Anti-vaxxers, the Momo challenge … why lies spread faster than facts

With Trump making six false claims a day and bogus Brexit claims spreading, we live in a disorienting post-truth era. It all began with the David Irving trial, writes Jonathan Freedland

The Plotters by Un-su Kim review – a sniper in Seoul

A contract killer finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy in a dreamlike alternative Korea

Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce review – smart #MeToo noir

A criminal lawyer navigates a murky world of misogyny and murder in this dark debut

The best recent thrillers – review roundup

A mysterious death in remotest Australia, an alcoholic barrister’s first murder case and a therapist’s dream patient

Shatterhand: new James Bond film’s working title revealed

Delayed 007 to begin filming in April under title borrowed from Blofeld alias

Max Porter: ‘I love slang, I love hip-hop. I love the proper use of language’

The author of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers on writing his second novel, wrangling with Brexit and subverting the missing-child genre

Tana French: ‘Nobody with imagination should commit a crime. You wouldn’t handle the stress’

The author has branched out with the twisty, psychological thriller The Wych Elm. She shares her conversations with a retired detective and why she’s not interested in true crime

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Last by Hanna Jameson; To Kill the Truth by Sam Bourne; The Lost Man by Jane Harper; Flowers Over the Inferno by Ilaria Tuti; The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides; and Fade to Grey by John Lincoln

Blood by Maggie Gee review – teacher on the run

This tale of family violence and forgiveness uses elements of farce, caper, whodunnit and political satire, with a few horror tropes thrown in

The best recent thrillers – review roundup

Sibling child abductors, assassins on the run and a killer at large after a nuclear attack all feature in this month’s roundup

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley; The Flower Girls by Alice Clark-Platts; Red Snow by Will Dean; Fog Island by Mariette Lindstein; A Long Night in Paris by Dov Alfon

Stuart Turton on Widnes: ‘It was famous for its smell. On bad days, the air punched you in the nose’

Paul Simon was apparently so demoralised by the place he wrote ‘Homeward Bound’ on the station platform – but unlike Turton, he was only visiting

Tinker, tailor, Marxist academic… how Le Carré annoyed Eric Hobsbawm

Marxist intellectual asked author why MI5 man in A Perfect Spy had a name so like his own, new biography reveals

The best recent thrillers – review roundup

A searing new voice in ‘sunburnt noir’, a creepy mystery in the Highlands, and a riveting kidnap tale

In brief: The Colour of Time; The Rumour; Left Bank – reviews

History revisisted, this time in colour, Lesley Kara stirs paranoia in Essex and Agnès Poirier brilliantly recreates Paris in the 40s