The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The Khan by Saima Mir; Tall Bones by Anna Bailey; Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner; The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn; and Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka
Into the Labyrinth review – Dustin Hoffman psycho-thriller goes down a rabbit hole
The Hollywood star and Italian veteran Toni Servillo attempt to solve a mysterious abduction – a race hampered by never appearing in the same scene
Chris Power: ‘You burn reality to fuel the fiction’
The critic and author on writing about writers, and the political manoeuvres of the Putin era
This month’s best paperbacks: Hilary Mantel, Shuggie Bain, sex robots and more
April is a bumper month for new books. Here are some of the best, including Hilary Mantel’s final Cromwell novel, last year’s Booker winner, a big-tech dystopia and more
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Mystery unravels layer by layer in intricate tales of trafficking, abduction and a New Yorker with a sixth sense – plus, a 27th outing for Alan Banks
Dean Koontz: ‘Life is one long suspense novel’
The author, 75, tells James McMahon about escaping into books, becoming politicised as a teacher, and not knowing what will happen tomorrow
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The House Uptown by Melissa Ginsburg; My Brother by Karin Smirnoff; Dangerous Women by Hope Adams; A Fine Madness by Alan Judd; Lie Beside Me by Gytha Lodge; and A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
My father was famous as John le Carré. My mother was his crucial, covert collaborator
Nick Cornwell was one of few people who got to witness the collaboration between his mother Jane and father David, who wrote as le Carré
Hillary Clinton to publish thriller set in aftermath of US political turmoil
State of Terror, written by Clinton and author Louise Penny, will follow a novice secretary of state after ‘four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage’
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
From the Swiss Alps to the Utah desert via Crystal Palace, a sticky end can find you anywhere in this month’s mysteries
Netflix smash Behind Her Eyes: Sarah Pinborough on writing ‘that ending’
Her duplicitous love triangle story is a hit – but some viewers are calling its mind-boggling twist ‘preposterous’. The horror and sci-fi veteran turned thriller-writer hits back
Danny DeVito and Barry Sonnenfeld: how we made Get Shorty
‘Gene Hackman was scary as hell. At the premiere, he pulled me aside and said: “I didn’t think you had a clue what you were doing!”’
The Silence of the Lambs at 30: a landmark thriller of horror and humanity
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins gave indelible performances in the Oscar-sweeping adaptation of Thomas Harris’s terrifying novel
The Imitator by Rebecca Starford review – fast-paced literary spy thriller with feminist undertones
Kill Your Darlings magazine co-founder delivers a mostly rollicking, suspenseful debut novel that unfortunately trips up at the twist
Clarice review – surprisingly effective Silence of the Lambs TV sequel
Focus shifts from the cultured cannibal to the FBI agent he analysed in a thoughtful and entertaining new thriller series