2024 has been a year of exceptional crime fiction in translation, but then again, hasn’t every year? With four of my five favourite books originally written in Italian, Norwegian, Japanese and Spanish, it’s been a truly cosmopolitan reading year. Reading fiction from around the world…
Readers of crime fiction have been very fortunate in the last few years and there have been so many terrific books in 2024 that narrowing this list to five was a challenge. The books that stand out for me are the ones that I catch…
With Christmas nearly here, we wish all our readers a happy holiday season. And if you’re stuck for what to buy somebody, why not give the gift of crime? There are some great mystery suggestions among our 2024 award winners, and each of our contributors…
In a world populated by off-kilter characters, it takes a certain something to make a protagonist memorable for a crime fiction reader. For me there are just a handful that stick out – Elizabeth in Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing, for example; Liz Nugent’s Strange…
As 2024 draws to a close and the world becomes ever more crackers, it’s a good time to turn to comforting things such as murder, mayhem and the odd well-planned heist. From historical crime fiction to cosy mysteries and everything in between, the five novels…
Dominic Nolan’s White City is a gritty, evocative story set in 1950s London, a city in ruins after World War II. While many crime novels set in the city focus on the East End, here we’re up west, in and around Notting Dale, Soho, White…
