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On the Radar: A whole world of badness

12 January, 2024

Let’s take a midwinter journey to parts far and wide with this week’s book news, starting in Argentina with an award-winning novel by Nicolás Ferraro. Also in translation, an Italian crime classic from Fruttero and Lucentini, while David McCloskey’s spooks take us to Moscow and…

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True Detective: Night Country coming to HBO Max and Sky Atlantic

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9 January, 2024

Set in Louisiana, the first season of True Detective, back in 2014, was too hot to handle in so many ways. Now, as the anthology series reaches its fourth season, an Arctic chill blows through and we join Jodie Foster as an Alaska cop investigating…

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On the Radar: Snow is forecast

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7 January, 2024

The first two crime books in our first news column of January 2024 are suitably wintry. In both Helle and Death and Blizzard, severe snow impacts the plot, but in very different ways as one is a mystery and the other more of a thriller….

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The most wanted crime novels of 2024

By crimefictionlover

31 December, 2023

Ten novels. And, an ideal reading list to get you deep into 2024. As in previous years (see the links at the bottom of this article), we’ve prized the new and interesting over the next-in-the-series books to be released over the coming months. It would…

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Crime Fiction Lover: Top five books of 2023

By crimefictionlover

30 December, 2023

Outsiders and othering, control freaks and narcissists, extremes of wealth and poverty – these are some of the themes I picked up on in crime fiction over the course of 2023. A reflection of today’s world? Well, Cosy crime fiction was huge, too, as it usually…

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On the Radar: The deadly Middle East

By crimefictionlover

22 December, 2023

Do you watch the news? Does it intrigue you? Or do you avoid it? It’s a tough call. So we’re not sure whether starting our news roundup with a book set in the Middle East is daring or foolhardy. What we do know is that…

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On the Radar: The first crime novels of 2024

By crimefictionlover

15 December, 2023

The press releases and preview copies have been arriving thick and fast here at Crime Fiction Lover. It looks like 2024 has plenty of excitement in store for readers who enjoy mysteries and thrillers, and this week we bring you the first crop of books…

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Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley

By crimefictionlover

13 December, 2023

Glasgow author Callum McSorley’s award-winning debut novel brings us Scottish crime fiction with a new flavour. The book might be titled Squeaky Clean, but this is a story that’s rancid and filthy, in which every bodily fluid you can imagine is amply spilled, and if…

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On the Radar: A whole world of badness

True Detective: Night Country coming to HBO Max and Sky Atlantic

On the Radar: Snow is forecast

The most wanted crime novels of 2024

Crime Fiction Lover: Top five books of 2023

On the Radar: The deadly Middle East

On the Radar: The first crime novels of 2024

Squeaky Clean by Callum McSorley

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