Crime Fiction Spot the Killer An eclectic crop of detectives in our midst—a constable in a backwater town; an inspector examining deleted audio files; a woman detective in 1920s Bangalore; and a middle-aged bachelor-priest Everyone Loves a Good Serial Killer The dark heroes of popular culture The Originality of Evil The best of crime fiction tells us that murder is sometimes the solution to greater malevolence True Detectives The Landscape of the Novel When nature rises to the level of a protagonist Death is a Labyrinth The logical reasoning of Japanese locked-room mysteries The Body In the Attic I Saw Him Die | A Will to Kill | Shed No Tears | V2 | Midnight Atlanta The Dark Old World These murder mysteries share a fascination for the past, which some authors explore by paying homage to the crème de la crème of classical mysteries and to the art of crafting them Killer Instinct From metaphysical thrillers to Agatha Christie redux A Detective’s Diet When Agatha Christie cooks Poirot’s breakfast Garden Variety Crimes Reading Agatha Christie and other gardening pleasures The Novel Virus Lawrence Wright’s new thriller shows with chilling prescience how the world will reckon with a pandemic Knives Out Mysteries for pandemic times—from a virus which is the weapon of mass destruction to a US Congressional intern caught in political intrigue Twists in the Tales Grand capers that explored murder and politics with depth and humour The Meek Must Protect the Earth Four novels answer the question of justice and law The Sixth Sense Hold your breath, smart detectives are at work JK Rowling: The Colour of Murder Evil and redemption take centrestage as JK Rowling in the guise of Robert Galbraith returns for her fourth Cormoran Strike novel Bill Returns to the Oval Office Being inside the head of the world’s most powerful man is enough to make you clutch pen and paper tight A Time to Thrill Beware the woman in the window Triple Deception Masters of the genre tell tales of espionage and revenge. And Then There Were None Four storytellers redeem the modern whodunnit by defying the familiar props of the genre Mysterious Minds How Arthur Conan Doyle found the perfect scientific detective The Beautiful Blood Ceremony What the best of Japanese noir says about democracy, authenticity and the nation
