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2008 Titles by Popularity - Best of DorothyL
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 |
What a labor of love to compile all these "best of" lists.
Kelly