Thrillers – review roundup
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Girl in Berlin by Elizabeth Wilson, The Killing by David Hewson and The Family Corleone by Ed FalcoGone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.99)Just as Nick and Amy Dunne are about to celebrate their fifth ...
Thrillers: review roundup
The Inquisitor by Mark Allen Smith, The Blue Death by Joan Brady, Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins and The Survivor by Gregg HurwitzThe Inquisitor by Mark Allen Smith (Simon & Schuster, £12.99A man without a past, the torturer hero of The Inquisitor ...
Thrillers roundup – reviews
On the Floor by Aifric Campbell, The Whore's Asylum by Katy Darby, The Expats by Chris Pavone and When Nights Were Cold by Susanna JonesOn the Floor by Aifric Campbell (Serpent's Tail, £12.99)Before she turned to novel-writing, Campbell spent 13 years...
Thrillers roundup – reviews
The Technologists by Matthew Pearl, Rocks in the Belly by Jon Bauer, The Contract by David Levien and Easy Money by Jens LapidusThe Technologists by Matthew Pearl (Harvill Secker, £14.99)Boston, 1868. When ships collide in the harbour after a catastro...
Thriller roundup – reviews
The Child Who by Simon Lelic, Total Immunity by Robert Ward, Voices of the Dead by Peter Leonard and The Map by TS LearnerThe Child Who, by Simon Lelic (Mantle, £12.99)Lelic's third novel after Rupture and The Facility takes a hackneyed, supermarket-t...
Thrillers: John O’Connell’s choice – reviews
Death Comes to Pemberley by PD James, Brodmaw Bay by FG Cottam, Blood Relative by David Thomas, Perfect People by Peter JamesDeath Comes to Pemberley, by PD James (Faber, £18.99)PD James's Jane Austen sequel-with-a-murder is Pride and Prejudice and Zo...
The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin
In the return of Ian Rankin's post-Rebus detective, the complex Inspector Fox displays a quiet gift for objective scrutinyBook two in Ian Rankin's post-Rebus series of procedurals continues the job, begun in 2009's The Complaints, of breaking in the re...
Thriller roundup – reviews
Icelight by Aly Monroe, The Deadly Touch of the Tigress by Ian Hamilton, Cell 8 by Roslund & Hellström and The Quest for Anna Klein by Thomas H CookIcelight, by Aly Monroe (John Murray, £19.99)Set in the cold winter of 1947, Monroe's third Peter Cott...
Thrillers – reviews
The Accident by Linwood Barclay, The Diamond Chariot by Boris Akunin and Far South by David Enrique SpellmanThe Accident, by Linwood Barclay (Orion, £14.99)A less icky, more knowing Harlan Coben, Barclay excels at unnerving the middle classes. His bre...
Thrillers: John O’Connell’s choice –reviews
Luther: The Calling by Neil Cross, The Secrets Between Us by Louise Douglas, Spartan by Matthew Dunn and Burned by Thomas EngerLuther: The Calling, by Neil Cross (Simon & Schuster, £14.99)Cross has been producing unsettling, lyrical thrillers for over...
Thrillers: John O’Connell’s roundup – reviews
A Dark Anatomy by Robin Blake | Mice by Gordon Reece | Pariah by David Jackson | Prophecy by SJ ParrisA Dark Anatomy, by Robin Blake (Macmillan, £12.99)When was "the birth of forensic science"? In the first of a projected series starring a coroner, Cr...
John O’Connell’s choice of thrillers
The Glass Rainbow by James Lee Burke | The Last Talk With Lola Faye by Thomas H Cook | Crimson China by Betsy Tobin | The Identity Man by Andrew KlavanThe Glass Rainbow, by James Lee Burke (Orion, £12.99)Burke's 18th novel featuring Louisiana detectiv...
