Interview: MD Villiers
After stints in marketing and recruitment, as well as a period working as a tennis coach, London-based ex-Johannesburger MD Villiers turned her hand to crime writing. Last month we looked at her gripping, bloody, yet still uplifting debut, City of Blood. The book explores the…
Matador
Written by Ray Banks — Ray Banks is very much a crime writer’s crime writer, with a back catalogue full of dark and deviant grit, like Dead Money, previously reviewed here on Crime Fiction Lover. However, he deserves a much wider audience and his latest, Matador,…
LoiteringWithIntent: the five books that got me hooked on crime fiction
In comparison to my fellow CFL contributors, I came to crime pretty late. No Famous Five, no Secret Seven. Although Roald Dahl covered some very dark territory – domestic violence, worldwide infanticide plots, elaborate tortures in a chocolate factory. So when I finally caught up,…
LoiteringWithIntent: Top five books of 2012
It’s been another bumper year for crime fiction, which makes picking just five books a job on par with gift-wrapping a football or trying to get the dog to wear her super-cute fake antlers. 2012 saw Rebus return in all his grumpy glory, a first…
Interview: Alice LaPlante
Alice LaPlante is creative writing lecturer at Stanford University, an author of award-winning fiction, and the brains behind the writing manual Method and Madness. Her debut novel Turn of Mind is an elegantly constructed and highly original subversion of the traditional detective story and we…
NTN: Turn of Mind
Written by Alice LaPlante — For all of the artfully arranged tension and ever escalating gore in many crime novels it’s rare to put one down feeling genuinely disturbed. Rarer still to be thinking about it weeks later. But Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante…
NTN: Barry Gornell interviewed
Barry Gornell’s debut The Healing of Luther Grove was one of the finds of the year for me, a claustrophobic, character-driven psychological thriller written with an assurance rare in first novels. So I wanted to find out more about the man behind the work. Liverpool…