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Claire Douglas, author of The Couple at No 9:. I’ve read so many excellent thrillers this year so it makes it very hard to choose just one, but I’m going to go for The Night She Disappeared by Lisa ...

1. Titus Andronicus. You don’t get much more of a blood bath than Titus Andronicus and it’s number one for crime. Thought to be Shakespeare’s first tragedy, it features executions, assassinations, ...

Ripley. Those familiar with Patricia Highsmith’s work will likely be aware that this very recent adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley isn’t the first time her character Tom Ripley has appeared on the ...

What makes a good thriller? We’d say a unique premise, flawed but fascinating characters, and a fast-paced plot that never lets up. But such books can be difficult to find, which is why we’ve asked ...

Toxic relationships lie at the heart of so many thrillers, our pages filled with terrible marriages, gaslighters, stalkers and the obsessed. We seem to enjoy reading about dysfunctional relationships ...

Looking through notes from 2014, I came across an email I wrote to my publisher and agent. I had just finished the fifth book in my Dark Iceland series about young policeman Ari Thor and was thinking ...

At a star-studded ceremony at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, the great and the good of the crime community came together to see the inaugural Dead Good Reader Award ...

Lauren North, author of Safe At Home:. For me, atmosphere is location; it’s being dragged headfirst into the novel’s setting. But it’s also the intensity of the characters that really builds a great ...

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris . No list of psychological thrillers would be complete without The Silence of the Lambs.For anyone who hasn’t read ...

The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund. 4. The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund . It starts with a dead body. But as more corpses appear, Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg realises she’s hunting a serial ...