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On the Radar: Meet the New Zealand Nancys

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Kiwi crime fiction kicks things off in this week’s new books report, and RWR McDonald’s debut novel, inspired by Nancy Drew truly does look… inspired! Can’t wait to tuck into that one. Plus we’ve got a book with a rock soundtrack by Mark S Bonta,…
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On the Radar: This book is on fire

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Welcome to our weekly column featuring the latest new crime novels. Let’s get underway with some hot historical crime fiction set in Raj India from Abir Mukherjee. Also in our report you’ll find novels by David Boito and Con Lehane, plus tech thrillers from Cate…
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On the Radar: The Black Wolf cometh

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Welcome back to Crime Fiction Lover, where six intriguing new crime novels have been blipping on our radar… The Black Wolf by Louise Penny The follow up to Louise Penny’s The Grey Wolf arrives on 28 October – and The Black Wolf is book 20…
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On the Radar: The stars are out

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The stars of crime fiction are out this week here in our new books column. Michael Connelly, Sophie Hannah, Val McDermid and Vaseem Khan are all names dedicated crime fiction lovers are aware of. And in JK Flynn and Nick Kolakowski, two of our favourite…
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On the Radar: This wheel shall explode

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This week’s new books column is packed with indie and alternative crime fiction, with titles from the UK, US and Canada to tempt you. We start off with the latest from Jake Arnott, one of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ crime authors. There’s historical crime fiction…
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On the Radar: Soap star monsters

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Can you imagine what would happen if someone was murdered on the set of Coronation Street? One of the show’s former writers has imagined just that as he turns his talents to crime fiction. We start our report with Martin Sterling’s We Create Monsters, but…
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