Long Road from Paris

French mystery show Beyond Appearances comes to Walter Presents

19 August, 2020

There’s the fast action of Paris in Spiral and the melancholy wistfulness of Normandy in the wonderful Witnesses. But with Beyond Appearances you’ll discover a French crime show that feels similar to an English country house mystery, with rural France a twist all of its…

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Never Forget by Michel Bussi

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

22 July, 2020

Translated by Shaun Whiteside — With its release timed to coincide with the UK’s first French Book Week and Bastille Day, Never Forget is French crime author Michel Bussi‘s latest suspense thriller and the fifth to be translated into English. Jamal Salaoui has a goal…

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Book to screen: 15 great crime dramas to binge now

By crimefictionlover

27 May, 2020

We’re joined by Craig Sisterson, author of Southern Cross Crime and a features writer and reviewer for newspapers and magazines across the globe. Today he’s showcasing some of the best TV shows based on crime novels you can binge during the pandemic… and beyond. I still remember…

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They come from a land downunder: 13 Australian crime writers to try

By crimefictionlover

27 April, 2020

Today we’re joined by Craig Sisterson, author of Southern Cross Crime, a new guidebook to Australian and New Zealand crime writing. Craig has previously pointed us towards some terrific Kiwi storytellers, and now it’s time to discover more of what Australia has to offer… What do you…

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Wild Dog by Serge Joncour

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

11 April, 2020

Translated by Jane Aitken & Polly Mackintosh — Novelist and screenwriter Serge Joncour brings us a dual narrative set in a small, rural town high up in the French mountains with Wild Dog, his first novel to appear in English. The year is 2017 and…

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Passport to Death

By Vicki Weisfeld

3 February, 2020

Written by Yigal Zur, translated by Sara Kitai — This thriller, recently translated into English, begins in Tel Aviv, with former Israeli security operative Dotan Naor presented with a new case. He and his business partner have made something of a specialty of locating Israelis…

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Holmes Entangled

By RoughJustice

5 March, 2018

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…

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Interview: Jonathan Lyon

By crimefictionlover

10 January, 2018

Jonathan Lyon is a young British author who has suffered from chronic and seemingly incurable pain for many years. Basing himself in Berlin in an attempt to shake the disease, his debut Carnivore came out last summer. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet,…

Crime Fiction Lover

French mystery show Beyond Appearances comes to Walter Presents

Never Forget by Michel Bussi

Book to screen: 15 great crime dramas to binge now

They come from a land downunder: 13 Australian crime writers to try

Wild Dog by Serge Joncour

Passport to Death

Holmes Entangled

Interview: Jonathan Lyon

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