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Spies, Cover-ups and Persecutions: Crime in Venice 2019

10 September, 2019

Our film noir and TV correspondent Dennis Broe rounds up the best crime films and shows appearing at this year’s Venice Film Festival Multiple crimes were spotlighted at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, which wound up on 7 September. These included high finance and tax…

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Forget about Brexit, read some UK crime fiction

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6 September, 2019

On the Radar — It’s an unusual week for the UK in more ways than one. As parliamentary democracy comes to the boil, at least we have the distractions provided by the Crime Fiction Lover weekly new books column, On the Radar. Uniquely, it seems,…

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Fighting injustice

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30 August, 2019

On the Radar — Whether it’s racism in the South (or anywhere else for that matter), women’s rights or wrongful convictions and cover-ups, crime fiction authors are often at the front of the queue when it comes to highlighting contentious social issues. This week, two…

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Darkness: Those Who Kill – New Danish crime drama on BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

26 August, 2019

Longtime readers of Crime Fiction Lover and Nordic noir aficionados may recognise the title Those Who Kill. Back in 2011, we reported on this promising Danish crime show about a specialist Copenhagen-based team devoted to investigating serial killers. With Darkness: Those Who Kill, the show…

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A deadly sleepover, and more...

By crimefictionlover

23 August, 2019

On the Radar — This week our new crime books column sees the return of Carol Wyer with a new book in her Natalie Ward series, and it’s one for lovers of domestic noir. We’ve also got ex-cops, espionage, organised crime and the refugee crisis…

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French cop series Cain comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

21 August, 2019

Fresh from the success of No Second Chance on Channel 4 and All 4, Walter Presents is set to launch yet another French crime show this autumn. Cain will arrive to stream on All 4 at 9pm on Friday 6 September and stars Bruno Debrandt…

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Five new books by women crime authors

By crimefictionlover

16 August, 2019

On the Radar — This is pretty unusual… and we can’t remember having an all-female line-up in our On the Radar weekly news column ever before. But that’s what we’ve got and there’s some great variety this week with highly established authors like Louise Penny…

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No Second Chance – thrilling French series comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

13 August, 2019

Intense French cop shows like Spiral have gripped viewers on BBC Four, while programmes like Witnesses have demonstrated a skill in producing moody and atmospheric crime stories, similar to Nordic noir. The latest French crime show to air on Channel 4, via the Walter Presents…

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Spies, Cover-ups and Persecutions: Crime in Venice 2019

Forget about Brexit, read some UK crime fiction

Fighting injustice

Darkness: Those Who Kill – New Danish crime drama on BBC Four

A deadly sleepover, and more...

French cop series Cain comes to Walter Presents

Five new books by women crime authors

No Second Chance – thrilling French series comes to Walter Presents

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