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  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Will writing: a case of whodunnit or haven’t done it yet?

    Don’t bequeath an inheritance battle to your family

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    Review
    Genre round-up — the best new crime thrillers

    Tana French’s Celtic fiction, vampirism in Paris, plus gruesome Nordic noir

  • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Crime

    Barry Forshaw picks his best crime reads

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    FT readers — what is your favourite book of 2020?

    Tell us your recommendation and pick up a few tips for your own reading list too

  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2020
    Review
    Genre round-up — the best new crime thrillers

    More great reads from Stuart Turton, Ian Rankin, Elly Griffiths and Lee Child, collaborating with brother Andrew Child

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    Mr Cadmus — an unconventional village murder-mystery

    Peter Ackroyd’s tale of murky goings on in a rural idyll only occasionally hits the mark

  • Wednesday, 21 October, 2020
    Review
    Snow, by John Banville — a beautiful and profound crime novel

    The Irish writer casts off his Benjamin Black disguise for his latest murder mystery

  • Thursday, 1 October, 2020
    Review
    Savage Kiss — a brutal tale of mafia teens

    Roberto Saviano’s sequel to ‘The Piranhas’ returns to the ultraviolent gangs of modern-day Naples

  • Monday, 14 September, 2020
    Review
    Best new crime novels — from Blacktop Wasteland to Painted in Blood

    Rural America and Scandicrime are highlights from the latest batch of a thriving genre

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  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    Death in Her Hands — devious twists on the art of storytelling

    Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel begins like a traditional mystery but soon turns into a compelling tale of the narrator’s unravelling

  • Friday, 19 June, 2020
    Review
    Genre round-up — the best new crime thrillers

    New territory for John Grisham, Jeffery Deaver and Stephen King — plus chilly Scandi-noir

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    John Paul Rathbone
    How to exit lockdown? Elementary, my dear Watson

    Crime and disease share a common language. They both need other bodies to thrive

  • Friday, 1 May, 2020
    Review
    Crime fiction round-up: #MeToo, Nordic nights and badgers

    Nail-biting tales by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Camilla Lackberg, Don Winslow, Michael Connelly and more

  • Friday, 20 March, 2020
    Review
    The state of the world? Look to the latest crime fiction

    Tales of race, migrants and cover-ups from Ausma Zehanat Khan, Eva Dolan and James Oswald

  • Thursday, 27 February, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor — Mexico’s underbelly

    Fernanda Melchor’s International Booker-longlisted novel is dense with violence and superstition

  • Friday, 7 February, 2020
    Review
    The best new crime fiction — the depths of domestic noir

    Danger lurks inside the home in new titles from Sophie Hannah, BA Paris and Lesley Kara

  • Friday, 10 January, 2020
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    John Banville on Maigret and the genius of Georges Simenon

    A new translation of the investigator’s final adventure completes a monument to one of the 20th century’s greatest writers

  • Friday, 20 December, 2019
    Review
    Nine of the best new crime novels

    The genre booms, pitting sleuths against 1880s gangsters, sinister tech and a classic death on a night train

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    Best Books of the Year 2019
    Best books of 2019: Crime

    Barry Forshaw selects his must-read titles

  • Friday, 20 September, 2019
    Review
    Crime round-up — blood-drenched criminous offerings

    The latest novels from Tami Hoag, Jørn Lier Horst, Linwood Barclay, Attica Locke and more

  • Friday, 9 August, 2019
    Review
    Crime fiction — macabre secrets and voices from beyond the grave

    Latest works from Val McDermid, Laura Lippman, David Baldacci and more

  • Friday, 9 August, 2019
    Review
    Platform Seven by Louise Doughty — ghostly thriller

    A novel about two suicides brilliantly explores the darkest corners of the human experience

  • Friday, 19 July, 2019
    ObituaryAndrea Camilleri
    Andrea Camilleri, Sicilian author, 1925-2019

    Creator of the Inspector Montalbano detective series was a lifelong anti-fascist

  • Friday, 19 July, 2019
    Review
    Thrillers — for your eyes only

    Adam LeBor surveys four blistering spy novels

  • Friday, 5 July, 2019
    Review
    The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective — engaging and full of wit

    A lively novel by Susannah Stapleton on the wild tales of Britain’s fearless female detective

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