New Mexico Mysteries (and the Wider West)

We've been bringing the New Mexico Mysteries page up to date. There isn't a lot that's different in the top sections of the page—no terrific new series set in New Mexico that we know about— though the established authors continue to add to their strings, and Sandi Ault's Wild Indigo is pretty popoular (is it going to be a series?).

Down the page, the mysteries set in the states of the Wider West, there is a larger number of new authors and titles. Plenty of new (and new-ish) mysteries coming out of Colorado and Wyoming. Craig Johnson, C. J. Box and Clinton McKinzie have all come along in the last few years and immediately built a following. The same is true of Arizona's Jon Talton.

We single out mysteries in part because collectively we read more mysteries, especially series mysteries, than anything else. Whether you look at the list of titles with the most holds at any given moment, or at each year's most popular authors, the high proportion of interest in this one particular genre is clear. We could write an analogous post about Italiam mysteries, or Scandinavian mysteries, or...