Agatha Christie statue takes seat on bench in Oxfordshire town
Memorial by Ben Twiston-Davies is sited in Wallingford, where the mystery writer lived for more than 40 years
Richard Osman: ‘I would have been terrible in MI6. I’m too tall, spill secrets and can’t lie’
After getting ‘the tap’ at Cambridge, he went from a behind-the-scenes TV ideas man to a fixture in front of the camera. Then the Pointless star’s Thursday Murder Club books became the biggest thing in fiction since Harry Potter
‘Healthy or downright weird?’: how I helped publish my husband Christopher Fowler’s posthumous book
My author spouse never let me read anything he wrote before it was finished. But after his death from cancer, I found myself choosing funeral flowers at the same time as covers for his memoir, Word Monkey
‘It’s time the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo grew up’: Karin Smirnoff on her shocking sequel
The Swede is the first woman to write a Lisbeth Salander novel. She explains what men don’t get about sexual violence, why she introduced a genius niece – and how writing beats chopping wood for a living
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in August
Authors and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments
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
‘He’s my own Dark Knight’: TV’s new sleuth, invented by a Bradford pharmacist
It took Amit Dhand years to create the British Asian detective Harry Virdee. Now he’s coming to the small screen
On my radar: Danny Robins’s cultural highlights
The podcaster and playwright on satanic Scandi rock, low-budget lockdown horror and remodelling Star Wars in Lego with his sons
What to read this autumn: 2023’s biggest new books
Sara Pascoe’s new novel, rare Terry Pratchett, memoirs from Barbra Streisand and Britney Spears, plus the essential reading on today’s hot button topics – all the releases to look out for
The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup
A surprise post-prom birth, a woman’s struggle to find her missing sister and the gaslighting of a would-be mother are among this month’s mysteries
‘I could have gone to jail’: crime writer MW Craven on a life made up of spontaneous decisions
The author, who won the 2023 Theakston Old Peculier crime novel of the year for The Botanist, talks about his working-class childhood, his former careers as a soldier and a probation officer – and surviving cancer
Laura Lippman: ‘A lot of novelists choose to comfort the comfortable. I don’t do that’
The acclaimed crime author delivers her most political novel to date about a teen with an unwanted pregnancy
My Men by Victoria Kielland review – inside the mind of a female serial killer
This raw, powerful novel is based on the Norwegian woman whose case has been notorious for more than a century
The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup
The past catches up with nine criminals; a carer finds work with a woman accused of murder; and more than one child goes missing
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June
Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments