Feminism, folk horror and an outsider hero: how I brought Agatha Christie’s Murder Is Easy to the small screen

While some viewers prefer screenwriters to remain faithful to a beloved book, as a 21st century woman of colour I make no apology for which parts of the novel spoke to me

Perfect escapism: why cosy crime stories are a Christmas essential

From Agatha Christie to Richard Osman, playful, quirky mysteries are particularly appealing at this time of year

Five years and 2m copies later, self-published author lands UK book deal

Norfolk-based crime writer JM Dalgliesh topped the Amazon and Kindle bestsellers before being signed by a traditional publisher

Best crime and thrillers of 2023

A splendidly tricksy locked-room mystery, a fortune teller in Georgian high society and Indian mobsters make this year’s list

Alison Flood’s best crime novels and thrillers of 2023

Seasonal scares starring Stephen King’s detective Holly Gibney, plus Terry Hayes’s follow-up to I Am Pilgrim and Catriona Ward’s terrifying Daggerman

The Mystery of Mr E review – Sophie Hannah’s quirky musical murder mystery

Adapted from a school play by crime writer Hannah, this low-budget British whodunnit lacks the cinematic flair to match its clever songs and plotting

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Year of the Locust by Terry Hayes; The First 48 Hours by Simon Kernick; The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou; The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok; Gaslight by Femi Kayode

Dagger awards adds categories for ‘cosy crime’ and psychological thrillers

The annual Crime Writers’ Association awards wanted to acknowledge the changing tastes of readers ‘looking for the next thrill, the next murderous innovation’

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett; West Heart Kill by Dann McDorman; Mrs Sidhu’s Dead and Scone by Suk Pannu; Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming; The North Light by Hideo Yokoyama

Sweden’s ‘queen of Noir’ Camilla Läckberg accused of using a ghostwriter

Crime novelist has been forced to deny claims that she tricked readers into buying books she didn’t write herself

The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

JK Rowling, as Robert Galbraith, is back with a cult classic, while elsewhere past crimes make for gripping reads

The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith review – a riveting race against time

JK Rowling’s will they/won’t they detective duo return in a hefty but immersive tale of an attempted rescue from a cult

Agatha Christie statue takes seat on bench in Oxfordshire town

Memorial by Ben Twiston-Davies is sited in Wallingford, where the mystery writer lived for more than 40 years

Richard Osman: ‘I would have been terrible in MI6. I’m too tall, spill secrets and can’t lie’

After getting ‘the tap’ at Cambridge, he went from a behind-the-scenes TV ideas man to a fixture in front of the camera. Then the Pointless star’s Thursday Murder Club books became the biggest thing in fiction since Harry Potter

‘Healthy or downright weird?’: how I helped publish my husband Christopher Fowler’s posthumous book

My author spouse never let me read anything he wrote before it was finished. But after his death from cancer, I found myself choosing funeral flowers at the same time as covers for his memoir, Word Monkey