Take me back to Oz
On the Radar — With Mystery Road and Goldstone airing on BBC Four and awards for books like Jane Harper’s The Dry, we’re hit again…
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- Interview: MB Vincent: Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death is a comedy crime caper set
- Alex - the dirty cop crime drama from Sweden: Love your Scandinavian crime fiction? Head
- Helen FitzGerald's The Cry comes to BBC One: No fights. No gunshots. Not even a drop of
Subversiveness and curiosity: what makes Columbo the greatest TV detective
Ever thought of doing a Columbo marathon? Film and TV expert David Bradley decided to watch all 69 episodes in order, and this is what…
Trump, the Russians, and one outrageous secret
On the Radar — Wow, we’ve got some fun for you this week as an anonymous British author speculates on just how far the Russians…
Alex – the dirty cop crime drama from Sweden
Love your Scandinavian crime fiction? Head over to Walter Presents and you’ll be able to stream the six-episode series, Alex, complete with English subtitles. Also…
Tapping the Source
Surf noir’s up, brah! No Exit Press has reprinted Kem Nunn’s classic California coming of age novel and although it first came out in 1983…
The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories
A very original take on crime short stories in this collection by the queen of Barcelona noir, Teresa Solana. Killer grannies, vengeful ghosts, a prehistoric…
Juliet & Romeo
The ultimate love story is also a crime story at heart, strewn as it is with murders, a gang war, suicides and a dark sense…
Bellevue Square
Doppelgänger themes aren’t all that common in crime fiction, but Canadian author Michael Redhill uses one to beautiful effect in his award-winning novel Bellevue Square.…
Helen FitzGerald’s The Cry comes to BBC One
No fights. No gunshots. Not even a drop of blood. And yet The Cry, which began airing on BBC One on Sunday 30 September is…
Cold Breath, hot new crime novels!
On the Radar — Another week, another pile of brand new crime novels for you to dive into. With a chill in the air here…
Inkshares is looking for the next Michael Connelly
The crowdfunding-based publisher Inkshares is holding a new competition looking for the next big mystery and thriller writers. The contest is open now and closes…
Reading makes you smarter
Good news just in for crime fiction lovers: reading makes you smarter. That’s the conclusion of Global English Editing, which has checked all the relevant…
Interview: Mark Dawson
Originally writing for one of the big publishers, English author Mark Dawson decided to go his own way and began self-publishing his action and espionage…
WIN Lethal White today on our Facebook page
It doesn’t matter where you live, what you do or how you eat spaghetti, today only you can enter to win Lethal White by Robert…
Bright lights, dead gangsters
On the Radar — Hollywood in the 1950s seems a good place to start, but we’re not looking at a new James Ellroy novel this…
Indie authors make their move
On the Radar — It’s a good week for anyone looking for work by indie and self-published authors. Michael Pronko’s latest mystery set in Japan…