Crime Fiction Lover

Deliverance is the final book in Saima Mir’s addictive Khan trilogy. Jia Khan, a British-Pakistani character, began in the books as a successful barrister estranged from her family in the North of England. She has since become an international criminal queenpin with strong ties to…

Will you be (or have you been) watching The Dark on ITV, airing from 12 July 2026? Well, it’s based on the 2019 novel From The Shadows by GR Halliday. The book has just been republished to coincide with the show and not only have…

There is a distinguished tradition of amateur sleuths solving crimes over cups of tea, but Maggie Allswell’s The Book Club Murders brings a welcome twist to the formula. Rather than centring on a retired detective, an inquisitive vicar or an improbably gifted baker, Allswell hands…

From the Shadows is the first in a series of procedurals set in the west of the Scottish Highlands and centred around DI Monica Kennedy. Originally published in 2019, the novel forms the basis of the ITV adaptation, The Dark, which begins airing on 12…

We’ve never been busier at Crime Fiction Lover. And if anyone tells you that reading is a dying pastime you better let them know that authors and publishers have been elbowing their way to the front of the line to appear on our site. So…

This award-winning novel is set in the 1970s on both sides of the Red River, which is the border between the US states of Minnesota and North Dakota. It was first published in 2017 in the US and is now arriving in the UK. Author…