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Special report: Live from Lyon's Quais du Polar crime fiction festival

By MarinaSofia

2 April, 2013

The French city of Lyon played host to the Quais du Polar over the Easter weekend. With 60,000 crime fiction lovers in one place, it’s one of the biggest literary festivals in the world. Needless to say, I’d been looking forward to this event for…

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Your 10 favourite crime reads of the year, so far...

By crimefictionlover

30 March, 2013

People who run websites love statistics. How many clicks did we get? Which story is the most popular? How many users exited the site after two seconds… We’ve got graphs and charts for all these things here at Crime Fiction Lover. Occasionally, they actually tell…

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Five of the best: Cosy mysteries from the USA

By MyBookishWays

29 March, 2013

Alongside the darker world of police procedurals and thrillers, cosy novels are the palate cleansers of the crime fiction world. They usually have whimsical covers and most always have a happy ending, or at least a satisfactory resolution. Now, in the mystery genre – at…

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Five of the best: crime and mystery game apps

By crimefictionlover

24 March, 2013

Reading crime books is what we’re passionate about here at Crime Fiction Lover. But if, like us, you enjoy your crime on an iPad, iPhone, Android phone or tablet, or even on a Kindle Fire, you may well be tempted to use your device to…

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BINGO! You're dead! The strangest deaths in crime fiction...

By crimefictionlover

23 March, 2013

Have you ever heard of a victim in a crime fiction book being murdered with a bingo marker? Neither had we until last week when someone emailed in to tell us about a book featuring just such a killing. So it got us thinking about…

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A classic revisited: Lie in the Dark

By crimefictionlover

16 March, 2013

Certainly, some will argue that Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman can’t be a crime fiction classic. Originally published in 1999, it’s not old or even that widely read, and I’m not sure many authors have cited the book as an influence. Yet it has…

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A classic revisited: Cop Hater

By DavidPrestidge

1 March, 2013

“The city in these pages is imaginary. The people, the places are all fictitious. Only the police routine is based on established investigatory technique.” It’s just 24 words, but no three sentences have ever held so much significance on the flyleaf of a book. Each…

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Interview: Alex Gray

By DeathBecomesHer

28 February, 2013

Scottish author Alex Gray has been writing professionally since 1992, and her DCI Lorimer books are said to bring Glasgow to life in the same way Ian Rankin’s have brought Edinburgh to prominence. She has won the Scottish Association of Writers’ Constable and Pitlochry trophies for…

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Features

Special report: Live from Lyon's Quais du Polar crime fiction festival

Your 10 favourite crime reads of the year, so far...

Five of the best: Cosy mysteries from the USA

Five of the best: crime and mystery game apps

BINGO! You're dead! The strangest deaths in crime fiction...

A classic revisited: Lie in the Dark

A classic revisited: Cop Hater

Interview: Alex Gray

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