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Adam LeBor selects his mid-year reads
Barry Forshaw selects his mid-year reads
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
Two detectives are on the bloody trail of a relentless murderer with a dark mission
The final novel of a trilogy about the war on drugs is every inch as pungent and involving as its predecessors
This impressive debut novel is a timely addition to the canon of international thrillers
A well-heeled mother’s perfect family life is torn apart when her daughter is kidnapped
This debut novel by a young British writer has set the bar high for historical crime fiction in 2019
Two cops investigate the disappearance of a young woman in the secluded Spanish town that bears her name
The author cannily subverts the clichés of the legal genre in his all-too-topical narrative
Barry Forshaw selects his must-read titles
An enigmatic anti-heroine investigates a series of macabre killings in 1930s London
Two private investigators are persuaded by a disturbed young man to look into a crime he thinks he saw as a child
