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

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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On the Radar: Back to the golden age, in Japan

By crimefictionlover

26 November, 2021

This week we have all the bases covered in On the Radar. A Japanese take on golden age classics, a high octane spy adventure, top gonzo noir, a psychological thriller and a police procedural, a touch of humour and a glimpse of the dark side….

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A guide to the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri

By Paul Burke

6 October, 2021

The writer Simonetta Agnello Hornby argued that Andrea Camilleri should have been put forward for the Nobel Prize. He was a major cultural figure in Italy, and in the arts across Europe. Of course, he’s better known in the English speaking world as the creator…

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The Devil's Throat – a taste of Bulgarian crime fiction on Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

12 August, 2021

COVID-19 has limited travel options for just about everyone except Barnard Castle tourists, but one thing we have been able to do is travel the world via subtitled crime shows. It’s something readers of Crime Fiction Lover have been doing since long before the pandemic….

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On the Radar: New German crime fiction, and more

By crimefictionlover

11 June, 2021

This week our new crime books column gets started with a bestseller from Germany by the country’s new star writer, Romy Hausmann. We’ve also got senseless crimes in Southampton, the new Skelfs novel by Doug Johnstone, a novel from Downton Abbey’s Catherine Steadman and an…

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The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

13 March, 2021

High up in the Swiss Alps perches Le Sommet, a luxury hotel which used to be a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. In the late-19th and early-20th centuries Switzerland had numerous sanatoria where people with long-term illnesses were sent to recover in the clean, crisp mountain…

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The Fox by Sólveig Pálsdóttir

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

29 September, 2020

Translated by Quentin Bates — The Fox has the perfect mix of the elements readers have grown to love, expect and even demand from Nordic noir novels. In this crime-in-translation debut by Sólveig Pálsdóttir the landscape and characters are grey, gloomy and unpredictable. The plot…

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Fire on the Island by Timothy Jay Smith

By DeathBecomesHer

5 July, 2020

Lockdown is a bummer, isn’t it? But the great thing about reading is that it can transport you to somewhere completely different in the mere flick of a page. These days you can find crime fiction set in all manner of locations, both humdrum and…

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

On the Radar: Back to the golden age, in Japan

A guide to the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri

The Devil's Throat – a taste of Bulgarian crime fiction on Walter Presents

On the Radar: New German crime fiction, and more

The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse

The Fox by Sólveig Pálsdóttir

Fire on the Island by Timothy Jay Smith

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