Vengeance, Italian style
A week or two ago we brought you a review of one of the classics of Italian crime fiction, That Awful Mess on the Via…
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Hope Road
John Barlow isn’t new to writing, but he is new to crime fiction. Caught up in the enthusiasm for digital publishing, his first crime novel…
Lawrence Block’s inner lesbian
Fans of American crime author Lawrence Block are in for a treat in February, when his new book Getting Off is released by Hard Case…
Ask the Dice
Written by Ed Lynskey — Ask the Dice feels like a classic hardboiled crime novel. The dialogue, the narration and the characters are all throwbacks…
All the Young Warriors
Written by Anthony Neil Smith – All the Young Warriors is a tale of revenge, redemption, love, loss and personal discovery set in the middle…
NTN: Australia’s top 5 hot new writers
The Australian crime fiction scene is going strong. That’s the good news. The not so good news for anyone reading this outside of Australia, and…
Otto Penzler goes digital
Crime fiction lovers in New York City have long benefited from the existence of Otto Penzler’s store The Mysterious Bookshop, while readers have enjoyed books…
Spider Bones AKA Mortal Remains
Written by Kathy Reichs — The books Spider Bones and Mortal Remains are one and the same book albeit with different titles, much to the…
Google launches its UK bookstore with 3 million titles
Google Books has launched in the UK making it possible for readers to browse 3 million titles on their phones or tablets from Google’s vast…
The new Kindle and Amazon Fire tablet
Amazon today announced a new tablet computer called the Kindle Fire, and a redesigned, smaller, lighter and cheaper Kindle. The Kindle Fire confirms rumours we…
Short stories by Lawrence Block
Exclusive news — Today the New York-based author Lawrence Block dropped us a line to let us know about a new book of short stories…
Ned Kelly Award winners announced
The 16th annual Ned Kelly Awards has named Brit-born Alan Carter this year’s winner of the Best First Fiction prize for his book, Prime Cut, which…
Five free crime fiction classics – the best!
Obtaining legitimate copies of classic detective fiction ebooks is difficult. Very few big-hitting authors have allowed their works to drift into the public domain, and…
Crime fiction on Android tablets
For those technophobes out there, Android tablets are nothing like Aspirin and don’t really involve robots either. Android’s the mobile operating system that many cell…
Short story eBooks: Our top 8 crime collections
One of the truly wonderful outcomes of the move toward self and small publishing in an electronic format is the increase in the number of…
New Amazon Kindle Tablet
Technology websites this week have been heralding news on the forthcoming Kindle Tablet from Amazon, rumoured to be released in November. The reports hint at…