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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley; The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett; Cold Sunset by William Boyd; The Occidental Book of the Dead by T Geronimo Johnson and The Last Tenant by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25

Cold Sunset by William Boyd, review – Brilliantly captures the delicious moral ambiguity of the spy novel

4/5 Endless cigarettes, copious drink, and a succession of glamorous hotel rooms and restaurants set the scene for Boyd’s intoxicating world

The Independent UK · Sep 1

A thrilling tale of skulduggery and spies

William Boyd once wrote a Bond novel, Solo, but Gabriel Dax, the spy in The Predicament, is, unlike Bond, only reluctantly in the espionage business and really would like to devote himself full time to his other job, as a travel writer. Right now he’s finishing off his book on…

Evening Standard · Oct 19, 2025