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Laura Lippman: ‘A lot of novelists choose to comfort the comfortable. I don’t do that’
The acclaimed crime author delivers her most political novel to date about a teen with an unwanted pregnancy
Top 10s
Top 10 thrillers about siblingsThe complex knots of love and rivalry that bind sisters and brothers also provide perfect plots for novelists from Gillian Flynn to Ian McEwan
Books that made me
Laura Lippman: ‘Hitch-22 taught me that I am a very reluctant atheist’The crime writer on learning to reread with Lolita, giving up on books and growing up with Dick and Jane
Thrillers roundup
Five of the best thrillers for April - reviewHush Hush by Laura Lippman, Toxic by Jamie Doward, Woman of the Dead by Bernhard Aichner, The Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons and Orient by Christopher Bollen
Serial: why I stopped listening long before it ended
The popular podcast may have ended, but its focus on a single crime, with no analysis of the wider issues or input from the victim’s family, made it journalistically inexcusable
The Guardian Books podcast
Summer reading and the Man Booker longlist – podcastAs US writers are admitted to the UK’s premier books prize, we take a closer look at this year’s competition, and share summer reading tips
Thrillers roundup
Thrillers – review roundupJohn O'Connell: The First Rule of Survival by Paul Mendelson, After I'm Gone by Laura Lippman, The Burden of the Desert by Justin Huggler, The Boy That Never Was by Karen Perry, Treachery by SJ Parris
Top 10s
Top 10 books about missing personsFrom Gillian Flynn's blockbuster Gone Girl to a re-reading of Nabokov, novelist Laura Lippman tracks down the 10 best books about mysterious disappearances
On my radar
On my radar: Laura Lippman's cultural highlightsThe award-winning crime novelist talks to Leah Harper about a Broadway tribute to Satchmo, a revealing biography of Bob Fosse, and HBO's latest TV thriller, Leftovers
Laura Lippman's selfie 'in solidarity' with Kim Novak sets off tweet trend
Novelist inundated with similarly 'raw' self-portraits after posting unflattering self-portrait in response to derision of film star's appearance
