Thrillers

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup
Terry Hayes’s gripping second novel was worth the 10-year wait, while Michael Caine’s first thriller has bags of energy and rises above cliche – plus a creepily compelling tale of reality TV and a cryptic cracker
Alison Flood
28, Nov, 2023 @9:00 AM

‘I lived in a state of terror’: Patricia Cornwell on childhood trauma, her new novel and the search for Bigfoot
As pathologist Kay Scarpetta makes her 28th appearance in print, her creator recalls what it’s really like to conduct a postmortem – and a very odd encounter in the Virginia woods
Emine Saner
20, Nov, 2023 @5:00 AM

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes; The First 48 Hours by Simon Kernick; The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou; The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok; Gaslight by Femi Kayode
Laura Wilson
17, Nov, 2023 @12:00 PM

John le Carré’s son to write new George Smiley novel
Nicholas Cornwell will return his father’s best-loved spy to the page in a new novel set between The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lucy Knight
10, Nov, 2023 @2:00 PM

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett; West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman; Mrs Sidhu’s Dead and Scone by Suk Pannu; Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming; The North Light by Hideo Yokoyama
Laura Wilson
20, Oct, 2023 @11:00 AM

The Secret Life of John le Carré by Adam Sisman review – the constant philanderer
Three years after le Carré’s death, his official biographer reveals the adultery that was off limits during his lifetime. Does it further our appreciation of his work?
Anthony Cummins
15, Oct, 2023 @6:00 AM

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup
JK Rowling, as Robert Galbraith, is back with a cult classic, while elsewhere past crimes make for gripping reads
Alison Flood
03, Oct, 2023 @8:00 AM

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – a ‘what if’ classic
The writer’s alternative history – a thriller set in a 1920s US with a huge and thriving Native American population – underlines the range and power of his imagination
Alex Preston
25, Sep, 2023 @9:00 AM

Author Mick Herron: ‘I’d have made an awful spy. I don’t have a smartphone or wifi’
As he publishes a new standalone novel, the spotlight-shunning author of the Slow Horses books talks about politics, time-travel and identity-swapping
Kate Kellaway
10, Sep, 2023 @10:00 AM

The Secret Hours by Mick Herron review – secrets and spies
This companion piece to the Slough House series uncovers intrigue and corruption in the secret service, from 90s Berlin to the Cabinet office
Nicholas Wroe
08, Sep, 2023 @6:30 AM

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup
Richard Osman, Stephen King, Mick Herron and Ann Cleeves return with murder aplenty, espionage antics and terrible secrets in basements
Alison Flood
05, Sep, 2023 @8:00 AM

Holly by Stephen King review – unlikely serial killers
King’s dogged private detective returns in this dark and lyrical thriller set during the pandemic
Catriona Ward
02, Sep, 2023 @6:30 AM
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