Elmore Leonard remembered by Peter Leonard
'Elmore was the coolest guy I knew,' says Peter Leonard, the acclaimed US crime writer's son
The best crime and thrillers of 2013
From serial killers to tartan noir, Laura Wilson rounds up the pick of the crop
Rustication by Charles Palliser – review
Charles Palliser's first novel in more than a decade is a gothic puzzler perfect for misty autumn evenings, writes Stephanie Merritt
Agatha Christie wins vote to steal crown as crime writers’ favourite crime writer
Crime Writers' Association poll votes Poirot creator best writer, and her Murder of Roger Ackroyd the best ever crime novel
Inside job: 10 crime writers turned detective
In claiming to have solved a real-life murder mystery, PD James is in distinguished company. John Dugdale dons his deerstalker and gets on the trail of other literary detectives
Nordic noir’s sexual violence attacked by British crime writer
Bestselling author Ann Cleeves condemns gruesome scenes and morbid tone of Scandinavian books and TV dramas
The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly – review
The rising waters of the Mississippi prove a perfect backdrop for Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly's dark, prohibition-era tale, writes Alison Flood
Blackwattle Creek – a rereading of the Ned Kelly award winner 2013
Andrew Nette: Geoffrey McGeachin's superior thriller about likable larrikin detective Charlie Berlin took the prize for best fiction at the Neddies.
Andrew Flintoff launches new career – as literary critic
Liz Bury: The former England cricketer brands Ian Rankin's new crime thriller the 'dullest book ever' on Twitter
Exhuming Poirot is disrespectful towards Agatha Christie’s careful burial
John Sutherland: It isn't just Christie's emphatic full stop on Poirot that makes him out of bounds, it's also the honourable story behind it
Kerry Wilkinson: ‘It’s not true that self-publishers can only be successful if they sell for under a pound’
Six books into a self-published crime series, Kerry Wilkinson has signed a 14-book deal. Will he ever go it alone again? 'Definitely'
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Eliot and Chesterton were among the fans of Wilkie Collins's 'perfect' prototype detective, says Lettie Ransley
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent – review
Hannah Kent's meticulously researched historical novel tells of the final months of the last woman executed in Iceland, writes Lucy Scholes
Who owns the networked future of reading?
The Readmill app shows how in future readers will be able to share their marginalia with others – and authors. But will corporate moneymaking come to dominate, asks Damien Walters
Elmore Leonard obituary
Crime writer known for Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Hombre whose work served as a barometer of modern America