New novels from Lucy Lapinska, James Alistair Henry, Ishmael A Soledad and more

New works by Michelle McDonagh, Peter Swanson, Ruth Ware, Nick Harkaway and Sophie Hannah

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

Murder at Gulls Nest; After the Party; There Came A-Tapping; One True Word; The Inalienable Right

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

New novels by Nnedi Okorafor, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Elly Griffiths, Makana Yamamoto and Michel Neva

Declan Burke, Elizabeth Mannion and Brian Cliff round up their favourite crime novels of the year

Stunning literary ventriloquism will see George Smiley defer his retirement for some time to come, while Scott Phillips delivers a dark-stained noir punctuated by arson and murder by claw-hammer

A look at the latest fantastical fictions by Jodi Taylor, Brandon Sanderson, Kim Ewhan and more

Twice Booker Prize longlisted McCrae Burnet’s wickedly funny French-set novel owes as much to Albert Camus as to Georges Simenon; Rankin’s septuagenarian Rebus returns for another round

Precipice by Robert Harris; The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre; The Perfect Place by Amanda Cassidy; Sovereign Territory by Andy Bell; and Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd

Plus, new works from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gary J Martin, Cixin Liu and Joanne Harris

Fictional summer feasts set against cyber warfare and leaks, Greek island tragedy, a Dorset country retreat, Foxrock domestic noir, and the world of guns and Scotland’s shabby rich

Artificial intelligence, or a-life, has been entertaining us with its gloomy prognostications ever since Mary Shelley put quill to paper in 1818

Emma, Disappeared; The House of Mirrors; The Noh Mask Murder; Dark Road Home; and The Trial show the various crime subgenres are very much alive and kicking