Flood’s Fabulous Five

Critic for The Guardian Alison Flood is out today with her own list of the “ Best Crime Novels and Thrillers of 2023 .”

• The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels , by Janice Hallett (Viper)
• Black River , by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Holly , by Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Looking Glass Sound , by Catriona Ward (Viper)
• The Year of the Locust , by Terry Hayes (Bantam)

Drat! Another collection of books that I never got around to reading during the last year. But two of these I have in my to-be-read pile, and with any luck I’ll get around soon to cracking open their spines.