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
The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin – review
The second Inspector Malcolm Fox book proves that Ian Rankin has created a complex, worthy rival to Rebus, writes Alison Flood
George Baker obituary
Versatile actor and writer best known as Wexford in the TV detective stories
Stieg Larsson’s ghost | No 18
Among the legacies of the author's chart-busting Millennium trilogy is a continuing boom in Nordic crime fiction
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo looks promising – but why so many Brits?
Ben Child: David Fincher's remake of Stieg Larsson's bestseller is shot in Sweden but, oddly, appears to have a distinctly British flavour
The artists’ artist: Crime writers
Five crime writers nominate their favourite living author in their field
Once upon a life: Margie Orford
In 1985, the crime writer Margie Orford was thrown in jail by South Africa's apartheid police. Here she tells of the brutal experience that turned her from an idealistic student into a traumatised young woman
Mark Billingham: my greatest mistake
It was actually his fictional hero who dissed Phil Collins, but the best-selling crime writer got the blame
Anders Breivik massacre will change crime writing, says author
Jo Nesbø says his country's reaction to the killings made him proud to be Norwegian
Neil Cross: ‘I don’t get on with novelists’
The creator of TV's top cop show Luther, Neil Cross has written a spin-off novel. He tells Euan Ferguson about his odd childhood, and why he is mistaken for a psychopath