The king and queen of popular fiction: Marian Keyes and Richard Osman on their successes and struggles

The bestselling novelists are friends and fans of each other’s work. They talk frankly about the highs of writing and the lows of addiction – and why neither would do Strictly

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin; Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister; Oxblood by Tom Benn; The Island by Adrian McKinty; Dear Little Corpses by Nicola Upson

Thrillers of the month – review

This month, in clever, tense tales by Gillian McAllister and Jack Jordan, two mothers are on a mission to save their sons

Thrillers of the month – review roundup

Suburbia grows sinister in Joanna Cannon’s third novel, a singles club hides secrets in Jacqueline Sutherland’s debut and a twin hunts her sister’s killer in Will Dean’s latest

Don Winslow: ‘I’m a cupcake. I certainly couldn’t be a leg-breaker’

The American crime writer on the inspiration for his new book about warring gangs, his sudden thirst for poetry and why reading Jane Austen wears him out

A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes audiobook review – vintage crooks and conmen

Samuel L Jackson’s narration does full justice to this grimly comic novel from the mid-century master of New York crime

David Peace: ‘Publishers should be less risk-averse’

The novelist on being too literary for crime fiction and too ‘crimey’ for literary fiction, and the mysterious death that concludes his Tokyo trilogy

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson review – irksomely quirky whodunnit

This much-hyped crime novel has been marketed as Knives Out meets The Thursday Murder Club – but it is excruciatingly self-referential

A Door Behind a Door by Yelena Moskovich review – immigration and inner journeys

A Soviet immigrant in the American midwest is pursued by demons from the past in this subversive crime story

In brief: Constable: A Portrait; Wivenhoe; The Enemy Within – reviews

A revisionist biography of the English landscape painter; a murder mystery in Essex; and an inventive counterfactual detective story

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson; Reputation by Sarah Vaughan; Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura; Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson; Hot Water by Christopher Fowler

Top 10 novels about toxic friendships

Complex attachments mixing intimacy and deception can decide whole lives, and have inspired novelists from William Thackeray to Elena Ferrante

Deep Water review – erotic thriller loves Ben Affleck’s slack-jawed look

Hollow-faced Affleck becomes murderously obsessed with wife Ana de Armas’s infidelities in baffling return from Fatal Attraction’s Adrian Lyne

Olivia Laing: ‘I’m sorry, but Jane Eyre is a horrendous little hysteric’

The British writer on discovering Barthes, channelling Burroughs and appreciating the talents of Patricia Highsmith’s Mr Ripley

The best recent thrillers – review roundup

Danya Kukafka upends the power dynamic of male serial killer and female victim in a thrilling second novel