A free audiobook from Audible.co.uk?
We don’t currently sell the advertising on this site. It’s left up to a service called Google AdSense which selects ads for us based on what our site is about (crime fiction) and your own browsing history. Lately we’ve noticed an ad popping up offering…
New festival: Quebecrime
With two Canadians in our team, here’s some news we like. From 28-30 October, the city of Quebec will see the first Quebecrime Festival held at the Morrin Cultural Centre. The event will include readings, panel discussions and book signings by a range of top…
Crime fiction on Android tablets
For those technophobes out there, Android tablets are nothing like Aspirin and don’t really involve robots either. Android’s the mobile operating system that many cell phones use these days, and just like Apple’s iOS has transferred from the iPhone to the iPad, many tablet computers…
Destination South Korea
Location, location, location. An interesting setting is a key constituent in a good crime novel, and since we started Crime Fiction Lover our reading has taken us to all kinds of places. We visited Ystad, Edinburgh and Miami a few weeks ago when we talked…
The Killer is Dying by James Sallis
Written by James Sallis — Although this book is set in Pheonix, Arizona, it’s by no means hot and fiesty crime fiction. There are no chases, gunfights or shadowy figures jumping out from behind doors to bash the hero in the face. In fact, the…
Get The Score - free eBook!
Did you know that the University of Chicago Press gives out a free eBook every month?Their September give-away is great news for fans of crime fiction – you can download the digital version of The Score, by Donald E Westlake (writing here as Richard Stark)….
Dregs by Jørn Lier Horst
One of the first publishers to get in touch when we set up Crime Fiction Lover was Sandstone Press, a Scottish imprint that’s introducing new writers in various genres including crime. Needless to say, when they offered us a book by the Norwegian author Jørn…