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Dunbar to return in Ridley on ITV

12 January, 2022

ITV and West Road Pictures have started shooting Ridley, a new crime drama set in the North of England starring Adrian Dunbar – known to many as Superintendent Ted Hastings from the hit series Line of Duty. Starring in the title role, Dunbar plays a…

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The Rabbit Factor by Antti Tuomainen

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11 January, 2022

Finnish author Antti Tuomainen has been a favourite at Crime Fiction Lover ever since his first novel, The Healer, was first translated into English. Since then, he’s come a long way and his crime writing has grown lighter, funnier and quite a bit weirder –…

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On the Radar: Boys and girls come out to play

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7 January, 2022

Welcome to our first crime fiction new books roundup of 2022, where we start off with two historical crime novels – one about a girl and one about a boy. Anna Mazzola’s The Clockwork Girl is highly anticipated and looks positively charming… in a creepy…

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Norwegian crime show Outlier comes to Channel 4

By crimefictionlover

3 January, 2022

Channel 4’s foreign crime streaming service Walter Presents is throwing all its chips down on Nordic noir for the new year, debuting four Scandinavian crime series between January and March 2022. First up is the Norwegian procedural Outlier, which will air on Channel 4 from…

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Cry Wolf by Hans Rosenfeldt

By crimefictionlover

2 January, 2022

Translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel — Oh boy. The new year has barely started and already it seems like I’ve found my top book of 2022. Hans Rosenfeldt is an author putting the ‘noir’ into Nordic noir with a novel that features fallible characters who…

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The most wanted crime novels of 2022

By crimefictionlover

1 January, 2022

2022 is here and we’re ready for it! Whatever ups and downs there are ahead, one thing we do know is that there are some fantastic crime novels on the way. And that’s important, because books are what have helped crime fiction lovers like us…

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On the Radar: January novels to savour

By crimefictionlover

31 December, 2021

We started 2021 not knowing what would happen with COVID and the economy, and 2022 gets underway with similar uncertainty. At least you can count on Crime Fiction Lover to bring you the latest new crime releases in our On the Radar column. Our latest…

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