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Paul Burke: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

By Paul Burke

28 May, 2022

Nothing beats the thrill of a great mystery, which is why I came to crime fiction for the excitement of the genre as a teenager. It became more than that over time – I stayed for the love of a genre that is perceptive and…

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The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2021: The Winners

By crimefictionlover

8 December, 2021

Finally, the votes have been counted and verified and we can announce the winners of the inaugural Crime Fiction Lover Awards… But before we do that, we want to congratulate all the crime authors out there who have released stories in the last year, those…

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The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2021: The shortlists

By crimefictionlover

17 November, 2021

First of all, thank you to everyone who made nominations for our first ever Crime Fiction Lover Awards. Your participation is one of the things that makes these awards unique and exciting. Now, let’s get down to business! We had a huge response during the…

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The Embalmer by Alison Belsham

By DeathBecomesHer

21 April, 2021

Life is full of tiny, inconsequential slights and disappointments. They pass by in the blink of an eye and are forgotten just as quickly – for most people, that is. A tiny minority take such things to heart and let them fester into something out…

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On the Radar: Parts of a puzzle

By crimefictionlover

9 April, 2021

Welcome to another edition of On the Radar, our weekly column featuring new releases. It’s often a very mixed bag, and that’s because the crime genre is so broad and varied. This week we kick things off with a standalone from Bath-based thriller author Tim…

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Interview: Kotaro Isaka

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

29 March, 2021

This week an interesting new crime novel from Japan will be pulling into the station. Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka is little different to most crime novels thus far translated from Japanese. Clever and sophisticated gives way to something that’s big on set-up, big on…

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Facets of Death by Michael Stanley

By Sonja van der Westhuizen

3 March, 2021

Have you met Detective David ‘Kubu’ Bhengu? You haven’t? Well, you are in luck, because Michael Sears and Stanley Trollip decided to write a prequel to their six-novel series featuring Kubu and Facets of Death is exactly where his story starts. The first thing you…

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The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths

By DeathBecomesHer

19 February, 2021

I kept putting off opening the latest Elly Griffiths book. Not because I didn’t want to read it – on the contrary, I was itching to get started. But I just felt the need to delay, for a little longer, that moment when I arrived…

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Paul Burke: The five books that got me hooked on crime fiction

The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2021: The Winners

The Crime Fiction Lover Awards 2021: The shortlists

The Embalmer by Alison Belsham

On the Radar: Parts of a puzzle

Interview: Kotaro Isaka

Facets of Death by Michael Stanley

The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths

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