The Times has a Christmas list of thrillers that are must reads. These novels include:

• The Ghost by Robert Harris
• Spook Country by William Gibson
  
• The Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte
• Swansea Teminal by Robert Lewis
  
• Devil’s Peak by Deon Meyer
• Conned by Matthew Klein
• The Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson

View the full article (which includes a brief description of each of the books) here.