Crime and thrillers of the month – review
The scorned woman thriller deftly reimagined, preposterously gripping murders at an ice skating training camp - and a frantic search for a missing daughter
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer; The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths; Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito; The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha; The Weekenders by David F Ross
Perspectives by Laurent Binet review – a dazzling Renaissance romp
The HHhH author’s entertaining whodunnit is stuffed with real-life artists behaving badly
The Naming of the Birds by Paraic O’Donnell review – Victorian gothic
The pursuers become the pursued in this tale of vulnerable children, society murders and an irascible detective
British crime writer Mick Herron wins Crime Writers’ Association lifetime achievement award
The author of books such as Slow Horses and Down Cemetery Road receives the prestigious Diamond Dagger award for his contribution to the genre
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
Nicci French’s latest gem; an unsettling brainteaser from Japanese enigma Uketsu; the tensions that mar the maiden voyage of an airship; and a sojourn on a scary Scottish island
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Havoc by Christopher Bollen; Strange Pictures by Uketsu; Ghosts of Rome by Joseph O’Connor; Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse; The Day of the Roaring by Nina Bhadreshwar
Richard Price: ‘I don’t like to write, I just don’t – it’s too much anxiety’
The US novelist and co-writer of The Wire on why his new book isn’t about cops and robbers, his 80s drug addiction and the authors who have inspired him
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie audiobook review – a starry whodunnit
Peter Dinklage’s resonant turn as Hercule Poirot gives the beloved writer’s debut a charismatic reboot
‘Perfect for winter nights’: the best crime novels to read at Christmas according to Ian Rankin, Bella Mackie and more
From Maigret to Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, authors choose the whodunnits they love to hunker down with at this time of year
Lost story by Cape Fear author John D MacDonald published for first time
The Accomplice, a noir tale found by Strand editor Andrew Gulli, considers the temptation of a grocery clerk
Alison Flood’s best crime and thrillers of 2024
This year’s pulse-quickening picks include the tense finale of Attica Locke’s Highway 59 series, Mo Hayder’s frightening last work and a fresh murder mystery from Richard Osman
The best crime and thrillers of 2024
A choice of whodunnits, a return for le Carré’s Smiley, and dark, disturbing encounters in the woods
Leave the Girls Behind by Jacqueline Bublitz review – tale of murdered girls is gripping but flawed
In her second novel the crime author cannily uses the trappings of her genre to explore the ways society and the justice system fail women
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
A French assassin whose memory is failing; murders in a Swedish town that no one can leave; and some light crime-solving during an Australian Christmas