‘Like seeing an old friend’: Oyinkan Braithwaite on My Sister, the Serial Killer becoming a ballet

The darkly comic tale of siblings stretched to breaking point has been adapted by Cassa Pancho for Ballet Black. The novel’s author re-encounters her characters on stage

Blanche d’Alpuget on her racy new detective novel: ‘All my books have had quite a bit of sex’

The author and widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke turns from political biography and historical fiction to a crime caper set in Sydney’s eastern suburbs

Crime and thrillers of the month – review

A scientist’s chilling struggle for survival at the ends of the Earth, the search for a serial killer’s final victim, and murder on the mountains in DS Max Craigie’s latest case

The Mouthless Dead by Anthony Quinn review – murder most unsolvable

The author’s haunting and highly readable fictionalisation of a high-profile killing in prewar Liverpool is rich in legal and procedural detail

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

Perspectives by Laurent Binet review – a dazzling Renaissance romp

The HHhH author’s entertaining whodunnit is stuffed with real-life artists behaving badly

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

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

Agatha Christie meets Saw in rural Essex, dark secrets of the wellbeing industry uncovered and a gripping tale of revenge on the privileged