This Booker prize is too much of a thriller
Alison Flood: Is Philip Hensher right to suggest that a panel of thriller writers have ignored the stronger claims of science fiction for the Booker prize?
Elizabeth Mackintosh: woman of mystery who deserves to be rediscovered
Writing as Josephine Tey or Gordon Daviot, this all but forgotten novelist has influenced writers from Stephen King to Sarah Waters and was a friend of John Gielgud, writes Robert McCrum
2084 takes Orwell into a robotic future
Stuart Heritage: George Orwell's 1984 meets The Terminator? In the spirit of brilliant film ideas, here are my pitches for some cyborg sequels
Blue Monday by Nicci French –review
The husband-and-wife writing team introduce a new star – psychotherapist Frieda Klein – in a dark tale of child abduction, writes Alison Flood
Ben Affleck tipped to direct Tell No One remake
Director of The Town reportedly attached to new version of 2006 French thriller, adapted from Harlan Coben's crime novel
The Day of the Jackal – the hit we nearly missed
Charles Cumming: Forty years on, few books have changed the literary landscape like Frederick Forsyth's political thriller
James Bond’s changing incarnations
James Harker: Jeffery Deaver is the latest in a surprisingly long list of authors who have written official 007 sequels
Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver – review
Fans will approve of Jeffery Deaver's James Bond, who is both the daring spy of old and a product of the 21st century, writes Stephanie Merritt
The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño – review
There's never a dull moment in Roberto Bolaño's 1993 murder mystery, writes Anthony Cummins
Apocalypse Now – review
Coppola's Vietnam war epic is released yet again, this time with the "Redux" additions removed. It's still a brilliantly supercharged cinema experience, writes Peter Bradshaw
An Agent of Deceit by Chris Morgan Jones – review
Alison Flood enjoys a chilling debut with resonances of Le Carré
Satori by Don Winslow – review
Shibumi fans will devour the return of super-assassin Nicholaï Hel, writes Alison Flood
The Troubled Man: A Kurt Wallander Mystery by Henning Mankell – review
The world's most popular fictional detective bows out, gloriously gloomy as ever, writes Brian Oliver
The Hanging Shed by Gordon Ferris – review
Scotland's dynamic new hero Douglas Brodie has already topped the ebook charts. Reading the printed version, Alison Flood can see why
New Europe: reading up on Germany’s bestselling books
There's no time for the fripperies of foodie fashion on this week's German bestseller lists, but like their UK counterparts, German fiction readers share a taste for crime