Mike Bursaw is a member of the Barry Award Nominating Committees, a mystery bookseller and lifelong mystery and thriller reader.

ALL THE SINNERS BLEED, S. A. Cosby (Flatiron Books, $27.99, June)
THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE, Craig Johnson (Viking, $29.00, September)
MY FATHER’S HOUSE, Joseph O’Connor (Europa Editions, $27.00, February)
GOING ZERO, Anthony McCarten (Harper, $30.00, April)
ASSASSIN EIGHTEEN, John Brownlow (Hodder & Stoughton, August; April, 2024 in U.S.)
RESURRECTION WALK, Michael Connelly (Little,Brown, $30.00, November)
ONLY THE DEAD, Jack Carr (Atria/Emily Bester, $29.99, May)
ALLIGATOR ALLEY, Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly, $27.00, February)
UPPERCUT, Mark Dawson (Independently Published, $14.99, August)
NO RESERVE, Felix Francis (Crooked Lane, $29.99, September)
THE VICAR, A. J. Chambers (Blackstone, $26.99, September)
BURNER, Mark Greaney (Berkley, $29.00, February)
THE BITTER PAST, Bruce Borgos (Minotaur, $28.00, July)