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Mumbai Noir

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Edited by Altaf Tyrewala — Mumbai, with a population of 20.5 million, is the most humanity-riddled city in India and the fourth most populous in the world. It is the commercial and entertainment capital of India and the nation’s economic powerhouse. One of the world’s…
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Sorry

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Written by Zoran Drvenkar — Here at Crime Fiction Lover we love the break-out popularity of European crime, whether it’s the stone cold thrillers of Jo Nesbo and Stieg Larsson, or the hit Danish TV series The Killing. What’s more, we know how popular it…
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Available Dark

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Written by Elizabeth Hand — This is the second Cass Neary thriller, following on from Generation Loss. Not having read that book didn’t prevent me in any way from enjoying this latest one. Cass Neary exists on the edge of society. She received critical acclaim…
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Driven

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Written by James Sallis — This is the sequel to Drive and follows hot on the heels of the movie adaptation of that 2005 book, which was directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starred Ryan Gosling. Both a tribute to 80s heist movies such as…
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The Comedy is Finished

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Written by Donald E Westlake — Completed in the early 1980s, the manuscript for The Comedy is Finished was apparently put to one side by Westlake who feared it was too similar to Scorsese’s The King of Comedy. Discovered after his death by writer Max…
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Raylan

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Written by Elmore Leonard — This is the third novel, after Riding the Rap and Pronto, to feature US Marshall Raylan Givens. Having experienced only mixed success with film and TV adaptations of his work (anybody remember Karen Sisco, the short-lived spin-off from Out of…
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Stagger Bay

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Written by Pearce Hansen — This is the second novel from the prolific writer of short stories, whose other work includes Speedy’s Big Moving Day, collected in Anthony Neil Smith’s Plots With Guns – A Noir Anthology. Moving from Oakland to Stagger Bay in an…
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