In her revisiting of the grisly 1910 case, Hallie Rubenhold seeks to demote the murderer from his male-centric leading role
An ocean-going 1940s sleuth aspires to write a memoir (and film script) based on the unsolved 1931 killing of Julia Wallace
Plus the latest Anthony Horowitz mystery; paranoia in revolutionary Kyiv; and a Hamptons holiday gone horribly wrong
From innocent to guilty, Los Angeles to Oxford, stories of guns, gangs, missing children — and the theft of rare eggs
Eva Menasse’s sprawling bestseller, set in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall, confronts a nation with its murky past
Barry Forshaw and Adam LeBor select their must-read titles
Rebus is behind bars, Scarpetta is back. Plus murder mysteries in South Africa, France and Georgian London
The latest outing for the Booker winner’s Dublin pathologist again leads readers into a morass of deception and betrayal
The latest reissue of the English crime writer’s novels brings her unsettling yet delightful prose to a new readership
The latest novels from Attica Locke, Linwood Barclay, Simon Mason and more
The crime novelist on leaving Venice after 30 years — and why there will be no afterlife for detective Guido Brunetti
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
