The Piccadilly Plot
It’s the autumn of 1664, Charles II has been on the throne for four years and London is busy enjoying the Restoration, but behind the façade of sumptuous buildings and jollity, the rats are gathering and plots are being hatched, which can only mean that…
Shatter the Bones
Stuart MacBride’s story here centres on the kidnapping of Alison Gregory and her six-year-old daughter Jenny. They are singing sensations from the reality TV show Britain’s Next Big Star. Logan McRae investigates but runs into problems when no evidence of any kind is available, other…
Wee Rockets
Set on the mean streets of West Belfast – heartland of The Troubles but now in the throes of regeneration – Wee Rockets follows a group of young working class boys who aspire towards thugdom; you couldn’t call them a gang at the outset but…
Getting Off
Written by Jill Emerson — Returning to an old pseudonym, here the legend in the crime writing that is Lawrence Block goes back to what he describes as his ‘inner lesbian’. And in Getting Off, writing as Emerson, he regales us with a tale of sex…
Lynn Shepherd at the Dickens Museum
48 Doughty Street is a rather elegant building tucked quietly away in the middle of London’s Bloomsbury, which has a very impressive claim to fame: it’s the only surviving London home of one of England’s greatest writers, Charles Dickens. Today it houses a museum dedicated…
Chills, kills and a load of bull
On the radar — We get sent information about far more books than we have the resources to review here at Crime Fiction Lover, but we still want to share them with you. So we’ve started a new regular in our news section called ‘On…
Interview: Sam Bourne talks about Pantheon
Sam Bourne is the pen name of Jonathan Freedland, an astute Guardian journalist who has turned his hand to fiction with great success. His latest book is called Pantheon and it’s a carefully researched piece set in 1940, when Britain was in its hour of…