2014

The Axe Factor by Colin Cotterill

By Jeremy Megraw

2 June, 2014

Frustrated journalist Jimm Juree, hemmed down by family obligations and with no romantic life to speak of, has left her career as a reporter in the big city to help her mother run their shack of a hotel in the small village of Maprao on…

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The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith

By Andre

1 June, 2014

Almost 20 years after her death, the crime novels of Patricia Highsmith are enjoying another revival in print and now ebooks, as well as on the big screen. The adaptation of The Two Faces of January, scripted and directed by Hossein Amini, will be followed…

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Kill with a Borrowed Knife: or Agent Ai by Michael Wreford

By nagaisayonara

31 May, 2014

Plenty of spy and espionage stories focus on Europe and Russia, set mainly between the 1930s and the 1970s, when borders were stricter, and the flow of information across them was mainly in the form of papers lining the false bottoms of suitcases. Agent Ai…

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Micro interview: Nicci French

By crimefictionlover

31 May, 2014

Earlier this week, we were asked to take part in the Dead Good Fiction Festival, organised by Random House. An online event, it featured Nicci French on 28 May, and Sharon Bolton and Karin Slaughter on the 29th and 30th respectively. Crime Fiction Lover was…

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First look: The Day of the Jackal deluxe

By crimefictionlover

30 May, 2014

If you love high quality printing, the feel of a hefty hardback in your hand, the smell of ink, paper and binding glue, as well as artful illustrations with your crime fiction, then this is the book for you. The Folio Society, which specialises in…

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Hell's Gate by Richard Crompton

By RoughJustice

30 May, 2014

We featured the author’s debut novel, The Honey Guide, in New Talent November last year, awarding it five stars for the way it skilfully mixed Kenyan tribal politics with African colonial history in a suspenseful whodunnit. Now Crompton returns in his next novel to feature…

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A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin

By DavidPrestidge

29 May, 2014

Just when you thought it impossible to find another workable seam in the Sherlock Holmes gold mine, along comes someone who has other ideas. It needs saying from the outset that this is as far removed from the standard Sherlock Holmes homage as it is…

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Interview: Clare Donoghue

By crimefictionlover

29 May, 2014

Back in 2011, Clare Donoghue’s manuscript The Watcher was longlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger. It didn’t win but she stuck with it and last year the book came out as Never Look Back. An incredible debut novel, it has made our current Recommended list…

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The Axe Factor by Colin Cotterill

The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith

Kill with a Borrowed Knife: or Agent Ai by Michael Wreford

Micro interview: Nicci French

First look: The Day of the Jackal deluxe

Hell's Gate by Richard Crompton

A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin

Interview: Clare Donoghue

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