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Read and rated – we review the latest and best mysteries, psychological thrillers, Nordic noir, pulp, cosy crime fiction, historical and suspense novels… and plenty more here on Crime Fiction Lover.

Rumrunners by Eric Better

By RoughJustice

6 May, 2015

Eric Beetner might just be noir’s James Brown. The hardest working man in crime fiction not only curates the LA chapter of the Noir at the Bar reading series, but produces a prodigious amount of short fiction for the likes of Crime Factory, Thuglit, and…

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Hold the Dark by William Giraldi audiobook

By Vicki Weisfeld

5 May, 2015

Narrated by Richard Ferrone — The essentials of William Giraldi’s icy thriller were covered in our review of the book, which you’ll find here. In brief, the story centers around a case in which two, then three, children are stolen by wolves from a small village…

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Mañana by William Hjortsberg

By RoughJustice

5 May, 2015

Sometime between the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis and the murder of Meredith Hunter by Hells Angels at the Altamont Free Concert in 1969, the hippy dream died. Free love, civil rights, and gender equality all took a beating and the naïve…

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Two Bronze Pennies by Chris Nickson

By DavidPrestidge

4 May, 2015

We first met Inspector Tom Harper in Gods of Gold. Now he returns, newly married, but still trying to keep the peace in a wintry and grimy Leeds, the industrial city in the north of England. It is Christmas 1890, and a young Jewish man…

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The Children of Silence by Linda Stratmann

By DeathBecomesHer

3 May, 2015

There seems to be a great appetite for crime fiction set in Victorian times at the moment, and we’ve recently reviewed The Strings of Murder, The Infidel Stain and, of course, the strangely titled Sherlock Holmes and the Eye of Mad Bear. In The Children of…

Kindle Print Reviews

The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty

By DavidPrestidge

1 May, 2015

Debut author Cal Moriarty was discovered after taking a course at the Faber Academy, and the publisher now has a fine writer on its hands who can weave a tale full of surprises and twists. Set in the early 1980s, the story begins when Bobbi Lomax is…

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The Infidel Stain by MJ Carter

By DavidPrestidge

27 April, 2015

London, 1841. It’s the fourth year of Queen Victoria’s reign and the city is riven by the first stirrings of proper democracy. The Chartists have put forward a six-point pathway which will, if adopted, totally reform the way in which the country is governed. Against…

Kindle Print Reviews

Scratch the Surface by Josh K Stevens

By RoughJustice

25 April, 2015

Midwest gangster Deuce Walsh is having a bad day. He woke up beaten and with a gun shot wound, in an abandoned factory on the edge of town. The two men he’s just killed weren’t goons for the Chianti brothers coming to finish the job…

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Rumrunners by Eric Better

Hold the Dark by William Giraldi audiobook

Mañana by William Hjortsberg

Two Bronze Pennies by Chris Nickson

The Children of Silence by Linda Stratmann

The Killing of Bobbi Lomax by Cal Moriarty

The Infidel Stain by MJ Carter

Scratch the Surface by Josh K Stevens

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