Crime fiction highlights: not just crime, but the causes of crimeNicola White's Irish trilogy concludes plus Louise Welsh, Charlie Higson, Sam Blake and Lan Samantha ChangTue Feb 08 2022 - 06:00
Crime fiction: Joanne Harris’s A Narrow Door, plus this month’s other top titlesIncluding new books from Hilde Vandermeeren, Antti Tuomainen and Yulia YakovlevaTue Nov 09 2021 - 06:00
September’s best new crime fiction: Ian Rankin finishes off a William McIlvanney manuscriptPlus new releases from Vera Kurian, John Hart, Alan Johnson and Celia WaldenThu Sept 16 2021 - 06:00
July’s best new crime fiction, including John Connolly’s bracing The Nameless OnesNew thrills from Sarah Langan, Megan Abbott, Olivia Kiernan and Helene FloodWed Jul 21 2021 - 06:00
This Eden by Ed O’Loughlin: Gripping narrative and big ideasBook review: Declan Burke on a glorious blend of spy novel and speculative fictionSat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
Crime fiction: An enthralling Southern Gothic and a drip-feed of revelationsNew thrills from Lee Durkee, Jane Casey, Rahul Raina, Jo Spain and Karen PerryMon May 24 2021 - 06:00
Crime fiction: Bloody ballet and a tender intergenerational bondBooks by Laura Vaughan, Erin Kelly, Inga Vesper, Sergei Lebedev and Chris BrookmyreThu Apr 01 2021 - 06:00
Crime fiction round-up: Mick Herron charts decline of British secret servicesPlus new thrills from Sam Blake, Walter Ellis, Cherie Jones and Lara ThompsonTue Feb 02 2021 - 06:00
Best new crime fiction: Ian Rankin’s brilliant John Rebus returnsPlus new thrills from Andrea Carter, Anja de Jager, Charlotte Philby and Anthony J QuinnWed Dec 02 2020 - 06:00
John Banville plays with the mystery novel’s cliches to fine effectBest new crime fiction for October includes Banville’s Snow and Robert Harris’s V2Mon Oct 05 2020 - 06:00
The Dirty South: Probably the best crime novel you will read this yearJohn Connolly has written a kind of origin story for Charlie ParkerSun Aug 30 2020 - 06:00
New crime fiction: Shot in the arm for the hackneyed serial killer yarnThe Nothing Man brilliantly deconstructs the genre’s cliches of the charming sociopathTue Aug 11 2020 - 06:00
Best new crime fiction: Disappearance, paranoia and the lawFelicity McLean, Rebecca Kauffman, Chris Whitaker, Michelle Dunne and Scott TurowFri Jun 19 2020 - 06:00
Jane Casey’s chilling new novel delves into power and politicsCrime round-up: Plus new works from Steve Cavanagh, Elizabeth Kay and Stephanie ScottThu Apr 23 2020 - 06:00
Crime fiction round-up: Gerard O’Donovan keeps it reel in 1922 HollywoodNew offerings also from Arlene Hunt, Nicola White, Jean Kwok and Malachi O’DohertySat Feb 22 2020 - 06:00
Crime fiction: the pick of the criminal crop from Rebecca Gowers, Tim Maleeny and moreNew from Rebecca Gowers, Tim Maleeny, Antti Tuomainen and Hannelore CayreTue Dec 31 2019 - 06:00
How do you write a novel? A draft in time saves nineDeclan Burke, the author of The Lammisters, is frequently asked about his process. Here he reveals allWed Nov 13 2019 - 05:57
Crime novels: The pick of the criminal cropLatest works by MC Beaton, Stephen O’Rourke, Paddy Hirsch, Frances Brody and James SallisSat Nov 02 2019 - 06:00
Lee Child: ‘If it comes to it, I’ll kill Jack Reacher. No problem’The writer on prizing plausibility, the casting of Tom Cruise as a giant, and migrating to NetflixSat Oct 26 2019 - 06:00
Crime fiction round-up: A rape allegation blows apart a college reunionClaire McGowan’s novel is unapologetically political and riddled with moral dilemmasSat Sept 07 2019 - 06:00
Crime fiction round-up: If you’re going to steal a title, steal from ChandlerLaura Lippman, Haylen Beck, Kate Atkinson, Adrian McKinty and Lauren WilkinsonSat Jul 13 2019 - 06:00
Crime fiction round-up: Dave Duggan’s thriller begins on a football pitchPlus new thrills from Oliver Harris, C L Taylor, JM Alvey and Peter HellerSat May 18 2019 - 06:00
The Man Who Was Saturday review: Airey Neave’s life in the shadowsPatrick Bishop revels in contradictions of Conservative who was notoriously privateSat Apr 06 2019 - 06:00
New crime fiction: Scandi noir and secrets of the Irish super-richA bleak trip down The Silver Road while Jo Spain deliciously evokes Golden Age mysteriesSat Mar 23 2019 - 06:00
The Friends of Harry Perkins: A Very British Coup gets a sequelPoliticking and double-dealing in a post-Brexit satire by former Labour MP Chris MullinSat Mar 23 2019 - 06:00
The Wolf and the Watchman review: chilling historical mystery novelNiklas Natt och Dag’s debut crime novel is set in Stockholm in the late 18th centurySat Feb 09 2019 - 06:00
‘I’ve always been socially aware, because of where I come from’The Dublin author Jo Spain has had five bestsellers in four years, and a hit TV series, ‘Taken Down’Thu Feb 07 2019 - 06:00
New crime fiction: from Louisiana to MoscowAlso Sarah Armstrong, Antti Tuomainen, Hanna Jameson and Anthony J QuinnSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
The Redeemed review: A hugely satisfying conclusion to the West Country trilogyTim Pears’ language is as spare and evocative as everSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
In the Dark River review: A skeleton is found in Victorian Dublin’s PoddleConor Brady’s Joe Swallow may be the most realistic policeman in Irish crime fictionSat Dec 08 2018 - 06:00
Crime landscapes of US frontier, hypnosis, Big Phama and GalwayNovels from Kevin McCarthy, Tanya Farrelly, Fiona Gartland, Nessa O’Mahony and Jack TaylorSat Dec 01 2018 - 06:00
The best new crime fiction: JK Rowling and a parallel universeBosch journeys into darkness in Connelly’s latest while ‘Lethal White’ blends murder and blackmailSat Oct 06 2018 - 06:00
The best new crime fiction: bloody messes everywhereFrom Val McDermid, Richard Anderson, Tod Goldberg, Karen Perry and Megan AbbottSat Aug 11 2018 - 06:00
Crime fiction: Stephen King goes Poe and Bill Clinton arms the presidentPlus: an agreeably quirky Roman murder mystery; and an appearance by Arthur Conan DoyleSat Jun 16 2018 - 06:00
Whistle in the Dark by Emma Healey review: a gripping taleThis second novel from the Costa award-winning author examines the difficulties in dealing with a loved one’s depressionSat May 05 2018 - 06:00
The best new crime fictionJohn Connolly, Gerard Brennan, Dervla McTiernan, Cormac O’Keeffe and Olivia KiernanSat Apr 21 2018 - 06:00
Jo Nesbø’s Macbeth lacks the nihilistic thrill of Shakespeare’s originalThe bestselling Scandi novelist reimagines the tale in the grim setting of 1950s InvernessSat Apr 07 2018 - 06:00
Crime fiction highlights: The Woman in the Window – Genuine Fraud – The Long Silence – One Good Reason – ConsentTaking its cue from Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’, as well as a host of noir classics, ‘The Woman in the Window’ offers a clever variation on the unreliable narratorSat Feb 24 2018 - 06:00
Fear by Dirk Kurbjuweit review: a gripping tale of domestic terrorThis psychological thriller was inspired by the author’s experience of being stalkedSat Feb 03 2018 - 06:00
Celtic tiger, hidden motive: the best of the new crime books‘The Confession’ is a post-crash thriller, and ‘Undertow’ is haunted by Northern Ireland’s pastSat Dec 30 2017 - 06:00
The Irish spy novel comes in from the coldGiven our history of colonisation, it’s no surprise that Irish writers should balk at celebrating the spy as heroSat Dec 09 2017 - 06:00
Crime fiction from hillbilly noir to a cold war potboilerLatest crime books reviewed: Val McDermid’s ‘shocking denouement’ and black dahlia case solvedSat Oct 07 2017 - 06:00
From women who pull the strings to tales of old corruptionDeclan Burke looks at five absorbing new publications in the crime genreSat Aug 12 2017 - 06:00
Here and Gone review: Raising hell in Arizona with a gripping thrillerHaylen Beck is the pseudonym of Northern Irish crime writer Stuart Neville, and this high-concept Atlantic-crossing novel deftly straddles classic US and British crime fictionSat Jul 29 2017 - 06:00
Meet the newest tarnished knight of LA’s mean streetsThe Late Show by Michael Connelly review: Gone are Harry Bosch and MIckey Haller - but Connelly’s song remains essentially the sameTue Jul 18 2017 - 14:00
From Brian McGilloway to Elena Varvello, the best new crime fiction‘The Gallows Pool’, ‘Exquisite’, ‘Bad Blood’, ‘Can You Hear Me?’ and ‘The City of Lies’Sat Jun 17 2017 - 06:00
Before We Fell review: brilliantly unconventional domestic noir‘Mystic River’ author Dennis Lehane reaffirms his mastery of the crime narrativeSat May 20 2017 - 06:00
Crime thrillers stray into realm of the deadParanormal tinge to recent offerings lends new meaning to term ‘criminal underworld’Sat Apr 22 2017 - 06:00
Constance Kopp and Sean Duffy back in best of crime fictionNew books from Ali Land, Amy Stewart, EO Chirovici, Julia Crouch and Adrian McKintySat Feb 25 2017 - 06:00
The Horseman review: Bittersweet elegy to an innocent, idyllic worldThe plot, centring around a schoolboy with a passion for horses, is little more than a skeletal structure that allows the writer to flesh out a vibrant, vividly detailed DevonSat Feb 18 2017 - 04:00
