What’s Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott review – breakup thriller
A Japanese man is paid to seduce a married woman
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
A pandemic locks down London and a doctor faces a dilemma over child abuse
Book clinic: Can you recommend a replacement for Rumpole of the Bailey?
From courtroom dramas to the Just William stories, a barrister and crime writer recommends novels about the quest for justice
Keeper by Jessica Moor review – atmospheric, timely
Male violence in all its forms is at the heart of Jessica Moor’s confident and skilful debut
The best recent crime novels – review roundup
The Recovery of Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel; Keeper by Jessica Moor; The Man on the Street by Trevor Wood; Black Rain Falling by Jacob Ross; Summer of Reckoning by Marion Brunet; and The Clutter Corpse by Simon Brett
Book clinic: Which thrillers and crime fiction will keep my teenager hooked?
From Agatha Christie to Anthony Horowitz, writer Peter Swanson recommends the best of classic and modern
Making a killing: what can novels teach us about getting away with murder?
From Agatha Christie to Gillian Flynn, readers love an untraceable method or a villain who wins. Author Peter Swanson says there are eight examples of the perfect murder
In brief: When Time Stopped; The Book of Echoes; The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective – reviews
A gripping family memoir reaching back to Nazi Germany, a debut novel tracing two centuries of colonialism and a quest to discover the identity of a pioneering female sleuth
Georges Simenon webchat – his son John on his daily habits, favourite books and future adaptations
Concluding our look at the Inspector Maigret mysteries, the author’s son joined us to field your questions about his father’s career
‘The most boring part’: why the killer didn’t matter to Georges Simenon
Identifying the murderer in Maigret and the Man on the Bench is of scant concern to a writer preoccupied with deeper secrets
The best recent crime and thrillers
The Guest List by Lucy Foley; The Better Liar by Tanen Jones; The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue; The Memory Wood by Sam Lloyd; and GBH by Ted Lewis
The Snow Was Dirty is bleak and uncomfortable – but it’s also a masterpiece
Georges Simenon’s remarkable novel manages to make its loathsome protagonist compelling company
How locked-room mystery king Seishi Yokomizo broke into English at last
With a reputation in Japan to rival Agatha Christie’s, the master of ingenious plotting is finally on the case for anglophone readers
‘No Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition or Mumbo Jumbo’: Dorothy L Sayers and the Detection Club
Sayers, creator of the detective Lord Peter Wimsey, was a founding member of the Detection Club, a secret society for crime writers founded in 1930, and still going today
Taking Maigret’s first case in for questioning
Georges Simenon’s Pietr the Latvian is over-written and features some very discomfiting attitudes – but still holds up under interrogation