Fervour by Toby Lloyd review – a slow-burn family saga
A dysfunctional Jewish family in north London is the focus for a study of faith and mysticism
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim; The Trials of Lila Dalton by LJ Shepherd; The Winter Visitor by James Henry; Butter by Asako Yuzuki; Knife Skills for Beginners by Orlando Murrin
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
Here in the Dark by Alexis Soloski; House Woman by Adorah Nworah; Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody; Helle & Death by Oskar Jensen; The Woman on the Ledge by Ruth Mancini
Pulp, page-turners and pure joy: the ultimate summer reading list, picked by you
After we published our list of the best beach reads, we asked readers for their suggestions – including ‘mercifully brief’ fantasy, raucous comedy and a crime thriller that’s ‘tense as hell’
The End We Start From review – Jodie Comer shines in all too believable disaster drama
Comer plays a young woman whose baby arrives just as environmental crisis begins to break the society around her
The Gallopers by Jon Ransom review – gay love in the 1950s
This sly emotional thriller from the author of The Whale Tattoo explores the discord between the individual and the world
Edge of the aisle seat: the case of the theatre critic who becomes a sleuth
Countless nights spent reviewing plays informed Here in the Dark, a novel of psychological suspense in which critical faculties are essential to solving a real-life drama
New thriller from master of twists and turns Harlan Coben comes to Netflix
A new adaptation of the hugely successful crime writer’s book Fool Me Once comes to Netflix on New Year’s Day
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due; The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow; Him by Geoff Ryman; Audition by Pip Adam
Best crime and thrillers of 2023
A splendidly tricksy locked-room mystery, a fortune teller in Georgian high society and Indian mobsters make this year’s list
Alison Flood’s best crime novels and thrillers of 2023
Seasonal scares starring Stephen King’s detective Holly Gibney, plus Terry Hayes’s follow-up to I Am Pilgrim and Catriona Ward’s terrifying Daggerman
Eileen review – Anne Hathaway is vehement in solemnly intense psycho-noir
Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel becomes a disappointing movie, unable to decide if it’s a thriller or a dark comedy, though Thomasin McKenzie and Hathaway give it their all
The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup
Terry Hayes’s gripping second novel was worth the 10-year wait, while Michael Caine’s first thriller has bags of energy and rises above cliche – plus a creepily compelling tale of reality TV and a cryptic cracker
Leave the World Behind review – Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali excel in cracking apocalyptic thriller
Sam Esmail’s sharp, hugely enjoyable dramatisation of Rumaan Alam’s acclaimed novel is exec produced by the Obamas
‘I lived in a state of terror’: Patricia Cornwell on childhood trauma, her new novel and the search for Bigfoot
As pathologist Kay Scarpetta makes her 28th appearance in print, her creator recalls what it’s really like to conduct a postmortem – and a very odd encounter in the Virginia woods