Let the Bad Times Roll
Paperback Published on: 02/04/2026
Price: £10.99
Bookseller Reviews
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Let The Bad Times Roll and Roll and Roll!
Deliciously Wicked and Playfully Sinister!
Alice Slater has created a absolute gift of a thriller and a wonderful slice of epic storytelling, grievous ma... READ MORE
The Delicious, Dark and Deceptive Book of the Summer
This is the delicious, dark and deceptive book of the summer. Thank you to Hodder & Stoughton for sending me a proof.
Alice has smashed it out the park ... READ MORE
A Trip to New Orleans
Wanderlust is inevitable with Let the Bad Times Roll. Slater instantly transports you to New Orleans by sharing the sights, sounds, smells and tastes that ... READ MORE
A devious little book
Daniel is missing. His shirt found in the swampland of New Orleans. Back in England, his closest friends meet over dinner to discuss when they last saw him... READ MORE
Absolutely incredible
I love Alice Slater's style, her thrillers are intense and so atmospheric. Her characters are all distinct and well developed and I was kept guessing right... READ MORE
Dark, twisted and well worth a read!
Having loved Death of a Bookseller I knew I definitely wanted to read more by Alice Slater and I'm glad I did as this is a dark, delectible slice of myster... READ MORE
Synopsis
Five guests. Five courses. And secrets spilling like cocktails ...
Welcome to the worst dinner party ever.
It was supposed to be a celebration: champagne cocktails, a five-course feast, and plenty of good times.
But dinner is cancelled.
Selina, Caroline, Sage, Richard, Max. Each guest believes they alone are Daniel's confidante, they alone know Daniel's darkest secrets.
But no one knows where Daniel is.
Or so they say...
Publisher information
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN: 9781529385427
- Number of pages: 352
- Dimensions: 194 x 128 x 30 mm
- Weight: 246g
- Languages: English
Customer Reviews
View allGreat book
This is a really well written and cleverly constructed novel about a bunch of horrible people using each other to reach their own ends. All the characte... READ MORE
Incredible Thriller
Caroline hosts an intimate dinner party and invites those closest to her brother Daniel to attend. She wants to get to the bottom of what happened to Danie... READ MORE
Let the Bad Times Roll
I enjoyed this author's debut - Death of a Bookseller - when I read it a couple years ago. It was just the right side of bonkers for me. So imagine my deli... READ MORE
Interesting read
I enjoyed this novel and liked the settings of New Orleans and back home. The characters were good and the way the story interacted between past and presen... READ MORE
Addictive, smart, perfect summer reading
What fun I had with this! I devoured it in a day. It's a novel about a scammer, of course, my generation's favourite type of crime. Charismatic Daniel is m... READ MORE
Fantastic
Let The Bad Times Roll was fantastic, with a twisted dark sense of humour at its core and an interesting exploration of manipulation.
Slater has such a... READ MORE