Philip Rafferty

The Good Thief's Guide to Vegas

By Philip Rafferty

15 June, 2017

Written by Chris Ewan — Charlie Howard has no qualms about being a thief. As the Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas opens we are led through a tutorial on how to pick a pocket. Our narrator is at a high stakes table in the Fifty…

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Wolves in the Dark

By Philip Rafferty

10 June, 2017

Written by Gunnar Staalesen — A knock comes in the night and a hungover Varg Veum answers the door. Police detective Hamre has come, this time not for help, but rather with a warrant for Veum’s arrest. Both men are fast closing in on retirement age,…

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Philip Rafferty: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Philip Rafferty

31 May, 2017

I missed many years of mystery reading due to the faulty assumption that what I would encounter in crime fiction would be trite and less well-written than more serious literature. I wondered why anyone would read mysteries when they could read Proust, or James Joyce, or Tolstoy?…

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Two Heads Are Deader Than One by Elena Hartwell

By Philip Rafferty

14 May, 2017

Eddie Shoes is surrounded by a bit of chaos in the opening pages of Two Heads Are Deader Than One. Her ex-boyfriend, homicide detective Chance Parker, has recently moved back to Bellingham, Washington near Shoes. Her mentor Benjamin Cooper recently passed away. And to top…

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Since We Fell

By Philip Rafferty

11 May, 2017

Written by Dennis Lehane — Rachel Childs shoots her husband dead on a boat in Boston harbour in the opening sentence of Since We Fell, the latest from bestselling author Dennis Lehane. As he breathes his last, an array of thoughts and emotions pass through her mind. One…

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Briggs Land - State of Grace

By Philip Rafferty

28 April, 2017

Written by Brian Wood, artwork by Mack Chater — We don’t often review graphic novels here on Crime Fiction Lover. Too many of them involve super powers and elements that take the plot well beyond the realm of our genre. But it’s something we’d like to…

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Twin Peaks - complete guide to the books

By Philip Rafferty

15 April, 2017

The wait is almost over. Twin Peaks, the classic 90s television show is set to return on 21 May for a limited series run on the US channel, Showtime. It will air the following day on Sky Atlantic in the UK. The 18 episodes are each between one…

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The Method

By Philip Rafferty

6 April, 2017

Written by Shannon Kirk — Dorothy M Salucci is 16. She sits captive in a room 12 by 24 feet. She is not scared like one would expect her to be. Instead, she plots her escape and her revenge. The Method by Shannon Kirk is the…

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Wolves in the Dark

Philip Rafferty: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

Two Heads Are Deader Than One by Elena Hartwell

Since We Fell

Briggs Land - State of Grace

Twin Peaks - complete guide to the books

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