Thrillers – review roundup

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Girl in Berlin by Elizabeth Wilson, The Killing by David Hewson and The Family Corleone by Ed Falco

The Marlowe Papers: playing poetically with the playwright’s murder

Robert McCrum: Literary dialogue comes in many forms – webs of allusion, reference and literary homage. And Ros Barber's new novel The Marlowe Papers takes this conversation to another level

The Blue Death by Joan Brady – review

There's something in the water in Joan Brady's unlikely thriller, writes Alison Flood

Thrillers: review roundup

The Inquisitor by Mark Allen Smith, The Blue Death by Joan Brady, Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins and The Survivor by Gregg Hurwitz

Thrillers roundup – reviews

On the Floor by Aifric Campbell, The Whore's Asylum by Katy Darby, The Expats by Chris Pavone and When Nights Were Cold by Susanna Jones

The Expats by Chris Pavone – review

An American mum abroad juggles playdates, coffee mornings and her CIA past in this accomplished debut thriller, writes Alison Flood

Jo Nesbø: ‘I am a vulture’

The bestselling Norwegian crime writer tells Andrew Anthony about the violence in his books, Anders Breivik and why his baddies are Arsenal fans

The President by Georges Simenon – review

This 1958 novella is an astute psychological study of a politician in possession of the means to bring down a government, says Kristen Treen

The English Monster by Lloyd Shepherd – review

Flamboyant and melodramatic, this book offers a solution to some real-life murders in the East End of London in 1811

Godfather sequel shown no respect by Paramount Pictures

Studio seeks to forbid book, authorised by Mario Puzo's estate, because it will 'tarnish' legacy of books whose copyright is held by film company

Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd – review

Kathryn Hughes on an underpowered life of an author who is more interesting than ever

Pantheon by Sam Bourne – review

John O'Connell on eugenics and anger

Frederick Forsyth wins Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award

The Day of the Jackal author honoured for settting 'a new standard of research-based authenticity' in thrillers

Agatha Christie cut down for language students

New versions of 20 detective novels produced for 'upper intermediate' English language learners

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

Pantheon by Sam Bourne – review

Jonathan Freedland's latest pacy thriller as Sam Bourne connects a number of leftwing intellectuals to a real-life scandal that brought shame upon Yale, writes Ben Shephard

Thrillers roundup – reviews

The Technologists by Matthew Pearl, Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer, The Contract by David Levien and Easy Money by Jens Lapidus

James Patterson dominates library lending, with 2.3m loans in 2011

Author takes five places on PLR's top 10 most-borrowed books, with remainder also thrillers and mysteries

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

The Devil’s Garden by Edward Docx – review

Edward Docx's South American jungle eco-thriller addresses big questions about power and progress, writes James Purdon

Thrillers roundup – reviews

Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George, Stolen Souls by Stuart Neville, Finders Keepers by Belinda Bauer and Crimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill

Finders Keepers by Belinda Bauer – review

Belinda Bauer's third thriller set in the unfortunate village of Shipcott finds its residents terrorised by a spate of child abductions, writes Alison Flood

Thriller roundup – reviews

The Child Who by Simon Lelic, Total Immunity by Robert Ward, Voices of the Dead by Peter Leonard and The Map by TS Learner

Gilbert Adair obituary

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

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

Quentin Rowan confesses to an addiction to plagiarism

The plagiarist Quentin Rowan says his QR Markham novel Assassin of Secrets was the product of an addiction, but is this the end of the chapter?

Audiobook choice – review

Crime: The Blackhouse by Peter May, The End of the Wasp Season by Denise Mina, Truth Lies Bleeding by Tony Black and Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin