‘Bond’s gone woke!’ Charlie Higson on the row around his ‘metrosexual’ 007
May 2024
Sunday with Harlan Coben: ‘New York City is a great city for walking’
A night with the Murdle squad… and hundreds of crime writers
Crime and thrillers roundup
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Thrillers of the month
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
April 2024
Crime and thrillers roundup
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
March 2024
Crime and thrillers roundup
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
In brief: Four Shots in the Night; The Kellerby Code; Masquerade – review
The gripping real-life story of the murder of a spy; a funny and chilling debut in hock to the Ripley books; and the definitive biography of Noël Coward
Fervour by Toby Lloyd review – a slow-burn family saga
A dysfunctional Jewish family in north London is the focus for a study of faith and mysticism
February 2024
Crime and thrillers roundup
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim; The Trials of Lila Dalton by LJ Shepherd; The Winter Visitor by James Henry; Butter by Asako Yuzuki; Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin
January 2024
Crime and thrillers roundup
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Ultimate summer reads
Pulp, page-turners and pure joy: the ultimate summer reading list, picked by you
Book of the day
The Gallopers by Jon Ransom review – gay love in the 1950s
Ultimate summer reads
Steamy, dishy, heart-thumping: the ultimate summer reads
Edge of the aisle seat: the case of the theatre critic who becomes a sleuth
New thriller from master of twists and turns Harlan Coben comes to Netflix
December 2023
Science fiction roundup
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due; The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow; Him by Geoff Ryman; Audition by Pip Adam
2023 in Culture
Best crime and thrillers of 2023
A splendidly tricksy locked-room mystery, a fortune teller in Georgian high society and Indian mobsters make this year’s list
2023 in Culture
Alison Flood’s best crime novels and thrillers of 2023
Seasonal scares starring Stephen King’s detective Holly Gibney, plus Terry Hayes’s follow-up to I Am Pilgrim and Catriona Ward’s terrifying Daggerman