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On the Radar: The Year of the Assassin

By DeathBecomesHer

1 April, 2022

According to the Chinese and Japanese zodiac, 2022 is the year of the tiger. In the crime fiction zodiac, we think it should be the year of the assassin. On 29 July, Japanese author Kotaro Isaka’s novel Bullet Train will appear in its silver screen…

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Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

By Paul Burke

28 March, 2022

Ansel Packer has 12 hours to live. He’s been sentenced to death and barring the last minute clemency call by his lawyer to the Texas governor, which is unlikely to prove fruitful, the appeals process has been exhausted. There’s a vigil outside the prison by…

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The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo

By crimefictionlover

24 March, 2022

Translated by Chi-Young Kim — Gu Byeong-mo has written across a range of genres, and has collected an array of awards in her native South Korea, so it’s a little surprising that The Old Woman with the Knife is her first novel to appear in…

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Reputation by Sarah Vaughan

By DeathBecomesHer

15 March, 2022

Sarah Vaughan has been on the Crime Fiction Lover radar before, her intelligently written, precisely plotted thrillers making reviewers sit up and pay attention. Back in 2018 we took a look at Anatomy of a Scandal, part psychological thriller, part courtroom drama, with an MP…

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A Good Day to Die by Amen Alonge

By Paul Burke

16 February, 2022

The man with no name returns to the London’s streets after 10 years away and bodies start dropping here in Amen Alonge’s debut novel, A Good Day to Die. This action laden thriller is populated with fascinating characters and the best of them is the…

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On the Radar: "I'm asking the questions..."

By crimefictionlover

4 February, 2022

The dreaded job interview is the starting point for CM Ewan’s latest thriller, and we’ll start this week’s new column there because The Interview looks particularly innovative and twisty. We’re equally looking forward to A Good Day to Die by Amen Alonge, which is also…

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Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray

By DeathBecomesHer

13 January, 2022

It’s 1919. The guns of the Great War are silent and everything is getting back to normal after four years of absolute hell. Or is it? Well no, not really. In the battlefields of northern France volunteers are working their way through the brutalised and…

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The most wanted crime novels of 2022

By crimefictionlover

1 January, 2022

2022 is here and we’re ready for it! Whatever ups and downs there are ahead, one thing we do know is that there are some fantastic crime novels on the way. And that’s important, because books are what have helped crime fiction lovers like us…

Crime Fiction Lover

On the Radar: The Year of the Assassin

Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka

The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo

A Good Day to Die by Amen Alonge

On the Radar: "I'm asking the questions..."

Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray

The most wanted crime novels of 2022

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