Miss Marple back on the case in stories by Naomi Alderman, Ruth Ware and more
Agatha Christie’s beloved sleuth to return in new authorised collection featuring contemporary writers including Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse and Val McDermid
On my radar: Paula Hawkins’s cultural highlights
The author of The Girl on the Train on discovering Alison Bechdel, identifying with Physical, and her favourite new crime novel
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
1979 by Val McDermid; A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris; The Turnout by Megan Abbott; Of Fangs and Talons by Nicolas Mathieu; 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard; and These Toxic Things by Rachel Howzell Hall
In brief: Writing in the Dark; Dust Off the Bones; Looking for the Durrells – review
Gossip and glamour with the 1940s literati, the return of a magnificent villain and an enchanting trip to Corfu
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Paula Hawkins, Stephen King, Laura Lippman and Joanne Harris return with sublime tales of the unexpected
Mo Hayder obituary
Bestselling author whose fascination with death and violence found expression in the Jack Caffery crime novels
SA Cosby: ‘The holy trinity of southern fiction is race, class and sex’
The bestselling Virginia crime writer on getting his big break, what southern fiction means to him, and setting his next murder mystery right after Trump is elected
Crime novelist Mo Hayder dies aged 59 from motor neurone disease
Clare Dunkel, who was diagnosed only months ago, wrote 10 thrillers under the pen name and has been remembered as a ‘ferociously inventive’ presence
Bryant & May author Christopher Fowler: ‘Writing the end was really emotional’
After 20 outings, the unconventional detective duo of Arthur Bryant and John May have solved their last case. But their creator is not willing to let them go entirely …
This month’s best paperbacks: Mary Trump on ‘Uncle Donald’, a new Elena Ferrante and more
Here are some excellent new paperbacks for July, including Too Much and Never Enough, outstanding translated novels and some fizzing fantasy
The Newcomer by Laura Elizabeth Woollett review – murder in a Pacific island paradise
New novel from the author of Beautiful Revolutionary takes aim at far more than the ‘dead girl’ crime genre trope
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The First Day of Spring by Nancy Tucker; The Good Neighbours by Nina Allan; The Maidens by Alex Michaelides; True Crime Story by Joseph Knox; and Lucky by Rachel Edwards
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan; One Half Truth by Eva Dolan; The Waiter by Ajay Chowdhury; Love and Theft by Stan Parish; and Silenced by Sólveig Pálsdóttir
Honkaku: a century of the Japanese whodunnits keeping readers guessing
These fiendishly clever mystery novels have spawned pop culture icons, anime and a museum. And, best of all, honkaku plays fair – you have the clues to solve the crime
‘Bill and I got pretty friendly’: James Patterson on writing with Clinton and clashing with Trump
His plot-driven thrillers have seen him sell more books than Tolkien, and he has even co-written fiction with the former president. But it’s readers of the future he wants to enthral