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Jake Kerridge

Jake Kerridge

Freelance Crime Fiction Critic at The Daily Telegraph

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  • English
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  • Books
  • Crime

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Recent Articles

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The best crime thrillers of 2024, from Richard Osman to John le Carré

This year saw a bumper crop of flawed and villainous heroes, some more traditional cops and the thrilling advent of a new spy-writing talent
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What an expanded James Bond universe might look like

007 during wartime? Miss Moneypenny’s early years? The origin of Blofeld’s evil? Here are the Fleming spin-offs and prequels that could be
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Jackson Brodie is back, and crime was never more fun

Kate Atkinson’s PI hero returns in Death at the Sign of the Rook, a romp that finds time to poke fun at the ‘cosy crime’ boom
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The Booker Prize longlist proves that publishing has finally woken up

Largely free of household names, this is an outstanding list that demonstrates diversity in the best sense – with little preaching
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The 20 best new crime thrillers to read this summer

Richard Coles, Harlan Coben, Scarlett Thomas, James Comey… we pick 20 criminally good new thrillers to take to the beach – or back garden
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When the SNP became Nazi collaborators – CJ Sansom's boldest novel ...

The talented author of the Shardlake stories ruffled feathers with Dominion, a counter-factual tale set after the Second World War
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David Nicholls's secret formula to writing a hit modern romance - T...

Out today, the new novel from the writer of One Day and Us will doubtless bewitch millions. Our critic explains how he does it
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Rupert Thomson: 'We smashed the furniture in my dead dad's house – ...

The novelist on being ignored for literary prizes, the violent effects of grief, and how it feels to have been adored by David Bowie
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2054 by Ackerman/Stavridis, review: a chilling vision - The Telegraph

From ‘remote gene-editing’ to an insurrection in America, we’d best hope that 2054, a co-written novel, stays pure fiction
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Salman Rushdie: the Royal Society of Literature's civil war - The T...

The RSL is accused of pandering to the culture wars, stifling authors and ignoring literary merit. But what’s the truth?
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‘I hope Taylor Swift fans aren’t disappointed’ – the real author of...

Feverish speculation ends here, as the Telegraph blows the cover of Elly Conway, the world’s most enigmatic spy novelist
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The Last Yakuza by Jake Adelstein, review: crime in Japan - The Tel...

The ex-yakuza Makoto Saigo has sat down with journalist Jake Adelstein to tell the gruesome, and blackly comic, tale of his underworld life
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Why crime fiction is obsessed with suburbia - The Telegraph

From Sherlock Holmes to Gone Girl, crime writers have long exploited the underbelly of the seemingly safe suburbs
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Welcome to Narcotopia, the CIA-backed drug state standing up to China

With its own army funded by drug trade profits, Wa State is a law unto itself, as Patrick Winn reports in his new book, Narcotopia
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The best books to read on a cold winter's night - The Telegraph

From Doctor Zhivago to the Dubliners and Anna Karenina, these snowy stories wonderfully capture the beauty and treachery of winter
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Who is ‘Elly Conway’ – and how has she written such a good spy thri...

The mysterious debut novelist – and/or protagonist of Matthew Vaughn’s forthcoming film – has given us a proper globe-trotting thriller
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Five worthy successors to John le Carré - The Telegraph

John le Carré left a gaping hole in the espionage genre when he died, but these five British spy fiction novelists are promising successors
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The best crime books of 2023, from Mick Herron to Robert Galbraith ...

This year saw a bumper crop of historical fiction, some traditional whodunits and more than one big-ticket novel that badly needed an editor
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Five difficult books that are worth reading – and five you shouldn'...

Many of our great works of literature are admired rather than read. But which justify the hours spent slogging – and which can be skipped?
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From the Da Vinci Code to Rivals: the bestsellers David Shrigley .....

From Catherine Cookson to Jeffrey Archer an abundance of popular fiction has always been a headache for charity shops
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The Pigeon Tunnel: John le Carré (almost) unmasked by a master ... ...

The late novelist, giving his final interview here, proves a spellbinding subject in Errol Morris’s skilful documentary