Try The Dry on Sky
Here at Crime Fiction Lover we love it when a book we’ve championed finds a wider audience via a film adaptation. Back in 2017, we placed The Dry – a debut novel by Jane Harper – on our Recommended list. Four years later, you can…
My crime classics by Anthony Horowitz
English author Anthony Horowitz is writing some of the most innovative and inspiring crime fiction out there. Books like The Magpie Murders and The Word is Murder, in which a proxy of Anthony himself has a role to play, have left us dazzled with our…
The Devil's Throat – a taste of Bulgarian crime fiction on Walter Presents
COVID-19 has limited travel options for just about everyone except Barnard Castle tourists, but one thing we have been able to do is travel the world via subtitled crime shows. It’s something readers of Crime Fiction Lover have been doing since long before the pandemic….
Harrogate 2021 – crime goes under cover in a tent
“It’s been a stressful two years since I became programming chair for the 2020 festival that never happened, apart from a few online panels, but now I am so happy that we are all back together like the big family that we are. It appears…
Goodbye to Bosch, hello Bosch spinoff
Ah Harry, you have been teasing us! Even as the credits were running on the last episode of the final season of Bosch on Amazon Prime, work was starting on a spinoff series that is destined to run on Amazon-owned IMDb TV. News of the…
Swedish crime show Beck returns to BBC Four for season 8
It’s been a long time since Martin Beck was last on our screens. Back in 2018, BBC Four ran series seven of the Swedish police procedural crime drama, which lasted just four episodes. Having said that, they were doozies. Now, the Corporation is busy writing…
HBO's surprise crime hit Mare of Easttown
Kate Winslet, the star of Titanic, is probably not the first actress that comes to mind when you think about who might play a hockey mom-style detective working for a small-town police department in Eastern Pennsylvania. But dressed in sweats and constantly vaping, she pulls…
Interview: Garry Disher
The prolific Garry Disher is a huge name in his native Australia – he’s won the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award, and has had many fellow crime fiction writers citing him as a major influence. At last, the rest of the world is catching on too, and his…