FT Best of Thrillers to read this summer Catch up on our pick of the best gripping page-turners, from Leila Slimani to Jo Nesbo Savages by Sabri Louatah — vive la différenceA family celebrates the prospect of a Muslim president in a socio-political thriller that questions what it means to be French today Lullaby by Leïla Slimani — one of the familyA nanny wreaks havoc on her affluent French employers in an assured literary thriller that is more than the sum of its parts Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne — a ‘crazed beast of a novel’An attempt to rescue a refugee goes disastrously wrong in this sizzling tale of expat misadventures on a Greek island The Fall Guy by James Lasdun — deliciously offThis psychological thriller is a masterclass in building a mood of uneasiness Macbeth by Jo Nesbo — bloody and boldA Norwegian crime writer’s noirish retelling of ‘Macbeth’ Everything You Do is Wrong by Amanda Coe — what lies beneathA subversive, slow-burning thriller offers an absorbing picture of small-town Britain