95 books and counting: finding solace in reading through the year of Covid
What reading would a bibliotherapist prescribe for a global pandemic? Depends if you need escape, comfort, joy or recognition of all the despair
The Bay of Silence review – dull and clunky man’s-eye-view thriller
Even the cast appear to be nodding off from boredom in this dated drama about postnatal psychosis and dark secrets
A clumsy, cringey crescendo: why A Taste for Death is hard to swallow
PD James’s contempt for the political left and for almost all her characters leads to melodramatic moments in this zippy thriller
In brief: The Good Sharps; The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle; Fey’s War – review
A beguiling biography of a prominent 18th-century family; the tale of two strait-laced brothers on the European grand tour; and a mother’s struggle with the Nazis
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
A pitch-black outback noir; a missing teenager and her devious friends; the return of SJ Watson; and India’s first female detective
Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg review – dark yet roguishly funny
A chorus of voices shed light on a student found dead in the woods in this sparkling reworking of the traditional thriller
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg; The Divine Boys by Laura Restrepo; The Sandpit by Nicholas Shakespeare; Brixton Hill by Lottie Moggach; One Year of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Double-dealing in the murky world of espionage, the hunt for an environmental terrorist, creepy neighbours and the return of an old friend
Me and my detective by Lee Child, Attica Locke, Sara Paretsky, Jo Nesbø and more
Jack Reacher, VI Warshawski, Harry Hole ... Leading crime writers reveal how they came up with their most famous creations, what it’s like to live with them over decades and if they’ll last the distance
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The House on Fripp Island by Rebecca Kauffman; Seven Years of Darkness by You-jeong Jeong; The Other Passenger by Louise Candlish; The Devil You Know by Emma Kavanagh; Die for Me by Luke Jennings
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Missing memories and secret lives galore in new titles from Karin Slaughter, Louise Candlish and more
No pubs, no kissing, no flying: how Covid-19 is forcing authors to change their novels
Never mind newly minted corona lockdown stories, authors are frantically rewriting existing projects to reflect a world turned upside down by the pandemic – or shelving them indefinitely
Bill Clinton writing second thriller with James Patterson
Pair behind The President is Missing writing novel about kidnapping of a former president’s daughter
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Another gem from John Grisham, two impressive debuts and a third outing for DI Manon Bradshaw from Susie Steiner
Alan Williams obituary
Thriller writer and journalist who relished the excitement and drama of the cold war