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A new translation of the investigator’s final adventure completes a monument to one of the 20th century’s greatest writers
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A novel about two suicides brilliantly explores the darkest corners of the human experience
Creator of the Inspector Montalbano detective series was a lifelong anti-fascist
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A lively novel by Susannah Stapleton on the wild tales of Britain’s fearless female detective
Our critic rounds up the biggest and best new detective novel titles
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An eccentric boarding school teacher becomes a media hate figure in a novel that sidesteps conventional thrills
The hard-boiled crime novelist opens up about Trump, his murdered mother and femmes fatales
The novel thrills us with a series of breathless encounters
The Tartan noir novelist tackles the divisive issue of Scottish independence in this new book
Omani novelist’s award for Celestial Bodies split with translator
A grim case becomes ever more complicated — and dangerous
Forensic specialist David Hunter is led into a quagmire of malign human behaviour
Final entry in Nazi-era detective series makes for a bittersweet experience
The crime writer shows she is the heir to Patricia Highsmith in her anatomy of human motives
When the chips are down nothing beats reading about tired police officers drinking bad coffee
This crime story includes a quirkily conflicted protagonist and a narrative that keeps tension and incident satisfyingly to the fore
A dexterously written thriller and a cogent examination of the nature of guilt and innocence
The Trump-inflected thriller goes out of its way to hammer its message home
