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
Big Sky by Kate Atkinson review – the return of Jackson Brodie
The melancholy private detective is back for a tale of sordid crimes on the Yorkshire coast, with a sprinkle of postmodernism
This Storm by James Ellroy review – Nazis, orgies and Orson Welles
The latest instalment of the writer’s blood-soaked alternative history
Kate Atkinson: ‘I live to entertain. I don’t live to teach or preach or to be political’
After the success of Life After Life and A God in Ruins, the novelist shares why she is enjoying writing more as she gets older – and the return of detective Jackson Brodie
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Those People by Louise Candlish; The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean; The Whisper Man by Alex North; Your Truth or Mine? by Trisha Sakhlecha: Joe Country by Mick Herron; and The Winker by Andrew Martin
Big Sky by Kate Atkinson review – Jackson Brodie’s back
Kate Atkinson returns to her wry crime fiction in a dark, sharp tale of exploitation
Anthony Price obituary
Writer of crime fiction and respected reviewer of the genre
James Ellroy says film adaptation of LA Confidential was ‘as deep as a tortilla’
Speaking at Hay festival, the American crime writer has few kind words for film-makers
This Storm by James Ellroy review – a second prequel to the LA Quartet
The great stylist of US crime has a blast in wartime Los Angeles with a charming socialite, a charred body and some stolen gold
James Ellroy on his nervous breakdown, TV adaptations and plans for future books
The demon dog behind LA Confidential, American Tabloid, The Black Dahlia and new thriller This Storm joined us to answer readers’ questions
Richard Osman lands ‘seven-figure’ deal for crime novel written in secret
The Thursday Murder Club, which the Pointless TV presenter did not want to be seen as ‘a celebrity novel’, was the subject of a publishers’ bidding war
James Ellroy thinks he’s a moralist – do you agree?
American Tabloid is populated almost entirely with baddies of one sort or another, and ethical judgments are left up to the reader
James Ellroy: ‘I’ve been canonised. And that’s a gas’
The American crime writer on his love of everything big, why he doesn’t rate Raymond Chandler, and reading all 55 of Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct novels