One of the novels I’d much looked forward to disappointed me a very great deal, so in the end I abandoned it. The ones that I finished I found, in general, very rewarding. Here’s the list, with the links being to my often scrappy (note that “s,” dammit!) on Goodreads:
The Newton Letter by John Banville
The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri (trans John Cullen)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (trans Alison Anderson)
So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano (trans Euan Cameron)
M. Hire’s Engagement by Georges Simenon (trans Daphne Woodward)
The Lola Quartet by Emily St. John Mandel
Album Leaf (vt The Spider in the Cup) by Marjorie Bowen (writing as Joseph Shearing)
A Stranger Like You by Elizabeth Brundage
A Midnight Carol: A Novel of How Charles Dickens Saved Christmas by Patricia K. Davis
Three to Kill by Jean-Patrick Manchette (trans Donald Nicholson-Smith)