The top 10 best-selling crime novels of the last five years on Kobo have just been revealed – just in time to make a list and download them ready for your beach holiday
Watch our video where crime writer and former president of the Detection Club Simon Brett OBE gives you a guide to these contemporary crime classics
There’s nothing like a gripping thriller or crime novel to sink your teeth into during your summer holiday.
And one man who knows a thing or two about the genre is Simon Brett OBE. As a crime fiction writer, from novels, plays, TV shows and radio and former president of the Detection Club – a society set up in the 1930s by a group of mystery writers including Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers, who better to give you a guide to the best contemporary crime novels to add to your holiday reading list.
Watch our video where Simon and writer Emma Kenny count down the top 10 best-selling crime novels of all time on Kobo – and find out some fascinating facts about the novels and authors who wrote them.
Top 10 Bestselling Crime Novels of all Time from Kobo
- One Cold Night– Katia Lief
- The Husband’s Secret– Liane Moriarty
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo– Stieg Larsson
- Gone Again– Doug Johnstone
- The Cuckoo’s Calling– Robert Galbraith
- The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets’ Nest– Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Played With Fire– Stieg Larsson
- The Detective’s Daughter– Lesley Thomson
- Never Tell– Alafair Burke
- Taken– Jacqui Rose
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