Dobermann review – Vincent Cassel’s brutal pulp thriller still bites
This 1997 policier, directed by Jan Kounen, pulses with violent energy, although its pop-video aesthetic looks dated
Ian Fleming’s lost James Bond screenplay reveals a very different 007
With no Moneypenny and no M, a previously unpublished script reveals the author’s original ideas for Moonraker
Thrillers of the month – review roundup
Suburbia grows sinister in Joanna Cannon’s third novel, a singles club hides secrets in Jacqueline Sutherland’s debut and a twin hunts her sister’s killer in Will Dean’s latest
Jack Higgins obituary
Bestselling author who achieved huge success with his 1975 wartime thriller The Eagle Has Landed
All the Old Knives review – Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton add class to CIA spy drama
Pine and Newton play former lovers in this watchable Le Carré-esque tale of personal and patriotic betrayals
Country diary: A secret hideaway, and a mystery solved
Marshwood Vale, Dorset: Starting in the hamlet of Lower Denhay, a friend and I retrace the steps of a fictional hero who’s on the run
Anatomy of a Scandal by Sarah Vaughan audiobook review – a smartly realised thriller
Luke Thompson plays the minister who has an affair with a parliamentary aide, in a tale told from contrasting viewpoints
Charlotte Philby: ‘We visited Kim in Moscow’
The spy novelist, whose latest book tells the story of her grandfather Kim Philby and the Soviet agent Edith Tudor-Hart, talks about the perils of writing about family, and why female spies get overlooked
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Run Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson; Reputation by Sarah Vaughan; Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura; Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson; Hot Water by Christopher Fowler
Deep Water review – erotic thriller loves Ben Affleck’s slack-jawed look
Hollow-faced Affleck becomes murderously obsessed with wife Ana de Armas’s infidelities in baffling return from Fatal Attraction’s Adrian Lyne
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo review – a deeply satisfying debut
This spirited Trinidadian love story about a gravedigger and a medium has echoes of Dickens
Olivia Laing: ‘I’m sorry, but Jane Eyre is a horrendous little hysteric’
The British writer on discovering Barthes, channelling Burroughs and appreciating the talents of Patricia Highsmith’s Mr Ripley
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Danya Kukafka upends the power dynamic of male serial killer and female victim in a thrilling second novel
Louise Welsh: ‘It was like driving with the lights off’
The prize-winning author of The Cutting Room on writing its long-awaited follow-up, female victims in crime novels, and the allure of Mrs Danvers
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
A police officer takes pity on a child murderer, a poor mother has real money troubles and Sophie Hannah’s detectives fail to get away from it all