Can you write a thriller?

Paula Hawkins shares what makes a great page-turner as she launches Prima ’s 2025 short story writing competition

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Carol had it all – so why did she feel something was missing?

Horror is a remarkably flexible genre – one that can take all sorts of forms. From the subtleties of the ghost story all the way through to the flat-out grossness of body horror, along with its mallea

‘Sam is asleep. I could kill him now.’ These are the opening eight words of my first novel, Eeny Meeny, published a lifetime ago in 2014, which launched fearless crime fighter, Detective Inspector Hel

Here are our recommendations – and yours – of what to enjoy reading this fortnight