Smack bang in the middle of our list is a novel that captured my heart when I first read it for its fun take on a distinguished no-introductions-needed character, in eighth place the always lovely Sophie Hannah’s Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot’s Silent Night, which we covered on the show quite late in our year. Silent Night is a new and ambitious look into the life and times of Poirot and is the fifth in a series of revival novels which we sought out after tackling Anthony Horowitz’s acclaimed Moriarty. We’ve had a chance this year to just scratch the surface of new age revisitations of classic characters and I’m looking forward to diving into more of those next year.