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    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
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      Best new thrillers — dog day afternoons and bohemian intrigue

      Vividly drawn characters blaze trails across small-town Arkansas and Nazi-occupied Oslo

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
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      Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow — a locked-room mystery for the tech era

      The first in a new series of thrillers features an ageing Californian hacker in the hunt for a billion-dollar blockchain

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      Thriller round-up — from the Gulag to Glasgow grit

      A gripping selection includes cold war conspiracies and a dark turn for Scottish politics

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      Thriller round-up — Midlands Noir to international double crosses

      An action-packed selection includes cheering portrayals of women who have agency — and muscles

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
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      My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor — rebel with a cause

      A motorcycle-riding Irish priest is the driving force in this polyphonic literary thriller set during the Nazi occupation of Rome

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
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      Action-packed spy tales — from Russian defectors to a Nazi Britain

      These fast-paced page-turners take in alternate history, a bullet in the head and terrors in Tokyo

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      Undercover agents deliver a 2022 James Bond reboot and shadowy threats from Alaska to Berlin

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
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      Back in the USSR: the best new political thrillers to read now

      Cold war era novels inspired by the long, deadly reach of Moscow’s secret service

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
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    • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
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      Spies in Canaan by David Park — a life in the shadows

      In the Belfast writer’s new thriller, a retired spy is forced to re-examine his past and finds the line between good and evil hard to discern

    • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
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      Best new thrillers — explosive tales of spies, lies and danger

      Fast-paced tales of intrigue from Leningrad to Lisbon. Plus echoes of George Smiley — and an illustrated edition of le Carré himself

    • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
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      Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson — breathing new life into the literary thriller

      A propulsive mystery that delights and deceives as two strangers’ lives intersect

    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
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      Scandi-noir, Russian London and a rogue Navy Seal — a round-up of new thrillers

      Hans Rosenfeldt, the creator of TV show ‘The Bridge’, delivers a dark, engrossing read in ‘Cry Wolf’

    • Saturday, 29 January, 2022
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      Dean Koontz: ‘When I finally put behind me all I’d been taught about writing, I began to sell my fiction’

      Q&A with the writer on his wife of 56 years, Cabernet Sauvignon and wanting an aircraft carrier

    • Thursday, 18 November, 2021
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    • Monday, 8 November, 2021
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      Genre round-up — the best in thrillers

      An exodus from Moscow; undercover in central Russia; a network of agents in wartime Berlin; and a hitman with a heart

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      Genre round-up — the best in thrillers

      From cabals, betrayal and sex in champagne-fuelled 1990s London to international intrigue of Russian spies and Islamic terrorists, here’s a selection of the latest gripping releases

    • Monday, 16 August, 2021
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      Genre round-up — the best in thrillers

      The cold war, wonder drugs, money-laundering, jihadis and the eastern front add a frisson to these latest gripping releases

    • Monday, 5 July, 2021
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      Genre round-up — the best new thrillers

      Contagion in the Arctic Circle; the hunt for a Russian mole; undercover in Hamburg; and a superpower conspiracy

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      Summer books of 2021: Thrillers

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      Genre round-up: Scandi-noir and an insider’s insights into spycraft

      A darker side of Sweden’s social-democratic paradise is exposed in the pick of the latest thrillers

    • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
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      Last Days in Cleaver Square by Patrick McGrath — Franco’s ghost in a Lambeth garden

      The dictator’s ghost lurks among an ageing poet’s hydrangeas in McGrath’s latest tale of a 20th-century haunting

    • Monday, 5 April, 2021
      Review
      The best new thrillers — tales of conflict and espionage

      Rich in revenge and betrayal — spy novels from John Fullerton, Paul Vidich, Alma Katsu and Philip Prowse

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