Crime Fiction Lover

Happy New Year, and welcome back to On the Radar, our weekly news column with the latest releases in the world of crime and mystery books. The year 2025 gets underway somewhat fittingly with the death of a bookseller in Bristol. We’ve got crime fiction…

A poet laureate of Alaska, John Straley is also a criminal defence investigator and a crime novelist. With Big Breath In, he leaves behind the quirky residents of Alaska and takes us south, past British Columbia, to Washington. It’s in Seattle that we meet Delphine,…

Are we trend-setters? Are we influencers, here on Crime Fiction Lover? Perhaps, perhaps not. However, we do have a tradition of trying to pick out the most interesting upcoming crime novels at the beginning of the year. For 2025, we’re looking forward to the return…

Selecting the top five books from the 34 I reviewed for Crime Fiction Lover this past year sounds at first like an impossible task. Probably because I’m selective about what I review, nearly every one of them has some interesting, entertaining, or nicely rendered aspects….

We are cursed to live in ‘interesting times’ but one comfort is that we enjoy a branch of literature which doesn’t just distract us from the worries of everyday life, but also has the power to examine and illuminate those aspects of society that might…

As the months of 2024 whizzed past, there were times when real life seemed way stranger than fiction. But when everything around you is going to hell in a handcart it’s the perfect opportunity to lose yourself within the pages of a book – and…