The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Burning Land by George Alagiah, Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay, Through the Wall by Caroline Corcoran, Joshilyn Jackson’s Never Have I Ever, The Family by Louise Jensen and A Shadow on the Lens by Sam Hurcom

Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke review – compelling Texas noir

A black Texas Ranger questions his loyalties when he probes the disappearance of a white supremacist’s son

Lynne Truss on Petersham: ‘I consider moving back, but Richmond is too posh for me’

The author and broadcaster recalls borrowing adult books from Ham library as a child, and walks in Richmond Park

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz; The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell; Take It Back by Kia Abdullah; The Sinner by Martyn Waites; Call Him Mine by Tim MacGabhann and The Case of the Wandering Scholar by Kate Saunders

In brief: The Wichita Lineman; How It Was; Breathe – reviews

Dylan Jones offers a vivid study of a timeless ballad

Not the Booker prize 2019: the first three books on our shortlist are …

After a lively week of voting, three novels have made it to the final stage – where your opinions will remain crucial

Marcel Berlins obituary

Legal journalist, broadcaster, crime fiction critic and proud French citizen

Prose and cons: Boris Johnson’s long history of fictional cameos

The new PM saw literary potential in his career – as did his own father and a string of other writers. So how does he come across?

Top 10 books about Baltimore

Anne Tyler is indelibly tied to the city, but authors as contrasting as Frederick Douglass and John Waters have shown some of its different faces

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson; The Most Difficult Thing by Charlotte Philby; The Chain by Adrian McKinty; The Poison Garden by Alex Marwood; The Reunion by Guillaume Musso and The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun by Sébastien Japrisot

Andrea Camilleri had a late but great career in crime writing

The author, who has died aged 93, was almost 70 when he took up the genre, but his novels are as rich with serious thinking as with thrilling plots

Andrea Camilleri, beloved creator of Inspector Montalbano, dies aged 93

One of Italy’s most popular authors, Camilleri wrote 23 novels starring his Sicilian detective, selling more than 30m copies around the world

From Uber driving to huge book deal: Adrian McKinty’s life-changing phone call

Despite awards and acclaim for his crime fiction, the impoverished novelist lost his home and was set to quit – then the phone rang

I can’t write about a world without rape – because I don’t live in one

Women read and write crime fiction as a way to understand real experience. I was raped – and being told by the Staunch prize that books like mine are preventing justice is outrageous

Crime writers react with fury to claim their books hinder rape trials

Novelists have condemned the Staunch prize – for thrillers without violence against women – as a ‘gagging order’, after organisers said the genre could bias jurors