The best recent crime novels – review roundup
All the Hidden Truths by Claire Askew, Resin by Ane Riel, A Double Life by Flynn Berry, Memo from Turner by Tim Willocks and Yellowhammer by James Henry
When Nicci French met Ambrose Parry: couples who write together share secrets
Nicci Gerrard and her husband, Sean French, who write as Nicci French, share tips with new pseudonym on the block, Ambrose Parry – Chris Brookmyre and his wife, Dr Marisa Haetzman
Belinda Bauer, the crime author up for the Booker: ‘If it’s tokenism, I don’t care’
She hadn’t read a crime novel before writing her debut at 45. Now, the author of Snap talks risk-taking, genre snobbery and not needing to know whodunnit
Switzerland review – Patricia Highsmith plots a playful murder
The writer gets a mystery visitor in Joanna Murray-Smith’s smartly self-referential salute to her riveting crime tales
James Patterson remains UK libraries’ most borrowed author for 11th year
While readers in east England prefer romance, and those in the south-west want their books to be by Roald Dahl, figures show the US thriller king has kept his throne
Jessica Mann obituary
Crime novelist and broadcaster who appeared on Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz and TV’s Question Time
The best recent crime novels – review roundup
Give Me Your hand by Megan Abbott, A Noise Downstairs by Linwood Barclay, Take Me In by Sabine Durrant, City of Sinners by AA Dhand and Sticks and Stones by Jo Jakeman
Stav Sherez wins crime novel of the year for ‘moving the genre forward’
The Intrusions, in which the case of an abduction reveals online terrors, takes the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier prize
The Price You Pay by Aidan Truhen review – wisecracks and weaponry
This catchy revenge thriller, from an established author writing under a pseudonym, is gleefully over-the-top
Yes, he can: Obama debuts as Sherlock Holmesian detective
Along with Watsonian sidekick Joe Biden, the former president has embarked on a crimefighting career in Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer
Top 10 books about gangsters
From The Godfather to LA Confidential, these are some of the most compulsive tales of men who live and die in the mob
Thrillers review: The Tall Man; Social Creature; This Is What Happened
A murderous meme, a death foretold and a twisted post-Brexit future – three to spook you
The best recent crime novels – review roundup
This Is What Happened by Mick Herron, The Blood Road by Stuart MacBride, The Quaker by Liam McIlvanney, The Poison Bed by EC Fremantle and A Shot in the Dark by Lynne Truss
Unusual suspects: the writers diversifying detective fiction
Authors including AA Dhand, Steph Cha and Alex Segura explain how they are broadening the horizons of a traditionally very white genre
In brief: Water Ways, The City Always Wins, A Shot in the Dark – reviews
Jasper Winn on the mood and meaning of Britain’s canals, Omar Robert Hamilton crafts a vivid story about Egypt’s revolution, and Lynne Truss exhibits her mastery of mystery