Declan Burke

As Dublin International Film Festival 2023 arrives, and with the Oscars less than a month away, we press play on some remarkable soundtracks

White Riot by Joe Thomas; Death in Heels by Kitty Murphy; Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes and more...

We’ve chosen some of the finest examples of what can happen when Cupid reaches for his quiver

Steven Powell’s account of the crime novelist lacks insightful critical analysis

Including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Inspector Maigret and Philip Marlowe – and not forgetting the sublime Inspector Sejer

Irish writers kept the home fires burning steadily throughout the year with absorbing new titles

Murder Memoir Murder; The Book of the Most Precious Substance; High John the Conqueror; Urgent Matters; Black Light

Declan Burke reviews The Bullet That Missed, Lost in Time, Disorientation, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, and Act of Oblivion

Reviews: The Eye of the Beholder; The Cliffhouse; A Certain Hunger; Coq au Vin; Hawk Mountain

Ardal O’Hanlon’s offbeat investigators excavate layers of history that blanket the Border

Plus new thrillers from EV Kelly, Richard O’Rawe, Johnny Gogan and Winnie M Li

Plus new thrillers from Gill Perdue, Javier Cercas, William Boyle and Sarah Pinborough

Nicola White's Irish trilogy concludes plus Louise Welsh, Charlie Higson, Sam Blake and Lan Samantha Chang

Including new books from Hilde Vandermeeren, Antti Tuomainen and Yulia Yakovleva

Plus new releases from Vera Kurian, John Hart, Alan Johnson and Celia Walden