KindlePrintReviews

Ugly Behavior

By
Written by Steve Rasnic Tem — Having been compared to great authors such as Franz Kafka, Ray Bradbury and Raymond Carver, Steve Rasnic Tem is a prize-winning writer mainly known for his short fiction. Working mostly in horror and dark fantasy, this is his first…
Read more
iBookKindlePrintReviews

Live by Night

By
Written by Dennis Lehane — Live By Night is the second book in a trilogy in which Lehane is exploring mid-20th century America. The first, The Given Day, was published to great acclaim in 2008, and fans have been looking forward to Live by Night…
Read more
iBookKindlePrintReviews

A Wanted Man

By
Written by Lee Child — If’ you’re visiting a website dedicated to crime fiction, you might already have some familiarity with what must be the most successful single-character series in the genre right now – the Jack Reacher novels. Maybe you’ve read at least one…
Read more
PrintReviews

CIS: The Cocktail Waitress

By
Classics in September — The Cocktail Waitress by James M Cain — James Mallahan Cain was born in Maryland in 1892. After returning from WWI, where he wrote for an army magazine, he continued working as a journalist before focusing on novels and screenplays. His…
Read more
PrintReviews

Rough Riders

By
Written by Charlie Stella — This New York writer has been on my radar for some time. Never quite breaking out, he has however amassed a solid reputation as a writer of hardboiled, streetwise crime fiction over the course of several novels. When Bill Crider…
Read more
KindlePrintReviews

CIS: Meet Me at the Morgue

By
Classics in September — Meet Me at the Morgue by Ross Macdonald — When Crime Fiction Lover announced the Classics in September series, it was a certainty that a Ross Macdonald novel would feature. After all the American writer forms the holy trinity of hardboiled…
Read more
PrintReviews

Mockingbird

By
Written by Chuck Wendig — Mockingbird is the eagerly awaited sequel to Blackbirds and has cover art to match. If you’ve read that book, or our review of it, then you’ll know that it blended the fantasy/horror and crime genres to create a fast-paced thriller…
Read more
iBookKindlePrintReviews

The Last Kind Words

By
Written by Tom Piccirilli — The buzz about this book has been building in my household throughout the summer. I’ve read a lot of what Tom Piccirilli has written – hardboiled or horror – and rarely been disappointed. When Crime Fiction Lover favourites like Lee…
Read more