Can John Banville resuscitate Philip Marlowe?
Tom Williams: Raymond Chandler's estate have chosen John Banville to write a new Philip Marlowe novel – but can he capture the hero's loneliness and the bleak glitter of LA?
Ebooks roundup: Fifty shades of new erotica and roll the dice for a price
Benedicte Page: Populist titles tick the genre boxes, publishers get creative with eshort tasters and price-setting takes a new twist
Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway – review
A bizarre, engaging take on the detective novel elevates the mystery of human connections above the solving of crime, writes Killian Fox
Laura Lippman: ‘He’s definitely taken more from my work’
Novelist Laura Lippman talks to William Skidelsky about Baltimore crime and appearing in The Wire
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