The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup | Crime fiction | The Guardian
The Spy by Ajay Chowdhury; A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering by Andrew Hunter Murray; The Kitchen by Simone Buchholz; The Innocents by Bridget Walsh; The Grand Illusion by Syd Moore
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"The Spy" by Ajay Chowdhury is a thrilling novel about a former policeman turned MI5 officer who must stop a terrorist plot in east London.
"A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering" by Andrew Hunter Murray follows a character who squats in luxury properties and becomes a suspect in a murder.
"The Kitchen" by Simone Buchholz is a dark and provocative crime novel set in Hamburg, Germany, featuring a public prosecutor investigating a series of male body parts found in a river.
"The Innocents" by Bridget Walsh is a Victorian-era mystery set in London theatreland, with a writer-turned-investigator and a missing pet monkey leading to a connection with a tragic event.
"The Grand Illusion" by Syd Moore is a historical fiction novel set during World War II, where a magician's assistant is recruited by MI5 to create a magical ritual to deceive the German High Command.
