Ten of 2012's best crime novels

At Kirkus Reviews, J. Kingston Pierce named his favorite crime novels of the year, including:
The Gods of Gotham, by Lyndsay Faye:

Set in an alien but captivating New York City of 1845, this character-propelled yarn introduces Timothy Wilde, a disfigured and love-starved ex-bartender hoping to acquire fresh purpose by joining the nascent New York Police Department. Wilde rapidly becomes