Kind of Cruel by Sophie Hannah – review

Sophie Hannah's seventh foray into the world of thrillers is cool, calculating and chilling, writes Alison Flood

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo cancelled in India

Oscar-nominated thriller withdrawn from release in India after director David Fincher refuses to cut 'unsuitable' sex scenes

Elmore Leonard: the great American novelist

Elmore Leonard is regarded as the greatest American crime writer, surpassing even Raymond Chandler. But it is time to drop the qualification of genre, argues Philip Hensher

Sherlock Holmes is still a man for today

Conan Doyle's detective was born in an age of empire and intrigue, much like our own. That's why Sherlock is still relevant

Genre writes to Literature

A 'private letter' from popular fiction to its grander relation sweetly casts the two as rivals with a lot in common

Gilbert Adair obituary

Witty, self-deprecating writer with a passion for cinema whose work shone 'like sparklers in the autumn gloom'

Gilbert Adair, acclaimed film critic and novelist, dies aged 66

Prolific journalist and author whose novels were often adapted for the big screen, has died

Books for giving: thrillers

Memory loss is the theme of two of the year's most unnerving debuts, while Tom Franklin brings real literary flair to his award-winning Mississippi crime novel, writes Alison Flood

Martin Scorsese set to direct crime thriller The Snowman

Scorsese's return to crime genre will be adaptation of novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø featuring detective Harry Hole

How do you write crime fiction in the wake of a massacre?

The mass slaughter on Utøya in July shook Norway to its core. Now the country's crime writers must come to terms with what happened, writes Andrew Anthony