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Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow

By Vicki Weisfeld

27 February, 2025

No doubt many crime fiction readers have eagerly anticipated Presumed Guilty, Scott Turow’s new legal thriller. I know I looked forward to seeing what his character, Rusty Sabich, is up to, now that he’s in his 70s. Rusty, you may recall, was the protagonist of…

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Harrogate 2024 Report: Crime fiction is HOT this summer

By DeathBecomesHer

21 July, 2024

Sub-tropical temperatures brought fans of both kinds out in force at this year’s record-breaking Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2024 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, which ran from Thursday 18 July to Sunday 21 July. On Friday morning and early afternoon, savvy publishers were handing…

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Crime book of the year 2023 shortlist

By crimefictionlover

23 November, 2023

Have you voted in the Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2023 yet? If not, perhaps today’s the day to make your picks. Here we look at the six books on our Book of the Year shortlist and one of the comments we keep hearing is: “It’s…

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The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2023 – vote for your winners

By crimefictionlover

9 November, 2023

For the third year in a row, we’re running the Crime Fiction Lover Awards, where readers get to nominate and vote on the winners. Based on the nominations we received, below we reveal the shortlists for 2023. It’s time to vote! We’d like to say…

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Murder at the Residence by Stella Blómkvist

By Paul Burke

6 September, 2023

Translated by Quentin Bates — Amazingly, there are 13 novels to date in the Stella Blómkvist series and yet no one knows the true identity of the author. The high-profile Reykjavik lawyer first appeared in 1997, began a hiatus in 2006, then re-emerged in 2012….

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On the Radar: Would you kill for me?

By crimefictionlover

21 July, 2023

Series or standalone? Standalone or series? Which do you prefer? The reason we ask is that the winner of our Best Author Editor’s Choice Award 2022, Steve Cavanagh, has announced that his next book is a standalone. Will lovers of his Eddie Flynn series be…

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Central Park West by James Comey

By Paul Burke

6 June, 2023

There’s always a question over whether a senior government figure can hack it when they turn to writing crime. Often, it’s smarter to satisfy the urge by collaborating with established writers as the Clintons have done – Bill with James Patterson on The President’s Daughter…

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DeathBecomesHer: Top Five Books of 2022

By DeathBecomesHer

26 December, 2022

I’ve had 10 years of doing this and it doesn’t get any easier, I can tell you. Crime fiction is such an eclectic genre but even so it is easy to get stuck into a rut. This year I endeavoured to move a little outside…

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Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow

Harrogate 2024 Report: Crime fiction is HOT this summer

Crime book of the year 2023 shortlist

The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2023 – vote for your winners

Murder at the Residence by Stella Blómkvist

On the Radar: Would you kill for me?

Central Park West by James Comey

DeathBecomesHer: Top Five Books of 2022

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