The best recent crime and thrillers – roundup
Fox by Joyce Carol Oates; A Schooling in Murder by Andrew Taylor; Death of a Diplomat by Eliza Reid; Actually, I’m a Murderer by Terry Deary; Can You Solve the Murder? by Antony Johnston
The 10 best audiobooks for summer
To soundtrack those long, lazy afternoons try Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s torrid love affair, a real-life pirate of the Caribbean or Peter Dinklage as Hercule Poirot
The Empress Murders by Toby Schmitz review – jazz age mystery packed with corpses and charisma
The actor’s first novel, set on (and sometimes narrated by) a luxury boat in 1925, swerves from cosy Christie homage into something far more brutal
Peter Lovesey obituary
Crime writer known for his ‘history-mystery’ series about the Victorian detective Sergeant Cribb
BBC harnesses AI to create writing classes given by Agatha Christie
Videos will share author’s tips on everything from story structure and plot twists to the art of suspense
‘You have to be taken inside Poirot’s brain’: Ken Ludwig on the secret to adapting Agatha Christie
The US playwright and anglophile behind much-revived comedies has a flair for crime and is following a crowd-pleasing Murder on the Orient Express with Death on the Nile
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Fair Play by Louise Hegarty; All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman; This Is Not a Game by Kelly Mullen; The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie; Death and Other Occupations by Veronika Dapunt
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
A couple’s struggle to survive a serial killer, a prank that goes terribly wrong – and the hunt for an old friend who went missing in the woods
Anthony Horowitz: ‘I’m too nervous to reread The Lord of the Rings – it might reveal how jaded I’ve become’
The Alex Rider author on being put off Dickens for a decade, why he reads poetry in the mornings, and how reading Sherlock Holmes made him want to be a crime writer
‘Like seeing an old friend’: Oyinkan Braithwaite on My Sister, the Serial Killer becoming a ballet
The darkly comic tale of siblings stretched to breaking point has been adapted by Cassa Pancho for Ballet Black. The novel’s author re-encounters her characters on stage
Blanche d’Alpuget on her racy new detective novel: ‘All my books have had quite a bit of sex’
The author and widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke turns from political biography and historical fiction to a crime caper set in Sydney’s eastern suburbs
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
A scientist’s chilling struggle for survival at the ends of the Earth, the search for a serial killer’s final victim, and murder on the mountains in DS Max Craigie’s latest case
Joseph Wambaugh obituary
Bestselling crime writer whose work drew on his own experience as an LAPD detective
The Mouthless Dead by Anthony Quinn review – murder most unsolvable
The author’s haunting and highly readable fictionalisation of a high-profile killing in prewar Liverpool is rich in legal and procedural detail
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
The scorned woman thriller deftly reimagined, preposterously gripping murders at an ice skating training camp - and a frantic search for a missing daughter