The 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945
The 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945 Our team pick their favourite crime and spy novels, from Agatha Christie and Georges Simenon to today’s edgy Scandi and Japanese masters Marlon Brando in The Godfather, based on the novel by Mario Puzo Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen Everyone assumes a missing politician is long dead, but they’re wrong, and the truth involves one of the most original plots in crime fiction. The first in the brilliant Department Q series, featuring an idiosyncratic team of cold-case detectives in Copenhagen. (2011) The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren The award-winning story of a petty criminal and drummer in 1940s Chicago, left addicted to morphine by treatment for war injuries. (1949) Absolute Power by David Baldacci A burglar witnesses the US president with his lover, then the mistress being killed by Secret Service agents. (1996) The Deadly Percheron by John Franklin Bardin In this classic of psychological suspense, a psych