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The novelist talks about a world vision shaped by a sense of Scottishness and the business of popular series fiction
An authoritative psychological thriller embellished with the author’s characteristic narrative twists
Borrowing its title from a Mick Jagger song, Memo from Turner is every bit as viscerally violent as that 1970 film
An entertaining history of financial crime that reveals why we’re still suckers for a scam
A theatrical murder is at the heart of this nostalgia-filled 1950s seaside detective romp
A sophisticated examination of western society’s attitudes to the collision of fundamentalist Islam and terrorism
More a ‘why-dunnit’ than a whodunnit, the novel is dark, harrowing, horribly claustrophobic, but hard to put down
An enjoyable historical crime novel that investigates the imperial legacy in India
Barry Forshaw selects his mid-year reads
An undercover policeman risks revealing his identity when a runaway teenager steals his wallet
A rich cast of characters and tense situations are marshalled with panache
A Mumbai detective and his baby elephant sidekick investigate the death of a wealthy American
A couple’s clandestine erotic strategy leads to disastrous consequences for both
A combustible cocktail of the erotic and the malign
An efficient exercise in Nordic noir
A Norwegian crime writer’s noirish retelling of ‘Macbeth’
A crime novel that climbs inside the mind of a psychopath
A murder mystery that brilliantly evokes the texture of life in medieval England
‘Groundhog Day’ meets Agatha Christie in this high-concept country-house whodunnit
The saturnine inspector intervenes in a colleague’s case in this newly translated novel
An effort to uncover the story behind a secret London murder trial
A rural house clearance uncovers old secrets in this slow-burning thriller
A courtroom drama about a public figure accused of sexual assault is written with rigour and intelligence
Five women take a gruelling backpack hike across Australia’s Giralang Ranges — but only four return
A suicide case takes detective Celcius Daly across the Irish border in this astringent examination of betrayal and schism
