Meet the author: Heidi Field
We know you love to discover new crime authors, and Heidi Field is one to watch out for if you enjoy a good serial killer mystery. On 25 June 2025, her first novel – The Other Boy – comes out via Tule Publishing, and it…
First look: Animal Farm illustrated by Quentin Blake
It’s not a crime novel per se but it’s full of crimes. Perhaps some of them are similar to things we’re seeing in the world today? George Orwell’s classic critique of Soviet totalitarianism Animal Farm has been reprinted by The Folio Society with illustrations by…
Serial killer thriller Ragdoll comes to BBC iPlayer
If you’re a UK-based lover of serial killer investigations, head to the BBC iPlayer where you can now watch Ragdoll. The programme is instantly fascinating to us here on Crime Fiction Lover as it’s based on the novel of the same name by Daniel Cole….
First look: Minky Woodcock - The Girl Called Cthulhu
Watch the video: The third graphic novel in this stunning series by Cynthia von Buhler has arrived here at CFL Towers and instead of doing loads of photos and a write-up, we decided to go one better and bring you a little video about it….
Interview: Linwood Barclay
If the career of an author were a storyline, Linwood Barclay has thrown down a bit of a plot twist with his latest novel. What we’re used to is pacy thrillers with themes pulled from the headlines. Private detectives. Investigative journalists. Cops. However, with Whistle,…
Pale Mountains: Murder in the Italian Alps
Channel 4 and Walter Presents have set a new destination on our crime drama map. From Friday 13 June, you’ll be able to stream your way to Bolzano, a city high in the Italian Alps, where a serial killer has emerged from dormancy and an…
Marina Cafè Noir 2025 - Sardinia's crime and literature festival
What better way to spend the summer solstice than at a noir fiction festival on the Mediterranean. From Friday 20 to Sunday 22 June, Marina Cafè Noir returns to Cagliari on the island of Sardinia. The terrace of the Bastion of Saint Remy is the…
Interview: Rosy Fenwicke
“If not now, when?” This is the question that buzzed in the head of Rosy Fenwicke when she retired from medicine and started her first novel. After conquering that challenge with Hot Flush – about a midlife woman who develops superpowers and solves crimes –…