Literary Hub has a very interesting post on Best Reviewed Mystery and Crime with reviews for each title. I thought that RAZORBLADE TEARS would be the clear winner (and it is on the list), but HARLEM SHUFFLE has more rave reviews. Overall, the list concentrates on literary mysteries.

Literary Hub Best Reviewed Books of 2021
Mystery and Crime
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HARLEM SHUFFLE, Colson Whitehead
THE COMMITTED, Viet Thanh Nguyen
THE OTHER BLACK GIRL, Zakiya Dalila Harris
BILLY SUMMERS, Stephen King
RAZORBLADE TEARS, S.A. Cosby
SILVERVIEW, John le Carre’
VELVET WAS THE NIGHT, Silvia Moreno-Garcia
DREAM GIRL, Laura Lippman
A LONELY MAN, Chris Power
THE PLOT, Jean Hanff Korelitz