Crime fiction
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Mark Lawson finds murder in the Scottish Highlands, terror in Paris and visions of war at the Vatican
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Paula Hawkins reflects on guilt, Jackie Kay seeks hope post-Brexit, and David Nicholls is lured into the lonely city … writers pick their best books of 2016
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From Zadie Smith’s Swing Time to horror in the Highlands and a brief history of tomorrow ... writers choose their best reads of 2016
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We investigate crime fiction from the frozen north with two of Finland’s rising literary stars
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Agatha Christie, Sarah Waters and AS Byatt flesh out our pick of stories to make your skin crawl at the spookiest time of the year
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As Inspector Rebus approaches his 30th anniversary, his creator explains how the sleuth took on a life of his own
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Born into China’s cultural revolution, He Jiahong spent years working in the fields before studying law to win over his girlfriend’s parents. Now he is a leading authority on miscarriages of justice, and a writer of hit detective novels to boot
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From Hanging Rock to Bitter Wash Road, the Australian bush has long provided writers with a backdrop of terror. A new wave of crime fiction is taking it up a notch
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McDermid explains how PD James subverted the cosiness of golden-age crime fiction
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Having caused a moral panic in the 50s, violent pulp comics are preparing for a revival with sharply drawn tales of peep shows, gangsters and ne’er-do-wells
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A young police officer searches for his missing mother in a crime thriller from a highly original writer
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As he brings one of the crime writer’s novels to the National stage, David Hare reveals why he loves the pithy, power-obsessed creator of Maigret
Crime fiction roundup The best recent crime novels – review roundup