Wall Street Journal Best Mystery & Crime Fiction of 2021
By Tom Nolan

THE DARK HOURS, Michael Connelly
FIND YOU FIRST, Linwood Barclay
THE JUDGE’S LIST, John Grisham
THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE, Richard Osman
MOTHER MAY I, Joshilyn Jackson
THE PLOT, Jean Hanff Korelitz
RIZZIO, Denise Mina
SMOKE, Joe Ide
THE TURNOUT, Megan Abbott
THE VANISHING POINT, Elizabeth Brundage

Editor’s Note: Thanks to Jeff Kingston Pierce (The Rap Sheet) for getting behind the firewall of the Wall Street Journal and getting this list.