Is the new James Bond film cursed – or just losing the plot?
Explosions, injuries, rewrites … Bond 25 seems beset by crisis. The result of intense media scrutiny, or a sign that the series is struggling to find a new direction?
Cari Mora by Thomas Harris review – Hannibal lite
The hairless villain of Harris’s first thriller in 13 years is a pale imitation of his most famous creation
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem review – are you a Rabbit or a Bear?
A road trip through the California desert becomes a thumping political allegory for a divided nation
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Conviction by Denise Mina; The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver; The River by Peter Heller; Crushed by Kate Hamer; Little Darlings by Melanie Golding; The Divinities by Parker Bilal
Cari Mora by Thomas Harris review – Hannibal Lecter’s creator returns
The shocking truth about this Miami-set thriller, featuring an avocado-eating hitman and a woman with a Dark Past, is how dull it is
Top 10 end-of-the-world novels – from Ballard to Pratchett
Fresh from writing his own first sci fi thriller, physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili chooses favourite books that tackle the Earth in peril
Warren Adler obituary
Prolific writer whose novel The War of the Roses was turned into a hit film starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The King’s Evil by Andrew Taylor; Mrs Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkowa; Sleep by CL Taylor; Stone Mothers by Erin Kelly; Fallen Angel by Chris Brookmyre and Call Me Evie by JP Pomare
Top 10 thrillers about siblings
The complex knots of love and rivalry that bind sisters and brothers also provide perfect plots for novelists from Gillian Flynn to Ian McEwan
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Two different tales of madness in East Anglia are among the pick of this month’s mysteries
Chris Mullin: ‘I dedicated the book to Jo Cox’
The former Labour MP on his political thriller set in post-Brexit Britain and why he’s keen to read David Cameron’s memoirs
Larry Cohen, cult exploitation director, dies aged 77
The man behind the It’s Alive and Maniac Cop franchises also wrote scripts for TV and the Colin Farrell thriller Phone Booth
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
A bipolar artist hunts down a killer in Peter Swanson’s best thriller yet and two Nordic noirs unsettle and delight
The Friends of Harry Perkins by Chris Mullin review – predicting Brexit Britain
The follow-up to the 1982 political thriller A Very British Coup is so topical it will need instant updates
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Kill [redacted] by Anthony Good; The Guilty Party by Mel McGrath; The Mobster’s Lament by Ray Celestin; Casanova and the Faceless Woman by Olivier Borde-Cabuçon; Cruel Acts by Jane Casey; and A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself by William Boyle