Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley set for film of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club
Chris Columbus will direct film adaptation of Pointless presenter’s bestselling mystery book about a group of septuagenarian sleuths
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
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
An unreliable narrator keeps her husband and readers guessing; the welcome return of burned-out cop Jake Jackson; a multilayered family thriller; and a disturbing boarding school secret
The Guardian view on Bridget Jones and Tom Ripley: characters that speak across time
Editorial: In tone and style they might be very different, but neither has lost their common touch
Where to start with: Patricia Highsmith
Thanks to Netflix’s moody adaptation, Ripley, there’s more awareness of Highsmith’s skills as an expert writer of guilt, ambivalence and moral dilemmas at odds with reality
‘The crime writer crime writers read’: Garry Disher, author of 60 books and finding fame in his 70s
The Australian author is ‘incredibly influential’, but has had to survive decades of ‘cultural cringe’ and genre snobbery to make finally ‘a decent sort of living’
Five of the best psychological thrillers by women
These electrifying novels that dig into the peculiar, dark depths of the human psyche will have you questioning who to trust
‘I will defeat Richard Osman!’: Holly Jackson on being Britain’s top selling female crime author
The YA novelist talks about her early love of Tomb Raider, true crime and fangirling the cast of the BBC adaptation of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
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
The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov – droll detective work in revolutionary Kyiv
The first in a series of crime mysteries by Ukraine’s most famous writer has a rattling plot and a torrent of enjoyable absurdities
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
Three doctors’ enduring bond is put to the test in former nurse Christie Watson’s thoughtful first thriller, while Abigail Dean dissects a school shooting in a month littered with big hitters
The Rev Richard Coles: ‘I think my CV looks like the work of a fantasist’
The pop star turned vicar and radio host on his new career as crime novelist, missing the clergy and why his books speak to the anxiety of uncertain times
The Hunter by Tana French review – a master of her craft
In this sequel to The Searcher, the bestselling author picks up with retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper and co in a richly told tale of tangled loyalties
The magic of audiobooks? Deep down, we still long to be read to
An ill-matched narrator can ruin an otherwise rollicking book. But a good one can bring stories to life – and evoke our earliest childhood memories
Richard Osman to publish first novel in new crime series
We Solve Murders introduces a new detective duo – but the author has not abandoned his Thursday Murder Club characters