Harrogate – the ideal place for a killing spree
Murder in Harrogate, a crime-writing anthology featuring MW Craven, Janice Hallett and Abir Mukherjee, is witty, sharp and extremely local
Murder in Harrogate, a crime-writing anthology featuring MW Craven, Janice Hallett and Abir Mukherjee, is witty, sharp and extremely local
This year saw a bumper crop of historical fiction, some traditional whodunits and more than one big-ticket novel that badly needed an editor
The Consultant, Im Seong-sun’s debut, is a coolly cerebral crime novel about writing crime novels, yet one editorial lapse is blatant
Deadly Game, the debut thriller by the veteran actor, is surprisingly excellent, with an old-school hero and a plot rich in twists and turns
The golden age whodunits live on and will continue to entertain future generations
His 1995 film Heat is a classic – and now comes a sequel/prequel, a la The Godfather Part II. The plot twist? He's written it as a novel
Curtis Brown head Jonny Geller on sensitivity readers, the future of Bond, and the problem with publishing's data obsession
The crime writer, 67, talks Agatha Christie, treacle scones and the one thing that drives her totally bonkers
Helen of Troy is swapped for Pam of Rhode Island, in an ingenious tale of two warring mobs from one of our finest crime writers
Best known by his pen name Jack Higgins, Patterson – who died this weekend, aged 92 – set out to create 'adventures that make people think'
Over 1,000 pages of self-pity and spite, we see the great crime novelist trying to ‘touch bottom merely for the sake of knowing bottom’
First Patti Smith, now Salman Rushdie – garlanded writers are flocking to a newsletter platform to take back control of their work
Lee Child's gone. Will crime fiction be the same again?
'The 43 force model might have been fit for purpose for the 1970s and ‘Life on Mars’, but it is not suitable now'
The Queen of Crime often placed her characters in confined settings. Here, her biographer Laura Thompson explains why
King's writing is renowned for its horror and gore. But one early novel, Rage, turned out to be too dangerous to print