As the snow falls and the nights grow colder, The Guardian has published a list of the year’s best crime novels and thrillers, perfect for curling up with and reading by the fire.
Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train mostly lived up to the hype. The Guardian calls the book “an ideal solution for those seeking immersive distraction.” Also making waves this year, I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers, “in which someone finds their neighbor’s back door unexpectedly left open and goes inside.” This year saw the death of English crime legend Ruth Rendell. It also saw the publication of her 66th and final book, Dark Corners, a dark comedy about an accidental killer. This year also saw a new publication by Charles McCarry, “America’s finest spy writer.” The Mulberry Bush has the CIA failing to spot a problem from the past. Finally, Attica Locke’s third novel, Pleasantville is “another superb example of her personalized genre of African-American-political-recent-historical thrillers.”
