Crime Fiction Lover

Six Mile Store, the engaging debut crime novella by AM Belsey, is narrated mostly by a young woman in her early 20s named Honey. The story at first appears to be almost a picaresque, as she colourfully describes her encounters with the customers of the…

In June 2024, a ransomware attack hit NHS services across London, affecting primary care services across the city, including five NHS trusts. But what if cyber criminals escalated their activities to target national infrastructure? Not just one type of service in one city, but things…

Oooo, we’re liking the pentagrammic symmetry of this week’s lead book. What do you think? Five on five, oh-five. And in five minutes one of five characters might be dead. But if we go one step further and say, “Six!” then you have the number…

The likes of Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Denise Mina have become household names and figureheads for Scottish crime fiction. One of the latest to join this crew is Andrew Raymond, whose DCI John Lomond series, set in Glasgow, has built a dedicated readership, which…

If you’ve fallen for the gentle charm, dry wit and quietly subversive brilliance of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, you’ll know that crime fiction doesn’t always need gritty detectives or high-octane thrills to keep you turning the pages. Sometimes, the most satisfying mysteries are…

A tiny, continuously-shifting island off the coast of Cornwall has a huge part to play in Tim Weaver’s latest David Raker book, the 15th in the series to feature the former journalist turned seeker of the lost – published almost 16 years to the day…