Crime Fiction Lover

If ever a book opened with a bang, it’s Michael Connelly’s latest, Ironwood, featuring Detective Stilwell and set on Catalina island, off the coast of California. This is the second in the series, and it’s released a year after we first met Stil, in Nightshade….

Ever since She Rides Shotgun blew us out of our armchairs in 2017, we’ve been keeping an eye out for the SoCal crime author, Jordan Harper – especially our in-house dark thriller aficionado, Rough Justice. And right now, RJ is licking his lips over A Violent…

If a man is found stabbed through the forehead by a unicorn, the sensible reaction is probably to question the witness, the lighting conditions and perhaps the sanity of everyone involved. But in The Unicorn Murders that bizarre image is simply the starting point for…

Nine murders. One seemingly impossible disappearance. Nineteen burglaries. An adrenalin-fuelled car chase and an impressively grand theft. Plenty of domestic drama. A taste of pie-based controversy. Not a bad tally so far for May’s crime spree on CFL… but can you do any better? Before…

Another right-in-this-moment new thriller, Melinda Leigh’s You Can Tell Me takes on the potential downsides of true crime reporting. Crime authors have given some memorable depictions of the excesses and dangers of this current societal preoccupation. I’m thinking of Paul Cleave’s The Pain Tourist or…

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. Ian Dury’s debut single with The Blockheads quickly became an anthem after its release in 1977, and was taken up as a rallying cry by up and coming musicians the world over, eager to experience said lifestyle. It’s…