The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Firefly by Henry Porter; Darling by Rachel Edwards; Smoke and Ashes by Abir Mukherjee; The Man Between by Charles Cumming; Incorruptible by Barbara Nadel; The Wanted by Robert Crais
Thrillers review: Our Kind of Cruelty; What We Did; Star of the North
Dirty dancing, memories of sexual abuse and a spy’s search for her missing sister feature in this month’s standouts
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Star of the North by DB John, What We Did by Christobel Kent, Cross Her Heart by Sarah Pinborough, Nightfall Berlin by Jack Grimwood, The House on Half Moon Street by Alex Reeve, Wrong Way Home by Isabelle Grey
Thrillers review: The Hunger; All the Beautiful Lies; Paper Ghosts
The bloody conclusion to a wagon train’s journey across the US, a beautifully told crime story and a dark tale of murderous obsession are the standouts this month
While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt review – Broadchurch meets Anne Brontë
Merritt’s other life as historical crime novelist SJ Parris serves her well in this ghost story set on a Scottish island
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr; The Craftsman by Sharon Bolton; All the Beautiful Lies by Peter Swanson; One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig; Bitter by Francesca Jakobi; Pandora’s Boy by Lindsey Davis
From swapped babies to psychosis: author explores harrowing side of motherhood
GP Susi Fox’s debut novel digs deep into stress and exposes medicine’s sexist practices
Fresh voices: 50 writers you should read now
Which debut novel should you reach for this spring? Here’s our guide to the most exciting voices in fiction, politics, SF, graphic novels and more
Top 10 books based in Tangier
From William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch to Paul Bowles’s translations of Moroccan authors, here are the best novels set in the city
Colonel Sun: is Kingsley Amis’s Bond novel the weirdest of all?
Fifty years ago, the literary giant wrote a James Bond novel under a pseudonym. With all the shoddy spies and friendly Soviets, it is staggeringly un-Fleming-like
Thrillers review: While You Sleep; Tangerine; Come and Find Me
An island retreat harbouring dark secrets, a dangerous friendship and a female detective tracking a sadistic killer feature in this month’s roundup
The best recent crime novels – review roundup
Our House by Louise Candlish, The Fire Court by Andrew Taylor, Tangerine by Christine Mangan, House of Beauty by Melba Escobar and Ragnar Jónasson’s The Darkness
A Hero Born by Jin Yong review – the gripping world of kung fu chivalry
The martial arts epic Legends of the Condor Heroes is the magnum opus of China’s most widely read living writer. The first book has finally been translated into English, and it’s a joy
Force of Nature by Jane Harper review – five go feral in the outback
One missing, four traumatised … In this gripping follow-up to The Dry, police detective Aaron Falk investigates an office trip that loses its way in the bush
The new Scandi noir? The Korean writers reinventing the thriller
The country has emerged as a surprising literary force as a novel by the ‘Korean Henning Mankell’ bags a six-figure deal and sparks a global bidding war