Crime fiction: Anne Cadwallader blends politics, violence, law and media in gripping debut
Plus new works by Rosemary Hennigan; Catriona Ward; Claire Coughlan; and James Wolff
In Glass Houses by Edel Coffey: Another pitting of the haves against the have-nots
The New York setting is ideal for exploring the amorality of those corrupted by power, although the distinction between rich and poor is a little too neat
New crime fiction: Gripping new work from Claire McGowan, Patricia Gibney and more
The Other Couple by Claire McGowan; Three Windows by Patricia Gibney; The Final Problem by Arturo Pérez-Reverte; Gone for Good by Sarah Crossan; and True Blue by Joe Thomas
Scifi/fantasy: Dave Rudden’s Sister Wake a politically charged epic that draws on Irish history
Plus Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R Weaver, The Killing Time by Elly Griffiths, and more
New crime fiction: Q stars in a genteel 007 spin-off; Jack Reacher returns
Reviewed: Quantum of Menace; Hello, Transcriber; The Token; The Fourth Door; and Exit Strategy
New crime fiction, including works by Marie Cassidy, Paul Bradley Carr and Chris Hadfield
The Confessions; The Dead Husband Cookbook; Final Orbit; Deadly Evidence; and The House on Buzzard’s Bay
The best new sci-fi/fantasy books: From impending AI apocalypse to rogue bots on Mars
New novels by Sally Magnusson, Ray Nayler, Tom O’Connell and Mason Coile
New crime fiction: cynical pitch-black comedy reinvigorates the spy fiction genre
New novels by Mick Herron, Nicola Upson, Seishi Yokomizo, Janice Hallett and Rav Grewal-Kök
Sci-fi/fantasy reads: AI as our saviour, a genetically engineered space crew, and navigating a world designed for giants
New novels from Lucy Lapinska, James Alistair Henry, Ishmael A Soledad and more
Crime fiction: domestic noir at its most beguilingly chilling
New works by Michelle McDonagh, Peter Swanson, Ruth Ware, Nick Harkaway and Sophie Hannah
New crime fiction: Michael Connelly revels in fresh freedom, Brian McGilloway serves up a suffocatingly claustrophobic affair
Nightshade by Michael Connelly; The Search for Othella Savage by Foday Mannah; A Beautiful Way to Die by Eleni Kriacou; The Counting Game by Sinéad Nolan; and Brian McGilloway’s The One You Least Suspect
New crime fiction: Five compelling reads
Murder at Gulls Nest; After the Party; There Came A-Tapping; One True Word; The Inalienable Right
Crime fiction: Quirky killers, an offbeat cop and the grimier side of Paris and the Costa Blanca
Declan Burke reviews Murder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse, Asia Mackay’s A Serial Killer’s Guide to Marriage, Uketsu’s Strange Pictures, Sam Blake’s The Killing Sense and Esther García Llovet’s Spanish Beauty
Sci-fi and fantasy round-up: Watch out for a weird time-travelling mother and a half-human, half-mosquito anti-heroine
New novels by Nnedi Okorafor, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elly Griffiths, Makana Yamamoto and Michel Neva
The best crime fiction of 2024: Robert Harris, Jane Casey, Joe Thomas, Kellye Garrett, Stuart Neville and many more
Declan Burke, Elizabeth Mannion and Brian Cliff round up their favourite crime novels of the year