THE SITE FOR DIE HARD CRIME & THRILLER FANS

1338 posts

Browsing category

Features

Read Crime Fiction Lovers feature articles including interviews with mystery authors, top crime book recommendations, previews of upcoming releases, and more…

Features

New season of Wisting comes to BBC Four and iPlayer

By crimefictionlover

28 January, 2025

Ah, the rugged landscapes of frozen Norway. And also the rugged features of Sven Nordin in the role of William Wisting, the Norwegian detective based in Larvik who seems to land the most difficult of cases. The serial killers, the mutilations and the frozen remains…

Features

Let's play Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse

By Dave Bradley

23 January, 2025

A computer game is perhaps an unexpected addition to Crime Fiction Lover’s feature section. But Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse might just make you reach for your keyboard instead of cracking the spine on a new novel. The fourth entry in HitherYon’s Murder…

Features

Crá: The Irish language crime drama on BBC iPlayer

By crimefictionlover

17 January, 2025

Available on the iPlayer, Crá is an interesting crime show in many respects. While it certainly doesn’t have the production values of a full-on Netflix, HBO or BBC series, it does show us the shadowy side of a little seen part of the world. Set…

Features

Interview: Dandy Smith

By crimefictionlover

16 January, 2025

We love a good crime story, and we also love success stories that involve new crime authors. Based near Bath in Somerset, Dandy Smith has wanted to be a writer since childhood, she studied for two degrees in writing, honed her skills in fantasy and…

Features

First look: Runaway Horses by Fruttero and Lucentini

By crimefictionlover

14 January, 2025

We love an attractive, artful book cover – so let’s take a moment to admire the jacket for Runaway Horses by the Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini. With a horse race central to the storyline, we see jockeys galloping across a terracotta scene,…

Features

Interview: Charlotte Printz

By crimefictionlover

7 January, 2025

Guten tag, crime fiction lovers – we’ve got a new writer we think you’d be interested to meet. Charlotte Printz is a German cosy crime author whose debut novel, Nightingale & Co, arrives this month in English for the first time from Corylus Books. Set…

Features

The most wanted crime novels of 2025

By crimefictionlover

31 December, 2024

Are we trend-setters? Are we influencers, here on Crime Fiction Lover? Perhaps, perhaps not. However, we do have a tradition of trying to pick out the most interesting upcoming crime novels at the beginning of the year. For 2025, we’re looking forward to the return…

Features

Vicki Weisfeld: Top five books of 2024

By Vicki Weisfeld

30 December, 2024

Selecting the top five books from the 34 I reviewed for Crime Fiction Lover this past year sounds at first like an impossible task. Probably because I’m selective about what I review, nearly every one of them has some interesting, entertaining, or nicely rendered aspects….

Crime Fiction Lover

Features

New season of Wisting comes to BBC Four and iPlayer

Let's play Murder is Game Over: The Blackinton Curse

Crá: The Irish language crime drama on BBC iPlayer

Interview: Dandy Smith

First look: Runaway Horses by Fruttero and Lucentini

Interview: Charlotte Printz

The most wanted crime novels of 2025

Vicki Weisfeld: Top five books of 2024

Navigation

Recent Comments

The Burning Grounds by Abir Mukherjee

Interview: Patricia Wolf

Interview: Patricia Wolf

Paul Burke: Top five books of 2025

Her Sister’s Killer by Mari Hannah

Categories