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Alex - the dirty cop crime drama from Sweden

By crimefictionlover

4 October, 2018

Love your Scandinavian crime fiction? Head over to Walter Presents and you’ll be able to stream the six-episode series, Alex, complete with English subtitles. Also showing on Channel 4 until 31 October, it’s a Swedish cop show that’s a little bit different. Instead of bringing…

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Morecambe & Vice 2018 - a festival of crime writing and hidden talents

By DeathBecomesHer

2 October, 2018

In a chilly and cavernous, tatty-around-the-edges but still beautiful old theatre on Morecambe’s seafront, MJ Arlidge is holding forth. He has a bottle in one hand, a cocktail shaker in the other, and he’s preparing a killer pear martini for his fellow panellists who are…

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Helen FitzGerald's The Cry comes to BBC One

By crimefictionlover

1 October, 2018

No fights. No gunshots. Not even a drop of blood. And yet The Cry, which began airing on BBC One on Sunday 30 September is as harrowing as any crime show you’re likely to watch for quite some time. Adapted from Helen FitzGerald’s 2013 novel…

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A report from Bloody Scotland 2018

By Catherine Turnbull

25 September, 2018

There was plenty of near bloodshed going on at the annual Caledonian shindig with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers band murdering songs for a laugh, England crossed the border for a 6-3 victory over Scotland in the authors’ football match and fake news triumphed in…

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Interview: Mark Dawson

By crimefictionlover

24 September, 2018

Originally writing for one of the big publishers, English author Mark Dawson decided to go his own way and began self-publishing his action and espionage novels in ebook formats. Five years later, he’s sold over a million books, has three series underway, a fourth on…

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Top Australian crime show Mystery Road comes to BBC Four

By nagaisayonara

17 September, 2018

Clearly, someone at the BBC has been reading Crime Fiction Lover. In July we picked out five of the best Australian crime shows for you and news has arrived that our number one choice, Mystery Road, begins airing on BBC Four at 9pm on…

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A guide to Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer

By Jeremy Megraw

12 September, 2018

The trouble with loving Scandinavian crime fiction is that often the books in any particular series will suffer from TOOO syndrome – translated out of order. When we originally wrote this post what made it useful was that it made sense of the books in Karin…

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The Plague: Spanish historical crime drama comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

27 August, 2018

After all those moody Scandinavian crime dramas, as well as Nordic-inspired shows from France, Canada and even Wales, BBC Four is changing tack with its Saturday night crime offering. On Saturday 1 September at 9pm the station will be airing The Plague, a Spanish historical…

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Features

Alex - the dirty cop crime drama from Sweden

Morecambe & Vice 2018 - a festival of crime writing and hidden talents

Helen FitzGerald's The Cry comes to BBC One

A report from Bloody Scotland 2018

Interview: Mark Dawson

Top Australian crime show Mystery Road comes to BBC Four

A guide to Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer

The Plague: Spanish historical crime drama comes to BBC Four

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