Crime Club at 50 (issues)

Sure, I said, considering myself something of an expert in the field - after all, didn't I drop everything when the new Lee Child came out? And I knew my Mankell from my Larsson, couldn't get enough of Sara Paretsky, and would quote you Philip Marlowe one-liners verbatim. Well, that enthusiasm certainly helped, though I now know an awful lot more about the amazing variety and sub-categories within the literary genre that now outsells all others.

The sales of crime and thriller fiction began their serious climb at more or less the same time as the launch of Times and Sunday Times Crime Club - though I'm not claiming all the credit for the fact that they increased by 19% between 2015 and 2018, overtaking sales of general and literary fiction. But we were definitely betting on a favourite when we launched Crime Club and invited subscribers to the digital editions of the Times and Sunday Times to sign up.