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Thrillers

September 2023

  • A silhouette at a window in the dark

    ‘Caught between two lives’: an extract from The Secret Hours by Slow Horses author Mick Herron

  • Slow Horses<br>Undated handout image issued by Slow Horses/Apple TV+ of Gary Oldman who is starring in the new Apple espionage series Slow Horses. Issue date: Friday February 4, 2022. PA Photo. The spy thriller, adapted from award-winning writer Mick Herron’s 2010 novel, will make its worldwide debut on April 1 on Apple TV+. See PA story SHOWBIZ Oldman. Photo credit should read: Slow Horses/Apple TV+/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Book of the day
    The Secret Hours by Mick Herron review – secrets and spies

  • Richard Osman photographed at the offices of his publisher Penguin Random House in London. Richard Osman is publishing his new book "The Man Who Died Twice", which is a follow up to his best selling book "The Thursday Murder Club". Richard Osman is an English comedian, producer, television presenter, writer, and the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One television quiz show Pointless. He has also presented the BBC Two quiz shows Two Tribes and Richard Osman's House of Games and has been a team captain on the comedy panel shows Insert Name Here and The Fake News Show. He has gained recognition for his appearances on a wide variety of British panel shows. Osman worked at Hat Trick Productions alongside Ben Smith before becoming creative director of the television production company Endemol UK, producing shows including Prize Island for ITV and Deal or No Deal for Channel 4. He is the writer of the 2020 novel The Thursday Murder Club.

    Thrillers of the month
    The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

  • Stephen King

    Book of the day
    Holly by Stephen King review – unlikely serial killers

August 2023

  • Florence Pugh, right, as Charlie, with Alexander Skarsgård in the TV adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 female spies in fiction

    Women’s role in espionage, largely written by women, leans less on explosions and more on perception, nuance and explorations of sacrifice – though they still kick ass
  • Peggy Sue's 50s diner

    Prophet by Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché review – fun, high-octane sci-fi thriller

    Happy memories are weaponised with lethal consequences in the H Is for Hawk author’s stylish co-written techno-thriller

    • Crime and thrillers roundup
      The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

    • Thrillers of the month
      The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

    • In brief: 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams; Alchemy; Mercury Pictures Presents – review

July 2023

  • DI Jack Caffrey (Ukweli Roach) in Wolf

    TV review
    Wolf review – this totally wild thriller has to be seen to be believed

  • Carol Smith

    Other lives
    Carol Smith obituary

  • Denise Mina

    Crime and thrillers roundup
    The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

  • Colin Walsh author shot

    Kala by Colin Walsh review – a sizzling debut of nostalgia and secrets

  • Pet by Catherine Chidgey review – sly psychological thriller

  • Hot off the press: authors pick their page-turners for summer

June 2023

  • Polluted horror … the Yamuna in Black River.

    Crime and thrillers roundup
    The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

    Black River by Nilanjana Roy; Thirty Days of Darkness by Jenny Lund Madsen; Killingly by Katharine Beutner; The End of Us by Olivia Kiernan; The Trial by Rob Rinder
  • Three boats sit at the edge of Lough Melvin Kinlough county Leitrim Ireland<br>AY7B6Y Three boats sit at the edge of Lough Melvin Kinlough county Leitrim Ireland

    Kala by Colin Walsh review – vanishings, betrayals and friends reunited in rural Ireland

    This confidently plotted debut novel from the award-winning short story writer has a strong cast and vivid dialogue

    • Thrillers of the month
      The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup

    • Michael Caine’s novel will most likely be rubbish, but I’m glad he’s found his happy ending

      Xan Brooks

    • Michael Caine announces debut thriller to be published in November

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