Category Archives: Mystery & Thriller
Crime, suspense and endings you won’t forget.
The Honjin Murders Review: Kindaichi’s Snowbound Locked Room
Kosuke Kindaichi's debut is a short, atmospheric locked-room puzzle with a richly Japanese setting. The [...]
The Talented Mr. Ripley Review: Rooting for the Wrong Man
Highsmith's chilling study of envy and identity makes you complicit with a charming sociopath; a [...]
And Then There Were None Review: Christie’s Perfect Trap
Christie's darkest and most ingenious novel: ten strangers, one island, no detective and no escape. [...]
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders Review: A Landmark Fair-Play Puzzle
A landmark Japanese puzzle mystery with one of the cleverest solutions in the genre. The [...]
The Thursday Murder Club Review: Cosy Crime With Real Heart
A warm, witty cosy mystery about four pensioners chasing a killer. The puzzle is overstuffed, [...]
Confessions Review: Kanae Minato’s Cold, Brilliant Revenge Novel
A cold, gripping revenge novel told in six voices. It's brilliantly built and deeply bleak, [...]
The Secret History Review: A Murder Mystery in Reverse
Tartt's debut reveals a killing in its opening pages and still grips for hundreds more; [...]
Verity Review: Colleen Hoover’s Lurid, Divisive Thriller
A lurid, gripping thriller built around a monstrous manuscript. It's hard to stop reading, but [...]
Misery Review: Stephen King’s Tightest, Cruellest Thriller
Stephen King's tightest novel: a two-hander about a writer and his captor that's terrifying, funny [...]
In Cold Blood Review: A True-Crime Classic With an Accuracy Problem
Capote's account of the Clutter murders is gripping, beautifully built and hugely influential, but it [...]
The Da Vinci Code Review: Great Pace, Shaky History
A relentlessly paced puzzle thriller whose short chapters and codes are addictive, but whose history [...]