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The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

All the passengers on a luxury liner have disappeared, an author is riled by a one-star review and a new offering from Catriona Ward is eerie and disturbing

Alison Flood

16, May, 2023 @8:00 AM

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

A village treasure hunt digs up trouble, a game of dares goes too far and a Mary Higgins Clark classic is revisited in this month’s highlights

Alison Flood

18, Apr, 2023 @6:00 AM

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

A teenager terrifies his uncle, Harlan Coben makes the implausible ring true – and the members of a running club have murder on their mind

Alison Flood

21, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

A real-life murder reimagined in interwar England, a gripping pair of mysteries set in Australia and the dark pursuit of a missing girl in London are among this month’s highlights

Alison Flood

20, Feb, 2023 @9:00 AM

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

A new Janice Hallett mystery, a pair of post-apocalyptic locked-room spine chillers and a shadowy death in a sun-kissed Greek resort are among this month’s highlights

Alison Flood

24, Jan, 2023 @9:00 AM

‘Hillary and I were both broken women’: Louise Penny on writing a political thriller with Clinton

As her most famous creation hits the screen, the author talks about the inspiration for Inspector Gamache, her fearless, fine-dining Canadian cop – and remembers how she co-wrote a hit with the presidential hopeful

Alison Flood

05, Dec, 2022 @4:00 PM

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

An orphan held hostage in the forest and a woman waking up confused in a luxury Mexican retreat are among this month’s highlights

Alison Flood

29, Nov, 2022 @9:00 AM

Ghouls, demon slayers and socially anxious students: how manga conquered the world

They range from science fiction epics to high-school romance and are selling faster than publishers can print them. But what has driven this new appetite for Japanese comics?

Alison Flood

01, Nov, 2022 @6:00 AM

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

Former cases, former boyfriends and former tenants return to haunt new works by Louise Penny, Nicci French, Charlotte Northedge and BA Paris

Alison Flood

30, Oct, 2022 @7:00 PM

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

A 50-year-old treasure hunt haunts its creator’s daughter, detectives Strike and Robin pursue a mysterious cyber-criminal, and Tuva Moodyson, and a creepy home provides chills

Alison Flood

04, Oct, 2022 @8:00 AM

‘She didn’t put a foot wrong’: Anne Glenconner on the Queen she knew

Childhood visits in Norfolk, maid of honour at the coronation, swimming in Mustique … a lifetime of encounters built up the ‘greatest possible admiration’

As told to Alison Flood

09, Sep, 2022 @12:06 PM

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

A grieving woman’s childhood nanny reappears in a compelling debut, a ticking noise spells trouble in Simon Mayo’s latest, and Vera Stanhope is back in a friends reunited tale

Alison Flood

06, Sep, 2022 @8:00 AM