{"id":19592,"date":"2026-04-02T02:53:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=19592"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T02:09:29","slug":"the-books-of-ten-years-ago-favorite-mysteries-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/19592","title":{"rendered":"The Books of Ten Years Ago: Favorite Mysteries of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again, Frontlist is anything published in 2016 that I read in 2016 or 2017. Backlist is anything t I read after 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Same notes for mysteries as for fantasies. 2016 ended up being a rough year, and I cut back on new books at the end of that year.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/As-Death-Draws-Near-e1511015335531.jpg?resize=192%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"img-right\"  \/><\/p>\n<h3>Frontlist<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/25c81n8\"><em>When Falcons Fall<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/harriscs.php\">C.S. Harris<\/a> (Sebastian St. Cyr #11) 8.5\/10<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29AdHj5\"><em>As Death Draws Near<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Huber_Anna-Lee.php\">Anna Lee Huber<\/a> (Lady Darby #5) 8\/10<\/li>\n<li>Inspector Montalbano series by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/camilleri_andrea.php\">Andrea Camilleri<\/a> translated by Stephen Sartarelli: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2fQUJHY\"><em>A Voice in the Night<\/em><\/a> #20 (2012\/2016) 8\/10, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/216rNfG\"><em>Montalbano\u2019s First Case and Other Stories<\/em><\/a> (2008\/ 2016) 8\/10<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1WsUOns\"><em>London Gambit<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Grant_Teresa.php\">Tracy Grant<\/a> (Malcom &amp; Suzanne Rannoch) 8\/10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m current on the Lady Darby series, and did read the final Inspector Montalbano book. I listened to a lot of the Sebastian St. Cyr series in 2024, but needed to take a break after reading (listening) to 18 books in a row, and really need to get caught up there.<\/p>\n<p>The Malcom &amp; Suzanne Rannoch series fell off for a couple of reasons&#8211;one, it didn&#8217;t have a regular publishing schedule so I missed a lot of books when they came out, and secondly, the stories are all closely linked, so a couple years had passed, I felt like I needed to reread the previous books to get caught up and&#8230; that didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/A-Geek-Girls-Guide-to-Arsenic.jpg?resize=190%2C300\" alt=\"A Geek Girls Guide to Arsenic\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"img-right\"  \/><\/p>\n<h3>Backlist<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/38jhGQN\"><em>Model Bodyguard<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Kasey_Lissa.php\">Lissa Kasey<\/a> (Haven Investigations #2) 8.5\/10<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11907\"><em>A Geek Girl\u2019s Guide to Arsenic<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11910\"><em>A Geek Girl\u2019s Guide to Justice<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Lindsey_Julie_Anne.php\">Julie Anne Lindsey<\/a> 8\/10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is interesting about these two series is how surprised I am at how highly I rated these books. I&#8217;m not saying they were bad, because I remember that I tore through the Haven Investigations series. It&#8217;s simply that I haven&#8217;t felt a pull to reread either series, which is a bit unusual for books I enjoyed so much.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the fantasy books published in 2016, there isn&#8217;t much here that really stands out in my memory, aside from the Montalbano series, and that was in part because he was ninety, so I knew that series was going to be ending sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again, Frontlist is anything published in 2016 that I read in 2016 or 2017. Backlist is anything t I read after 2017. Same notes for mysteries as for fantasies. 2016 ended up being a rough year, and I cut back on new books at the end of that year. Frontlist When Falcons Fall by C.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-560","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19592"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19617,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions\/19617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}