eileen by ottessa moshfegh review - a study of...
A courageous,masterful evocation of physical and psychological squalor – but, in a genre that...
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a head full of ghosts by paul tremblay review -...
Paul Tremblay’s horror tale of an obvious teenage possession is a thoroughly frightening take on...
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tightrope by simon mawer review - meet the female...
This stylish cold war thriller brings impeccable (perfect, flawless) period detail to a tale of...
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dear mr m by herman koch review - a stalker s tale...
The bestselling author of The Dinner takes a critical scalpel to his own work in this metafictional...
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missing, presumed review - lonely detective seeks...
Susie Steiner’s second novel rises above more two-dimensional crime fiction by focusing on the...
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undertow by elizabeth heathcote review - chilling...
A woman suspects her husband’s involvement in his first wife’s death in this absorbing debut...
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the knives by richard t kelly review - a pacy,...
From nationalism to terrorism threats,Kelly’s domestic secretary hero faces tough questions about...
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paula hawkins: the woman behind the girl on the...
The author of the record-breaking thriller on why she gave up writing romcoms,never wanted children...
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take shelter from festive excesses with a good,...
There are plenty of cosy titles to choose from in the lull between Christmas and the new year,but a...
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top 10 experimental thrillers
In these risk-taking novels,by writers from Paul Auster to William Burroughs, watching the formal...
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gerald seymour: of course i m still a hack. you...
The war reporter turned thriller writer on the Irish Troubles,Calabrian mafia and why he won’t be...
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sas fighter turned writer james deegan: i have...
In the Parachute Regiment and then the SAS,the Scot saw action in hotspots from Northern Ireland to...
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the new scandi noir: the korean writers...
The country has emerged as a surprising literary force as a novel by the ‘Korean Henning...
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hidden bodies by caroline kepnes review - the...
Psychotic bibliophile Joe Goldberg returns in this carnal follow-up to YouBooksellers hold assumed...
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the couple next door by shari lapena review: gone...
The tale of a child stolen from its cot is full of suspense but promises more than it deliversIt’s...
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black eyed susans by julia heaberlin review - a...
A woman left for dead isn’t allowed to forget her past in this twisted fairytaleTessa calls him...
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get mckinty - he s up there with elmore | letters
I am sorry to see that your roundup of the year’s best thrillers (Review,5 December) makes no...
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the poison artist by jonathan moore review - the...
An enigmatic woman comes between a toxicologist and a murderer in this hypnotic and disturbing...
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the fireman review - joe hills apocalypse feels...
Joe Hill’s follow-up to NOS4R2 envisages a world overcome by a fungus that causes spontaneous...
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splinter the silence by val mcdermid review -...
Psychological profiler Tony corridor and ex-DCI Carol Jordan return in a timely investigation into...
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a lonely story: the perils of writing in solitude
It worked for George Orwell and Henry Thoreau – but for Adrian McKinty,a retreat deep in rural...
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the girl in the spider s web by david lagercrantz...
This continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Salander-Blomkvist saga is welcome treatIan Fleming gave us...
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the best recent thrillers - reviews roundup
Black River by Tom Harper; Vanishing Games by Roger Hobbs; The Quality of Silence by Rosamund...
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grip lit? psychological thrillers were around long...
Is the popularity of dark crime fiction written by women really the sign of a game-changing unusual...
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the reflection by hugo wilcken review - a...
This noirish page-turner set in 1940s Manhattan is a story about the way we try to gain sense of...
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the crow girl by erik axl sund review -...
The discovery of mutilated children’s bodies sets the scene in this extremely dark international...
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stories of 2015: paula hawkins, from struggling...
A year ago,the ex-journalist was nervously awaiting the publication of her make-or-rupture novel,...
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dark pines by will dean review - if you go down in...
A deaf journalist investigates the case of an eyeless corpse in a promising debut novel set in rural...
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six four by hideo yokoyama review - riveting, slow...
Hideo Yokoyama’s bestseller combines classic crime elements with a twisting journey to the heart...
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