Denise Mina wins crime novel of the year award

Scottish author takes prize for her 'hugely atmospheric and haunting' story The End of the Wasp Season

PD James: inside the head of a criminal mastermind

PD James talks to Kate Kellaway about her Jane Austen sequel, and answers questions from readers and fellow authors

Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing

'In many crime novels, the events seem detached from the context. I deliberately decided to smuggle in a critical commentary on my times'

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple – review

Told through emails, transcripts, FBI reports and a 15-year-old's deadpan voice, Maria Semple's thriller is as witty as it is terrifying, writes Anna Trench

The Yard by Alex Grecian – review

Alex Grecian's exuberantly grisly serial killer tale set in 1889 London picks up where the Ripper left off, says Alison Flood

Canada by Richard Ford – review

Richard Ford's triumphant novel explores the impact of parental foolishness on a son's life, writes Sean O'Hagan

The Killing by David Hewson – review

David Hewson's terrific literary translation of Danish crime series The Killing is much more than a cheap spin-off, writes Ben East

From the archive, 2 June 1986: PD James: more deadly than the male

Originally published in the Guardian on 2 June 1986: PD James is very much nicer to meet than her books might lead one to expect. But in her writing there is sometimes a certain contempt for many of her characters

Crime writer Petros Markaris channels Greek rage into fiction

Murders at heart of new book resonate strongly with a mass readership furious at Greece's tax-dodging elite

A voyage round Agatha Christie

Joanna Moorhead meets Agatha Christie's grandson and finds there's more to the Queen of Crime than meets the eye ... her love of surfing, for example

The Penge Mystery: the murder of Harriet Staunton

In 1877, Harriet Staunton's husband and three others were accused of starving her to death and lurid newspaper reports of the Penge murder trial held the nation's rapt attention. A bestselling novel about the affair – written in 1934 and now republished – proves as gripping today