Crime Fiction Lover

It’s always a big question for an author when they have a successful series. If you change lanes, will it work? It’s a step into the unknown. At Crime Fiction Lover, we really rated the Harry McCall books, which were titled by month, set in…

Today I want to introduce you to the new voice of crime fiction from the New Orleans underground. And, in this interview we bring you a three-for-one, because Nola Triad is a trio of writers from that great city, who reflect both its diversity and…

Reading The Blue Flame, the first new crime novel by acclaimed author George Pelecanos since 2018, is like slipping into a comfortable pair of shoes—easy, familiar and you just know they’ll take you places. This novel features aging private detective Derek Strange, protagonist of five…

Police investigations were something Damien Boyd became very familiar with during his 25-year career as a solicitor, which included a spell working for the Crown Prosecution Service. A crime fiction lover just like us, he began writing as a hobby and before long had begun…

For readers of crime fiction, Keigo Higashino was much more than the bestselling author of The Devotion of Suspect X. He was a writer who transformed expectations of what a detective novel could be: a master of intricate plotting, psychological insight and devastating emotional revelations….

Whodunnit. It’s a word we use to describe mystery novels. It’s also a question. However, the Hungarian author Daniel Laz approaches things slightly differently. In his Frankie Voss Investigations series the question isn’t ‘who did it?’ but ‘what does the evidence actually tell us?’ Then,…