Waterstones is England’s largest book store chain and comes out each year with an excellent list of Best Books.

Detectives & Cosy Crime

THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE, Richard Osman
THE MURDER AT WORLD’S END, Ross Montgomery
THE LONG SHOE, Bob Mortimer
THE KILLER QUESTION, Janice Hallett
THE HALLMARKED MAN, Robert Galbraith
NEVER FLINCH, Stephen King
END GAME, Jeffrey Archer
ACTUALLY, I’M A MURDERER, Terry Deary
THE BURNING GROUNDS, Abir Mukherjee
TWO KINDS OF STRANGER, Steve Cavanagh
THE PROTEST, Rob Rinder
10 MARCHFIELD SQUARE, Nicola Whyte
A CASE OF LIFE AND LIMB, Sally Smith
THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE MISSING CRIME WRITER, Ragnar Jonasson
THE KILLING STONES, Ann Cleeves
NIGHTSHADE, Michael Connelly
THE LAST DEATH OF THE YEAR, Sophie Hannah
GUNNER, Alan Parks
HOTEL UKRAINE, Martin Cruz Smith
THIS IS NOT A GAME, Kelly Mullen
LITTLE RED DEATH, A. K. Benedict
MURDER MOST HAUNTED, Emma Mason
MURDER AT THE BLACK CAT CAFÉ, Seishi Yokomizo
THE SAMURAI DETECTIVES, Volume 1, Shotaro Ikenami
DEATH AT THE WHITE HART, Chris Chibnall
MARBLE HALL MURDERS, Anthony Horowitz
DEATH IN THE ARCTIC, Tom Hindle
THE FROZEN PEOPLE, Elly Griffiths

Thrillers & Espionage

THE SECRET OF SECRETS, Dan Brown
NOT QUITE DEAD YET, Holly Jackson
EXIT STRATEGY, Andrew Child
STRANGE PICTURES, Uketsu
WOLF HOUR, Jo Nesbo
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOU, Andrea Mara
SHE DIDN’T SEE IT COMING, Shari Lapena
DON’T LET HIM IN, Lisa Jewell
THE MAN WHO DIED SEVEN TIMES, Yasuhiko Nishizawa
THE VIPERS, Katy Hays
THE COMPOUND, Aisling Rawle
A SCHOOLING IN MURDER, Andrew Taylor
WE ARE ALL GUILTY HERE, Karin Slaughter
THE ART OF THE LIE, Laura Shepherd-Robinson
THE IMPOSSIBLE THING, Belinda Bauer
VICTORIAN PSYCHO, Virginia Feito
THE WOMAN IN SUITE 11, Ruth Ware
THE CUT, Richard Armitage
THE WASP TRAP, Mark Edwards
BROKEN COUNTRY, Clare Leslie Hall
THE NEW NEIGHBOURS, Claire Douglas
CLOWN TOWN, Mick Herron
TRAITOR’S LEGACY, S. J. Parris