The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton review – Quantum Leap meets Agatha Christie
With time loops, body swaps and a psychopathic footman, this is a dazzling take on the murder mystery
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
The Kremlin’s Candidate by Jason Matthews, The Shadow Killer by Arnaldur Indriðason, Exhibit Alexandra by Natasha Bell, The Smiling Man by Joseph Knox, Panic Room by Robert Goddard, The Bone Keeper by Luca Veste
SAS fighter turned writer James Deegan: ‘I have come close to death’
In the Parachute Regiment and then the SAS, the Scot saw action in hotspots from Northern Ireland to Afghanistan. Now his debut novel mines that gritty, messy reality
Spy Who Loved Me director Lewis Gilbert dies aged 97
British filmmaker whose career spanned eight decades was best known for drecting three Bond films and making a major star of Michael Caine in Alfie
Thrillers review: Force of Nature; London Rules; The Wife
Our monthly roundup features Jane Harper’s tale of team spirit gone feral, Mick Herron’s Brexit spy novel and Alafair Burke’s peek into a marriage built on lies
Lullaby by Leïla Slimani – digested read
John Crace delivers a firm smack to the sensational French nightmare-nanny novel
Thriller reviews: The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn; The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld; The Feed by Nick Clark Windo
A chiller set in a post-apocalyptic world, a hunt for a missing child and a New York mystery – three page-turning thrillers
Savages: The Wedding by Sabri Louatah review – sharp French political thriller
Tension mounts as the French prepare to elect their first Arab president…
In brief: Here Comes Trouble, The Wicked Cometh, Heal Me – review
Simon Wroe’s comic tale of a country in fake news meltdown, a murder mystery in Georgian London by Laura Carlin, and Julia Buckley’s revealing search for a cure
Consent by Leo Benedictus and Fear by Dirk Kurbjuweit – review
Two literary writers bring both thrills and psychological nuance to the subject of stalking
Lullaby by Leila Slimani review – a truly horrific, sublime thriller
This tense, deftly written novel about a perfect nanny’s transition into a monster will take your breath away
Mark Billingham: ‘I don’t finish any book I’m not enjoying. Reading should be a pleasure’
The novelist on the stunning feats of Dashiell Hammett, Daniel Woodrell and Danny Baker
Dark Pines by Will Dean review – if you go down in the woods today…
A deaf journalist investigates the case of an eyeless corpse in a promising debut novel set in rural Sweden
Places in the Darkness by Chris Brookmyre review – murder in zero-gravity
The Scottish writer puts his detectives aboard a city-in-space in a twisting, sci-fi-flavoured crime mystery
The House by Simon Lelic review – a tale of two storeys
This creepy story of a couple moving into their first home packs in the chills as twin narratives entwine and pull apart