Andrew Rosenheim

Suspicious circumstances abound in the latest crime fiction

A Russian documentary maker is accidentally poisoned, a Treasury civil servant is killed on her bicycle and the 6th Earl of Leicester is found dead on the stairs

Holkham Hall, the setting for Anne Glenconner’s latest crime novel. [Getty Images] 
issue 11 December 2021
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The old adage that everyone has a novel in them has a new version: anyone can write a thriller. Celebrity helps, of course, and Bill and Hillary Clinton are exemplars of the trend, though each has had the sense to draw on professional assistance and the grace to acknowledge it.

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