Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media, by Nicholas Diakopoulos Sharon Wheeler celebrates the core journalistic skills that changing technology are unlikely to render obsolete By Sharon Wheeler 4 July
Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century Crime Fiction, edited by Laura Joyce and Henry Sutton Book of the week: Dream homes, women on the edge, murder – we’ve been here before, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 2 August
Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead, by Jessica M. Fishman From Hillsborough to rape victims, a study mulls the place of emotive images, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 18 January
The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction: A Linguistic Stylistic Approach, by Reshmi Dutta-Flanders Book of the week: Sharon Wheeler investigates how mystery writers play a guessing game with their reader-sleuths By Sharon Wheeler 13 July
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic and the First Police Chief of Paris, by Holly Tucker Sharon Wheeler delights in casting a made-for-TV 17th-century tale laced with sex and the dark arts By Sharon Wheeler 22 June
Murder in Plain English: From Manifestos to Memes – Looking at Murder through the Words of Killers, by Michael Arntfield and Marcel Danesi A whistle-stop tour of criminals’ texts is packed with listicles and promises, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 30 March
The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, by Wendy Gamber The tale of a shocking killing falls short as true crime and as social history, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 1 December
Skewed: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias, by Larry Atkins From Fox News to the race for the White House, this work is all about politics, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 8 September
Behind the Wireless: An Early History of Women at the BBC, by Kate Murphy Well-researched portraits of female pioneers and game gals capture the buzz around the Beeb as women entered the professions, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 7 July
The Legendary Detective: The Private Eye in Fact and Fiction, by John Walton The real-life versions of Philip Marlowe were more likely criminals than heroes, says Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 17 December
The News From Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington’s Victory, by Brian Cathcart Frolics abound in a tale of how the 1815 triumph hit the front pages, writes Sharon Wheeler By Sharon Wheeler 2 July
