Murder
Lifeless life of a Technicolor titan
Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death
Murders for May
A deadly mixture of reprints and new releases
Murders for March
Parties and post boxes make beguiling settings for this month’s mysteries
Serial killer self-ID
Men who kill women shouldn’t get to define themselves
Murders for the start of February
A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel
Murders for January
While away the winter with would-be classics
Murders for early December
Pass the time by these passages into times present and past: post-war to Covid-era
Murders for late November
From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not
Murders for early November
As the days quicken and the shadows lengthen, our thoughts turn naturally to murder
The detective who knew too much
Ian Thomson delves into the most-investigated unsolved killing in British history as the investigation report was finally released on 15 June