June, 2022 | Crime Fiction Lover

Immoral Origins by Lee Matthew Goldberg

30 June, 2022

Although the title and cover don’t give much away, Immoral Origins by Lee Matthew Goldberg is perfect when you’re in the mood for a pulpy crime read that’s fast-moving and intense, a little brutal and a little weird. It thrives on a 1970s New York…

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Tom Boy by Shelley Blanton-Stroud

By Paul Burke

29 June, 2022

Tom Boy is the sequel to Copy Boy, with Shelley Blanton-Stroud bringing us the further adventures of cub reporter Jane Benjamin in a tale that is lighter than her first outing. Back then, Jane got a job as a copy boy with Prospect, a San…

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The doctor will see you now... Henrik Fexeus

By DeathBecomesHer

28 June, 2022

In the latest edition of her video interview series, Dr Jacky Collins chats to her first author from Sweden – although his is probably not a name you’ll immediately recognise. However, Henrik Fexeus is half of a writing partnership, and Scandi fans will certainly know…

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Dear Little Corpses by Nicola Upson

By Erin Britton

27 June, 2022

Dear Little Corpses is the 10th book in Nicola Upson’s atmospheric series featuring Golden Age crime author Josephine Tey flexing her little grey cells as an amateur sleuth. While the nearest the real-life Josephine seemingly came to fighting crime was retrospectively investigating the role of…

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Trick of the Night by Joy Ellis

By DeathBecomesHer

24 June, 2022

Do former police detectives ever stop, erm, detecting? Not if Matt Ballard and Liz Haynes are anything to go by. With a dining room turned into an incident suite and an unerring nose for a mystery, this pair of sleuths wouldn’t dream of putting their…

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On the Radar: All you need is Confidence

By crimefictionlover

24 June, 2022

The award-winning Scottish crime author Denise Mina returns to the top of the bill here in our new books column this week as she prepares for the launch of Confidence, the second novel featuring her accidental sleuths Fin and Anna. We also have a debut…

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Lambda by David Musgrave

By Paul Burke

23 June, 2022

An outrageous and shocking terrorist act which kills more than 1400 people, mostly school children, drives this satirical sci-fi crime crossover. David Musgrave’s genre-bending novel Lambda successfully blends the hunt for the bombers and the indiscriminate, or at least unfocused, desire for retribution. By raising…

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When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

22 June, 2022

Where do you truly belong? In your ancestral homeland or the country where you were born? Through the eyes of two distinct characters, Soon Wiley’s debut novel examines the search for one’s true cultural identity. The driving force behind this search is the mysterious death…

Crime Fiction Lover

June 2022

Immoral Origins by Lee Matthew Goldberg

Tom Boy by Shelley Blanton-Stroud

The doctor will see you now... Henrik Fexeus

Dear Little Corpses by Nicola Upson

Trick of the Night by Joy Ellis

On the Radar: All you need is Confidence

Lambda by David Musgrave

When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley

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