Kerrie at Mysteries in Paradise is collecting readers’ best crime fiction reads for the year up to the end of June. She asks for the title, author and year of publication of your best 10 (or so) reads. They do not need to be recent publications.

These are the titles that I’ve rated at least 4/5:

• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (1859)
• The Burry Man’s Day by Catriona McPherson (2006)
• One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie (1940)
• Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie (1976)
• The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi (2007)
• Before the Poison by Peter Robinson (2011)
• Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death by W J Burley (1990)
• The Redeemed by M R Hall (2011)
• Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves (2010)
• Fatherland by Robert Harris (1992)
• The Coroner by M R Hall (2009)
•  Red Bones by Ann Cleeves (2009)
• Endless Night by Agatha Christie (1967)