New crime fiction, including works by Marie Cassidy, Paul Bradley Carr and Chris Hadfield
The Confessions; The Dead Husband Cookbook; Final Orbit; Deadly Evidence; and The House on Buzzard’s Bay
The best new sci-fi/fantasy books: From impending AI apocalypse to rogue bots on Mars
New novels by Sally Magnusson, Ray Nayler, Tom O’Connell and Mason Coile
New crime fiction: cynical pitch-black comedy reinvigorates the spy fiction genre
New novels by Mick Herron, Nicola Upson, Seishi Yokomizo, Janice Hallett and Rav Grewal-Kök
Sci-fi/fantasy reads: AI as our saviour, a genetically engineered space crew, and navigating a world designed for giants
New novels from Lucy Lapinska, James Alistair Henry, Ishmael A Soledad and more
Crime fiction: domestic noir at its most beguilingly chilling
New works by Michelle McDonagh, Peter Swanson, Ruth Ware, Nick Harkaway and Sophie Hannah
New crime fiction: Michael Connelly revels in fresh freedom, Brian McGilloway serves up a suffocatingly claustrophobic affair
Nightshade by Michael Connelly; The Search for Othella Savage by Foday Mannah; A Beautiful Way to Die by Eleni Kriacou; The Counting Game by Sinéad Nolan; and Brian McGilloway’s The One You Least Suspect
New crime fiction: Five compelling reads
Murder at Gulls Nest; After the Party; There Came A-Tapping; One True Word; The Inalienable Right
Crime fiction: Quirky killers, an offbeat cop and the grimier side of Paris and the Costa Blanca
Declan Burke reviews Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse, Asia Mackay’s A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage, Uketsu’s Strange Pictures, Sam Blake’s The Killing Sense and Esther García Llovet’s Spanish Beauty
Sci-fi and fantasy round-up: Watch out for a weird time-travelling mother and a half-human, half-mosquito anti-heroine
New novels by Nnedi Okorafor, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elly Griffiths, Makana Yamamoto and Michel Neva
The best crime fiction of 2024: Robert Harris, Jane Casey, Joe Thomas, Kellye Garrett, Stuart Neville and many more
Declan Burke, Elizabeth Mannion and Brian Cliff round up their favourite crime novels of the year
Crime fiction: New works by Nick Harkaway, Louise Penny, Scott Phillips, David Safier and Jane Casey
Stunning literary ventriloquism will see George Smiley defer his retirement for some time to come, while Scott Phillips delivers a dark-stained noir punctuated by arson and murder by claw-hammer
New sci-fi novels: Time police, other dimensions, terror orbs, escape into genre and black holes
A look at the latest fantastical fictions by Jodi Taylor, Brandon Sanderson, Kim Ewhan and more
Crime fiction: Graeme McCrae Burnet, Paula Hawkins, Kate Summerscale, Ian Rankin and the debut of the year from IS Berry
Twice Booker Prize longlisted McCrae Burnet’s wickedly funny French-set novel owes as much to Albert Camus as to Georges Simenon; Rankin’s septuagenarian Rebus returns for another round
Crime fiction: The thriller people said couldn’t be done; and one of Robert Harris’s finest
Precipice by Robert Harris; The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre; The Perfect Place by Amanda Cassidy; Sovereign Territory by Andy Bell; and Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd
Science-fiction books: Keanu Reeves takes the action-packed philosophical route
Plus, new works from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gary J Martin, Cixin Liu and Joanne Harris