will Get You Sober - Zelvin, Elizabeth	8
Blue Heaven - Box, C. J.	7
The Fault Tree - Ure, Louise	7
Case Histories - Atkinson, Kate	6
Chasing Darkness - Crais, Robert	6
Death's Half Acre - Maron, Margaret	6
Lie Down With The Devil - Barnes, Linda	6
Master Of The Delta - Cook, Thomas H.	6
Silent In The Sanctuary - Raybourn, Deanna	6
Slip Of The Knife - Mina, Denise	6
Still Life - Penny, Louise	6
T Is For Trespass - Grafton, Sue	6
The Private Patient - James, P. D.	6
When Will There Be Good News - Atkinson, Kate	6
A River to Die For - Nehring, Radine Trees	5
A Royal Pain - Bowen, Rhys	5
Blood Trail - Box, C. J.	5
Careless In Red - George, Elizabeth	5
Cold in Hand - Harvey, John	5
Envy the Night - Koryta, Michael	5
Exit Music - Rankin, Ian	5
Fractured - Slaughter, Karin	5
Hold Tight - Coben, Harlan	5
It Happened One Knife - Cohen, Jeffrey	5
Killer Heat - Fairstein, Linda	5
State Of The Onion - Hyzy, Julie	5
The Cold Dish - Johnson, Craig	5
The Dawn Patrol - Winslow, Don	5
The Serpent's Tale - Franklin, Ariana	5
White Nights - Cleeves, Ann	5
Blackman's Coffin - De Castrique, Mark	4
Curse of the Spellmans - Lutz, Lisa	4
Devil Bones - Reichs, Kathy	4
Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues - Clement, Blaize	4
Heavenly Pleasures - Greenwood, Kerry	4
No Time for Goodbye - Barclay, Linwood	4
Pushing Up Daisies - Harris, Rosemary	4
South of hell - Parrish, P. J.	4
The Draining Lake - Indridason, Arnaldur	4
The Iron Tongue of Midnight - Myers, Beverle Graves	4
The Laughter Of Dead Kings - Peters, Elizabeth	4
The Price of Butcher's Meat - Hill, Reginald	4
The Spellman Files - Lutz, Lisa	4
The Turnaround - Pelecanos, George	4
Tilt-A-Whirl - Grabenstein, Chris	4
What The Dead Know - Lippman, Laura	4
14 - Ellison, J. T.	3
A Fatal Grace - Penny, Louise	3
A Fatal Waltz - Alexander, Tasha	3
A Wedding To Die For - Nehring, Radine Trees	3
Another Thing to Fall - Lippman, Laura	3
Boundary Waters - Krueger, William Kent	3
Buried Lies - Rennebohm, Peter	3
Burn Out - Muller, Marcia	3
Clubbed To Death - Viets, Elaine	3
Death Comes for the Fat Man - Hill, Reginald	3
Face Of A Killer - Burcell, Robin	3
Fever - Pronzini, Bill	3
Flesh House - MacBride, Stuart	3
Ghost At Work - Hart, Carolyn G.	3
Hardly Knew Her - Lippman, Laura	3
In a Dark Season - Lane, Vicki	3
Jester Leaps In - Gordon, Alan	3
Kindness Goes Unpunished - Johnson, Craig	3
L. A. Outlaws - Parker, T. Jefferson	3
Murder packs a Suitcase - Baxter, Cynthia	3
Phantom Prey - Sandford, John	3
Swan Peak - Burke, James Lee	3
Tell Me Pretty Maiden - Bowen, Rhys	3
The Calling - Wolfe, Inger Ash	3
The Crazy School - Read, Cornelia	3
The Curse of the Pogo Stick - Cotterill, Colin	3
The Drifter's Wheel - DePoy, Phillip	3
The Eye Of Jade - Wei Liang, Diane	3
The First Wave - Benn, James R.	3
The Headhunters - Lovesey, Peter	3
The Murder Stone (aka A Rule Against Murder) - Penny, Louise	3
The Virgin of Small Plains - Pickard, Nancy	3
To Darkness and To Death - Spencer-Fleming, Julia	3
Uneasy relations - Elkins, Aaron	3
A Field of Darkness - Read, Cornelia	2
A Grave in Gaza - Rees, Matt Benyon	2
Absinthe Of Malice - Browning, Pat	2
All The Colors Of Darkness - Robinson, Peter	2
All The Pretty Girls - Ellison, J. T.	2
Anarchy and Old Dogs - Cotterill, Colin	2
Asking for Murder - Isleib, Roberta	2
At Some Disputed Barricade - Perry, Anne	2
Baby Shark - Fate, Robert	2
Bermuda Schwartz - Morris, Bob	2
Blood Alone - Benn, James R.	2
Blood Hollow - Krueger, William Kent	2
Bones - Kellerman, Jonathan	2
Bring your own poison - Evans, Jimmie Ruth	2
Buckingham Palace Gardens - Perry, Anne	2
City of Shadows - Franklin , Ariana	2
Crazy School - Read, Cornelia	2
Cries and Whiskers - Simon, Clea	2
Damnation Falls - Wright, Edward	2
Dead Man's Island - Hart, Carolyn G.	2
Dead Time - White, Stephen	2
Deadman's Switch - Seranella, Barbara	2
Death Was The Other Woman - Richards, Linda L.	2
Defending Angels - Stanton, Mary	2
Degrees of Separation - Henry, Sue	2
Desert Cut - Webb, Betty	2
Disturbing the Dead - Parshall, Sandra - See my review here	2
Down River - Hart, John	2
Duma Key - King, Stephen	2
Easy Innocence - Hellmann, Libby Fischer	2
Empty Ever After - Coleman, Reed Farrel	2
Fidelity - Perry, Thomas	2
Folly - King, Laurie R.	2
Forcing Amaryllis - Ure, Louise	2
From Dead to Worse - Harris, Charlaine	2
Good People - Sakey, Marcus	2
Hard row - Maron, Margaret	2
Heat Lightning - Sandford, John	2
Her Royal Spyness - Bowen, Rhys	2
Hit Man - Block, Lawrence	2
Holmes on the Range - Hockensmith, Steven	2
Hungry Ghosts - Dunlap, Susan	2
In the Dead of Winter - Mehl, Nancy	2
In the Wind - Fister, Barbara	2
Island Life - Sherer, Michael W.	2
Just Add Water - Schwartz, Jinx	2
K.I.A. - Holland, Thomas	2
Kindred Spirits - Meredith, Marilyn	2
Last Post - Barnard, Robert	2
Leather Maiden - Lansdale, Joe R.	2
Legally dead - Buchanan, Edna	2
Letters from Home - Hart, Carolyn G.	2
Mad Mouse - Grabenstein, Chris	2
Memory of a Murder - Staggs, Earl	2
Mighty Old Bones - Saums, Mary	2
Mistress Of The Art Of Death - Franklin , Ariana	2
Moonlight Downs (aka Diamond Dove) - Hyland, Adrian	2
Mrs. Jeffries Holds the Trump - Brightwell, Emily	2
Murder Melts In Your Mouth - Martin, Nancy	2
Nineteen Minutes - Picault, Jodi	2
No Graves Yet - Perry, Anne	2
Of All Sad Words - Crider, Bill	2
On the Wrong Track - Hockensmith, Steven	2
One Bad Apple - Connelly, Sheila	2
Pane of Death - Atwell, Sarah	2
Paper-thin Alibi - Hughes, Mary Ellen	2
People of the Book - Brooks, Geraldine	2
Preaching to the Corpse - Isleib, Roberta	2
Prime Time - Ryan, Hank Phillippi	2
Prisoner of Birth - Archer, Jeffrey	2
Queen of the Flowers - Greenwood, Kerry	2
Quick Study - Barbieri, Maggie	2
Raven Black - Cleeves, Ann	2
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror - Mortimer, John	2
Sacrifice - Bolton, S.J.	2
Shimura Trouble - Massey, Sujata	2
Shoulder The Sky - Perry, Anne	2
Shutter Island - Lehane, Dennis	2
Silence of the Grave - Indridason, Arnaldur	2
Silks - Francis, Dick & Felix	2
Six Geese A-Slaying - Andrews, Donna	2
Skeleton Lake - Doogan, Mike	2
Sliver of Truth - Unger, Lisa	2
Small Favor - Butcher, Jim	2
Soldier on the Porch - Wildwind, Sharon	2
Special Topics In Calamity Physics - Pessl, Marisha	2
Stalking Death - Flora, Kate	2
Stone Cold - Baldacci, David	2
Strangers in Death - Robb, JD	2
Summer of the Big Bachi - Hirahara, Naomi	2
The Black Hand - Thomas, Will	2
The Book Thief - Zusak, Marcus	2
The Bordeaux Betrayal - Crosby, Ellen	2
The Broken Window - Deaver, Jeffrey	2
The Chicago Way - Harvey, Michael	2
The Cleaner - Battles, Brett	2
The Crime Writer - Hurwitz, Gregg	2
The Diva Runs Out of Thyme - Davis, Krista	2
The Ever-Running Man - Muller, Marcia	2
The Finder - Harrison, Colin	2
The Fire - Neville, Katherine	2
The Fourth Time is Murder - Havill, Stephen	2
The Fourth Watcher - Hallinan, Timothy	2
The Given Day - Lehane, Dennis	2
The Good Son - Mclean, Russel	2
The Grave Tattoo - McDermid, Val	2
The Hanged Man - Skibbins, David	2
The Janissary Tree - Goodwin, Jason	2
The King Of Lies - Hart, John	2
The Lady In The Lake - Chandler, Raymond	2
The Likeness - French, Tana	2
The Maltese Falcon - Hammett, Dashiell	2
The Price - Sokoloff, Alex	2
The Reapers - Connolly, John	2
The Redbreast - Nesbo, Jo	2
The Secret Hangman - Lovesey, Peter	2
The September Society - Finch, Charles	2
The Victoria Vanishes - Fowler, Christopher	2
The Watchman - Crais, Robert	2
The Woods - Coben, Harlan	2
The Wrong Kind of Blood - Hughes, Declan	2
Thirteenth Night - Gordon, Alan	2
This Night's Foul Work - Vargas, Fred	2
Thistle And Twigg - Saums, Mary	2
Three Shirt Deal - Cannell, Stephen	2
Thunder Bay - Krueger, William Kent	2
Twilight - Meyer, Stephanie	2
Voices - Indridason, Arnaldur	2
We Shall Not Sleep - Perry, Anne	2
When Gods Die - Harris, C. S.	2
Winter in Madrid - Sansom, C.J.	2