Crime Fiction Lover

December is here, and while everyone else seems focused on Christmas trees and the holiday season, we’re getting ready for Ms Tree in a new collection from Max Allan Collins. And this week’s On the Radar brings glad tidings of murder and misdeeds aplenty in…

If you love watching overseas crime dramas, you’ve come to the right place… Curated by Walter Iuzzolino, Walter Presents is a streaming service featuring shows from all round the world with subtitles for English-speaking viewers. We love it because large proportion of them are crime…

In Gabriel’s Moon, the new espionage thriller by William Boyd, a brief prologue tells how eight-year-old Gabriel Dax experienced the house fire that took his widowed mother’s life and destroyed his childhood home. The firefighters’ verdict that the cause was Gabriel’s moon-shaped and candle-powered nightlight….

Crime Fiction Lover readers are discerning people, and they nominated a whole range of authors for this award. Our shortlist brings it down to six who have published excellent novels in 2024. Each is worthy of the Best Crime Author accolade in our 2024 awards,…

The Grey Wolf is the 19th book in the enjoyable Three Pines series by Canadian author Louise Penny, which follows the story of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his family as he solves crime in the village of Three Pines and across Quebec. Typically, the…

Just like you, when we’re not reading crime novels, we’re often found watching crime shows on TV. Here on the site we regularly feature new series – in particular, overseas crime shows that don’t get much coverage anywhere else. That hasn’t skewed our shortlists though….