Let the Bad Times Roll
On sale
2nd April 2026
Price: £10.99
Genre
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…
Readers are loving Let The Bad Times Roll!
‘This was, quite simply, deliciously and perfectly evil’
‘So good I read it twice’
‘It’s sharp, lush, and perfect for a summer binge’
‘Another incredibly gripping novel that I devoured in under 24 hours’
And your favourite authors love it too:
‘A heady, potent cocktail of a novel. I downed it in one’ Erin Kelly
‘Has the vibes of The Secret History and Daisy Jones and the Six … A wickedly fun read’ Kiare Ladner
‘[A] blackly comic mystery, bringing both warmth and nastiness to a story of envy, deception and very, very good food’ Julia Armfield
‘Alice Slater is the queen of the dark and delectable thriller’ Heather Parry
‘Intoxicating, sharp-edged and burning with obsession’ Kirsty Logan
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…
Readers are loving Let The Bad Times Roll!
‘This was, quite simply, deliciously and perfectly evil’
‘So good I read it twice’
‘It’s sharp, lush, and perfect for a summer binge’
‘Another incredibly gripping novel that I devoured in under 24 hours’
And your favourite authors love it too:
‘A heady, potent cocktail of a novel. I downed it in one’ Erin Kelly
‘Has the vibes of The Secret History and Daisy Jones and the Six … A wickedly fun read’ Kiare Ladner
‘[A] blackly comic mystery, bringing both warmth and nastiness to a story of envy, deception and very, very good food’ Julia Armfield
‘Alice Slater is the queen of the dark and delectable thriller’ Heather Parry
‘Intoxicating, sharp-edged and burning with obsession’ Kirsty Logan
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Reviews
A heady, potent cocktail of a novel. I downed it in one
A dark, sticky, pungent gumbo of a book, Alice Slater's latest has the vibes of The Secret History and Daisy Jones and the Six . . . A wickedly fun read
Alice Slater serves up dark and twisty thrillers like a smoked Sazerac: intoxicating, sharp-edged and burning with obsession
A veritable feast of secret passions and hidden betrayals. Alice Slater is the queen of the dark and delectable thriller
A savage gem of a book. Slater moves from strength to strength with this blackly comic mystery, bringing both warmth and nastiness to a story of envy, deception and very, very good food
Equal parts lush, funny and ghastly, spiked with hedonism and not a little vengeance, Let the Bad Times Roll is a delicious, bittersweet concoction that should be downed in a single gulp
The writer's razor-sharp attitude and skill are on magnificent display in this tightly wound mystery
In the follow-up to Slater's delicious black comedy debut, Caroline's brother is missing and a psychic claims to have crossed paths with him 4000 miles away
Tense, arch and impossible to put down
Savage, witty and all-consuming, both a love letter to bookselling and a thriller of the most unsettling variety