- You Are Dead by Peter James 3*
- Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench, Brendan O’Hea 4*
- The Flower Arranger at All Saints by Lis Howell 5*
- The Hog’s Back Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts 5*
- The Fledgeling by Frances Faviell 4*
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 4*
- I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh 5*
- The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell 4*
- Nero by Conn Iggulden 5*
- The Death of Mrs Westaway by Ruth Ware 4*
- Hamlet, Revenge! by Michael Innes 4*
- Great Meadow by Dirk Bogarde 5*
- Into the Tangled Bank by Lev Parikian 5*
- Black Roses by Jane Thynne 4*
- The Innocent by M R Hall 5*
- The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe 5*
- The Children’s Book by A S Byatt 4*
- Unnatural Death by Dorothy L Sayers 3*
- Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney 1*
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker 5*
- The Women of Troy by Pat Barker 5*
- The Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton
- Now You See Them by Elly Griffiths 3*
- The Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell 5*
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith 3*
- I’m the King of the Castle by Susan Hill 4*
- The Red Lacquer Case by Patricia Wentworth 2*
- Who Pays the Piper? by Patricia Wentworth 3.5 *
- To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey 5*