Stocking the shelves for the bookworms in your life this Christmas

Thrillers

Black Bearby Aly Monroe, €11.50

The fourth novel to feature British spy Peter Cotton, Black Bear (Faber and Faber) finds Cotton in post-WWII Washington DC, where he has been abducted and injected with a truth serum. Monroe’s elegant prose is a bonus in this terrific spy novel/character study.