2026

MrBeast x James Patterson = The Most Dangerous Games

24 June, 2026

Last week, HarperCollins unveiled the cover to The Most Dangerous Games – a novel written collaboratively by the YouTuber MrBeast and the crime thriller author James Patterson. Given that the natural ecosystem of one of the co-authors is YouTube, we decided to make a video…

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Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

24 June, 2026

Translated by Frances Riddle — Claudia Piñeiro is one of Argentina’s most translated authors and her novel Elena Knows was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022 and developed into a Netflix film. In Cathedrals, Piñeiro delivers a psychological family crime novel that focuses…

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Interview: Saima Mir

By crimefictionlover

22 June, 2026

Saima Mir is a British crime author who offers readers something different and challenges perceptions. Get this – her trilogy featuring Jia Khan is antihero noir with a Muslim woman leading a crime syndicate. The idea of it immediately made me want to find out…

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The Disaster Gay Detective Agency by Lev AC Rosen

By RoughJustice

22 June, 2026

A humorous slang term for an LGTBQ+ person who is openly queer but chronically messy, chaotic, socially awkward or disastrously unlucky in life or love. That’s the definition I found online for ‘disaster gay’, and it’s certainly true of the four main protagonists in Rosen’s…

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Meet the author: Larrian Gillespie

By crimefictionlover

19 June, 2026

Los Angeles author Larrian Gillespie was a child actress during the Golden Age of Hollywood, grew up to become a surgeon, and wrote books about her area of expertise, urology. Following retirement, and entirely by coincidence, she became enthralled by the story of Harry Houdini’s…

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On the Radar: Deception, illusion and misdirection

By crimefictionlover

19 June, 2026

Welcome to our weekly On the Radar column, where you’re always guaranteed to find new crime fiction, and more. Nothing is ever straightforward in this genre, otherwise there’d be no fun in it, so we’ll start off gently with Deception by Alan Parks, look for…

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The Long Isle by Andrew Raymond

By DeathBecomesHer

17 June, 2026

Scottish authors have ploughed a rich crime fiction furrow over the years, with the likes of William McIlvanney, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin and Chris Brookmyre taking up the Tartan noir cudgel. Andrew Raymond is another one on that list with his DCI John Lomond books,…

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Skyring Water by Louis and Beau L’Amour

By Paul Burke

17 June, 2026

Before his death in 1988, Louis L’Amour was a legend in the Western genre for decades with bestsellers such as Last of the Breed, Hondo and Shalako. Many of his novels became films, some of them classics. While Westerns where what he was known for,…

Crime Fiction Lover

MrBeast x James Patterson = The Most Dangerous Games

Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro

Interview: Saima Mir

The Disaster Gay Detective Agency by Lev AC Rosen

Meet the author: Larrian Gillespie

On the Radar: Deception, illusion and misdirection

The Long Isle by Andrew Raymond

Skyring Water by Louis and Beau L’Amour

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