May, 2015 | Crime Fiction Lover

Rumrunners by Eric Better

By RoughJustice

6 May, 2015

Eric Beetner might just be noir’s James Brown. The hardest working man in crime fiction not only curates the LA chapter of the Noir at the Bar reading series, but produces a prodigious amount of short fiction for the likes of Crime Factory, Thuglit, and…

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Short story collection: the crime authors of tomorrow

By crimefictionlover

6 May, 2015

Martin Marriott. Julia Proud. Colin Shaw. These are just three of the names crowd funding publisher Britain’s Next Bestseller says we should take note of. They are among eight authors whose short stories have been chosen as winners following a writing competition run buy BNBS and…

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Look who's writing for us XV

By crimefictionlover

5 May, 2015

Today we’re happy to welcome a new member to the Crime Fiction Lover team. Vicki Weisfeld is a literary expert based in Princeton, New Jersey and covers all sorts of books and audiobooks on her website all about writing, vweisfeld.com. Here on CFL, however, she’ll…

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Hold the Dark by William Giraldi audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

5 May, 2015

Narrated by Richard Ferrone — The essentials of William Giraldi’s icy thriller were covered in our review of the book, which you’ll find here. In brief, the story centers around a case in which two, then three, children are stolen by wolves from a small village…

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Mañana by William Hjortsberg

By RoughJustice

5 May, 2015

Sometime between the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis and the murder of Meredith Hunter by Hells Angels at the Altamont Free Concert in 1969, the hippy dream died. Free love, civil rights, and gender equality all took a beating and the naïve…

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Two Bronze Pennies by Chris Nickson

By DavidPrestidge

4 May, 2015

We first met Inspector Tom Harper in Gods of Gold. Now he returns, newly married, but still trying to keep the peace in a wintry and grimy Leeds, the industrial city in the north of England. It is Christmas 1890, and a young Jewish man…

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The Children of Silence by Linda Stratmann

By DeathBecomesHer

3 May, 2015

There seems to be a great appetite for crime fiction set in Victorian times at the moment, and we’ve recently reviewed The Strings of Murder, The Infidel Stain and, of course, the strangely titled Sherlock Holmes and the Eye of Mad Bear. In The Children of…

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Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) remembered

By Andre

3 May, 2015

It was just five months ago that Ruth Rendell spoke on BBC Radio 4 to pay tribute to PD James, who died last November. Rendell’s recollections of a friend, crime-writing colleague and fellow parliamentarian (they both sat in the House of Lords) turned out to…

Crime Fiction Lover

May 2015

Rumrunners by Eric Better

Short story collection: the crime authors of tomorrow

Look who's writing for us XV

Hold the Dark by William Giraldi audiobook

Mañana by William Hjortsberg

Two Bronze Pennies by Chris Nickson

The Children of Silence by Linda Stratmann

Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) remembered

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