The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Hunted by Abir Mukherjee; Bonehead by Mo Hayder; When We Were Silent by Fiona McPhillips; The Mystery of the Crooked Man by Tom Spencer
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
A surprise final novel from the amazing mind of the late Mo Hayder; a race against time between a father and the FBI; and a knowing riff on the premise of Jurassic Park
Maureen O’Connor obituary
Other lives: Crime novelist and founding editor of Education Guardian
‘It really isn’t good enough’: crime novel of the year award criticised for entirely white longlist
Authors including Dreda Say Mitchell, Harriet Tyce and Sarah Pinborough have expressed disapproval of the Theakston Old Peculier award – one of the UK’s most prestigious crime-writing prizes
CJ Sansom, author of the Shardlake novels, dies aged 71
The creator of the highly successful crime series, set in Tudor England, was a private person who ‘preferred to be known through his novels’
Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley set for film of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club
Chris Columbus will direct film adaptation of Pointless presenter’s bestselling mystery book about a group of septuagenarian sleuths
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Spy by Ajay Chowdhury; A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray; The Kitchen by Simone Buchholz; The Innocents by Bridget Walsh; The Grand Illusion by Syd Moore
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
An unreliable narrator keeps her husband and readers guessing; the welcome return of burned-out cop Jake Jackson; a multilayered family thriller; and a disturbing boarding school secret
The Guardian view on Bridget Jones and Tom Ripley: characters that speak across time
Editorial: In tone and style they might be very different, but neither has lost their common touch
Where to start with: Patricia Highsmith
Thanks to Netflix’s moody adaptation, Ripley, there’s more awareness of Highsmith’s skills as an expert writer of guilt, ambivalence and moral dilemmas at odds with reality
‘The crime writer crime writers read’: Garry Disher, author of 60 books and finding fame in his 70s
The Australian author is ‘incredibly influential’, but has had to survive decades of ‘cultural cringe’ and genre snobbery to make finally ‘a decent sort of living’
Five of the best psychological thrillers by women
These electrifying novels that dig into the peculiar, dark depths of the human psyche will have you questioning who to trust
‘I will defeat Richard Osman!’: Holly Jackson on being Britain’s top selling female crime author
The YA novelist talks about her early love of Tomb Raider, true crime and fangirling the cast of the BBC adaptation of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton; Moral Injuries by Christie Watson; The Hunter by Tana French; How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin; Every Move You Make by CL Taylor
The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov – droll detective work in revolutionary Kyiv
The first in a series of crime mysteries by Ukraine’s most famous writer has a rattling plot and a torrent of enjoyable absurdities