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CrimeFictionLover: Top five books of 2020

29 December, 2020

Isolation. Lockdown. Restrictions. Pandemic. Plandemic. Recession. You don’t need me to tell you that 2020 wasn’t a year brimming with positives. With the challenges we’ve all faced, it’s been difficult to enjoy the darker crime novels that I normally read in quite the same way,…

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The final series of French crime drama Spiral comes to BBC Four

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23 December, 2020

Lovers of French crime fiction will be screaming, “Oui, oui, OUI” in ecstasy come Saturday 2 January, when BBC Four begins airing the final series of Spiral, the outstanding French crime drama. Hailed as the king of crime shows in France, Spiral began in 2005…

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On the Radar: Hotel under siege

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18 December, 2020

For those who love the action genre, Die Hard is perhaps the greatest Christmas movie of all. Now imagine if Die Hard was set in Hamburg. Maybe it would be a little bit like the latest novel by Simone Buchholz, whose Chastity Riley series has…

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Winterkill by Ragnar Jonasson

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15 December, 2020

Translated by David Warriner — Arguably the finest novel in the Dark Iceland series, Winterkill sees Icelandic author Ragnar Jonasson writing as smoothly, confidently and incisively as ever. From page one, you’ll glide into the mystery of a young woman’s death and the detailed investigation…

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On the Radar: No fooling around

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11 December, 2020

Here on Crime Fiction Lover we promise never to fool around when it comes to your favourite literary genre. That’s why we bring you five new crime reads just about every week here in our On the Radar column. Every week the selection is varied…

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Monster: Norwegian crime show brings bleak perfection to Channel 4

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10 December, 2020

Ominous mists roll across a treeless wasteland. The unnerving growl of an untrustworthy dog. A young woman’s bare feet on the tarmac. A meth head stands in his underwear, flipping the bird to a police helicopter. And Norwegian dialogue subbed into English. If it’s a…

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French crime drama The Red Shadows arriving on Channel 4

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4 December, 2020

Ah, the Côte d’Azure. Beautiful aqua seas, lovely beaches, dramatic hillsides and warm weather. It’s a region where people go to relax and to party, with big hotels, bars and nightclubs to entertain them. Unfortunately, it’s also a hotbed of drug trafficking and organised crime….

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On the Radar: Verbal warning

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4 December, 2020

Today we’re giving you the heads-up on five new crime novels, several of which are by up-and-coming writers who’ve either made their names outside mainstream US/UK crime fiction, or via ebook publishing. The first up is Verbal, based on the police slang for a false…

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