Forget me not
On the Radar — Memory loss is not something we’re prone to here on Crime Fiction Lover – we never forget a great read! – but it’s central to our lead book in this week’s new books column. As well as Andrew Ewart’s Forget Me,…
Collaborators
On the Radar — Today’s new crime books column starts off with a book that’s interesting because it’s the product of something quite rare in literature – a collaboration between authors. Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger have teamed up on Death Deserved, a contemporary…
The Siberian Dilemma
Martin Cruz Smith… er… wrote the book on seeking justice under a totalitarian regime when he penned Gorky Park in 1981, and here he updates his Arkady Renko series with a book set in Putin’s Russia. Renko discovers the wilds of Siberia as he heads…
On the Radar: Taken by the other people
This week our On the Radar new crime fiction column gets going with a creepy thriller about child snatching by CJ Tudor. We’ve also got two totally different World War II novels, an atmospheric family secrets thriller set on the Hebrides and a serial killer…
Interview: Dreda Say Mitchell
There was fantastic news for the crime fiction community at the end of 2019 when the London-based author Dreda Say Mitchell was awarded an MBE. She’s now one of the Queen’s trusted knights, a Member of the British Empire, recognised for her services to literature…
We're back with crime fiction news for 2020
On the Radar — We hope you had a good holiday season, and wish you a Happy New Year here at Crime Fiction Lover. Apologies for the service outage in our news department over Christmas, but we aim to hit the ground running and gunning…
CrimeFictionLover: Top five books of 2019
Crime fiction is something I’m always enthusiastic about, but 2019 has not produced the best vintage in my opinion. There seems to be a lot of safe and franchise-able writing going on at the moment, with established series ticking over like clockwork. Nordic noir is…
Crime thrillers for Christmas 2019
On the Radar — ‘Tis the season for a good round of murder and mystery if you’re a crime fiction lover. This week our news column is devoted to new crime novels set at Christmas time, and all five of them look like perfect stocking…