Johny Pitts speaks to Megan Nolan about her new novel, Ordinary Human Failings. The book explores the demonization of an Irish family and tabloid journalism in nineties London following a shocking tragedy.

Plus what is the best crime fiction out there this summer? Vaseem Khan, incoming chair of the Crime Writers Association, and critic Laura Wilson give their tips, from hot new psychological thrillers to reissued classics.

And Val McDermid chooses a very modern-feeling 1940s whodunit for her Book I'd Never Lend.

Book List – Sunday 16 July and Thursday 20 July

Ordinary Human Failing by Megan Nolan
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
Grave Expectations by Alice Bell
The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Kill For Me Kill For You by Steve Cavanagh
The Wheel of Doll by Jonathan Ames
Alchemy by SJ Parris
The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff
Uncle Paul by Celia Fremlin
The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald
Death of a Lesser God by Vaseem Khan
Miss Pym Disposes by Josephine Tey Show less