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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
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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
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Marcel Berlins obituary
Legal journalist, broadcaster, crime fiction critic and proud French citizen
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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
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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