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The 12 Crimes of Christmas 2025

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If Christmas is the season of goodwill, crime fiction authors clearly didn’t get the memo. Each year, mystery writers gift us something far more delicious than socks or scented candles: murders in mansions, bodies by bookstalls, deadly pantomimes and enough suspicious characters to fill Santa’s…
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Meet the author: Todd Medema

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There are more and more eco thrillers appearing on the bookshelves at the moment, which is hardly surprising. The climate crisis is an emotive issue and there is always plenty of controversy around the topic – from wilful pollution of the environment to misinformation to…
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Interview: Barbara Havelocke

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Since 2017, Barbara Copperthwaite has been a crime author worth following if you enjoy frighteningly realistic psychological crime fiction, and books like Her Last Secret and the Perfect Friend have been favourites on both sides of the Atlantic. But a couple of years ago, she…
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Meet the author: Mark S Bonta

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Often, crime fiction and music seem to go hand in hand. For example, Ian Rankin’s Rebus novels frequently reference musical tracks and you can find Rebus playlists on Spotify. Mark S Bonta is a South Florida crime author who has gone one step further. When…
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Interview: Abir Mukherjee

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Abir Mukherjee is an author whose career we’ve followed for a long time here at Crime Fiction Lover – going back to 2014 when he won the Telegraph Harvill Secker Writing Prize. The piece he submitted became A Rising Man, the first novel in the…
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Meet the author: Shane Peacock

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As colder winds start to blow, now’s the time to cosy up in your most comfortable chair and grab a crime novel that takes you away to a chilling location. Out in North America last month and landing now in the UK and Europe, Shane…
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Meet the author: Michael Bourne

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As we watch helplessly while the world around us slowly melts, dries up and goes desiccated, it’s no surprise that some crime authors are taking environmental issues seriously. Protecting the natural world in the face of human development has been on the mind of Vancouver-based…
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Interview: Martin Sterling

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Here’s an interesting fact about new crime fiction author Martin Sterling. He grew up in Hyde, just near Manchester, where serial killer Harold Shipman was a local GP. In fact, Martin’s family knew five of Shipman’s victims, including one of his childminders. Now, that on…
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