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On the Radar: Does it get any colder?

31 August, 2021

The last couple of weeks have been light on new books, so we took a break from On the Radar, but we’re back with six killer reads for the end of August. Our lead is something new from ice queen Lilja Sigurdardottir, who starts a…

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The Doctor will see you now... Jo Spain

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31 August, 2021

Well, this is exciting. Today we bring you the first in a series of posts featuring Dr Jacky Collins – AKA Dr Noir – in consultation with leading crime fiction authors, and Jacky’s guest in this post is the Irish author Jo Spain. If you’re…

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The Hunt for a Killer - Swedish true crime comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

30 August, 2021

Not content with dominating in the crime drama category, those Scandinavian television geniuses are taking a highly accurate shot at true crime as well. Earlier in 2021 The Investigation presented a mind-blowing new take on the genre from Denmark, and now the Swedes are getting…

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Dr Noir joins Crime Fiction Lover

By crimefictionlover

22 August, 2021

We’re pleased to announce that Dr Jacky Collins – AKA Dr Noir – is teaming up with Crime Fiction Lover to bring her video interviews with top crime authors to our website. Jacky is well-known and well-respected in the genre, as an academic and as…

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Try The Dry on Sky

By crimefictionlover

13 August, 2021

Here at Crime Fiction Lover we love it when a book we’ve championed finds a wider audience via a film adaptation. Back in 2017, we placed The Dry – a debut novel by Jane Harper – on our Recommended list. Four years later, you can…

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My crime classics by Anthony Horowitz

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12 August, 2021

English author Anthony Horowitz is writing some of the most innovative and inspiring crime fiction out there. Books like The Magpie Murders and The Word is Murder, in which a proxy of Anthony himself has a role to play, have left us dazzled with our…

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The Devil's Throat – a taste of Bulgarian crime fiction on Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

12 August, 2021

COVID-19 has limited travel options for just about everyone except Barnard Castle tourists, but one thing we have been able to do is travel the world via subtitled crime shows. It’s something readers of Crime Fiction Lover have been doing since long before the pandemic….

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The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason

By crimefictionlover

11 August, 2021

Translated by Victoria Cribb — Iceland is a country of enigmas – which could be why crime novels from the country are so popular with crime fiction lovers. Icelandic authors seem to capture those enigmas, and the nuances that surround them, with a subtle sense…

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On the Radar: Does it get any colder?

The Doctor will see you now... Jo Spain

The Hunt for a Killer - Swedish true crime comes to BBC Four

Dr Noir joins Crime Fiction Lover

Try The Dry on Sky

My crime classics by Anthony Horowitz

The Devil's Throat – a taste of Bulgarian crime fiction on Walter Presents

The Darkness Knows by Arnaldur Indridason

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