Top Australian crime show Mystery Road comes to BBC Four
Clearly, someone at the BBC has been reading Crime Fiction Lover. In July we picked out five of the best Australian crime shows for…
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Indie authors make their move
On the Radar — It’s a good week for anyone looking for work by indie and self-published authors. Michael Pronko’s latest mystery set in Japan…
Cormoran Strike in Lethal White
On the Radar — It’s time to go back to school, and that means some of the big crime fiction releases are hitting the shelves…
Ngaio read this: top Kiwi crime writers of 2018 awarded
The strength in depth of New Zealand’s crime fiction has already featured on the site and in March we picked 12 Kiwi authors to try,…
Crime fiction improv hits Melbourne
If you’re in Melbourne, Australia in mid-September, it’d be a crime not to catch up with the city’s Fringe Festival, which this year includes Murder…
Suicide is painless
On the Radar — Suicide is a staple cause of death in crime fiction. At first, anyhow. Soon the detectives find out that what looks…
The Plague: Spanish historical crime drama comes to BBC Four
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…
The return of Philip Marlowe!
On the Radar — Well, whaddaya know? Philip Marlowe is back on the crime bookshelf this week, a result of Raymond Chandler’s estate inviting journalist…
Crime in the other Palm Beach
On the Radar — Last week the selection of new books we offered up in On the Radar featured some standards of the crime fiction…
A body in the Highlands
On the Radar — Crime fiction is great. It can take you to just about any setting. So if you want to relish the Scottish…
Code 37 coming soon to the UK’s More4
She’s got blonde hair, brown eyes, a six-shooter on her hip and she roars around town in a big black Merc. Some might even say…
They’re a mixed bunch
On the Radar — It’s an eclectic new books column we have for you this week, with French crime fiction, some indie thrillers, a new…
Murderin’ since the beginning of time…
On the Radar — There are historical crime stories that go back through the ages, as we discovered with Barry Forshaw’s look at 10 historical…
Canadian crime show Cardinal: Black Fly Season comes to BBC Four
The Canadian crime fiction detective John Cardinal returns to UK screens on Saturday 4 August for a new case. But if you were hoping to…
Harrogate 2018 – a little bit different
Catherine Turnbull reports on the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, with photos by Charlotte Graham What gives the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival…
Memo to self: read crime fiction
On the Radar — If you’ve read the South African crime authors Roger Smith or Deon Meyer, you might want to write a memo to…