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Best crime and thrillers of 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/05/best-and-thriller-novels-of-2023Best crime and thrillers of 2023
A splendidly tricksy locked-room mystery, a fortune teller in Georgian high society and Indian mobsters make this year’s list
Laura Wilson
Tue 5 Dec 2023 02.30 EST
Given this year’s headlines, it’s unsurprising that our appetite for cosy crime continues unabated, with the latest title in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, The Last Devil to Die (Viking), topping the bestseller lists. Janice Hallett’s novels The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels, which also features a group of amateur crime-solvers, and The Christmas Appeal (both Viper) have proved phenomenally popular, too.
…lots more…
(… SA Cosby’s Virginia-set police procedural All the Sinners Bleed… I found very little police procedural, but dense in family, southern culture and history, characters moral struggles…)
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Thanks. 
