Must watch: The Snowman trailer
We like how this looks, it’s out in the UK on 13 October 2017, and that’s all we have to say about it. Check out our guide to the Harry Hole series here.
Ngaio nominees from New Zealand
Have you heard of the Ngaio Marsh Awards, which celebrate the best of New Zealand crime fiction? Well, it’s an award system set up by crime-loving journalist Craig Sisterson and is now in its eight year. Sisterson is doing a great job promoting and heralding Kiwi…
Comrade Detective invades Amazon Prime
You’ve got to hand it to the Channing Tatum and the folks at A24. They’ve figured out the right buttons to push with crime show addicts like us, dialled all of them, and pressed the red button labeled satire as well. Comrade Detective is the…
Carnivore
Written by Jonathan Lyon — A detective with a drinking problem and a failed marriage. A hitman who finds a conscience. The psychologically damaged character who may or may not have done something really, really bad. The serial killer with a horrible ritual. Genre fiction…
Murder is the word
On the Radar — Anthony Horowitz’s last book, Magpie Murders, took the author out of the YA mainstream and into the adult crime fiction mainstream with a clever plot that played with the crime writing process, and the notion that fictional and real crimes can…
Appetite for destruction
On the Radar — It looks like 24 August is going to be a big date on the crime fiction calendar with releases from veteran crime writing women on both sides of the Atlantic – Sue Grafton and Val McDermid. But today we want to…
Crime Fiction Lover at six
It’s our birthday… Six years ago, Crime Fiction Lover was born and nobody visited our site! The next day, 35 fans of the genre paid us a visit to enjoy articles like this look at the top five female crime authors, or a review of…
Warren Adler's top five British crime shows
Despite being a Brooklyn-born boy, I’ve always been a committed anglophile in love with the English way of life, from their literature to their television – I can’t get enough. I’ve loved British crime dramas for many decades, having always found them superior to their…