Era by era - 10 of the best historical crime novels with Barry Forshaw
Crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw and Crime Fiction Lover. It’s like a match made in Ancient Babylon… or… something like that, anyway. A book reviewer for the national papers, and an author who has written guidebooks to British, European and Scandinavian crime fiction, Barry Forshaw’s…
Holmes Entangled
Written by Gordon McAlpine – Holmes Entangled is a great title for this complex metafictional novel. Nominally a private detective mystery with a host of familiar characters, it is about as far removed from the original Conan Doyle canon as it’s possible for a Sherlock…
NTN: 2017's award-winning debuts
What do crime fiction lovers, agents and publishers all have in common? They are all hungry to discover the next big thing. However, the one thing many of us lack in this pursuit is time. One sure-fire shortcut is to check out which books have…
The Ginza Ghost and Other Stories
Written by Keikichi Osaka, translated by Ho-Ling Wong — Tokyo has changed a great deal in the past century or so. There have been two catastrophic earthquakes, heavy bombing during World War II, and spiralling property prices that led to an eventual collapse. On the…
Road trip! The best of American Noir
Few people know quite as much about crime fiction as the British author and journalist Barry Forshaw. He’s read more books, interviewed more writers, and written more articles on the topic than just about anyone we know. Futhermore, he’s been working on a series of…
NTN: New blood from North America
With the US and Canada, North America has the largest and most varied English language crime fiction market. From pulp novels to great literary epics, its authors are dedicated to their craft and the heritage of crime writing on the continent goes all the way back…
CIS: 10 literary classics that are also crime stories
Here at Crime Fiction Lover we don’t care about genre labels as long as a book is well-written, suspenseful and contains a few dead bodies. Other readers seem to feel the same way and crime fiction still sells by the bucketload. Recent reports suggest that His Bloody…