David Hare pens BBC's new London thriller

Leading playwright David Hare is behind the BBC's new four-part thriller Collateral, starring Carey Mulligan, John Simm, Nicola Walker and Billie Piper.

Stefanie Martini stars in 'Prime Suspect' prequel

Stefanie Martini, Sam Reid and Blake Harrison star in the prequel Prime Suspect: 1973. Martini, who has also appeared in Endeavour and Emerald City, will play a 22-year-old Jane Tennison at the start of her career in the Metropolitan Police.

Lars Mikkelsen in major Eurocrime series

Lars Mikkelsen (The Killing) returns to our screens in six-part pan-European crime drama The Team on More 4 and Walter Presents from 17 February.

Ardal O'Hanlon stays on in 'Death in Paradise'

Ardal O'Hanlon is to stay on as the latest lead detective in BBC One’s crime drama series Death in Paradise.

Adrian McKinty on Duffy and locked room mysteries

A recent video interview with Adrian McKinty, shot in a 1980s BMW while driving around Berlin.

Ian Rankin's RebusFest to mark 30th anniversary

The 30th anniversary of Ian Rankin's Rebus series will be marked by a RebusFest in Edinburgh. Set in the city, his first Rebus novel Knots and Crosses was released on 19 March 1987.

Retired diplomat creates Belfast detective series

Development aid consultant and retired diplomat Derek Fee has published seven non-fiction books as well as five thrillers featuring a Belfast-based PSNI detective.

Former Garda detective pens police procedural

Former Garda detective T.R. Croke's debut novel The Devil's Luck is published this morning. The police procedural and conspiracy thriller features
Detective Kate Bowen of Dublin’s Surveillance and Intelligence Unit.

BOTM: 'The Trespasser' by Tana French

Our October Book of the Month: The Trespasser.

The author: Tana French.

'Line of Duty' back on the streets of Belfast

Filming is well under way in Belfast for the fourth season of Line of Duty.  Such is the success of the gritty police series that it will be moving from BBC 2 to BBC 1.

Troubles thriller 'The Psalm Killer' reissued

Chris Petit's 1997 Belfast-based thriller The Psalm Killer has been reissued by Picador Classic.

Patricia Gibney signs four-book deal

Patricia Gibney has been signed by Bookouture in a four-book deal. The Mullingar writer's debut novel, the crime thriller Remember Me, is due to be published in April 2017.

TV3's Red Rock comes to daytime BBC

Red Rock, TV3's award-winning drama serial set around a busy garda station, comes to BBC daytime television this summer. TV3 chief Pat Kiely has described it as "one of the biggest export deals in the history of Irish broadcasting". Amazon Prime has also snapped up the series for €1.5 million.

Tara Moore makes the switch to crime fiction

Tara Moore writes in other genres and under other names, but has recently switched to a series of crime thrillers beginning with Fade to Dead (May 2016).

Anthony Horowitz talks about 'New Blood'

Bestselling author and screenwriter Anthony Horowitz, creator of Foyle's War, talks about New Blood, his new series that begins on BBC 1 on 9 June at 9 pm.

Peter Harness on adapting Wallander for the BBC

Kenneth Branagh returns tonight as Inspector Kurt Wallander in the first of three new feature-length episodes of the BBC series.

Peter Harness, who wrote all three episodes of the 2012 season and two episodes from this season, talks about the final series and Henning Mankell's novels.

Claire McGowan on 'A Savage Hunger'

Irish writer Claire McGowan talks about The Silent Dead, the fourth book in her crime series featuring forensic psychologist Paula Maguire.

William Shaw's new novel: 'The Birdwatcher'

William Shaw takes a break from his "Breen and Tozer" series - featuring a second-generation Irish policeman in 1960s London - with a standalone crime novel out later this month, The Birdwatcher.

Sheila Bugler on writing a crime series

Guest post: Sheila Bugler writes about her series featuring the second-generation Irish detective Ellen Kelly.

I never set out to write a series featuring a police detective. Although I love all types of crime fiction - from cosy to chilling and all the varieties in between - I am most drawn to psychological thrillers. It’s people and their motivations that interest me most.

'The Bridge' creator on his new show 'Marcella'

Anna Friel starts in ITV's new eight-part series Marcella which begins next week. Here its co-creator Hans Rosenfeldt explains how it came about.