Face your Nemesis
On the Radar — Lots of themes and different styles this week, with a creepy occult thriller, The Murder House and a fish mystery set in Hull. But let’s kick things off with a throwback espionage novel that’s set just before World War II. The…
First look: The Girl Who Danced with Death graphic novel
Look away now if you think the work of dead authors shouldn’t be touched. But if you want to know what might have happened next to Stieg Larsson’s Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist then this new graphic novel from Titan Comics and Hard Case Crime…
The Crimson Rivers - new French crime drama
Channel 4’s foreign crime drama service Walter Presents has announced plans to stream the French procedural crime show The Crimson Rivers. The first episode will air on More4 from 9pm on Friday 11 January, with the full first series available to stream on Walter Presents….
Good Samaritans
Will Carver makes his return to the crime fiction shelves with this audacious contemporary noir novel featuring four obsessive characters riding a veritable suburban rollercoaster of death by ennui. Ant works for The Samaritans charity and he’s a bit OCD. Haley has suicidally low self-esteem….
Interview: Will Dean
Originally from the East Midlands in the UK, Will Dean now lives in a wooden house he built in the middle of a Swedish forest. He uses the authenticity of this setting to write crime fiction novels that seem as true to the Nordic noir…
True Detective season 3 coming to Sky and HBO
The first series was outstanding. The second series was so average that everyone wondered if a third would see the light of day. But if you’re a True Detective fan, the New Year brings something to look forward to. On 13 January, HBO will begin…
The most wanted crime books of 2019
Maybe it’s a sign of the times, but we think history and throwbacks will dominate crime fiction in 2019. The world feels considerably more unstable with Donald Trump as president, a huge feud continuing in the UK over Brexit, strong-arm nationalist politicians popping up all…