Irvine Welsh’s Ray Lennox confronts trauma again; puzzling happenings in Dubai and Tokyo; plus echoes of Marple and Ripley
Barry Forshaw selects his best mid-year reads
Camilla Läckberg takes us back to her Christie-style Swedish village while Abir Mukherjee’s surprising move into blockbuster thrillers pays off
Whodunnit heaven for Horowitz fans, new thrills from AJ Finn, plus suspense on the Scilly Isles — and ‘dirty Victorian gothic’
In his new historical novel, Ukraine’s most feted writer tackles war’s absurdities — and the thorny issue of using Russian
The latest novels from James Patterson, Louise Welsh, Agnes Ravatn and more
David Jonsson is a revelation as a young attaché who stumbles on a serial killer
Barry Forshaw selects his must-read titles
The laureate of American sleaze conjures a lost LA out of the film star’s death and a cast of real-life characters including JFK
Stephen King gives an old love her own book, Christopher Fowler’s farewell, and much more
In his fictionalised account of a sadistic real-life crime, Nicola Lagioia digs deep into Italy’s capital and its gay scene
A gripping retelling of a well-known story that inspired Melville and Golding captures the barbarity of survivors of an 18th-century shipwreck
‘Silence of the Lambs’ meets ‘Sex in the City’ and an extradition flight is pursued across the globe by a Reaper drone
A Nordic noir novel from Iceland’s prime minister, an exuberant thriller set in 1950s India and more
Plus the latest from Kate Griffin, SA Cosby — and a superb translation of a Simenon classic
Characters from the crime writer’s Strafford and Quirke series join forces in this latest whodunnit that will have readers hooked
The latest novels from Åsa Larsson, Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow and more
Crime tourists who flocked to Nicola Bulley’s village expose the perils of a macabre public pastime
The latest novels from Jane Harper, Harlan Coben, Janice Hallett, Simon Mason and more
Two 1850s sex workers champion female empowerment by turning detective to solve the murders of young women
Bibliophilia collides with sexual peccadilloes in a neo-noir that takes readers on a rare-book grail quest via a lot of boudoirs
Long-term admirers of Michael Connelly will be delighted by the latest Harry Bosch, while Robert Crais and James Grady take readers on thrilling rides through the heart of underground America
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