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The 10 best crime shows on Walter Presents in 2024

By Paul Burke

5 December, 2024

If you love watching overseas crime dramas, you’ve come to the right place… Curated by Walter Iuzzolino, Walter Presents is a streaming service featuring shows from all round the world with subtitles for English-speaking viewers. We love it because large proportion of them are crime…

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The Bells of Westminster by Leonora Nattrass

By Paul Burke

13 November, 2024

Leonora Nattrass quickly became a favourite in historical crime fiction with her Laurence Jago series which began with Black Drop and involves the espionage, politics and criminality of 1790s England and its empire. Literary tales with a light touch, her books have similar appeal to…

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Sleeping Dogs by Russ Thomas

By Paul Burke

6 November, 2024

Sleeping Dogs is the fourth outing for DS Adam Tyler and life just keeps getting harder for the South Yorkshire detective sergeant. One way or another he’s been in trouble ever since he first appeared in Firewatching in 2020. Between his bosses and the criminals…

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The Last Days of Johnny Nunn by Nick Triplow

By Paul Burke

16 October, 2024

Ever since his Brit grit debut, Frank’s Wild Years, Nick Triplow has been a favourite here at Crime Fiction Lover and in the British crime fiction community. One of the original organisers of the Hull Noir event, he has written a biography of inspirational North…

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A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet

By Paul Burke

11 October, 2024

Graeme Macrae Burnet is best known for his second novel, His Bloody Project, which saw huge commercial success in 2016. A dark anatomy of a 19th century Highland murder case that devastated a crofting community, it seemed a world away from his debut novel, The…

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Opal by Patricia Wolf

By Paul Burke

9 October, 2024

In 2022, Australian author Patricia Wolf introduced us to DS Lucas Walker in her debut crime novel, Outback. He’s a detective who has returned to his hometown in Northern Queensland for various reasons but being in the countryside is anything but quiet, as he discovers…

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Writing the Murder edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst

By Paul Burke

24 September, 2024

Ever wanted to write crime fiction or at least to understand how good crime fiction works? Perhaps explore the reasons why we love it so much? Writing the Murder: Essays in Crafting Crime Fiction aims to provide insight into the art of the murder mystery…

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Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness by Mark Aldridge

By Paul Burke

10 September, 2024

Even today, Agatha Christie still outsells nearly all other crime fiction writers and our fascination with her clever, quiet amateur detective, Miss Jane Marple, is evergreen. That is obvious from the continuing popularity of the TV series, even as the batten is handed between actors…

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The 10 best crime shows on Walter Presents in 2024

The Bells of Westminster by Leonora Nattrass

Sleeping Dogs by Russ Thomas

The Last Days of Johnny Nunn by Nick Triplow

A Case of Matricide by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Opal by Patricia Wolf

Writing the Murder edited by Dan Coxon and Richard V Hirst

Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness by Mark Aldridge

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