The Guardian's latest crime and thriller review roundup covers five new releases spanning thriller, historical crime and spy fiction. The selection highlights the genre's range, from a globe-trotting conspiracy thriller to a previously unpublished Henning Mankell novel and a debut Irish-set mystery from bestseller Jane Casey.

– The Runner by Scarlett Thomas: a man on the run from hitmen since university, with a plot spanning exorcism, dictators and marathons, opening in Cyprus.
– The Madman by Henning Mankell: written in the 1970s but published in English for the first time, set in a divided postwar Swedish town.
– Everything She Didn't Say by Jane Casey: her first novel set in Ireland, following a disappearance on the Mayo coast investigated by two Dublin detectives.
– The Spy and the Snake by MJ Robotham: the second Maggie Flynn spy novel, set in 1968 with a mission to Budapest to retrieve a defector.
– Murder at the End of the World by Akane Araki: listed among the roundup, though details are cut off in the provided text.