October, 2017 | Crime Fiction Lover

A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem

7 October, 2017

Written by Ruth Rendell — These previously uncollected or new short stories are a masterclass in how to deliver psychological suspense in domestic settings and an antidote to some publishers’ current zeal for packaging and claiming grip-lit and domestic noir as a nearly-new phenomenon. Although Ruth…

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Move any mountain

By crimefictionlover

6 October, 2017

On the Radar — It’s a varied and esoteric bag of books we bring this week. The best of the bunch appears to be a mystery set in the Dolomites which hit the top of the charts in Italy and is now available in English….

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Murder on the Orient Express - the big interview

By crimefictionlover

5 October, 2017

There’s less than a month to go before the new remake of Murder on the Orient Express appears in cinemas, and we’re getting excited. We know Crime Fiction Lover readers are too, because you keep telling us. As a consequence, we’ve been pestering the film’s…

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Hull yes! It's the Hull Noir festival reading list

By crimefictionlover

4 October, 2017

Between 17 and 19 of November, the city of Kingston upon Hull will be the surrogate home of Iceland Noir, as it travels from its home city of Reykjavik and stops on the Humber. Just like the original festival, Hull Noir 2017 will be celebrating…

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Dig Two Graves by Keith Nixon

By DeathBecomesHer

3 October, 2017

Here’s an author and former Crime Fiction Lover contributor who has carved himself a niche in the world of Brit Noir, thanks to his Margate-based series featuring hitman-cum-tramp Konstantin Boryakov. We’ve previously reviewed I’m Dead Again. Now he’s embarking on a new series of crime…

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Scorched Earth

By Mal McEwan

3 October, 2017

Written by Ty Patterson — Zeb Carter and his team, the Agency, return in a fast-paced chase thriller. Based in the US, the Agency is a specialist unit on the fringes of law enforcement and the war on terror. To their horror two of the team,…

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Norskov - the Danish Western comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

2 October, 2017

Channel 4’s foreign crime drama service Walter Presents is wooing fans of Nordic noir once again this month with Norskov, the award-winning Danish crime show about a cop up against big-time drug dealers and small-town mentalities. The first episode will air on Channel 4 at…

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The Snowman - audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

2 October, 2017

Written by Jo Nesbø, narrated by Robin Sachs — As the film of Jo Nesbø’s quintessential police procedural The Snowman (2007) comes to the big screen, listening to the audio version is perhaps an intermediate step between reading this terrifying bestseller and seeing the film….

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October 2017

A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem

Move any mountain

Murder on the Orient Express - the big interview

Hull yes! It's the Hull Noir festival reading list

Dig Two Graves by Keith Nixon

Scorched Earth

Norskov - the Danish Western comes to Walter Presents

The Snowman - audiobook

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